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This chapter presents conversations in the Mandarin Chinese language based on common daily situations with their matching English translations. English translation enables to follow Chinese more closely. It also presents few vocabularies in the Mandarin Chinese language with their English meanings. In English we use acronyms, in Chinese such names are reduced to a few key characters. The chapter provides grammar notes for 'coverbs' with proper examples. There is a noticeable predilection for balanced phrases in Chinese. These tend to conform to the laws of Classical Chinese, thereby 'freeing' words that are bound in the modern language. The chapter offers verbal expressions in series and modification of nouns by clauses containing place expressions. It also provides Expansion Drills and lots of exercises to help learn and practice basic skills.