This book is the simplified character text for Colloquial Chinese, the romanized version of the intensive Chinese language course, published by Routledge. It can be used as a reader on its own for those who have an elementary knowledge of spoken Chinese. The course consists of seventeen lessons with a comprehensive Chinese-English vocabulary. Each lesson begins with individual Characters, Stroke Order and Vocabulary, proceeds to Presentation, Dialogues, Sketches, and ends with Speech Patterns. The material was designed for first-year students at university level and tested over several years before publication.