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Learn Chinese in 48 Hours is tailored for adult Chinese learners with English as their native language. This material is divided into two volumes. Each volumn consists of 15 lessons, one exercisebook and relative teaching guidelines. The estimated teaching time for each volume is 60 classes, on the basis of 45-50 minutes per class and an average of 2 hours per lesson. Each textbook contains 22 dialogue-style texts, 108 sentence practices, 391 Chinese characters, 673 words, and 203 supplimentary words. To help learners grasp a proper understanding of the characteristics of Chinese characters and the language, this series focuses on the introduction of Chinese phonetics, the composition of the Chinese characters, rules and cultural knowledge on the formation of Chinese words and sentences.

《48小时汉语速成·基础篇》是吕必松教授根据他所创立的组合汉语理论编写的首部组合汉语速成教材，教学对象是以英语为母语的成年汉语初学者。全书分上下两册，每册15课，有练习册和教学指南与课本配套。预计教学时间为60课时（按每课时45-50分钟计算，约合48小时），平均每课2课时。课本包括22篇会话体课文和108项句型练习，共出391个汉字和由这些汉字组成的673个词语，字词总数为1064个（另有203个补充词语）。为了帮助学习者正确了解汉字和汉语的特点，还有重点地介绍了汉语语音知识、汉字知识和由字到词、由字词到句子（以基本句为重点）的组合规则以及相关的文化知识等。