535 pages with 185 topics

Learn Chinese Grammar Step‑by‑step

Bootstrap
Chinese
Grammar

A 535-page book and accompanying mobile app.
● Step-by-step introduction to Chinese grammar in 185 topics.
● Over 2500 annotated examples.
● High-quality audio pronunciations via the app.
● Targeted exercises to help learning and retention.

Purchase the Bootstrap Chinese Grammar book and get the mobile app free! Send us an email at offer@declansoftware.com for details.

A new way to learn Chinese Grammar

Bootstrap Chinese Grammar is a new way to learn Chinese grammar. Starting from the beginning, the idea is progress in small self-contained steps (called ‘topics’). Each topic builds on the last, by incrementally adding new grammatical patterns, new vocabulary and lots of useful examples.

In total there are 185 grammar topics and over 2500 examples phrases.

Each topic includes a thorough explanation of the grammar and then lots of examples that illustrate the grammar. Each example includes an English translation, as well as notes highlighting how each example illustrates that topic's grammar, as well as the meanings of new Chinese words.

The companion mobile application is now available also called "Bootstrap Chinese Grammar". The app contains all the content contained in this book - including 185 grammar topics and over 2500 example phrases. And in additional, there is high quality Chinese native-speaker audio for every example. More details here.

Take a look inside the book

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What will you learn from this book?

You will get a thorough grounding in Chinese grammar — starting from the very basics we cover all the most important Chinese grammatical patterns. And much much more.
You will be exposed to thousands of colloquial Chinese phrases — Bootstrap Chinese teaches Chinese grammar by providing lots of example phrases to illustate each topic.
You will memorise thousand of Chinese words — the method is to bootstrap from zero. So every new Chinese word you encounter is defined and is in context.
You will learn to pronounce Chinese — Chinese pronunciation is challenging. The companion mobile app provides high quality native-speaker audio pronunciation of every single example phrase.

Bootstrap Chinese Grammar App

The companion mobile app

All the content in the book PLUS audio!

All 185 grammar topics - step-by-step
All 2500 plus example phrases
Annotated examples and English translations
AND high quality native-speaker audio pronunciations for each and every example.
In-app QR code synchronization with the book
NEW! Hands off voice-controlled example phrases review

Available for both iPhone/iPad and Android.

A word from the book's Editor

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Peter Vujanovic

Hello and 你好! My name is Peter and I'm the CEO and Chief Editor at Declan Software. I had the great pleasure of managing the writing and production of Bootstrap Chinese Grammar - both the book and the companion app. It was my job to put togther the great team of Chinese language experts who contributed to the compilation of this book.

I'd like to give a special thank you to the main contributors:

Chen Yuanyuan and Huang Shulan for proofreading the Chinese and the English translations, as well as for invaluable advice on aspect of the grammar.
Xi Zhiyu for doing a superb job recording the Chinese 2500 examples phrases for the companion mobile application.

Our team at Declan Software is always striving to make the best language learning material - both books and apps - and we look forward to further releases of the Bootstrap Grammar series. Next up Spanish and German!

And for those aspiring polyglots out there, we already have Korean, Russian and French version of Bootstrap Grammar.

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