Are you looking for a way to learn Mandarin Chinese quickly? Then this book is right for you. Most vocabulary books present you with an overwhelming amount of vocabularies and no clear guide on how to learn them. This book is different. It contains the 2000 most important words and phrases you will have to learn and orders them by importance so you learn the most commonly used words first. This method of prioritising is well known in the language learning community. Does it make the learning process effortless? No, as with almost everything, effort is required, but this book strives to minimize the effort needed to see results. By the time you get to vocabulary 500, for example, you are equipped with the words and phrases that let you get along in daily life. After finishing the whole 2000 vocabularies in the book, you are on the brink to fluency.