Best Books for Learning Chinese Sentences - OTTAWA - It is a common belief that Chinese is a very difficult language to learn and it needs years of arduous study to just scratch the surface. But such conventional impression and experience no longer holds true with the latest publications of two Chinese educational books authored by Xin Xu: “Essential Chinese 1500” and “Intermediate Chinese 1500”. Each of these two books contains 1500 conversational Chinese sentences organized into topics. The books can serve both as self-study textbooks and reference manuals on topic based usage. The average sentence lengths are five characters in “Essential Chinese 1500” and eight characters in “Intermediate Chinese 1500”.