Ideal for advanced-level college courses and adult learners. This acclaimed, best-selling series is successful because it integrates all four language skills-listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Integrated Chinese helps you understand how the Chinese language works grammatically, and how to use Chinese in real life.The Level 2 Textbook combines simplified and traditional characters in one book, and contains topics of interest to college-age students: campus and family life, social issues, aspects of Chinese culture. The basic format in Level 2 is the same as in Level 1, but texts and grammar in Level 2 become increasingly more complex.Level 2 covers approximately 58 words per lesson with 20 lessons.