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title: 'A Course of Mandarin Lessons, Based on Idiom, Revised'
type: pdf
hasMedia: true
requiresPurchase: false
authors:
- 'Calvin Wilson Mateer'
date: 1898-01-01
collection: 'Archives'
subcollection: '19th century'
topics:
- 'Language'
- 'Foreign Missions'
- 'Education'
scriptures:
- 'Matthew 28'
- 'Acts 2'
url: https://confessional.org/archives/19th-century/mateer-1898-a-course-of-mandarin-lessons-based-on-idiom-revised
---

# A Course of Mandarin Lessons, Based on Idiom, Revised

Preface to O. W. Mateer's 1898 Mandarin course explaining an idiom-based method, lesson structure, translations, and study guidance for missionaries learning colloquial and literary Mandarin.

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