# Business Chinese Workbooks and BCT Practice Free business Chinese PDFs: meeting and client-dinner phrases, work emails, a 14-day office plan, and BCT (A), BCT (B) and BCT Speaking practice. Source: https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/business-chinese-workbooks By Mei Lin Business Chinese is the Mandarin of work: introductions, meetings, calls, emails and client dinners. These books cover it for beginners and intermediate learners, along with the BCT, China's Business Chinese Test, at BCT (A), BCT (B) and BCT Speaking. Beginners can start with the phrase book or the 14-day office plan. By the end you can introduce yourself at a meeting, get through a call or a client dinner, write a polite work email, and handle the BCT's listening, reading, writing and speaking tasks. Most of the books have free audio. ## Best first book [Business Chinese Phrases: Meetings, Introductions and Client Dinners](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/business-chinese-phrases): The spoken Mandarin for introductions, meetings, numbers, calls, client dinners and toasts, with audio. Basic greetings and numbers help, and every line has characters, pinyin and English. ## Workbooks (6) Free. - [Chinese Work Emails & Messages: Requests, Updates & Follow-Ups](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/chinese-work-emails): 33-page PDF, Intermediate · HSK 3. Requests, updates & follow-ups for email and WeChat at work - [Business Chinese Phrases: Meetings, Introductions and Client Dinners](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/business-chinese-phrases): 26-page PDF, Beginner · HSK 1–2. The spoken Mandarin for business: introductions, meetings, numbers, calls, client dinners and toasts, with audio - [BCT Business Chinese Test Practice: Listening, Reading and Writing for BCT (A)](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/bct-business-chinese-test-practice): 22-page PDF, BCT (A) (about HSK 3). Workplace listening, reading and writing practice in the BCT (A) task types, business vocabulary, a mini practice test and audio - [BCT Speaking Test Practice: Workplace Questions, Role Plays and Short Talks with Model Answers](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/bct-speaking-test-practice): 16-page PDF, BCT Speaking (about HSK 3-5). Workplace questions, role plays, chart descriptions and short business talks in the BCT Speaking style, with model answers and audio - [Mandarin for Work: A 14-Day Speaking Plan for the Office](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/mandarin-for-work-14-day-speaking-plan): 16-page PDF, Beginner · HSK 1. Fourteen days of the spoken Mandarin of office life: the team, lunch, meetings, asking for help, saying no and thanking colleagues, with audio every day - [BCT (B) Practice: Business Chinese Test Listening, Reading and Writing](https://www.saymei.app/resources/downloads/bct-b-business-chinese-test-practice): 19-page PDF, BCT (B) (about HSK 4-5). Workplace listening, reading and writing practice in the BCT (B) task types, formal business vocabulary, model answers, a mini practice test and audio ## Is there business Chinese for beginners? Yes. Business Chinese Phrases is written for adult beginners with a meeting, call or client dinner coming up, and Mandarin for Work is a 14-day speaking plan for the office with audio every day. ## What is the BCT? The Business Chinese Test. BCT (A) is at about HSK 3, BCT (B) is the level above at about HSK 4 to 5, and BCT Speaking is a separate test. Each has its own practice book with audio. ## Can I learn to write work emails in Chinese? Yes. Chinese Work Emails & Messages covers requests, updates and follow-ups for email and WeChat at work, for intermediate learners. 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