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Type of bind: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 495.183421
EAN num: 9780764584770
ISBN number: 0764584774
Label: For Dummies
Manufacturer: For Dummies
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 216
Printing Date: September 16, 2005
Publishing house: For Dummies
Sale Popularity Level: 133930
Studio: For Dummies
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Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertips
Speak Chinese - instantly!
Traveling to China but don't know Chinese? Taking Chinese at school but need to kick up your conversation skills? Don't worry! This handy little phrasebook will have you speaking Chinese in no time.
Discover how to - Get directions, shop, and eat out
- Talk numbers, dates, time, and money
- Chat about family and work
- Discuss sports and the weather
- Deal with problems and emergencies
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Wendy Abraham supplements her popular "Chinese for Dummies" book with a more portable phrase book for travelers. While I'm sure the author had the best of intentions for learners that simply needed enough language to get by while on holiday, frequent misspellings of pronunciation along with haphazard - and occasionally incorrect - translation of items (such as four-character idioms) that the casual student of the language doesn't need anyway can only lead to misunderstanding and confusion. If normal character-based written entires were included with the text, the traveler could at least use the phrase book for pointing, but with only pinyin romanization (along with Abraham's persistent and distracting toneless phonetic approximations), this book will probably not help much with inevitable language gaps.
Nathan Dummitt
author of Chinese Through Tone & Color
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I liked this little guide. The organization is guide and the writer provides background on the Chinese language that is useful for native English speakers who are grappling with the differences between the two languages.
One warning: this book is written more along the lines of Taiwan Chinese. Although most of it is the same, there are some phrases in this guide that people do not use in Mainland China.
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There are some things that I like about this book and some things that are very flawed with it. The book has a lot of local phrases and insight into Chinese culture. But it lacks a glossary listing in the back and it is filled with typos. Some of the time the pinying is just wrong. Tonal expressions are inverted from what they are supposed to be. You'd have to have another reference to understand what they mean. This book would be very confusing for a very first timer although they try to sound it out with english words subsequent to the pinying (which is helpful to beginners and not included in many other chinese phrase books with exception to Chinese in 10 minutes a Day). But honestly I could only recommend this book if you have a few other books that you are learning from and a native speaker to practice with.
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I Really like this book and started Learning Chinese the Very very first day I used it.
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Unlike the big book "Chinese for Dummies" this book provides a decent foundation for the beginning user. It introduces the reader to the four tones right from the start. You are introduced to important things like counting and addressing people respectfully (Sir, Mr. Mrs. etc)After that, you're basically taken on a tour of conversational Mandarin, given helpful phrases for the would-be tourist looking for food, gift shops or trying to find Uncle Wu, their long lost relative.
You won't be a Mandarin expert at the end of this book, but you will have a good foundation on which to build future lessons. It's also a good reference to carry with you, as its size makes it fit quite nicely in a small carry-on bag or even a back pocket.
You don't have to carry around a novel AND you can find a bathroom in most small towns of China... what more do you need from a reference book? (Just kidding, but it IS a great tool)
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