Chinese for Beginners
Learning Conversational Chinese (fully Romanized and Free Online Audio)
Tuttle Publishing · Print & ebook · June 11, 2019
This beginner-friendly guide teaches you how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know—English!
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- Who it’s for
- English parallels open into dialogues, sentence-pattern drills, cultural notes, and pronunciation audio.
- Themes
- Conversational Chinese, Practical language learning, Chinese culture
- Genres
- Chinese Language Study
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This beginner-friendly guide teaches you how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know—English! Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem quite difficult to learn at first, but can be picked up easily if you focus on practical, daily conversations. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and new manga illustrations.
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Designed for anyone who wants to speak and understand conversational Chinese—whether for business, pleasure, or travel to China—this lighthearted guide makes language learning fun! - Real-life dialogues and situations help you to converse with confidence - Sentence pattern exercises and drills help to reinforce what you are learning - Native-speaker audio recordings enable you to pronounce Chinese vocabulary accurately - Interesting notes, idioms, sayings and poems introduce you to Chinese culture Chinese for Beginners contains many extra hints and tips drawn from the authors' many years of experience in teaching the language to foreigners. Answer keys for the exercises are provided, and an "Extend Your Vocabulary" section in each chapter helps you to remember and understand more words than you'd think possible!
Everyday Chinese Dialogues
English parallels open into dialogues, sentence-pattern drills, cultural notes, and pronunciation audio.
Come here for
- Real-life dialogues for practical daily conversations
- Sentence-pattern exercises and drills, with answer keys
Expect
- Native-speaker audio recordings for Chinese vocabulary pronunciation
- Cultural notes, idioms, sayings, and poems
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Publisher categories
- Chinese Language Study
- Language Arts
- China Travel
- Authors
- Yi Ren, Xiyuan Liang
- Publisher
- Tuttle Publishing
- Published
- June 11, 2019
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Conversational Chinese · Practical language learning · Chinese culture
- Reading lane
- Chinese Language Study