Essential Chinese: Speak Chinese with Confidence! (Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook)

by Philip Yungkin Lee, Shun-Yao Chang (Revised by)

Overview

This portable, user-friendly Chinese language guide, phrasebook and dictionary is the cheapest and easiest way to learn Chinese before and during your trip.

If you only want one Chinese language book--Essential Chinese is the way to go. Part of Tuttle Publishing's Essential Phrasebooks Series, it is a great first introduction and beginner guide to the language of China and Taiwan and is also designed as a great Chinese phrasebook, making it the most versatile Chinese language learning tool on the market.

Perfect for business people or tourist traveling to China or for students who want to supplement their learning, this book's easy indexing feature allows it to act as a Mandarin phrase book or as English-Chinese Dictionary. A clever "point to" feature allows you to simply point to a phrase translated in Chinese without the need to say a single word or read a single character. You will soon find yourself turning to Essential Chinese again and again when visiting or working in China.

In this book you will find:

• Over 1500 practical sentences for everyday use.
• A glossary of over 2000 terms and expressions.
• Terms and phrases covering essential aspects of traveling and living in China.
• Extensive information about Chinese grammar and pronunciation.

This beginner Chinese book will help you quickly and easily learn Chinese. Your ability to read Chinese, write Chinese, speak Chinese, and comprehend Chinese will be vastly improved without having to take an entire Chinese language class. Other titles in this bestselling series of phrasebooks include: Essential Japanese, Essential Arabic, Essential Korean, Essential Tagalog, and Essential Arabic.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781462913374
Publisher:	Tuttle Publishing
Publication date:	09/03/2013
Series:	Essential Phrasebook and Dictionary Series
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	208
File size:	14 MB
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About the Author

Philip Yungkin Lee, Ph.D. is an applied linguist with 30 years of practical experience in teaching Chinese to foreign learners. Now retired from the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia, he is the author of the Pocket Mandarin Chinese Dictionary, the Pocket Cantonese Dictionary, Essential Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book, Essential Cantonese Phrase Book, and the four volumes of Learning Chinese Characters Flash Cards (Tuttle Publishing).