Chinese Phrases For Dummies 1st Edition by Wendy Abraham (PDF)

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Hundreds of useful phrases at your fingertipsSpeak 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 toGet directions, shop, and eat outTalk numbers, dates, time, and moneyChat about family and workDiscuss sports and the weatherDeal with problems and emergencies

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Editorial Reviews: From the Inside Flap 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 toGet directions, shop, and eat outTalk numbers, dates, time, and moneyChat about family and workDiscuss sports and the weatherDeal with problems and emergencies From the Back Cover 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 toGet directions, shop, and eat outTalk numbers, dates, time, and moneyChat about family and workDiscuss sports and the weatherDeal with problems and emergencies About the Author Wendy Abraham is the Associate Director of the Stanford Center for Buddhist Studies and the Asian Religions & Cultures Initiative. She has taught courses on Chinese language, Chinese literature, and Asian cultures at Hunter College, Georgetown University, New York University, and Stanford University, where she’s currently pursuing her second doctorate in modern Chinese literature. She spent a year researching Shang Dynasty oracle bones in Taiwan, which sparked her deep interest in the development of China’s written language. Wendy has directed Chinese language programs for American students in Beijing and Shanghai and has interpreted for high-level arts delegations from China. Her first doctoral dissertation from Teachers College (Columbia University) was on the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng, a subject about which she has written widely and continues to lecture frequently throughout the United States. She also created Jewish Historical Tours of China, bringing people to visit Shanghai and Kaifeng on educational trips. Her interest in all things Chinese continues unabated. Read more

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐Soon we will all need to know Chinese. We’re being taken over. So get a jump on learning it and be sure to buy a copy for all your woks friends. (Let’s see if Amazon will approve this review?)

⭐A good augmentation of “Chinese for Dummies”

⭐(by the same author), although Phrases for Dummies is good enough as a stand alone entity. Written in the light and readable “Dummies” style, it makes a pleasant change from, and is easier to read than some of the more formal phrase books on the market. It’s physical size would make it somewhat inconvenient to carry around the streets of Shanghai perhaps, but the kindle version solves that little issue rather nicely. It’s a good way to learn useful phrases in Chinese and it includes yet goes beyond the basics. I would probably recommend “Chinese for Dummies” as the one to go for first but if you can run to both, then you won’t be disappointed. There’s some necessary basics covered in both books but plenty of new stuff in this one to justify the expense.

⭐Nice little entry level book.

⭐If you are looking for conversational Chinese, so you can socialize with Chinese friends who speak little English, this is the perfect book. The biggest plus, is that it gives you the phonetic spelling of Chinese words which makes it really easy and foolproof. I wish I had bought this book first, before investing in other books, CD’s and DVD’s; it would have saved me a small fortune. Everything you need is in this book and you don’t need to look any further.

⭐I accidentally bought this book but I want to learn chinese so I thought it might be a decent reference anyway. I already know the basics of the basics and the tones in this book are often inverted or wrong. A word that should have a third tone in it has a first tone above it. If tones are so important in the chinese language which the book makes plain that they are necessary why not put the proper tones in the book? This particular “Chinese Phrases for Dummies” will make you sound like a dummy. Don’t buy.

⭐This little book is highly usable and superior to the expensive large introduction to Chinese textbook I also bought! You still need to hear the various vowel inflections spoken to get the correct inflections. This book is a great place to start, and kind of fun, too!

⭐I love this book has hundreds of useful phrases and tells you how to pronounce them.

⭐Chinese Phrases for Dummies is a must have for any traveler going to China. I’m currently here in China for one year as a Spoken English teacher at both a kindergarten and a middle school. Although I’m having difficulties with the tones in the Chinese language, the very fact that I’m trying gets a positive reaction from sales people here, especially those who come into the cities to sell their wares in the open markets. They are very obliging to the “dumb” American and graciously correct my pronunciation for me. This book is easy to read and you don’t need to read the whole thing if you don’t want to. You can concentrate on just the sections you need. I definately reccommend this book.

⭐This is an inexpensive guide to Chinese phrases but I wouldn’t recommend it if you’re learning the language as the pronunciation guides don’t use Pinyin and there are no Chinese characters (trust me, if you’re going to China you need to be able to recognise at least some characters!)It’s not easy to find the specific phrase you’re after (for that I recommend

⭐Mandarin Phrasebook: With 3500-word two-way dictionary (Lonely Planet Phrasebook)

⭐) but (at the risk of contradicting myself) if you are studying the language it makes a good rapid reminder – so if you know you’re going to be shopping, look at the section on shopping and you’ll get a quick bit of revision. You’ll just have to ignore the non-Pinyin!It’s not a bad book, but it’s dull to look at and either not comprehensive enough, or not simple enough. Worth a punt at the price.

⭐Great gift for anyone going China

⭐handy size and just right for me

⭐This is ok if you are a tourist. However if you want to learn chinese it may problems with pinyin later on.

⭐very pleased, I know that I’ll never be 100% speaking Chinese but just two or three phases make some of our new Canadians seem pleased that I’ve gone the distance so to say, and welcomed them, many thank you James

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