Colloquial Chinese
The Complete Course for Beginners
Price: $50.95
Add to Cart- ISBN: 978-0-415-44208-4
- Binding: Pack (also available in Paperback)
- Published by: Routledge
- Publication Date: 17th January 2008
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About the Book
This revised and extended edition of the best-selling Colloquial Chinese is the ideal introduction to modern Mandarin Chinese.Dialogues and vocabulary sections have been updated to include characters in addition to pinyin romanization. Along with an introduction to the art of writing Chinese characters, this revised edition also provides full English translations of all dialogues.
Table of Contents
1 Meeting someone for the first time
2 Name, nationality and age
3 At a company party
4 Asking the time
5 Family and friends
6 The date and the weather
7 Shopping (I)
8 Shopping (II)
9 At the restaurant
10 Asking for directions
11 Buying bus and train tickets
12 At the hotel
13 Making telephone calls
14 Socializing
15 Letter from abroad
About the Author(s)
Kan Qian teaches in Oriental Studies at the University of Cambridge.
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