Overview

This new edition of the bestselling Colloquial Chinese has been revised and updated to make learning Chinese easier and more enjoyable than ever before. Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to modern spoken Mandarin Chinese. No prior knowledge of the language is required. What makes Colloquial Chinese your best choice in personal language learning? Dialogues and vocabulary sections are given in characters and Pinyin romanization. English translations of all dialogues. Full answer key and reference section. Chinese--English and English--Chinese glossaries. Whether you're a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism, you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday -- if you'd like to get up and running with Chinese this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations. 150 minutes of accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack. Another FREE 60 minutes of audio can be listened to online at: http://www.routledge.com/books/Colloquial-Chinese-isbn9780415434157

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Author:   Qian Kan (The Open University, UK)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Edition:   2nd New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 13.50cm , Height: 2.50cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.476kg
ISBN:  

9780415434157

ISBN 10:   0415434157
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   03 April 2009
Audience:   General/trade ,  College/higher education ,  General ,  Tertiary & Higher Education
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Unknown
Availability:   In Print  
Limited stock is available. It will be ordered for you and shipped pending supplier's limited stock.
Language:   English & Chinese

Table of Contents

Introduction.  1. Meeting someone for the first time  2. Name, nationality and race  3. At a company party  4. Asking the time  5. Family and friends  6. The date and the weather  7. Asking for directions  8. Shopping (I)  9. Shopping (II)  10. At the restaurant  11. Taking the taxi and buying train tickets  12. At the hotel  13. Making telephone calls  14. Socializing  15. Writing a letter to a Chinese friend Grammar summary  Key to the exercises and reading/listening comprehension questions. Chinese–English glossary.  Appendix A: useful signs.  Appendix B: table of the combinations of the initials and finals in Putonghua.  Appendix C: Dialogues in characters for Units 1 to 3.  Appendix D: English translation of dialogues from Units 6 to 15.  Index of grammatical terms and cultural notes.

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