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CHINESE in 10 minutes a day provides a practical, fun approach to learning this fascinating language. The proven method of success requires spending at least 10 minutes a day to reach obtainable goals. The step-by-step lessons begin with the basics and lead to conversational Chinese. The book is a complete language-learning kit, with specially designed components such as puzzles, flash cards and sticky labels to place on objects at home or around the office.
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"This book is so accessible that learning Mandarin was actually easy and fun..." -- Amazon.co.uk on-line review, September 2000.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
By E. Lodde
Format:Paperback
My boyfriend and I are going to be moving to China next year, and since he knows absolutely no Chinese I thought this book would be helpful. Now our whole house is labeled with stickers, and it is working. Its a pretty quick and easy way to learn, I just wish it had the charecters as well.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Nice things about this book: Pictures to accompany most words; pronunciation of pinyin; groups of words with common root elements given together; stickers to label your household (and your dog!); flashcards; tips on how to incorporate study into your daily activities.
Could use: Audio & characters...that being said this can easily be augmented by using Rosetta Stone's online free lessons to get the idea of tones and pronunciations and lots of websites have characters you can look up.
Summary: I love it. I've used other do-it-yourself language books and gotten bored. The colour, "activities" and tips make this book motivating and it is perfect for the raw beginner.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Before buying (or reviewing) a language instruction book, you should consider the purpose of the book. This book intends to give you some basic speaking ability in Chinese in a relatively short amount of time, to help you express yourself while traveling, shopping, eating, and doing other typical tourist activities. It does an excellent job of that. If you're looking for more than that, choose a book that better meets your needs.
The book is divided into 24 lessons, with the suggestion you study each one for 10 minutes. That's just 4 hours of study, plus however much time you want to spend practicing. This won't make you fluent, won't teach you to read/write characters, and it won't really help you understand someone speaking Chinese to you, but it will give you the basic speaking skills it aims to provide.
There are flash cards to cut out and practice with, and sticky labels to put on things around your house. The words are written in Pinyin, which is a romanization of Mandarin words based on their pronunciation. Pinyin pronunciation isn't obvious to English readers, so the book includes additional phonetic spelling. For example, it tells you the PinYin word 'jie' is pronounced 'jee-eh'.
There are a number of exercises so you can practice what you've learned, which helps you remember.
If you'd like to build a good foundation of common Chinese words and phrases with a minimal amount of study time, then I think you'll be happy with this book.
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Adequate
I am studying Mandarin independtly and have been doing so for several months. I bought this book as a supplement to my other lessons. Read more
Published on Jan 21 2011 by P. Brown
5.0 out of 5 stars
Fun, Interesting and it gets you active using the language very...
I've had this book for a while. I agree with the reviews that this is an excellent beginners book. The exercises, pictures, tear out cards and stickers to put on things around... Read more
Published on Dec 2 2008 by Barbara
2.0 out of 5 stars
Somewhat useful, but lacks audio
The system is a pretty good one. There are lots of pictures, pages to help you practice saying and writing the words, etc. Read more
Published on May 7 2003
5.0 out of 5 stars
traveller
For the traveller this is a great, fairly easy way to learn a difficult language.
Published on Mar 8 2003
4.0 out of 5 stars
Good for everyday speaking
While I agree with the other reviews of the book that this is a very accessible text for learning to speak Chinese, I feel I must mention that it doesn't provide most of the... Read more
Published on Oct 7 2002 by C. Wallis Davenport
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SHOCKINGLY AWESOME
I teach from this book. It is awesome in all languages. Replete with pictures, fun stuff and good words, it is the ULTIMATE BEGGINNER BOOK. Read more
Published on Sep 23 2002 by Nick
4.0 out of 5 stars
very good with a little bit of dedication
I found a few translation mistakes, but most are corrected later on by giving the other correct definition (though you may want a dictionary to be sure which is which). Read more
Published on April 10 2001 by Stacie
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