- Paperback: 1 pages
- Publisher: TUTTLE PUBLISHING; Bilingual edition (Nov 15 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0794600379
- ISBN-13: 978-0794600372
- Product Dimensions: 18.8 x 10.4 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 118 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #403,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Pocket-size guide to more than 2,000 essential phrases in Mandarin Chinese, divided into themed sections. Includes food, drink, and lodging; tips for train and automobile travel; and instructions and phrases for emergencies. Includes a pronunciation table that explains the phonetic pronunciation. Softcover.
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4.5 out of 5 stars (4 customer reviews)
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Uses standard Pinyin, which is great, but also challenging, Feb 28 2007
By Derrill Dabkoski - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Essential Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book (Paperback)
This book is the only phrase book I've seen that uses standard pinyin. This is good because:1)Standard pinyin is the official standard romanization for Chinese and is used on all signs in China.
2)It has the accent marks to indicate the 4 tones (and 1 neutral tone).
3)All Chinese people are required to learn Pinyin in school.
Pinyin takes a while to read and pronounce properly, so the learning curve on this book might be steeper than other books. (Don't try to read pinyin like English, or no one will have any clue what you're saying!)
But if you have any aspirations to learn Chinese correctly, I recommend this book as a good introduction.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars
Preparing for a trip to China, May 20 2007
By Suzy-Q - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Essential Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book (Paperback)
I bought this book in preparation for our trip to China. It has a lot of useful phrases that can be used in various situations travelers might find themselves in. The text is very small, which makes it compact, but requires the use of reading glasses for many of us over 40! I was dissapointed that there wasn't more vocabulary for navigating airports.
11 of 14 people found the following review helpful
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Impressive, July 5 2006
By Belle C. Sanchez - Published on Amazon.com
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This review is from: Essential Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book (Paperback)
This phrase book is very useful, especially for foreigners who have some basic of Mandarin, but want to improve or use when they travel in China (For some who doesn't have basic, it's still useful because there is Chinese character written in the book, so they can show to locals). It also brushes up your memory of vocabularies.
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