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Making Out in Chinese
A Mandarin Chinese Phrase Book
Series: Making Out Books
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Making Out in Chinese is your indispensable guide to contemporary Chinese as it'sreally spoken on the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei or Singapore. This bestsellingphrase book is the perfect introduction to everyday interactions in China andother Chinese-speaking countries, and includes colorful slang that'll help rev upyour social life.
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Making Out in Chinese is your indispensable guide to contemporary Chinese as it's really spoken on the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, or Singapore. This bestselling phrase book is the perfect introduction to everyday interactions in China and other Chinese-speaking countries, and includes colourful slang that'll help rev up your social life.
Making Out in Chinese features a pronunciation guide, and notes on Chinese language and culture.
Series: Making Out Books
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Making Out in Chinese
Making Out in Chinese is your indispensable guide to contemporary Chinese as it's really spoken on the streets of Beijing, Shanghai, Taipei, or Singapore. This bestselling phrase book is the perfect introduction to everyday interactions in China and other Chinese-speaking countries, and includes colourful slang that'll help rev up your social life. Making Out in Chinese features a pronunciation guide,...Paperback$1500Elsewhere:$1599Unit price /UnavailableAvailableShips in 1 week
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Making Out in Chinese is praised for being an accessible and practical language guide, offering pinyin with tone marks and characters to help learners. The book avoids overly formal or rarely used slang, making it a useful resource for both conversational and more thorough language learning. It effectively combines English translations with the original script and transliteration, catering to a diverse range of language enthusiasts.
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INFORMATION
ISBN: 9780804843577
Publisher: Tuttle Publishing
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 14 April 2015
Country: United States
Imprint: Tuttle Publishing
Edition: Revised
Contributors:
- Revised by Jiageng Fan
- Revised by Haiyan Situ
- Illustrated by Akiko Saito
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Width: 102.0mm
Height: 191.0mm
Weight: 198g
Pages: 160
About the Author
Original edition by Ray Daniels who studied Chinese as an exchange student in Taiwan and Beijing. He met his Chinese wife in a tea shop in Taiwan.
Revised by Haiyan Situ, a Beijing native who has taught Chinese at the University of Otago, New Zealand.
Revised by Jiageng Fan who specializes in the linguistic relationship between the Chinese and Japanese languages and scripts, focusing on the etymology of characters. He has lived, studied and taught Chinese, Japanese and/or English in China and Australia and has traveled extensively. After obtaining a B.A. at Guangdong University of Foreign Studies, then working as a magazine editor, he moved to Christchurch, New Zealand, where he earned a First Class Honours Degree from the University of Canterbury. He is pursuing his Ph.D. at the University of Canterbury.
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