Complete Mandarin Chinese: The Basics
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Book Overview
This Mandarin Chinese Learner's Dictionary is available alone or as part of the Complete Chinese course package which also includes a CD with 3 hours of recordings, a coursebook with 40 lessons, and a... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1400024250
ISBN13:9781400024254
Release Date:August 2008
Publisher:Living Language
Length:347 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 5.2" x 8.0"
Customer Reviews
2 ratings
If you know how to use it
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
I purchased this book/cd set at a local bookstore, hoping it would teach me some basic Chinese. And I was surprised! If you are a good independent learner, than this book should be great. It is very inexpensive (you might as well just forget the cd if you already can master Chinese sounds), and it covers all the basics, including a few useful characters. WARNING: If you have trouble with memorization, this book may not be for you. BUT: It is like Pimsleur because it gives you words, and then puts them into phrases. Example: zao morning an good zaoan good morning! What I like to do is make flash cards of each word in a coversation, and then after I have learned them, review the conversation.
Great intro, but.....
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 18 years ago
This set provides a great introduction to Mandarin. This otherwise fine intro does have one large problem with it though....in the beginning chapters, the words and phrases are repeated in a different order than as they appear in the book. Because some of the spellings look similar, it is not possible to discern which word you're actually trying to repeat. This is a pretty sloppy error and should have been spotted.
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