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Chinese 24/7: Everyday Strategies for Speaking and Understanding Mandarin
Zero to Fluent with Chinese 24/7
So you want to be able to communicate in Chinese, but you've never learned a foreign language before? That's OK. With this book and its free audio tracks, you'll have everything you need to start from scratch and reach any level you want in spoken Mandarin Chinese--the official and most widely used kind of Chinese in mainland China and Taiwan.
Chinese 24/7 is for you if you
* a tourist or short-term visitor to China
* a student of Chinese in the U.S. or elsewhere
* a business professional or foreign teacher
* a long-term visitor or expatriate living in China
Chinese 24/7 will give
* common, practical vocabulary
* a step-by-step guide on how to pronounce all the sounds in Chinese,
* humorous tips to gently help you overcome common errors and frustrations
* memory tricks
* FAQs that foreigners have when learning Chinese
* common first conversations and other typical encounters
* culturally relevant vocabulary
* tips for increasing your vocabulary using the language "pieces" you already know
* beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels marked throughout
* over 80 audio recordings of a native male and female speaker pronouncing vocabulary and sentence examples--available for free at Chinese247Book.com
So you want to be able to communicate in Chinese, but you've never learned a foreign language before? That's OK. With this book and its free audio tracks, you'll have everything you need to start from scratch and reach any level you want in spoken Mandarin Chinese--the official and most widely used kind of Chinese in mainland China and Taiwan.
Chinese 24/7 is for you if you
* a tourist or short-term visitor to China
* a student of Chinese in the U.S. or elsewhere
* a business professional or foreign teacher
* a long-term visitor or expatriate living in China
Chinese 24/7 will give
* common, practical vocabulary
* a step-by-step guide on how to pronounce all the sounds in Chinese,
* humorous tips to gently help you overcome common errors and frustrations
* memory tricks
* FAQs that foreigners have when learning Chinese
* common first conversations and other typical encounters
* culturally relevant vocabulary
* tips for increasing your vocabulary using the language "pieces" you already know
* beginning, intermediate, and advanced levels marked throughout
* over 80 audio recordings of a native male and female speaker pronouncing vocabulary and sentence examples--available for free at Chinese247Book.com
376 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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