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Colloquial Chinese

The Complete Course for Beginners, 2nd Edition

By Kan Qian

Published April 3rd 2009 by Routledge – 384 pages

Series: Colloquial Series

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Description

This new edition of the bestselling Colloquial Chinese has been revised and updated to make learning Chinese easier and more enjoyable than ever before.

Specially written by an experienced teacher for self-study or class use, the course offers a step-by-step approach to modern spoken Mandarin Chinese. No prior knowledge of the language is required.

What makes Colloquial Chinese your best choice in personal language learning?

  • Dialogues and vocabulary sections are given in characters and Pinyin romanization.
  • English translations of all dialogues.
  • Full answer key and reference section.
  • Chinese–English and English–Chinese glossaries.

Whether you're a business traveller, or about to take up a daring challenge in adventure tourism, you may be studying to teach or even looking forward to a holiday – if you'd like to get up and running with Chinese this rewarding course will take you from complete beginner to confidently putting your language skills to use in a wide range of everyday situations.

150 minutes of accompanying audio material is available to purchase separately on CD or in MP3 format, or comes included in the great value Colloquials Pack.

Another FREE 60 minutes of audio can be listened to online at: http://www.routledge.com/books/Colloquial-Chinese-isbn9780415434157

Contents

Introduction 1. Meeting Someone for the First Time 2. Name, Nationality and Race 3. At a Company Party 4. Asking the Time 5. Family and Friends 6. The Date and the Weather 7. Asking for Directions 8. Shopping (I) 9. Shopping (II) 10. At the Restaurant 11. Taking the Taxi and Buying Train Tickets 12. At the Hotel 13. Making Telephone Calls 14. Socializing 15. Writing a Letter to a Chinese Friend. Grammar Summary. Key to the Exercises and Reading/Listening Comprehension Questions. Chinese–English Glossary. Appendix A: Useful Signs. Appendix B: Table of the Combinations of the Initials and Finals in Putonghua. Appendix C: Dialogues in Characters for Units 1 to 3. Appendix D: English Translation of Dialogues from Units 6 to 15. Index of Grammatical Terms and Cultural Notes

Download Bonus Audio for the Course:

In addition to the 120 minutes of audio material that are included in the great value Colloquial Pack,or can be purchased separately in the audio CD, there are 25 FREE additional audio tracks in MP3 format available to stream. These tracks give you additional exercise material if you already own the course, or a taster if you’re thinking about buying it.

Clicking a link below will open a playlist of all files, from which you can select the required track to play.