Colloquial Mandarin Chinese: The Complete Course for Beginners

✍ Scribed by Qian, Kan

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 384
• Series: Colloquial
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Colloquial Chineseis easy to use and completely up to date!

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

What makesColloquial Chineseyour best choice in personal language learning?

- Interactive: lots of exercises for regular practice
- Clear: concise grammar notes
- Practical: useful vocabulary and pronunciation guide
- Complete: including answer key and reference section

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

Course components:

The complete course comprises the book and audio materials. These are available to purchase separately in paperback, ebook, CD and MP3 format. The paperback and CDs can also be purchased together in the great-value Colloquials pack.

Paperback: 978-0-415-43415-7 (please note this does not include the audio)

CDs: 978-0-415-43416-4

EBook: 978-0-203-88362-4 (please note this does not include the audio)

MP3s: 978-0-415-55159-5 (available from http: //www.ebookstore.tandf.co.uk/html/)

Pack: 978-0-415-43417-1 (paperback and CDs)

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

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Colloquial Chinese Mandarin: The Complete Course for Beginners......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgements......Page 10
Introduction......Page 12
Lesson One Chucì jiànmiàn: Meeting someone for the first time......Page 28
Lesson Two Xìngmíng, guójí hé niánlíng: Name, nationality and age......Page 46
Lesson Three Zài gongsi de jùhuì shang: At a company party......Page 65
Lesson Four Wèn shíjian: Asking the time......Page 84
Lesson Five Jiārén hé péngyou: Family and friends......Page 104
Lesson Six Rìqi hé tianqì: The date and the weather......Page 126
Lesson Seven Wèn lù: Asking for directions......Page 143
Lesson Eight Mai dongxi (I): Shopping (I)......Page 163
Lesson Nine Mai dongxi (II): Shopping (II)......Page 180
Lesson Ten Zài can’guan: At the restaurant......Page 201
Lesson Eleven Zuò chuzuche hé mai huoche piào: Taking the taxi and buying train tickets......Page 220
Lesson Twelve Zài fàndiàn: At the hotel......Page 238
Lesson Thirteen Da diànhuà: Making telephone calls......Page 253
Lesson Fourteen Shèjiao: Socializing......Page 269
Lesson Fifteen Gěi Zhōngguó péngyou xiě xìn: Writing a letter to a Chinese friend......Page 286
Grammar summary......Page 298
Key to the exercises and reading/listening comprehension questions......Page 309
Chinese–English glossary......Page 337
English–Chinese glossary......Page 353
Appendix A: Useful signs......Page 362
Appendix B: Table of combinations of the initials and finals in Putonghua......Page 365
Appendix C: Dialogues in characters for Lessons 1 to 3......Page 367
Appendix D: English translations of dialogues from Lesson 6 to Lesson 15......Page 370
Index to grammar and cultural notes......Page 380

✦ Subjects

Cultural;China;Reference;Nonfiction;Travel