Easy Peasy Chinese

✍ Scribed by Mandarin for beginners

• Publisher: DK
• Year: 2023
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 666
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Contents
Foreword
Section 1: Introduction
Pinyin
The tones
Characters
Four types
Different strokes
Stroke order
How characters are made
Memory tips
It’s radical
Easy peasy grammar
Section 2: Let’s Get Started
First words
Welcome!
How do you do?
Chinese names
Conversation practice 1
Section 3: All About Me
Where are you from?
My body
Face facts
Family and friends
Respect!
Conversation practice 2
Section 4: Numbers
Numbers 1–10
It’s simple maths
Number rules
What’s the date?
Birthday party
Signs of the Zodiac
Conversation practice 3
Section 5: Weather
Seasons
Weather words
Section 6: Transport
Vroom!
Buying a ticket
Asking the way
Questions
Getting around
Conversation practice 4
Section 7: Food
Place settings
Don’t flip the fish!
Live to eat!
At a restaurant
Conversation practice 5
Section 8: Hobbies
Fun and games
I like it
Ping pong and Mahjong
Slang
Conversation practice 6
Section 9: A Trip to China
Beijing
A day in the country
At the market
How to haggle
Lunar New Year
Festival!
Conversation practice 7
Useful words
Index and picture credits
Acknowledgments
Copyright
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Chapter 1: ‘I’m thinking’ – Oh, but are you?
Chapter 2: Renegade perception
Chapter 3: The Pushbacker sting
Chapter 4: ‘Covid’: The calculated catastrophe
Chapter 5: There is no ‘virus’
Chapter 6: Sequence of deceit
Chapter 7: War on your mind
Chapter 8: ‘Reframing’ insanity
Chapter 9: We must have it? So what is it?
Chapter 10: Human 2.0
Chapter 11: Who controls the Cult?
Chapter 12: Escaping Wetiko
Postscript
Appendix: Cowan-Kaufman-Morell Statement on Virus Isolation
Bibliography
Index