Learn Chinese the Fast and Fun Way (Barron’s Fast and Fun Way Language Series)

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This attractive and highly accessible Fast and Fun guide introduces readers to enough Mandarin Chinese to help them get around in typical travel situations, such as signing in a hotel, sightseeing, dining, shopping, banking, using public transportation, the telephone, and more. Throughout students get a fascinating preview of China's culture, both in cities and out-lying areas.

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ISBN13: 9780812096897
Condition: NEW
Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.

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Good book

Review Date: December 28, 2006

Reviewer: Diane Carroll, Charlotte, NC

My husband is using this book in a class he is taking at work. He is going to be traveling to China next year. The book is easy to use, written in a clear and easy to understand fashion. It is working out well for him.

For the tourist or casual learner

Review Date: May 31, 2003

Reviewer: Eds Word, El Paso, Texas United States

This book is a good choice for learning spoken Mandarin in preparation for a trip to China. You'll learn a lot of phrases you need to know as a tourist and the book is more thorough than a simple phrasebook. You'll also learn how to put sentences together and by the end of the course you will develop a good feel for the language. Four ninety-minute tapes accompany the cassette version. Though professionally made, too much time is spent by the narrator walking you through the book. The time would have been better spent by supplementing the dialogs. The dialogs themselve are invaluable. The book uses romanized Chinese (pinyin) and therefore you will not learn how to interpret Chinese characters. Although the book comes with a nice fold-out dictionary the Oxford Starter Chinese Dictionary would make a wonderful accompanyment to this volume. This is about the easiest introduction to spoken Chinese that can be found.

There are better books.

Review Date: December 14, 1999

Reviewer: Corcoran, New Orleans, Louisiana

I read this book when looking for a language text. My goal is/was to actually learn to read, write and speak chinese at some point in the future. After leafing through it for about 30 minutes, I noticed that it was severely lacking in many aspects. It offers sparse chinese language instruction. If you are looking for something extremely basic this might work for you. However, you might be better off with any number of phrase books. If you are genuinely interested in learning chinese, I can recommend ANYTHING from either the faculty of PEKING UNIVERSITY or if you are interested in computer based instruction Triple-Play Chinese CD-ROM by transparent technologies. I recommend the triple-play as a basic introduction into chinese because it is inexpensive and has voice recognition software to aid in the pronunciation of pin-yin. There are other software titles out there, but I believe its the best one for the beginning student.

I hope this review helps you choose the right book.- Corcoran

Where is my book?

Review Date: August 29, 2009

Reviewer: Ruyi Wang,

I ordered this book on 7/28/09. My credit card has been charged but I have not received the book yet, meanwhile the order record is disappeared too. Where is my book?
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