Mandarin Picture Word Book | 
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Product Description
An effective, easy-to-use, enjoyable aid to learning Mandarin. Fifteen, colorable thematic scenes depict a picnic, farm, town, zoo, park, classroom, supermarket, and eight other settings. Illustrations within each scene portray people, animals, and things — each clearly identified by the appropriate word in Mandarin and in the Pinyin transliteration.
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Customer Reviews:
• Definitely Not For Beginners 16 January, 2008
Very thin book. Hardly worth the small price. There are no pinyin pronunciations and no english words. The characters are placed on the pictures that are all located very close together, so you aren't even sure if the label is labelling the correct picture. I don't recommend this unless you are a native speaker or are well-advanced in your Mandarin and simply want a coloring book.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2VM7R3ON7KERM
• Simple, Sweet, And Useful 08 August, 2007
This little "coloring book" is just the thing you need if you want to learn more Chinese nouns in a visual way without any extra baggage. There are no language notes, so this is not for absolute beginners (you must already know tones and how to read pinyin). Each page is a line drawing with a different scene, and the items in the picture are labeled in pinyin with the corresponding (simplified) Chinese characters. I stared at some words, not really knowing what exactly the drawing was supposed to represent, until I figured out there was an alphabetical word list printed in the back of the book. This is perfect, because it forces you to think about the Chinese word and meaning without spoon-feeding you the translation.
The drawings were originally done in 1993, and are a little dated (especially regarding technology), but this sort of adds to their charm. If you're an art-geek like me, you'll want to crack out the colored pencils to help you "study" each page!
- Reviewed by customer ID: A3HNCXSAD52MVP
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