Survival Chinese: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Survival Series) | 
|  | | | Title: | Survival Chinese: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - Instantly! (Survival Series) | | Author: | Boye Lafayette De Mente | | Publisher: | Tuttle Publishing | | Type: | Book / Paperback | | Publication Date: | 15 January, 2005 | | ISBN / ISBN-13: | 0804836051 / 9780804836050 | | List Price: | $6.95 | | Amazon Price: | $6.95 | |
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A handy guide to the Chinese language, Survival Chinese contains basic expressions and key words that are necessary for getting around. The notorious tonal changes in the pronunciation of Chinese words are a challenge for any beginner in the language. De Mente shows how these variations become a breeze to learn with his additional guidelines on how the Pinyin phonetic alphabet letters are pronounced when used in Chinese words. Together with the standard pinyin pronunciations, these English phonetics serve as an excellent guide to approximating the correct Chinese pronunciation as closely as possible.
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Customer Reviews:
• My Mandarin Instructor Recommends This! 13 May, 2007
This was recommended and endorsed by my Mandarin instructor. It also helped me practice and reinforced the Mandarin class instructions.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A2YMS9UK1A9OF2
• Missing Tones 07 July, 2008
Living overseas, I bought this book and had a friend bring it to me without having seen it. I also bought this before the posted review of 'Missed the Mark' and wish I had seen that review beforehand. Indeed, even though the cover itself has a picture with the dialogue showing tonal markings, the book itself has none inside. I was quite surprised because in reading the introduction it even has a short briefing on the tones used, but doesn't mark them at all throughout the book.
While the phrases itself are useful, I literally had to go through and mark the proper tones after checking with several other sources. This as well as a few typos in the pronunciation and one where it simply retypes the English and forgets to type in the pronunciation bring this to be a mistaken buy.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A22VYXILO5C5Z9
• Missed The Mark 01 May, 2008
I am living in China and taking Mandarin lessons - I had a friend bring me this book without having looked at it. It has a major flaw - the Pinyin (the a-b-c version of Characters) does not have the tone markings. This means that you will not be understood without the correct tone - I know that from repeated experience. For instance "mai" can be pronounced 4 different ways each with a different meaning - pronounced in 4th tone is to SELL and 3rd tone is to BUY and 2nd tone is to BURY. Look at the learning dictionaries by Tuttle publishing with the author of Li Dong and then get a Rough Guide or Lonely Planet phrase book -they show Pinyin with tone marks. A language DVD and hand recorder would help you to match the tones very well if you are serious.
- Reviewed by customer ID: A16NM08XAMIKCT
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