Chinese in Plain English, Second Edition

By Boyé Lafayette de Mente

Book Overview

Next time someone asks if you know how to speak Chinese, you can say Wo zhidao (Waw jr-dow).*With Chinese in Plain English, you can speak Chinese in no time Its easy-to-use pronunciation system and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071482954
• ISBN13: 9780071482950
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: McGraw Hill
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.9" x 0.8" x 5.0"

Customer Reviews

Useful learning resource

I use this book in conjunction with classroom instruction and a CD set (Instant Imersion Chinese) and find it very useful. It matches the structure of the classroom instruction and CDs well, and I haven't noticed any inconsistencies in the content. One shortcoming is that it does not use the pinyin tonal inflection marks. However, when used with other learning resources, that is not much of an issue. I find it very useful for basic vocabulary building and memorization drills; you really need to hear the language to learn the accent and cadence, and no book will provide that.