This book presents the next best thing to a year abroad ..."Streetwise Chinese with Audio CD" offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how Chinese is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life. Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills. It includes one 75-minute audio CD.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Greeting people; Asking how they are; Saying how you feel; Addressing each other Chapter 2: Complaining; Envy, admiration Chapter 3: Grumbling; Teasing Chapter 4: Gossiping; Disbelief; Opinions on character Chapter 5: Making friends with a girl; Flattering a girl; Self-introduction; Expressing love and affection Chapter 6: Acclaiming, praising, commending; Being proud of something; Showing affection Chapter 7: Asking and giving directions; Saving from getting lost; Asking for a person; Expressing gratitude; Making modest remarks; Making a friend Chapter 8: Issuing orders; Making a request Chapter 9: Bargaining; Complacency Chapter 10: Betting; Arguing; Boasting; Bragging Chapter 11: Taking a trip; Throwing a party Chapter 12: Worrying; Persuading, advising; Encouraging; Convincing, reasoning Chapter 13: Blaiming; Criticizing; Explaining Chapter 14: Getting angry; Advising; Comforting Chapter 15: Quarreling Answers to Exercises Indexes
About the Author
Rongrong Liao, Ph.D., and David Y. Dai, Ph.D. are professors of Chinese at the Defense Language Institute. Jack Franke, Ph.D., is a head of department at the Defense Language Institute.
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If you are someone who likes Chinese language,you'll enjoy browsing through this book and finding interesting things like,for example....1000 of those ancient Chinese coins with the square hole in the center was a string of coins,hence 500 being half a string. It became slang to refer to someone not very bright by using the Chinese characters/words for "half a string", and likewise 250 coins being half of half a string, then a person referred to as quarter of a string was rather stupid. Because I collect ancient Chinese coins,this is extra interesting.The book is full of slang information like that.
However,although the vocabulary sections have words in characters,Pinyin,and English,about half of the book is Chinese runnihng conversation in characters only,on the left page,and the English conversation on the right-hand page.
It would therefore be most suitable for someone already with a basic knowledge of characters.For anyone who just likes Chinese language,even if not understanding one single character,I'd still recommend it for a better understanding of Chinese daily life. Just think how impressive it would be to a Chinese friend of yours to jokingly say that you are not a quarter string(of coins). The book is good fun.
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