Beginner's Chinese - Book and double CD pack (Mandarin)(Teach Yourself Languages S.) |
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Author:
Elizabeth Scurfield,
Lianyi Song
By Teach Yourself Books
Average Customer Rating:  
List Price: £23.99
Our Price: £34.72
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Binding: Audio CD
EAN: 9780340870235
ISBN: 0340870230
Label: Teach Yourself Books
Manufacturer: Teach Yourself Books
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: 2003-09-30
Publisher: Teach Yourself Books
Studio: Teach Yourself Books |
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Fantastic, 2007-10-21
A great way to learn Chinese. I found it fantastic.
There are no translations of the conversations, but all the words and grammar you need to use are given, so you can work out the translations, this makes it a great learning tool.
A good introduction to learning chinese, 2004-02-18
This course provides a good beginning to those wishing to learn chinese with no previous foreign language experience. It moves slowly and steadily, explaining every step along the way and helping to build your confidence as you move through the chapters. It covers not only spoken mandarin, but in the later chapters begins to tackle written mandarin and also provides cultural tips throughout the book. The dialogs are comprehensive and helpful, and are taken slowly to prevent you being too overwhelmed.
Problems can be encountered, however, when using this as your sole source of learning - many of the words and phrases are repeated on the tape only once, giving you only one source of reference. This does make it difficult to distinguish the particulars of one specific phrase from the general intonation, something which is imperitive when learning Mandarin (it has 4 different vocal tones, each one changing the meaning of the word if pronounced differently).
The course does provide a perfect introduction to Mandarin, and i would recomend it to anyone wanting to learn if used in conjunction with classes or regular conversational speaking.
Excellent, 2007-06-17
An incredibly helpful course covering a wide variety of topics. I thoroughly enjoyed using it and would recommend it to anyone who wants to begin learning Mandarin.
Beginner's Mandarin, 2009-01-05
This book was a requirement as part of my Chinese module at university. The book is good, showing good examples of pronunciation and also the chinese words in english writing, however the book lacks the chinese charactors and for that reason I don't think this book is very good.
It would work well for someone just wanting to speak the language, but if you are going there on holiday and need to read signs or write things down etc. this book is not for you!
good but some problems, 2007-06-20
Overall I think the course is good. I also find it quite enjoyable. One problem I have with it is that there are no translations of the conversations.
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