- Paperback: 224 pages
- Publisher: Hodder Arnold H&S; 2nd Revised edition edition (31 July 2002)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340844752
- ISBN-13: 978-0340844755
- Product Dimensions: 19.4 x 13 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
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- #32 in Books > Languages > By Language > Chinese > Audiovisual & Multimedia
- #51 in Books > Languages > By Language > Chinese > Level > Introduction
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Product Description
Teach Yourself Beginner's Chinese is a friendly introduction to the language that's easy to follow from start to finish. It will appeal to anyone who wants to learn Chinese but feels daunted by the prospect of complicated grammar, classes and coursebooks. Everything is explained in simple English and there are hints throughout to make learning easy. There's lots of information about life in China too. This new edition has been revised and updated and now includes even more listening material.
About the Author
Elizabeth Scurfield is Chair of Modern Languages at the University of Westminster. Song Lianyi is Lecturer in Chinese
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55 of 56 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
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.
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.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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!
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!
10 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
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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A great way to learn Chinese. I found it fantastic.
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Quite disapointed - this CD cannot be used without the book. I tried to use during my 2 hour daily drive to / from work but it is NOT suitable as it assumes you can see the... Read more
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