Instant Chinese: How to Express Over 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases! (A Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook & Dictionary)
By (Author) Boye Lafayette De Mente
Revised by Jiageng Fan
Tuttle Publishing
Tuttle Publishing
2nd February 2016
Second Edition
United States
General
Non Fiction
495.183421
Paperback
192
Width 102mm, Height 152mm
170g
So you want to learn a bit of Mandarin Chinese, but have no time to study
You'll be visiting China, and need a handy book to help you get around andcommunicate If so, this is the perfect book for you!
The idea of Instant Chinese is simplejust learn 100 key words and phrasesand you can instantly say 1,000 different things. The trick is knowing WHICH100 words and phrases to learn. They're all in here: the 100 words you'll useover and over again. Even with a vocabulary this small, you'll be amazed howmany things you can say!
"The Instant series from Tuttle, however, is not your usual phrasebook. Rather than focusing on phrases to help you order food, go to the hospital, rent a hotel room, or buy a train ticket, it provides you with more than 100 key words and phrases to help you express more than 1,000 unique ideas based on general conversation topics." --Eurolinguiste
Boye Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, and Korea since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, trade journalist, editor, and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (now Thunderbird: The School of Global Management). His 70-plus books include Japan's Cultural Code Words, Business Guide to Japan, and Japan Unmasked.