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Business Companion: Chinese (Mandarin) [Unabridged] [Paperback]

Tim Dobbins (Author), Paul Westbrook (Author)
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Business Companion March 20, 2001
Living Language brings more than 50 years of language expertise to this outstanding series for anyone who does business internationally, whether abroad, on the telephone, or via e-mail.  The Living Language Business Companion: Chinese is a perfect phrasebook for any business situation, and provides cultural information essential to working with Chinese colleagues.  Best of all, the audio CD includes dialogues, key words, and over 500 Chinese phrases, used in realistic, up-to-date business settings so the reader doesn't have to guess at pronunciation.

Key Features Include:

General business situations common to all fields, such as making telephone calls, sending letters or e-mail, conducting interviews, making presentations, attending trade shows, getting around, and even socializing.
Industry-specific Chinese terms in over 25 fields such as banking, advertising, pharmaceuticals, engineering, telecommunications, medical and dental, publishing, and more.
A two-way glossary of the most common and essential Chinese terms businesspeople will need to know.
Appendices full of practical information such as weights and measurements, useful addresses, Web sites, holidays, etc.

Includes a 288-page handbook and 60-minute audio CD

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Living Language brings more than 50 years of language expertise to this outstanding series for anyone who does business internationally, whether abroad, on the telephone, or via e-mail.  The Living Language Business Companion: Chinese is a perfect phrasebook for any business situation, and provides cultural information essential to working with Chinese colleagues.  Best of all, the audio CD includes dialogues, key words, and over 500 Chinese phrases, used in realistic, up-to-date business settings so the reader doesn't have to guess at pronunciation.

Key Features Include:

General business situations common to all fields, such as making telephone calls, sending letters or e-mail, conducting interviews, making presentations, attending trade shows, getting around, and even socializing.
Industry-specific Chinese terms in over 25 fields such as banking, advertising, pharmaceuticals, engineering, telecommunications, medical and dental, publishing, and more.
A two-way glossary of the most common and essential Chinese terms businesspeople will need to know.
Appendices full of practical information such as weights and measurements, useful addresses, Web sites, holidays, etc.

Includes a 288-page handbook and 60-minute audio CD

Product Details

  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Living Language (March 20, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0609606840
  • ISBN-13: 978-0609606841
  • Product Dimensions: 7.1 x 4.9 x 1.4 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,253,469 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

 

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Characters are a must-have, November 4, 2002
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Johnny (Salt Lake City) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Business Companion: Chinese (Mandarin) (Paperback)
There are no characters in this book at all! IF you have any intention to get a hold of the language, reading and writing go hand in hand. This will make much more sense when you go over and tyr to ride a bus or converse with someone.
The second problem is this doesn't focus on dialogue. Yes, it is interesting to blurt out your newest American-style Chinese Phrase but what are you going to do when your partner replies?

Anyway, thumbs down, I'm sending mine back...nice packaging though

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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A Must Have for Learning Business Chinese, July 27, 2001
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"asiab" (Bellevue, WA United States) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Business Companion: Chinese (Mandarin) (Paperback)
Think your Chinese is good enough to do business in China? Well, it'll be that much better if you decide to get this great language guide. This book has plenty of phrases for doing business in China and even important high technology language to help you to communicate in the changing landscape of China's economy. It also has vocabulary on specific industries such as banking and finance and management consulting.

*Note- I'm not sure if this is a beginner's book since it doesn't go into a lot of grammar, which is important. I already have a pretty good grammar foundation, and the vocabulary adds onto that. It's pretty much like a Chinese dictionary of business phrases and vocabulary.

The CD is an extra bonus. It contains all the bolded words in the book, about 65 minutes worth of native speakers pronunciations using the much sought-after Beijing dialect. It's worth the extra five dollars.

In short, this book offers a lot of value for the price and those doing business in China should get it to expand their business vocabulary. I highly recommend it.

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2.0 out of 5 stars Very shoddy, November 7, 2010
This review is from: Business Companion: Chinese (Mandarin) (Paperback)
The book has no Chinese characters, only pinyin. It's not terribly useful for anyone who is seriously interested in learning business Chinese, but if you want to learn a few phrases to impress in a meeting it may do the trick.
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