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Business Companion: Chinese (Mandarin)

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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

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.

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.