The Everything Conversational Chinese Book with CD provides readers with basic instruction for speaking Chinese in a business setting, while traveling, or within the Chinese-American community. Step-by-step instruction is followed by challenging exercises and quizzes to test readers' knowledge and prepare them for speaking in Mandarin Chinese. Complete with a helpful audio CD, The Everything Conversational Chinese Book with CD allows readers to listen while they learn, making mastering this fascinating language fun and easy.
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John-Francis Grasso is a translator and editor at East China Polytechnic University Publishing in Hong Kong. He provides voice-over, translation, and editing services for English language educational texts and multimedia. At Shanghai TeacherÕs University, John-Francis assisted in the development of the Conversational English Program and developed and taught Chinese as a Foreign Language for international students. A graduate of Hunter College and the University of Hong Kong, he lives in Hong Kong.
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5 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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OK, but they blew it on the CD,
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This review is from: The Everything Speaking Mandarin Chinese Book (Paperback)
I was enjoying the cultural material, and thought they did a reasonably good job of introducing pinyin and the sounds of Mandarin, and providing practice material in the book and CD.
It all fell apart though when I got to page 39, where I was supposed to "repeat the following sentences after the reader as you listen to the CD". It's a conversation between two speakers, and the problem is that they do not pause between sentences as they are spoken to give you a chance to emulate them. The tracks for practicing individual vocabulary words have pauses for repetition, but all the practice conversations I checked do not. I don't know how this is supposed to aid me pronouncing sentences in Mandarin. It was a real disappointment, and I had to find a new book.
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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