
Learning Chinese-English Conversation 中國話+ 2CDs
The paramount goal of this conversation book is to make it possible for the learners to effectively acquire, in a short period of time, a great variety of useful, simple, easy, and understandable Chinese expressions. This book is composed of a collection of basic words, phrases and sentences commonly used in daily life. The Chinese sounds here are spelled in the pin-yin system with English translations. The pin-yin system is Hanyu Pinyin system initiated in the People's Republic of China. By using the attached CDs, the readers are encouraged to accurately pronounce the national language called kuo-yu in Taiwan of pu-tong-hua in mainland China. Constant practice will certainly make the learning process effective and interesting. One of the characteristics of this book is the comparison of traditional form(繁體字)with Hanyu Pinyin on one page and simplified form (簡體字)with English translation on the next. The contents of this book encompass Basic Words and Phrases: Numbers and Quantity, Days