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Ultimate Chinese (Mandarin) Beginner-Intermediate (CD/Book)
Book by Living Language
393 pages, Audio CD
First published August 24, 2004
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September 8, 2017
If your aim is to talk to people, yes, go ahead and get this book.
If you, like me, who don't have a real need to talk to people in Chinese and just wanna read, then find another textbook.
It contains basic convo guides...which doesn't necessarily help me. For example, I met a patient today who only knows Mandarin but none of the convos I learned prepared me for the real thing.
He said mang ma? I was stumped for 5mins 'cause I was like aaaaaaah someone is actually speaking mandarin to me.
Then I just ask whether he had breakfast and was he in any pain and why he's there. Awkward and stilted.... Sooo I realised that I need more vocab for small talk instead of asking directions and buying stuff.
If you, like me, who don't have a real need to talk to people in Chinese and just wanna read, then find another textbook.
It contains basic convo guides...which doesn't necessarily help me. For example, I met a patient today who only knows Mandarin but none of the convos I learned prepared me for the real thing.
He said mang ma? I was stumped for 5mins 'cause I was like aaaaaaah someone is actually speaking mandarin to me.
Then I just ask whether he had breakfast and was he in any pain and why he's there. Awkward and stilted.... Sooo I realised that I need more vocab for small talk instead of asking directions and buying stuff.
August 27, 2008
Hen hau.
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