This Speak Out Chinese Phrasebook is designed to facilitate your stay in China by making simple communication with the Chinese possible for you. It differs from other Chinese textbooks in that it is a practical oral guide for daily communication, for example, how to greet taxi drivers, how to order in restaurants and how to bargain when shopping. Altogether ten such topics are introduced and hopefully this book will come to your timely and effective help whether you are looking for restaurants or asking for the location of bus stations in the streets. To serve this purpose, every sentence has pronunciation indications in English to help you say the sentence in addition to Pinin notes for Chinese characters. In addition to language for daily communication, as much as possible of Chinese culture, customs, life habits and practical information of modern Chinese city life are introduced after each sentence. So long as you can find the right sentence pattern and characters in vocabulary entries and show them to the hospitable Chinese people, they will for sure give you warm help.
Paperback, Simplified Chinese characters, Pinyin and English, 449 pages, 7.05"x4.9"
