Survival Chinese: How to Communicate without Fuss or Fear - by Boye Lafayette De Mente

By Boye Lafayette De Mente

A convenient Mandarin chinese language phrasebook and advisor to the chinese, Survival chinese language comprises easy vocabulary priceless for buying around.

This ebook includes all of the priceless phrases and words for conversing Mandarin chinese language in any form of atmosphere. ideal for college kids, travelers, or enterprise humans studying Mandarin or touring to China or Taiwan, it additionally features a newbie consultant to the Mandarin language, taking into consideration a deeper figuring out of chinese language than a customary Mandarin phrasebook or chinese language dictionary. The booklet is damaged into 4 simple sections: universal chinese language Expressions and key terms, crucial chinese language conversation instruments, chinese language commute Vocabulary, and making your individual sentences. All chinese language phrases and words are written in Romanized shape (pinyin) to boot phonetically, making saying chinese language a breeze. for instance, the notice for reservation, yuding can also be written as yuu-deeng. actual chinese language characters (hanzi) also are integrated in order that when it comes to problems the publication will be proven to the individual the person is making an attempt to speak with.

This phrasebook includes:

1000's of worthwhile chinese language phrases and expressions
An A-Z index which permits the e-book to operate as a English to chinese language dictionary
Romanized types, phonetic spellings, and chinese language Characters (Hanzi) for all phrases and phrases
A concise heritage and historical past of the chinese language language
a whole advisor to chinese language pronunciations
A concise consultant to utilizing chinese language tones
a quick advent to chinese language grammar

now not every body has time to wait general Mandarin chinese language sessions. a hectic time table, besides the fact that, doesn't suggest you can't examine Mandarin. With this enjoyable and simple chinese language word ebook you'll soon be conversing chinese language with no worry or fuss! Titles during this bestselling word publication sequence comprise: Survival eastern, Survival Arabic, Survival chinese language, Survival Tagalog, Survival Hindi, and Survival Korean

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The currency comes in 1, 2 and 5 fen coins, and 1, 5, 10 and 50 yuan notes or bills. There are two Chinese words for cash: cash cash xiankuan (shee-an-kwahn) ༭॥ xianjin (shee-an-jeen) ༭ࢫ 1 yuan yi yuan (ee-ywahn) ာთ yi kuai (ee kwie) ာॠ 2 yuan liang yuan (lee-ahng ywahn) ৰთ liang kuai (lee-ahng kwie) ৰॠ 3 yuan san yuan (sahn ywahn) ೂთ san kuai (sahn kwie) ೂॠ 4 yuan si yuan (suh ywahn) ඣთ si kuai (suh kwie) ඣॠ 5 yuan wu yuan (woo ywahn) ໞთ wu kuai (woo kwie) ໞॠ 10 yuan shi yuan (shr ywahn) യთ shi kuai (shr kwie) യॠ credit card xingyong ka (sheen-yohng kah) ེ႒ट Money 53 Which credit cards do you accept?

Keyi duihuan siren zhipiao ma? ी၅‫޺׻‬ගಐᆐ஺ઁƪ (Ker-ee dway-hwahn suh-wren jr-pee-ow mah) automatic teller machine (atm) tip tikuan ji (tee-kwahn jee) พ॥߹ xiaofei (she-ow-fay) བ٘ Where is an ATM? Nali you tikuan ji? ଔৄ႟พ॥߹ƪ (Nah-lee you tee-kwahn jee) Will it accept foreign bank cards? Shou waiguo yinhang ka ma? ൖ๽ܽၩ྅टઁƪ (Show wigh-gwoh een-hang kah mah) How much should I tip? Yinggai gei duoshao xiaofei? ၵ‫۝ڨ‬؉೼བ٘ƪ (Eeng-guy gay dwoh-shou she-ow-fay) Is foreign currency okay? Keyi yong waibi gei ma?

How much is the room tax? Fangjian shui duoshao?

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