books about: english-chinese

books about: english-chinese

books:

English-chinese

NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER TEXTBOOK 4CDs Vol 1

Beijing Language and Culture Univ. Press, 2005

NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER TEXTBOOK 4CDs Vol 1
NEW PRACTICAL CHINESE READER TEXTBOOK 4CDs Vol 1: It's amazing how these CD's can help us to learn the pronunciation of this difficult language. It's was very helpful.

Three Kingdoms: Chinese Classics (Classic Novel in 4-Volumes)

Luo Guanzhong

Foreign Languages Press, 2005

Great story of heroics and loyalty: Truly an epic
This is the unabridged version and truly a masterpiece. I was familiar with a very small portion of the history during this time period before I read it, so that encouraged me to try it out. If you love epic stories, this is a great one. Guanzhong based his novel on ...

Baby's First Words in Chinese (Baby's First Words)

Living Language

Living Language, 2007

FANTASTIC!
This is a GREAT product. I am really impressed. Even though the product is intended for 0-2 year olds, I bought it for my 26 month old son who has a mandarin-speaking babysitter. I am so happy I did. The CD is basically what I hoped for. Lots of great songs and ...

Pocket Oxford Chinese Dictionary

Oxford University Press, USA, 2004

Read carefully...
This is not a pocket dictionary. This is a serious hard cover dictionary with more than 90 000 entries. I was able to find any tricky Chinese vocabulary here inside. Giving 5 stars.

Tao Te Ching, 25th-Anniversary Edition

Lao Tsu

Vintage, 1997

Beyond brilliant
Tao Te Ching..meaning Book of The Way, or book of the Word. One of the best books ever written. Certainly , the book that has had the most profound positive influence on my life. If you are like me, you may be wondering should I get this particular version, and how ...

Integrated Chinese: Level 1, Simplified Character Edition (Integrated Chinese) (Integrated Chinese) Textbook

Tao-Chung Yao, Yuehua Liu, ...

Cheng & Tsui, 2006

Best Mandarin learning book
I started learning Mandarin with the Pimsleur series then moved to learning out of books and this is by far the best choice that I have seen so far. It gives clear explainations of grammar, you learn a lot of new vocabulary in each section and there are good dialoges ...

Remembering the Kanji, Vol. 1: A Complete Course on How Not to Forget the Meaning and Writing of Japanese ...

James W. Heisig

University of Hawaii Press, 2007

The negative reviews just don't get it. Buy this book.
People reviewing this book negatively obviously didn't read the author's introduction very well. This book does NOT claim to be some magical cure that will give you instant Kanji fluency. It's purpose is to give you an incredibly effective way to IDENTIFY nearly all ...

Tuttle Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1: A Revolutionary New Way to Learn and Remember the 800 Most Basic ...

Alison Matthews, Laurence Matthews

Tuttle Publishing, 2007

Great
I agree with the other glowing reviews. One of the hard things about Mandarin is remembering the tone of the words. There are four tones - high, rising, falling/rising, and falling. The characters are either building block characters or formed out of two (and rarely ...

Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

finally a good dictionary for chinese
This is the dictionary students were waiting for ! Not only clear characters, but also the pinyin pronunciation and outstanding example sentences. I use this book in my beginners classes with great succes. Students love it. I saw many dictionary's the lasr 25 years ...

Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Chinese

Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Norma Shapiro

Oxford University Press, USA, 2008

An Excellent Picture Dictionary for English Teachers in China.
I am the director of studies for a private English language instruction company in a big city in the south of China. My company has great resources, but I had felt that the time had come to have an additional book resource for vocabulary building for beginner ...

Beginner's Chinese with 2 Audio CDs

Yong Ho

Hippocrene Books, 2005

An Excellent Book for Beginners
As a former French teacher and foreign language instructor, I have to say that this book is just excellent. Each lesson builds well upon the previous lessons, the language notes are clear and the cultural notes are always on-point and fit well with the vocabulary ...

The Rough Guide to Mandarin Chinese Dictionary Phrasebook 3 (Rough Guide Phrasebooks)

Rough Guides

Rough Guides, 2006

The best book if you want to be able to say more than hello during your trip.
Rough Guide Mandarin is structured completely different from most phrase books: The first 40+ pages gives you numbers, days of the week, time, etc., and a 20 minute course in grammar. Oh no, you might be saying, but it is presented very simply. For instance it ...

Mandarin Chinese-English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (BILINGUAL VISUAL DICTIONARY)

DK Publishing

DK ADULT, 2008

High-quality illustrations with over 6,000 words
This compact, square-shaped visual dictionary is the best of its kind as far as I've seen. Being a visual dictionary, the majority of the words are nouns, but under many categories there are additional related adjectives and verbs, along with fixed phrases. Including ...

Tuttle Learner's Chinese English Dictionary

Li Dong; Dong Li

Charles E Tuttle Co, 2005

use two dictionaries
Use the Tuttle Learner's Chinese-English Dictionary along with the Oxford Beginner's Chinese Dictionary. The Tuttle is better for Chinese-English in that it contains more entries and examples. The Oxford is better for English-Chinese. One very nice feature is that ...

Chinese For Dummies (For Dummies (Language & Literature))

Wendy Abraham

For Dummies, 2005

Not for just dummies
This is a very good reference book for learning spoken Mandarin. As stated in the Introduction, this is not a book intended to be read from cover to cover. Instead, it's written for browsing. I agree with some other reviewers that this book isn't exactly a basic ...