Produktbild: Chinese For Dummies

Chinese For Dummies

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

ISBN

978-1-119-47544-6

Auflage

3. Auflage

Erscheinungsdatum

02.11.2018

Einband

Taschenbuch

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

400

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/18,9/2,2 cm

Gewicht

545 g

Sprache

Englisch

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

ISBN

978-1-119-47544-6

Auflage

3. Auflage

Erscheinungsdatum

02.11.2018

Einband

Taschenbuch

Verlag

John Wiley & Sons Inc

Seitenzahl

400

Maße (L/B/H)

23,3/18,9/2,2 cm

Gewicht

545 g

Sprache

Englisch

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

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  • Produktbild: Chinese For Dummies
  • Introduction 1

    About This Book 1

    Foolish Assumptions 3

    Icons Used in This Book 4

    Beyond the Book 4

    Where to Go from Here 5

    Part 1: Getting Started with Chinese 7

    Chapter 1: Chinese in a Nutshell: The Spoken Word 9

    Grasping Chinese Dialects 10

    Pinyin Spelling: Beijing, Not Peking 11

    Sounding Off: Basic Chinese Sounds 12

    Starting off with initials 13

    Ending with finals 14

    Perfect pitch: Presenting . . . the four tones! 15

    Adding Idioms and Popular Expressions to Your Repertoire 17

    Chapter 2: The Written Word: Checking Out Chinese Characters 21

    Perusing Pictographs, Ideographs, and the Six Scripts 22

    The Chinese Radical: A Few Clues to a Character's Meaning 24

    Following the Rules of Stroke Order 25

    Rule 1 25

    Rules 2 through 9 25

    Up, Down, or Sideways? Deciphering the Direction of Characters 26

    Traditional versus Simplified Characters: When to Use Which 28

    Using a Chinese Dictionary . . . without an Alphabet! 29

    Chapter 3: Warming Up with the Basics: Chinese Grammar 31

    The Basics of Chinese Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives 32

    Nouns 33

    Definite versus indefinite articles 36

    Adjectives 38

    Getting into Verbs, Adverbs, Negation, and Possession 39

    Verbs 39

    Adverbs 44

    Bù and méiy u: Total negation 44

    Getting possessive with the particle de 47

    Asking Questions 47

    The question particle ma 47

    Yes/no choice questions using bù between repeating verbs 47

    Interrogative pronouns 48

    Chapter 4: Getting Started with Basic Expressions: N H o! 51

    Making Introductions 52

    Acquainting yourself 52

    Introducing your friends and family 52

    Asking people for their names 53

    Greeting and Chatting 55

    Addressing new friends and strangers 55

    Conversing around the clock 56

    Talking about the weather 59

    Finding out where people are from 61

    Taking (that is, rejecting) compliments 63

    Saying goodbye 63

    Chapter 5: Getting Your Numbers, Times, and Measurements Straight 65

    Counting in Chinese 66

    Numbers from 1 to 10 66

    Numbers from 11 to 99 67

    Numbers from 100 to 9,999 68

    Numbers from 10,000 to 100,000 and beyond 69

    How 'bout those halves? 69

    Ordinal numbers 70

    Asking how many or how much 70

    Telling Time 71

    Asking and stating the time 71

    Specifying the time of the day 71

    Save the Date: Using the Calendar and Stating Dates 75

    Dealing with days of the week 76

    Naming the months 77

    Specifying dates 77

    Celebrating Chinese holidays 80

    Sizing Up Weights and Measures 81

    Chapter 6: Speaking Chinese at Home 85

    Hanging Out at Home 85

    Hunting for an Apartment 86

    Decorating Your New Digs 89

    Appointing Your Rooms, F ngshu Style 89

    The bedroom 91

    The bathroom 92

    The kitchen 92

    The living room 93

    The basement 94

    The attic 95

    Part 2: Chinese in Action 97

    Chapter 7: Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk 99

    Establishing a Connection 99

    Posing simple introductory questions 102

    Chatting about family 103

    Making small talk on the job 105

    Talking about where you live 108

    Chapter 8: Dining Out and Shopping for Food 111

    All about Meals 112

    Satisfying your hunger 112

    Sitting down to eat and practicing proper table manners 114

    Getting to Know Chinese Cuisines 115

    Dining Out 116

    Understanding what's on the menu 118

    Placing an order and chatting with the waitstaff 125

    Dipping into some dim sum 127