Chinese Conversations for Beginners: Mandarin Learning with Conversational Dialogues (Free Audio) – Chinese Short Stories Bilingual Book (Chinese Conversation Series)
£14.20
Are you a Beginner Mandarin Learner looking to improve your spoken Chinese in the most effective way possible? If your answer is YES – this book is for you!
Learn Chinese with stories – The book is designed to immerse you in realistic daily conversations in modern China through short stories:
- Learn to speak like a Chinese native
- Resolve daily conversational tasks
- Build up your vocabulary with up-to-date words and phrases
- Explore modern China through fun short stories
- Gain powerful insights into Chinese culture
This book consists of 30 conversational dialogues for beginner students, following a consistent storyline in modern China. The conversations cover practical topics for daily use, including introducing yourself and others, asking friends out, ordering a meal in a restaurant, ordering a taxi, checking in to a hotel, talking to a doctor, opening a bank account, renting an apartment, celebrating Chinese New Year, and many more.
Master Spoken Chinese with Ease! Learn and enjoy with:
- Bilingual version of each dialogue with Chinese (including Pinyin) and English
- Chinese-only version of dialogues to encourage learning progression
- Key words and phrases highlighted in Chinese and English to ease your learning
- Learning tips and culture corner to enhance your understanding and insight
- Key vocabulary list to review and guide your learning
- FREE audio, recorded by native speakers, to help with your listening and speaking
Special Bonus: Audio files can be downloaded freely and are also available on the YouTube playlist
This book will serve as your best friend in this exciting Chinese learning adventure.
Be bold, dream big, and believe in yourself!
Note: Paperback is black and white print / eBook in full color
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by Gordon Halley
I’ve purchased this book for my 8 years old daughter. She enjoyed reading it. This book is very informative and useful for beginners. I would highly recommend this book.
by Mr. P. W. Challinor
Bought as a birthday present for my ten year old granddaughter who is teaching herself Mandarin and found the online course a bit formal. I thought it a rather unusual request but she was absolutely delighted and has been using the book daily since receiving it. Apparently it is a great book!
by O Poole
We bought it to help my daughter who is studying Mandarin for GCSE. Great book, well thought out and planned, good exercises and written by someone with a deep understanding of Mandarin and English.
‘Must have’ study aid for anyone learning Mandarin Chinese
by Mr. P. W. Challinor
This is a terrific book with great, practical and interesting conversations on a variety of topics, with key learning points and vocabulary for each conversation. I really like that there is a Chinese character version with pinyin for each conversation as well as a version with just the Chinese characters as this is great for reading practice. It’s so well laid out and there is a lot in this book too so it is terrific value for the price. I can also recommend ‘Chinese Stories: Elementary Level’ by the same author too.
by Geoff
What a great way to start learning Chinese! Every day conversations rather than phrases and sentences that I might never use. Free audio which, I’ve discovered, is really important in order to hear the tonal pronunciation. Good to be able to start with the English and Pinyin as well as the Chinese characters and then to practise with just the Chinese.
by Amazon Customer
I’ve found this to be a great book for supplementing my efforts to improve my rather basic Chinese.
Each chapter gives a dialog in Chinese – first with pinyin and English translation and then with just the Chinese characters. This way of presenting material makes it much easier to focus on reading real Chinese rather than succumbing to the inevitable temptation to lean on the pinyin.
The material is colloquial and everyday – conversations you might actually have in real life – and is supplemented with explanations of some of the nuances of Chinese life and culture that are touched on.
by Ruth
These stories are such a great way to learn Mandarin as they are really entertaining which helps memorising new vocabulary as well as cementing familiarity with the general flow of the language. I really like that they use contemporary language compared to some older texts. I can’t wait for book 2 to be released!
by valerie whittle
I’ve been learning Chinese for a while and a lot of the books aimed at beginners feature the same discussions in quite formal, outdated language – the sort of dialogue you’d hear taught in a university 30 years ago.
I’ve gone through quite a few of the conversations presented in this book and the focus on modern, conversational Chinese is refreshing and very useful for someone whose primary focus for learning Chinese is to be able to understand and be understood by Chinese people in everyday conversation.
The audio clips and learning guidelines presented in the book are useful for internalising the dialogue structures and vocabulary, and building up the oral muscle memory required to sound natural when speaking.