Instant Chinese: How to Express Over 1,000 Different Ideas with Just 100 Key Words and Phrases! (A Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook &

Description

So you want to learn a bit of Mandarin Chinese, but have no time to study? You'll be visiting China, and need a handy book to help you get around and communicate? If so, this is the perfect book for you! The idea of Instant Chinese is simple-just learn 100 key words and phrases- and you can instantly say 1,000 different things. The trick is knowing WHICH 100 words and phrases to learn. They're all in here: the 100 words you'll use over and over again. Even with a vocabulary this small, you'll be amazed how many things you can say!

Boye Lafayette De Mente has been involved with Japan, China, and Korea since the late 1940s as a member of a U.S. intelligence agency, student, trade journalist, editor, and author working out of Tokyo, Seoul, Hong Kong, and Singapore. He is a graduate of Jochi University in Tokyo and The American Institute for Foreign Trade (now Thunderbird: The School of Global Management). His 70-plus books include Japan's Cultural Code Words, Business Guide to Japan, and Japan Unmasked.

"The Instant series from Tuttle, however, is not your usual phrasebook. Rather than focusing on phrases to help you order food, go to the hospital, rent a hotel room, or buy a train ticket, it provides you with more than 100 key words and phrases to help you express more than 1,000 unique ideas based on general conversation topics." --Eurolinguiste