Mandarin Chinese for Beginners. Yi Ren

Mandarin Chinese for Beginners

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Learning Conversational Chinese

MANDARIN CHINESE

FOR BEGINNERS

SECOND EDITION

Yi Ren and Xiayuan Liang

To our families and our students

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Published by Tuttle Publishing, an imprint of Periplus Editions (HK) Ltd.

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Illustrations (full paged) by Akiko Saito

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All poems (except for those in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11) were translated into English by Gwen Qin and Morris Jordan.

Cover photos: (Front) ©iStockphoto.com/FatCamera; Arekmalang. (Back, top & 3rd) ©iStockphoto.com/Huchen Lu; Zeynep Ogan. (2^nd & bottom) ©Dreamstime.com/Christopher Rawlins; Meccasky.

Interior photos are from commercial photo libraries (Bigstock, Dreamstime, Istockphoto, Shutterstock)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Ren, Yi

Chinese for beginners : mastering conversational Chinese / Yi Ren, Xiayuan Liang. -- 1st ed.

192 p.: ill., col. map; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)

Text in English and Chinese.

Includes index.

“All poems (except for those in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11) were translated into English by Gwen Qin and Morris Jordan”--T.p. verso.

ISBN 978-0-8048-4235-8 (pbk.)

1. Chinese language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—English. 2. Chinese language—Conversation and phrase books—English. 3. Chinese language—Spoken Chinese. I. Liang, Xiayuan. II. Title.

PL1129.E5R46 2012

495.1’82421--dc23

2012005192

ISBN 978-1-4629-1476-0

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