Recommendations of beginner’s books for learning Chinese?
Hi so I am really interested in learning Chinese in my free time.
I work at at a Chinese restaurant so I think this would be helpful.
The other waiter that I work with can understand most English, but sometimes doesn’t know how to express himself.
I’m looking for a book that comes with a CD or something, and that is FUN and interactive, but does a good job of teaching the basics.
Thanks!
for a good book , it first depends on your liking
amazon provides numerous books for everything
here are some books which may interest you
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=chinese+language
(Old version) Learn Chinese – Speak Mandarin – “Basic Verbs”
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GeN Elite Chinese 100h Mandarin Learning 1to1 eTutoring $2,999.99 |
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Tiger Mother-Learning Chinese 100hr GeN Elite eTutoring $2,999.95 |
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Ectaco EC900 Deluxe. Mandarin Chinese Translator & Learning System. W/ C-Pen OCR $449.95 |
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Chinese Language Learning System. Electronic Translator. Ectaco EC900. Talking. $399.95 |
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TELL ME MORE Chinese (3 levels of learning) $299.00 |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts: Cfl Worldwide Tsung, Linda (Ed $254.38 |
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PENPOWER CHINESE EXPERT PEN USB CHINESE LEARNING TOOL $236.02 |
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Learning Chinese Fun ways to learn Chinese 15DVD+Books $229.99 |
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Learning from Mount Hua: A Chinese Physician’s Illustrated Travel Record and Pai $228.50 |
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Penpower Swlea0012 Chinese Expert Pen Usb Chinese Learning Tool $212.45 |
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Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Challenges to Becomi $204.04 |
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Complete Edition Chinese Language Learning Software MP3 $189.95 |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts By Tsung, Linda (EDT)/ $182.30 |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts: Cfl W $167.96 |
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Learning Chinese, Turning Chinese: Challenges to Becomi $165.69 |
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The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang Charles St $154.00 |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts: Cfl W $144.94 |
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NEW Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts – $140.00 |
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Chinese Educational Leaders’ Conceptions of Learning an $133.99 |
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Learning from Chinese Philosophies: Ethics of Interdepe $139.56 |
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Chinese Breakthrough: Learning Chinese Language throug $131.49 |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese NEW by Jianguo Chen $115.94 |
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Learning to Be Chinese American: Community, Education, $109.52 |
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Tiger Mother – Learning Chinese GeN 3hr Elite eTutoring $99.95 |
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Teaching And Learning Chinese As a Foreign Language: A $98.57 |
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Learning Chinese: A Foundation Course in Mandarin, Elem $89.20 |
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Penpower Swlea0014 Chinese Expert Std Immersion Chinese Learning Software $88.64 |
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Learning Chinese with 200 Chinese Children’s songs $86.00 |
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A History of Chinese Philosophy, Vol. 2: The Period of Classical Learning (From $86.36 |
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Technology-Enhanced Chinese Learning NEW $85.46 |
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SPEAK & READ CHINESE 6 DVD SET: Character FlashCard Based w/6 Levels Of Learning $82.98 |
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Private Academies of Chinese Learning in Meiji Japan: T $83.17 |
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Learning to be Chinese American NEW by Du Liang $78.22 |
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LEARNING TO BE CHINESE AMERICAN – LIANG DU (HARDCOVER) NEW $78.20 |
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Complete Chinese Learning Suite Software & Audio Tutor $74.95 |
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Learning Chinese with 50Chinese stories in 7 VDC/CD-ROM $74.00 |
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The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identifica $72.04 |
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NEW Learning Chinese – Wheatley, Julian K. $70.65 |
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Learning Chinese Measure Words through Pictures Fan Jia $70.08 |
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Teaching And Learning Chinese As a Foreign Language: A Pedagogical Grammar Janet $66.77 |
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Multimedia Learning Suite Chinese Characters Memory Lifter By (COR) $66.43 |
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The Roads of Chinese Childhood: Learning and Identification in Angang Charles St $66.28 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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“learning” chinese kanji character symbol vinyl decal sticker wall art $64.95 |
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MULTIMEDIA LEARNING SUITE CHINESE CHARACTERS MEMORY – LEARNLIFT (HARDCOVER) NEW $64.48 |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese NEW by Jianguo Chen $63.94 |
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Multi-media Set of Chinese Learning for Koreans+mp3+CD $63.46 |
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Holdstix 4ct Easy to Use Chopsticks $4.99 Learning to use chopsticks is easy with Holdstix! Holdstix are easy to use chopsticks designed for use by kids and adults alike. Enhance your cultural dining experience with Holdstix!… |
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Fred Chopstick Kids Chopsticks Holders (colors may vary) $3.90 Chinese with Ease ! Having trouble taming your chopsticks? You’re not alone. You could practice for a few more years or you could just call the Chopstick Kids for help. This soft, food-safe hinge really keeps your chopsticks in line, and adds an element of fun to the dining experience. Great for teaching kids the art of eating with chopsticks ! One pair of chopsticks -Assorted Colors |
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Hog Wild Zoo Sticks Party Set(Pack of  $19.99 The easiest chop sticks you’ll ever use Zoo Sticks are for people who have a hard time using chop sticks. The one piece design makes picking up food a snap and lets everyone – especially kids – enjoy chop sticks. Zoo Sticks come in eight fun animal shapes with bright colors. Colors may vary. Each sold seperately…. |
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Baby Einstein – Language Nursery $8.54 If you’ve been around babies in the last few years, you’ve seen these newfangled toys that are abstract in color (or just black, white, and red) and make curious, crunching noises. Studies have shown that these types of toys stimulate newborns, expanding the capacity of their little sponge-like minds. That concept comes to the video age in Baby Einstein. This 30-minute tape is called a “video boar… |
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Sesame Street – Big Bird in China $12.95 … |
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Chinese for Kids: Learn Chinese Beginning Level 1 Volume 1 $16.79 CHINESE FOR KIDS BEGINNER LVL 1 V1 – DVD Movie… |
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Feng Shui: Chinese Art of Design and Placement [VHS] $6.45 … |
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Follow Jade! Learn Chinese: Let’s Visit Chinese Kindergarten [VHS] $5.99 Hosted by teacher Jade Qian, Follow Jade! video series helps children learn to speak Mandarin Chinese with songs, stories, games and glimpses of everyday life in China. Follow Jade! Let’s Visit Chinese Kindergarten engages viewers with everyday scenes and conversation with young children. Jade introduces words in their cultural context, followed by reinforcing games and songs. In Follow Jade! Let’… |
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Learning Chinese Characters (Paperback) $17.52 Aimed at helping students of Chinese learn and remember Chinese characters, including the pronunciation of characters, fast and effectively, Learning Chinese Characters Volume 1 is a systematic study aid to this difficult language.D… |
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Learning Chinese Characters Flash Cards Kit (Mixed media product) $13.87 A native speaker of Chinese knows 5,000 to 10,000 characters. For English speakers, that fact alone summarizes the challenges of learning Chinese! To succeed in mastering Chinese characters, there are 3 secrets: learners need to begin with the mos… |
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Play and Learn Chinese (Mixed media product) $13.31 Choose the children`s language course trusted by other moms and dads. The Parents’ Choice award winning-language program will get your child speaking Chinese while having fun!Introduce your child, age 1-7, to a new language with … |
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Multimedia Learning Suite Chinese Characters Memory Lifter (Mixed media product) $54.86 This multimedia learning suite allows you to memorize and understand more than 3,000 Chinese words (Mandarin). It combines our proven MemoryLifter learning technology with the advantages of our new portable MemoryLifter Stick! The learning suite is a f… |
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First 100 Chinese Characters $11.1 The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial difficulty and quickly maste… |
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First 100 Chinese Characters (Paperback) $9.83 The major struggle facing all beginning Chinese language students is to learn to recognize, read and write hundreds of Chinese characters. This book adopt a structural approach that helps students overcome this initial difficulty and quickly maste… |
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Teaching and Learning Chinese in Global Contexts (Hardcover) $136.05 Description not available. |
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Say It Right in Chinese (Paperback) $6.14 Say farewell to language faux pas forever!Based on the revolutionary Easily Pronounced Language Systems approach, Say It Right in Chinese makes mastering correct Chinese pronunciation simple. With Say It Right you`ll learn h… |
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The Chinese Language (Paperback) $9.8 The Chinese Language is a brief introduction to the main characteristics of Chinese, written to be accessible to beginning students as well as anyone with a general interest in Chinese language and culture. Not a language-learning title as … |
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Tuttle Chinese for Kids (Mixed media product) $13.43 Includes Audio CD.Welcome to a fun-filled Chinese learning adventure created especially for kids!Given the opportunity, children pick up languages much more easily than adults, so encourage the littlest learners with Tuttle Chin… |
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The Handbook of Chinese Horoscopes (Paperback) $12.78 Do you know which of the twelve animal signs you are and how “the animal that hides in your heart” influences your outlook on life and your relationships with others? Learn how the five elements, four seasons, and the ascendant sign based on hour of… |
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Earworms – Le Chinois / Earworms – Chinese (Pre-recorded MP3 player) $36.67 Description not available. |
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Chinese Characters (Paperback) $17.74 A systematic, building block-style plan for mastering the most daunting aspect of learning Chinese—how to remember the meaning of more than 2,000 of the most common characters—is provided in this hand… |
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Mandarin Chinese Vocabulary Study Cards (Cards) $12.86 Compiled by an experienced teacher and SAT committee member, the new Berlitz Mandarin Vocabulary Study Cards help students learn, review, and build confidence for the classroom and standardized testing. Each set contains 1,000 two-color cards fo… |
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Chinese Link Traditional Level 1 $47.38 Provides an elementary approach to learning Chinese. Both versions represent the traditional and simplified characters, focusing on the character type represented in the title. Element… |
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A Chinese Character a Day $12.25 Similar in concept to Tuttle`s successful Kanji-a-Day and Kana-a-Day practice pads, this learning tool provides an enjoyable and motivating way for the learner to practice writing Chinese characters. The practice pad comes in th… |
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Mandarin Chinese (Mixed media product) $19.2 This book, with enclosed audio MP3, presents the first of a two-part intensive course that introduces Mandarin Chinese to beginning students. Forty lessons, each followed by review exercises, start by teaching greetings and expressions for getting acqu… |
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Tuttle Learner`s Chinese English Dictionary (Paperback) $19.77 A totally new dictionary designed specifically for elementary to intermediate learners of Chinese, and containing all 3,051 vocabulary items prescribed for Levels A and B of the internationally recognized test of Chinese language proficiency, H… |
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Complete Chinese Mandarin $22.53 With Living Language Complete Chinese: The Basics, you`ll start by learning words, and then you`ll progress to phrases, sentences, and conversations. This simple four-step building block approach will have you speaking with confidence right fro… |
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250 Essential Chinese Characters (Paperback) $23.29 More than a simple update, 250 Essential Chinese Characters Volume 2 offers 250 more characters in the extremely useful learning format that learners and teachers alike continue to praise.Following in the footsteps of the newly rele… |
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Chinese for Dummies (Mixed media product) $11.83 The fun and easy way to communicate effectively in a new language! Want to speak Chinese? Don`t have a lot of time? This practical audio set is designed to help you learn quickly and easily at home or on the road. From basic greetings an… |
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Beginning Chinese (Mixed media product) $22.23 Eye-popping visuals and vibrant colors combined with practical exercises make learning Chinese fun and effective.Practice Makes Perfect: Beginning Chinese Interactive Edition incorporates video, two CD-ROMs, as well.as a referen… |
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Chinese Link (Paperback) $45.49 Chinese Link, 2e provides a practical, learner-centered and enjoyable language and cultural learning experience for beginning students of Chinese, as well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for i… |
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Remembering Traditional Hanzi (Paperback) $22.54 Heisig (Nanzan Institute for Religion and Culture, Nagoya, Japan) and Richardson (world languages, Brigham Young U.-Hawaii) present a textbook for a course in which beginning students of Chinese learn the meaning and writing of the 3,000 most commonly … |
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Chinese in a Flash $19.57 Chinese in a Flash Volume 4 continues to provide more resources for beginning, as well as intermediate learners of Chinese who want to learn the language quickly and easily. This unique set of flashcards enables learners to acquire more Chi… |
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Schaum`s Outline of Chinese Grammar (Paperback) $11.12 Confused by Chinese grammar? Problem solved..Schaum`s Outline of Chinese Grammar is an ideal complement to your Chinese language-learning texts and class materials, and as well as a helpful grammar reference. The book covers the… |
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Beginner`s Chinese (Mixed media product) $18.61 Presents introductory lessons for learning Mandarin Chinese, with vocabulary, sentence patterns, dialogues, instructions for reading and writing Chinese characters, and two audio discs for pronunciation. |
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Barron`s Children`s English-chinese/Chinese-english Dictionary (Paperback) $11.57 This attractive reference book was written for English-speaking elementary-school-level boys and girls who are taking a beginning course in Mandarin Chinese–as well as for Chinese-speaking children learning English. Each entry is presented with its ph… |
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My First Book of Mandarin Chinese Words (Paperback) $7.87 “Simple text paired with themed photos invite the reader to learn to speak Mandarin Chinese”–Provided by publisher. |
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Basic Written Chinese Practice Essentials (Paperback) $16.31 Anyone learning to read and write Chinese knows that it takes lots of practice! This practical guide includes a broad range of drills and exercises designed to dramatically enhance your proficiency in reading and writing Chinese. It can be used t… |
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Tuttle Chinese for Kids $16.88 Includes Audio CD.Welcome to a fun-filled Chinese learning adventure created especially for kids!Given the opportunity, children pick up languages much more easily than adults, so encourage the littlest learners with Tuttle Chin… |
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Pimsleur Basic Cantonese Chinese (Compact Disc) $15.35 This Basic program contains 5 hours of audio-only, effective language learning with real-life spoken practice sessions.HEAR IT, LEARN IT, SPEAK IT®What is the Pimsleur® difference?The Pimsleur Method pr… |
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Chinese Link (Paperback) $45.49 Chinese Link, 2e provides a practical, learner-centered and enjoyable language and cultural learning experience for beginning students of Chinese, as well as an efficient and comprehensive teaching resource for i… |
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Chinese on the Go (Mixed media product) $13.36 Use the language of the locals when you visit China with this painless and quick courseChinese On the Go is a fun, easy-to-use program to learn the language you`ll need for a fulfilling trip to China. Full-color illustrations an… |
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Oxford Chinese Desk Dictionary (Mixed media product) $23.97 A durable, long-lasting reference for both English-speakers learning Chinese and Chinese-speakers learning English, this new Oxford Chinese Desk Dictionary offers authoritative, up-to-the-minute coverage, with over 90,000 words and phrases, and 130,000… |