Saturday, January 30, 2010

blog 8

五月九号我去中国。 我要太玩儿了! 昨天我开车汽车。 我也走去中文课。 明天我汽车。

I bought "Chinese for Dummies" about a year ago when it was onsale in Morris' bookstore. That was back when I first started the classes. I recently started flipping through it, and I have to say that it isn't a bad resource tool for learning. The book goes more in depth then the textbooks and has very focused topics. Chapters include:
Getting to Know a little Chinese, Basic grammar and numbers, introductions and greetings, making small talk (family, work, live...), eating and drinking, shopping, exploring town, recreation and sports, talking on the phone, at the office and around the house, money, directions, hotels, transportation, traveling abroad, and emergencies. (Also includes the typical stuff found in the dummies books and CD dialogs) What it doesn't have is the characters for everything, so it isn't too good, unless you looked up every word and wrote them down in the book. I guess that would be good dictionary and character work.

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