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SPEAK E-Z CHINESE In Phonetic English | 
 enlarge | Authors: Fang Zhao, Timothy Green
Publisher: INCITE
Category: Book
List Price: $11.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 17763
Media: Paperback
Edition: Bilingual
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 304
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 4.8 x 0.7
ISBN: 0977195309
Dewey Decimal Number: 495
EAN: 9780977195305
ASIN: 0977195309
Publication Date: July 1, 2006
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Product Description
Now readers can by-pass the complex Pinyin system in favor of user-friendly words and sentences provided in straightforward phonetic English. Packed with humorous slang and favorite Chinese idioms, only SPEAK E-Z CHINESE provides the means to communicate in fresh, contemporary Mandarin at only a glance. Free audio companion offered online at www.CathayCafe.com.
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 Essential for picking up Chinese December 14, 2007
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
What can I say? I am traveling to China, and looked at many resources to learn some Chinese. This is by far the easiest one to learn quickly and easily for someone who only speaks English. Their online resources and responsiveness to inquiries are a big bonus. The authors truly care about improving relations between China and other countries, and have made this available for a very reasonable price.
Fantastic super-handy reference December 12, 2007
15 out of 15 found this review helpful
I have bought a few books and an audio course in order to learn some Chinese for fun and also because I wanted to communicate better while visiting China. If I had my pick of just one resource, this awesome, efficient little reference would be it. The best part about it is the pronunciation key for us Westerners to pronounce pinyin, it helps enormously. The book starts with the pronunciation guide and the four tones, then moves on to the essential phrases in every contexts, such as transportation, currency, time and calendar, and restaurants. It teaches both words and short phrases and sentences that introduce you to sentence construction. At the end there's a 130-page dictionary that is surprisingly complete, and includes a pronunciation key for every word. Most of the times I want to know how to say something out of the blue, it's there.
As an added bonus, there's a *lot* of interesting things here that you are unlikely to learn from any other source. I am not sure why they are there but there they are, some are pretty funny. If you want to tell someone she's cute or sexy or that you love her, if you want to curse, call somebody an idiot or crazy or odd, how to call BS, how to say Chicago or California or Spain, how to say general or female/male body parts, how to say football or basketball, how to say honey (both as the sweet liquid and as a term of endearment), how to say "I'm stuffed", how to say so-so, and a bunch of other things, look no further: it's all here.
You can also download an audio version of the book for free from their website, I have not tried it yet but I definitely will. I took this book everywhere I went to in China. Highly recommended.
 Wash your mouth out with soap! November 9, 2007
4 out of 22 found this review helpful
While this book is fairly well laid out and the content is helpful, be forewarned that this book contains profanity that I found offensive. I bought this book to help me communicate with my newly-adopted teenage daughter from China. I never expected to see the sh- word or the fu- word in a translation book. Who really needs to know how to curse in Chinese? Sheesh.
Just know what you're getting when you buy this.
A Chinese Launguage survival Book must Have October 27, 2007
5 out of 8 found this review helpful
This book is an essential book to have i wish i had it the first time i went to China i will take it the next time i go thats for sure the authors of the book desperately need to make one that is easy English so the Chinese will have something that is how valuable this book is well worth the price and worth it's weight in gold please don't ever let this book go out of print it helped me actually pronounce the words so the Chinese people wouldn't think i was an idiot The Best Book You will ever own for the Chinese Language at the price why not buy Two!! it is the book i use to communicate with my fiancee and her family the girl i am going to Marry is Chinese
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Very good resource October 24, 2007
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is what you need as a tourist. No fancy stuff, just essentials. They have a website where you can download the audio files so you can exercise your accent(very important!).
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