Understanding Chinese: A Guide to the Usage of Chinese Characters
by Rita M. Choy
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This straightforward guide explains how Chinese characters are used and expressed in combinations, how sentences are formed, and how to say the same thing in Mandarin or Cantonese.Tags
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A companion to "Read and Write Chinese", this book expands on about 800 characters, listing not only it's meaning and pronounciation but also a handful of combinations which build off that particular character. It also has a list of everyday phrases which formed the syllabus for our initial study of Cantonese. Another useful book I just can't bear to take off my shelf.
--J.
--J.
Excellent reference, probably the most used book on my shelf. Many bugs in the index though, and many of the Mandarin pronunciations have wrong (or at least, uncommon) tone usage.
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- Nonfiction, Reference
- DDC/MDS
- 495.1824 — Language Other languages Languages of east and southeast Asia Chinese Chinese usage; applied linguistics; texts for learning the language Structural approach to expression; formal grammar Structural approach to expression for people whose native language is different
- LCC
- PL1271 .C4894 — Language and Literature Languages and literatures of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania Chinese language and literature Chinese language
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