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Books : Making Out in Chinese: Revised Edition (Making Out Books)In association with Amazon.comby: Ray Daniels  Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 495 EAN: 9780804833905 ISBN: 0804833907 Label: Tuttle Publishing Manufacturer: Tuttle Publishing Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 96 Publication Date: September 15, 2003 Publisher: Tuttle Publishing Studio: Tuttle Publishing Sales Rank: 124970 Related Items:
Editorial Review: Product Description: The books in the Making out series are fun and accessible guides to languages as they're spoken on the street. These classic phrase books have been updated and expanded for use in informal situations such as bars, parties, or anywhere else one needs to know slang to survive! The books also now feature phrases written in their native script as well as in English, so the book can be shown to the person you are trying to communicate with. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Handy Book For TravlersThis is a nice little book that contains many commonly used phrases in Chinese speaking countries. It has phrases that common folks use, not obsolete text book phrases only foreigners use. So if you want to do a better job of being understood by the locals, this book could help. I wish I had it when I went to China, but I'll definitely bring it with me the next time I go. Rating:  - A good supplement to standard language texts and CDsThis is a review of _Making Out in Chinese_ (revised edition) by Ray Daniels. When you learn any foreign language in an academic setting, your teachers begin with the standard, "proper" vocabulary and grammatical constructions. This is as it should be. You cannot understand the exceptions until you understand the rules, and slang changes too quickly to be built into the textbooks. However, at some point you need to branch out and learn more specialized terms and expressions. The ... Read More Rating:  - Small, Basic and FunThis is a very small phrase book. As far as phrase books go, it contains much less information than any regular sized phrase book. As such, it may be most suitable for someone who knows no Chinese and would like to learn just a few expressions. On the other hand, this booklet does include few slang expressions, some insults, dating and sex-related language which you won't find in a regular phrase book. All words / expressions are written in English, in Chinese simplified ... Read More Rating: - Note: I am reviewing the updated edition (2003)The new edition, which has been revised by someone other than the original author now contains Chinese characters, Pinyin and a simplified pronunciation guide for each entry. If you are looking for a complete guide to slang then this book is disappointingly thin on the ground. It gives one way to say something, that is a valid way, but it misses out other ways that are just as likely to be encountered in common, everyday usage. I was impressed with some of the attention to cultural, idiomatic usage, ... Read More Rating: - HilariousI first encountered this book on a plane to the mainland. A group of people were passing it around and laughing almost to the point of tears. They were reading the books contents and making a lot of jokes in Chinese. Later, in China, I encountered the infamous romanization system that they use there and could hardly make out a single pronounciation. Later, I bought a copy of Making Out in Chinese and was so relieved that the author did not write the pronounciations using the inane romanization ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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