"The practical guide to contemporary slang and colloquial expressions in today's China."
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Includes indexes.
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Includes indexes.
SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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LANGUAGE TEACHING & LEARNING MATERIAL & COURSEWORK. This book presents the next best thing to a year abroad ..."Streetwise Chinese with Audio CD" offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how Chinese is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life. Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills. It includes one 75-minute audio CD.
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS NOTE (ELECTRONIC RESOURCES)
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"The accompanying disk contains MP3 recordings of all 30 conversations in Streetwise Mandarin Chinese, as well as the vocabulary lists in each chapter. These files can be played on all MP3 players"--Title page verso.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Chinese language-- Slang.
Chinese language, Conversation and phrase books-- English.