Product Description

Look and learn to recall a wealth of everyday vocabulary in Chinese with this intuitive easy-to-use visual language dictionary Whether it's for business or pleasure, pick up 6,000 key Chinese words and phrases on a range of subjects: from shopping and eating out, to sport and beyond quickly and easily. Find every word you need to know fast using the clearly labelled colour illustrated scenes from everyday life. Plus, find helpful features on key Chinese nouns, verbs and phrases to improve your understanding. Pocket-sized so you can take it wherever your travels take you.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #36158 in Books
• Published on: 2008-04-01
• Original language: Mandarin Chinese, English
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Customer Reviews

Excellent source of vocabulary
This is not a book for the faint of heart.

Inside this book are around 6,000 (Chinese equivalent of) words divided into categories, in sections of around 25 words each.

For those of you learning Chinese, and wanting to increase your word power, this is an excellent book. Familiarising yourself with the vocabulary in this book will give you an excellent grounding on the road to fluency in Chinese.

There are one or two mistakes (characters given the wrong pronunciation, and some of the English meanings are missing), but generally, a very complete, very accurate set of vocabulary sheets.

I would have also liked to have seen the traditional form characters included. However, with the Pinyin given throughout, these are easy enough to look up.

But, be warned; this book is not for beginners. I would recommend John DeFrancis' excellent readers is you are a beginner for learning some of the basic characters, and any number of the CD/book combinations for listening and speaking.

However, if you have around 500 characters or more under your belt already, you will find this book an excellent vocabulary builder.

Overall, an excellent buy, with a hell of a lot of hours of learning inside. Highly recommended for the more advanced student.

Up to date dictionary
This book is not only fun, it contains practical terms you'll never find in a ordinary dictionary. And both illustrations and keywords are up to date.

just what we were looking for
I'm very pleased with this book. I first found it by chance in a book shop in London on a weekend break. I have to mention that I was born in Hong Kong, but has been living in the UK for the past 30 yrs, so my Chinese (Cantonese) is a little rusty. I've started learning Mandarin Chinese just under 2 yrs ago at a local Chinese School. I've found this invaluable, as I'm familiar with most of the names of things in English, but not too sure about their Chinese names especially in Mandarin, and their pronounciation. Think there may be a few pinyin errors with the various tones, but on the whole, I'ver found this book very useful, as does most of my Chinese friends at the Chinese class, so I've been ordering a few of this book for them.