Review: GREAT way for you to learn the Basics of the Chinese Language
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 25, 2012
As another reviewer suggested if you want to seriously LEARN how to speak a fluent Chinese, this book may not be right for you. However, for the vast majority of us this book is great. It teaches you how to use the words you know and use now, how to put them together and come up with Chinese sounding words. I have already impressed the waitress at my local Chinese restaurant (Chinese food is my guilty passion!) with the words and phrases I learned from this book. While you might not be able to speak completely fluently Chinese if you were dropped in the middle of Beijing with just this book as a guide... you would be able to communicate the necessities. Not for the hardcore language scholar.. but a GREAT way to learn key phrases and words for the vast majority of us who just want to speak SOME Chinese. Highly recommended.