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Learning Conversational Chinese
MANDARIN CHINESE
FOR BEGINNERS
SECOND EDITION
Yi Ren and Xiayuan Liang
To our families and our students
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Copyright © 2012, 2018 Yi Ren and Xiayuan Liang
Illustrations (full paged) by Akiko Saito
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All poems (except for those in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11) were translated into English by Gwen Qin and Morris Jordan.
Cover photos: (Front) ©iStockphoto.com/FatCamera; Arekmalang. (Back, top & 3rd) ©iStockphoto.com/Huchen Lu; Zeynep Ogan. (2nd & bottom) ©Dreamstime.com/Christopher Rawlins; Meccasky.
Interior photos are from commercial photo libraries (Bigstock, Dreamstime, Istockphoto, Shutterstock)
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ren, Yi
Chinese for beginners : mastering conversational Chinese / Yi Ren, Xiayuan Liang. -- 1st ed.
192 p.: ill., col. map; 26 cm. + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Text in English and Chinese.
Includes index.
“All poems (except for those in Chapter 7 and Chapter 11) were translated into English by Gwen Qin and Morris Jordan”--T.p. verso.
ISBN 978-0-8048-4235-8 (pbk.)
1. Chinese language—Textbooks for foreign speakers—English. 2. Chinese language—Conversation and phrase books—English. 3. Chinese language—Spoken Chinese. I. Liang, Xiayuan. II. Title.
PL1129.E5R46 2012
495.1’82421--dc23
2012005192
ISBN 978-1-4629-1476-0
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