Learn Chinese Easily: Practical Chinese Conversation and Shanghai Life Guide

Author: Li Zhenyi
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Publish Date: 2004-06-01
Features: "Learn Chinese Made Easy" is an oral Chinese textbook specifically designed for foreigners living, working, or traveling in China. Its most distinctive feature is its practicality. Based on the author's experience over the past decade in teaching Chinese and introducing Chinese culture to foreigners living in Shanghai—such as students, businesspeople, bankers, cultural workers, and housewives—as well as years of teaching Chinese abroad, this book aims to provide foreigners with assistance in learning the daily expressions they need more quickly and ultimately mastering spoken Chinese with greater fluency, enabling them to live smoothly and happily in China. In a certain sense, this book is also a guide to life in Shanghai. From renting apartments and finding jobs, investing, studying, and seeking medical care to dining, traveling, exercising, and entertainment, as well as shopping for groceries, books, and clothes, language is the carrier of culture. While learning a language, one must also absorb cultural information. The more cultural knowledge one acquires, the deeper their understanding of the language will be. The cultural content of this textbook is richer than that of similar materials I have seen.