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    Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words
    Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words
    Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words
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    Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words

    By Kevin Peter Lee

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    The 888 essential words in this book have been chosen to help you be ready for using Mandarin Chinese in a communicative way through speaking or writing. They also have been chosen for you so that you may begin reading Chinese characters in books and newspapers.
    You will discover that learning how to read Chinese using Pinyin under each character is surprisingly easy and doesn’t have to be a laborious task.
    It is advised to use this book with Basic Mandarin Chinese For Beginners! Your First Mandarin Book or any of the Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! eBooks.
    However, if you are already at a beginner’s level and have a basic understanding of how to make a sentence, then this book is for you.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherKevin Peter Lee
    Release dateAug 25, 2013
    ISBN9781301614479
    Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words

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      Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words - Kevin Peter Lee

      Mandarin Chinese The Right Way!

      888 Essential Chinese Words

      By Kevin Peter Lee

      Special thanks to Chia Lan Lee for her assistance.

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      Published by Kevin Peter Lee at Smashwords

      Copyright 2013 Kevin Peter Lee

      Welbo Books

      Smashwords Edition, License Notes

      This eBook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

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      CONTENTS

      Forward

      How to use this book

      888 Essential Words

      A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

      Pronunciation

      Mandarin Chinese Tones

      Reading Pinyin Table 1

      Reading Pinyin Table 2

      Catalog

      More books by Mandarin Chinese The Right Way!

      Forward

      In Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! 888 Essential Chinese Words, you will learn 888 of the most useful words that are needed to begin speaking, reading and writing Mandarin Chinese so that you can become an advanced learner of the language.

      Learning these carefully chosen words will give you a solid foundation of words for you to really understand how to make any sentence. These essential words are commonly used every day in China. Once you know these words, you will quickly be able to read, write and converse in Mandarin Chinese.

      The 888 essential words in this book have been chosen to help you be ready for using Mandarin Chinese in a communicative way through speaking or writing. They also have been chosen for you so that you may begin reading Chinese characters in books and newspapers.

      You will discover that learning how to read Chinese using Pinyin under each character is surprisingly easy and doesn’t have to be a laborious task.

      It is advised to use this book with Basic Mandarin Chinese For Beginners! Your First Mandarin Book or any of the Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! eBooks.

      However, if you are already at a beginner’s level and have a basic understanding of how to make a sentence, then this book is for you.

      How to use this book

      If you are learning from Basic Mandarin Chinese For Beginners! Your First Mandarin Book or any of the Mandarin Chinese The Right Way! eBooks, then you already have a strong understanding of how to make sentences correctly. Therefore, you can immediately jump right in and start learning these essential words!

      Try to make sentences with words you already know combined with the essential words in this book. Begin with short sentences and don’t try to make your sentences too complex. Everyday Mandarin Chinese is spoken like this anyway. Sentences are usually short, concise and to the point and instead of making an elaborate and informative single sentence, it is separated into several sentences to convey the same point.

      Learn to type characters

      An excellent way of learning how to read Chinese quickly and efficiently without the laborious task of having to write out each character is to use your computer.

      The computer allows you to use Pinyin to type words and gives you a list of choices of which word you would like to use. This is not only convenient, but also challenges you to identify each word individually. This will help your reading skills develop at a very quick rate.

      Type the sentences that are provided in this book into Microsoft Word using the Chinese (Simplified, PRC). When opening up Chinese in your Language Settings, choose Chinese Simplified Microsoft Pinyin ABC Input Style. I find this one the easiest to use and the Pinyin is very accurate.

      Pronunciation

      Before you start, you’ll need to familiarize yourself with the tones and sounds that are used in Mandarin Chinese. Use the two Pinyin tables and the Mandarin Tones table provided to help you and the back of this book.

      Once you have a basic understanding of the sounds and how to read them in Pinyin, you are ready to begin learning. Pinyin is actually easy to learn and you’ll get used to it when you start reading.

      Practice saying them often and say the tones slowly. Don’t slur your words. In English, sometimes we add words together when we say complete sentences.

      This is not the case in Chinese. Each Chinese word is spoken separately. Be aware of this when learning to speak Mandarin Chinese. You don’t want to develop a bad habit.

      888 Essential Words

      A, an

      Yi2 ge

      *

      A few

      Yi4 xie1

      *

      3. A lot, many

      Hen3 duo1

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      4. About

      Guan1 yu2

      *

      5. Above

      Yi3 shang4

      *

      6. Afraid

      Hai4 pa4

      *

      7. After

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