TY - BOOK AU - Yi Ren AU - Xiayuan Liang TI - Mandarin Chinese for beginners: learning conversational Chinese SN - 9780804849463 U1 - REF 495.182421 R29 PY - 2018/// CY - Tokyo PB - Tuttle Publishing KW - Chinese language Self-instruction KW - Mandarin dialects Self-instruction KW - Chinese language Textbooks for foreign speakers English N2 - "This user-friendly guide to the basics helps you learn how to speak Chinese quickly and easily by drawing parallels with something you already know--English. Chinese is a fascinating language that can seem impossibly difficult to learn at first, but is relatively easy if you focus on the spoken aspect. This revised edition contains new dialogues, cultural notes, IT and social media vocabulary, and new manga illustrations."--From publisher's description ER -