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| ibraheem Groupie United States Joined 5175 days ago 84 posts - 106 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin | Message 1 of 8 27 June 2010 at 1:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Found this on Google as a full book. Though the book is a bit outdated I wonder if it would be a good place to start. Any opinions?
http://books.google.com/books?id=z6hhAAAAMAAJ&dq=chinese%20p %20rimer&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false Edited by ibraheem on 27 June 2010 at 1:52am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| shmjay Newbie United States Joined 5172 days ago 12 posts - 19 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, German, Spanish | Message 2 of 8 28 June 2010 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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The pronunciation is certainly not Mandarin. I wonder if it’s Cantonese? I think the book is too old to be useful.
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| ibraheem Groupie United States Joined 5175 days ago 84 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin | Message 3 of 8 28 June 2010 at 4:24am | IP Logged | ||
I was wondering that also, then I read where it says that it uses Cantonese pronunciation. I don't think the book is any good for learning Mandarin unfortunately so I won't use it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| indiana83 Groupie United States ipracticecanto.wordp Joined 5300 days ago 92 posts - 121 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Cantonese, Italian | Message 4 of 8 28 June 2010 at 4:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, this romanization is Cantonese, but the romanization system is one of the earlier ones that is no longer used.
The introduction of the book is Herbert Giles, who created the Wade-Giles romanization system (although that romanization system was used for Mandarin, not Cantonese). I didn't see any mention of tones in the book. I'm really surprised anyone would try to teach Chinese vocabulary without tones. Edited by indiana83 on 28 June 2010 at 4:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6931 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 5 of 8 28 June 2010 at 1:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wouldn't touch a Chinese course that didn't come with audio. There's a limit to what tou can really do with free pickings.
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| ibraheem Groupie United States Joined 5175 days ago 84 posts - 106 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Mandarin | Message 6 of 8 28 June 2010 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
I was more interested in learning the characters with this. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6931 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 7 of 8 29 June 2010 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Fair enough.
You can't print out a text off Google Books can you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6074 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 8 of 8 29 June 2010 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
Sure you can. You can save the book as a pdf and print, or you can go to a secondary bookprinting group like publicdomainreprints.org for short money. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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