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Chinese 3rd Edition by Dr. Wendy Abraham Chinese For Dummies®, 3rd Edition Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774, www.wiley.com Copyright © 2018 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without the prior written permission of the Publisher. Requests to the Publisher for permission should be addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201) 748-6008, or online at http://www.wiley.com/go/permissions. 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Library of Congress Control Number: 2018947818 ISBN 978-1-119-47544-6 (pbk); ISBN 978-1-119-47551-4 (ebk); ISBN 978-1-119-47550-7 (ebk) Manufactured in the United States of America 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 Contents at a Glance Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Part 1: Getting Started with Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER 1: Chinese in a Nutshell: The Spoken Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 CHAPTER 2: The Written Word: Checking Out Chinese Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 CHAPTER 3: Warming Up with the Basics: Chinese Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 CHAPTER 4: Getting Started with Basic Expressions: Nǐ Hǎo! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .51 CHAPTER 5: Getting Your Numbers, Times, and Measurements Straight . . . . . . . . . 65 CHAPTER 6: Speaking Chinese at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Part 2: Chinese in Action . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER 7: Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 CHAPTER 8: Dining Out and Shopping for Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 CHAPTER 9: Shopping Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 CHAPTER 10: Exploring the Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 CHAPTER 11: Taking Care of Telecommunications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 CHAPTER 12: Chinese at School and Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 CHAPTER 13: Recreation and Outdoor Activities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207 Part 3: Chinese on the Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219 CHAPTER 14: Planning a Trip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221 CHAPTER 15: Making Cents of Money . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233 CHAPTER 16: Getting Around . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249 CHAPTER 17: Asking for Directions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267 CHAPTER 18: Finding a Place to Stay . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281 CHAPTER 19: Handling Emergencies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 297 Part 4: The Part of Tens . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 311 CHAPTER 20: Ten Ways to Learn Chinese Quickly . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313 CHAPTER 21: Ten Things Never to Do in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 317 Part 5: Appendixes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 321 APPENDIX A: Chinese-English Mini-Dictionary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 323 APPENDIX B: Chinese Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 355 APPENDIX C: Fun & Games Answer Key . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 359 Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 365 Table of Contents INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 About This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 Foolish Assumptions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 Icons Used in This Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Beyond the Book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Where to Go from Here . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 PART 1: GETTING STARTED WITH CHINESE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 CHAPTER 1: Chinese in a Nutshell: The Spoken Word . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 Grasping Chinese Dialects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 Pīnyīn Spelling: Beijing, Not Peking . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11 Sounding Off: Basic Chinese Sounds . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Starting off with initials . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13 Ending with finals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14 Perfect pitch: Presenting . . . the four tones! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15 Adding Idioms and Popular Expressions to Your Repertoire . . . . . . . . 17 The Written Word: Checking Out Chinese CHAPTER 2: Characters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21 Perusing Pictographs, Ideographs, and the Six Scripts . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 The Chinese Radical: A Few Clues to a Character’s Meaning . . . . . . . . 24 Following the Rules of Stroke Order . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Rule 1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Rules 2 through 9 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Up, Down, or Sideways? Deciphering the Direction of Characters . . . . 26 Traditional versus Simplified Characters: When to Use Which . . . . . . . 28 Using a Chinese Dictionary . . . without an Alphabet! . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Warming Up with the Basics: CHAPTER 3: Chinese Grammar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 The Basics of Chinese Nouns, Articles, and Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Nouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33 Definite versus indefinite articles . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36 Adjectives . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38 Getting into Verbs, Adverbs, Negation, and Possession . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Verbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39 Adverbs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Bù and méiyǒu: Total negation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44 Getting possessive with the particle de . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Table of Contents v Asking Questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 The question particle ma . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47 Yes/no choice questions using bù between repeating verbs . . . . . 47 Interrogative pronouns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .48 CHAPTER 4: Getting Started with Basic Expressions: Nǐ Hǎo! . . . . 51 Making Introductions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Acquainting yourself . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Introducing your friends and family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52 Asking people for their names . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53 Greeting and Chatting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55 Addressing new friends and strangers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .55 Conversing around the clock . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56 Talking about the weather . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59 Finding out where people are from . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61 Taking (that is, rejecting) compliments . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Saying goodbye . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63 Getting Your Numbers, Times, and CHAPTER 5: Measurements Straight . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65 Counting in Chinese . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Numbers from 1 to 10 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66 Numbers from 11 to 99 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67 Numbers from 100 to 9,999 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68 Numbers from 10,000 to 100,000 and beyond . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 How ’bout those halves? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69 Ordinal numbers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Asking how many or how much . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 70 Telling Time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Asking and stating the time . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Specifying the time of the day . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 Save the Date: Using the Calendar and Stating Dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75 Dealing with days of the week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 76 Naming the months . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Specifying dates . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77 Celebrating Chinese holidays . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80 Sizing Up Weights and Measures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81 CHAPTER 6: Speaking Chinese at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Hanging Out at Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85 Hunting for an Apartment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86 Decorating Your New Digs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 Appointing Your Rooms, Fēngshuǐ Style . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89 The bedroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 The bathroom . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 vi Chinese For Dummies The kitchen . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92 The living room . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93 The basement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94 The attic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 95 PART 2: CHINESE IN ACTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97 CHAPTER 7: Getting to Know You: Making Small Talk . . . . . . . . . . . .99 Establishing a Connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99 Posing simple introductory questions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102 Chatting about family . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103 Making small talk on the job . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105 Talking about where you live . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108 CHAPTER 8: Dining Out and Shopping for Food . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111 All about Meals . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Satisfying your hunger . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112 Sitting down to eat and practicing proper table manners . . . . . . 114 Getting to Know Chinese Cuisines . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115 Dining Out . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116 Understanding what’s on the menu . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118 Placing an order and chatting with the waitstaff . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 125 Dipping into some dim sum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .127 Finding the restrooms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .128 Finishing your meal and paying the bill . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129 All the Tea in China . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130 Taking Your Chinese to Go . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 Making comparisons . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131 How much is that thousand-year-old egg? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132 CHAPTER 9: Shopping Made Easy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Going to Stores . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137 Getting What You Want at a Department Store . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140 Just browsing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Asking for help . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141 Shopping for Clothes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143 What’s your size? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .143 Comparing quality: Good, better, best . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145 Comparing two items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146 What are you wearing? Chuān versus dài . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 149 Asking about the color and material . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150 Table of Contents vii Shopping for Other Items . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 151 Hunting for antiques . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152 Getting a Good Price and Paying . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 Negotiating prices at the night market . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .153 Paying for your purchase (or demanding a refund) . . . . . . . . . . . . 154 CHAPTER 10: Exploring the Town . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Attending a Performance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 157 Exploring different types of music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 158 Buying a ticket . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Asking whether someone has done something . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160 Exploring Museums and Galleries . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161 Visiting Historical Sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163 Going to the Movies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165 Hopping Around Bars and Clubs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167 CHAPTER 11: Taking Care of Telecommunications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Getting Familiar with Telephone Terms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169 Going Mobile with a Cellphone . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171 Making a Phone Call . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172 Calling your friends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173 Ringing hotels and places of business . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174 Phoning a client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175 Sorry, I Can’t Take Your Call Right Now . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Listening to messages that people leave you . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 177 Recording and understanding greeting messages . . . . . . . . . . . . .177 Leaving messages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 178 Checking Your Email . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 180 Going Online . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182 The Great Wall . . . Firewall, That Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .183 CHAPTER 12: Chinese at School and Work . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187 Going to School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Schools and supplies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188 Teachers and subjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189 Exams and semesters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .190 Degrees and diplomas . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191 Settling into Your Office Digs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 192 Conducting a Meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Scheduling and planning a meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195 Making the initial greeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196 Starting the meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Making a presentation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198 Ending the meeting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199 Discussing Business and Industry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201 viii Chinese For Dummies

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