Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook (with Audio) PDF
Preview Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook (with Audio)
clown load THE ROUGH GUIDE MANDARIN CHINESE PHRASE BOOK Compiled by LEX US www. rou g hgui de s.com Credits Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook Rough Guides Reference Compiled by Lexus with Julian Ward Director Andrew Locken and Xu Yinong Editors Kale Berens, Lexus series edi !or Sally Dav1es lan Blenkinsop, Tom Cabo!, Layout Jessca Subramaman Tracy Hq:>kins, Matthew Millon, Picture Research: Scon Stickland Joe Staines Publishing information Firs! ed1!ion published in 1997 This updated edi!1on published October 2011 by Rough Guides Ud, 80 Strand, London, WC2R ORL Email CONTENTS How t o use this book .. ................ .............. ........ ...... ... .... ... ... ... 4 Bas1cs ............................................... ................. ........ ..... .. 7 Scenar1os ............................................................................ 23 English-Chinese .................... .. ........ ............... ................... .. 55 Chinese-English ........... ..... .................... ......... ... ....... ..... ...... 181 Ch1nese S1gns .. .................................................................. 221 Menu reader: Food .............................................................. 237 Menu reader: Dnnk .............................................................. 253 How to use this book he Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook is a highly T practical introduction to the contemporary language. It gets straight to the point in every situation you might encounter: in bars and shops, on trains and buses, in hotels and banks, on holiday or on business. Laid out in clear A-Z style with easy-to-find, colour- coded sections, it uses key words to take you directly to the phrase you need - so if you want some help booking a room, just look up "room" in the dictionary section. The phrasebook starts off with Basks, where we list some essential phrases, including words for numbers, dates and tell- ing the time, and give guidance on pronunciation, along with a short section on the different regional accents you might come across. Then, to get you started in two-way communication, the Scenarios section offers dialogues in key situations such as rent- ing a car, asking directions or booking a taxi, and includes words and phrases for when something goes wrong, from getting a flat tyre or asking to move apartments to more serious emergencies. You can listen to these and download them for free from www. 4 The Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook >HOW TO USE THIS BOOK roughguides.com/phrasebooks for use on your computer, MP3 player or smartphone. Forming the main part of the guide is a double dictionary, start- ing with English-Chinese, which gives you the essential words you'll need, plus easy-to-use phonetic transliterations. Then, in the Chinese-English dictionary, we've given the phrases you'll be likely to hear (starting with a selection of slang and colloquial- isms), followed by the Signs section, which explains many of the signs, labels, instructions and other basic words you'll come across in print or in public places. Scattered throughout the sections are travel tips direct from the authors of the Rough Guides guidebook series. Finally, there's an extensive Menu reader. Consisting of separate food and drink sections, each starting with a list of essential terms, it's indispensable whether you're eating out, stopping for a quick drink or looking around a local food market. Note: one abbreviation is used in this book: adj for adjective. -NU9!JXt vnu shunfeng! Have a good trip! The Rough Guide Mandarin Ch inese Phrasebook > HOWTOUSETHIS BOOK 5 Basic phrases yes shide shur-dur i\1:15J how do you do? nl hao no bit boo ::f nihow f:fr\H ? OK h:W how H how an! you? nl hao rna? hello nl hao nee how f:fr;~f rnatr f:fr\HP.!b ? good morning nl zao nee dzow fine, thanks hen hao. xiexie hun how hsyeh-hsyeh ~f~J~J f:fr\-'f- good evening nl hao 111 how nice to meet you jiandao nl h~n gaoxlng jyen-dow nee hun f:fr\~f good night wan' an wahn-ahn gow-hsing .'A!.tiJ f:fr\1~ ~ ~ excuse me ~o get past) laojia at~ low-jyah ~~ goodbye/see you! zaijian (to get attention) laoji3, qlng dzai-jyen ¥'}.'A!, wen-... ching wun ~~~J'CJ see you later hult6ujian excuse me/sorry dulbuql hway-toh-Jyen @1 ~.'A!, dway-boo clwe x1::f® please qlng clung ~ sorry?/pardon me? nl shuo yes, please hao, xiexie shenrne' shwor shun-rnur how hsyeh-hsyeh H~r~r 1:fr\i3?.1t z. ? could you please-••• ? 1 see/1 understand wil rnlngbai qlng nln-... , hao rna? ching te wor ming-bai tur i\1: a_ij 8 T nm ... , how mah ~~ ... , ~f 1 don't understand wil bit dbng P.!b ? i\(;::f·ti thank you xi exie do you speak English? hsyeh-hsyeh ~~ nln hul jiang Ylngyo rna' thank you very much duoxie hway jyang ying-yew rnah dwor-hsyeh ;$~I f~~ijj:~i!P.!b ? no, thank you xiexie, wb bti 1 don't speak-Chinese yao hsyeh-hsyeh wor boo yow wil btihul jiang Hanyo ~1~1ilt::f~ wor boo-hway hahn-yew don't mention itbli keqi i\(;::f~ijj:VZ. i! boo kur-chee ::f~-4; B The Rough Guide Mandarin Chinese Phrasebook > BASICS
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