World Languages and Cultures

Online Chinese Dictionary

Working Mandarin for Beginners is designed to enable English-speaking business students and professionals with no prior knowledge of Chinese to develop the basic communication skills necessary for a business trip to China or another work environment in which Mandarin is spoken.

This book is a collection of 13 empirical studies examining the acquisition and processing of Chinese as a second language.

This book provides a research-based account of how to teach and learn Chinese as a foreign language."--Jacket. In English and Chinese.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-318) and index.

Working Mandarin for Beginners is designed to enable English-speaking business students and professionals with no prior knowledge of Chinese to develop the basic communication skills necessary for a business trip to China or another work environment in which Mandarin is spoken.