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$22.00 |
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$19.80 |
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| Author: |
Fallows,D |
| Publisher: |
Walker & Co., 9/10 |
| Format: |
HC,
208pp |
| Region: |
East Asia |
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China |
Deborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and habits of its people,and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the languagea word, a phrase, an oddity of grammarbecame windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China.Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking that Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact, a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends. (BIP)
Pre-sale. Book available to ship September
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