224 MandarinChigeseSchoolcom x. i SPOKEN CHINESE 900 Zhang Yajun ae ion ao Xun Chunsheng ‘anslated by ang Wei Book One Joint Publishing Co. (HK) iy22% MandarinChineseSchool.com This edition is published with the permission of the Shanghai Education Publishing House Copyright ©1985 Joint Publishing Co. (HK) All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Published by Joint Publishing Co. (HK) 9 Queen Victoria Street, Hongkong First Published October 1985 Printed in Hongkong by C & C Joint Printing Co. (H.K.) Ltd. 75 Pau Chung St., Kowloon, Hongkong Paperback ISBN 962-04-0381-9 MEO BA BS (SETI) EH TG Me GR RE SOR BSS: EAE 7S BE RAT HSH & FIG TIRE SR ERA 2 EB (HE) ABZ Bie MM Ct 198537: 10 Beis 48 — REA — AED ISBN 962 - 04 - 0381 - 9 BUREN Publisher’s Note Spoken Chinese is closely related to situations in everyday life Foreigners visiting China stay at hotels, do some shopping, go to post offices, make phone calls, deal with a bank, etc. Ordinarily, it is not so easy for a foreigner to understand what is spoken to him, to know how to respond or how to act if he is not familiar with the proper words and phrases frequently used in these situations, even if he has some knowledge of Chinese. Spoken Chinese 900 is designed to help them cope with these situations. In this book, more than 50 situations are presented under 19 headings of conversational Chinese. Each situation consists of 5 sections: (1) basic Chinese sentences with English trans- lations; (2) notes in English and Chinese; (3) conversations; (4) exercises; and (5) vocabulary. In the appendix, there is a key to the exercises. The basic sentences appearing in this book are the most typical patterns and the most widely used colloquial Chinese expressions. The reader is advised to make a careful study of the notes as they contain colloquial Chinese expressions popular in everyday life and the basic language points necessary to be possessed in learning the Chinese language. The con- versations are aimed at an active application of the most practically useful sentence patterns spoken and written today. For them no English translations are given, the reader is en- couraged to think in Chinese and to bear them in mind. The exercises are intended to assist the reader to practise the key sentence patterns through repetition so as to absorb and con- solidate what he has learned about language point: