Mandarin Chinese phrasebook

the long version

With over 5000 words and phrases, this Rough Guide phrasebook will help you make the most of your trip. This book starts off with the Basics: essential phrases and pronunciation guides. Then, the Scenarios section offers dialogues in key situations (you can download and listen to these for free from the Rough Guides website). Forming the main part of the book is a double dictionary: English-Chinese and Chinese-English. Next is the Signs section, which explains many of the signs, labels, instructions, etc. that you are likely to see. Finally, there's an extensive Menu Reader, consisting of separate food and drink sections.