Excerpt from Chinese Without a Teacher: Being a Collection Easy and Useful Sentences in the Mandarin Dialect With a Vocabulary The following Lessons and Vocabulary are intended to assist those who wish to acquire quickly a temporary or superficial knowledge of the Chinese language as spoken in the northern provinces, and by educated people all over the Empire. The orthography, if such it may be called, is an attempt to express, so far as possible, Chinese sounds in simple English. The Chinese vowel-sound it is the only ...
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Excerpt from Chinese Without a Teacher: Being a Collection Easy and Useful Sentences in the Mandarin Dialect With a Vocabulary The following Lessons and Vocabulary are intended to assist those who wish to acquire quickly a temporary or superficial knowledge of the Chinese language as spoken in the northern provinces, and by educated people all over the Empire. The orthography, if such it may be called, is an attempt to express, so far as possible, Chinese sounds in simple English. The Chinese vowel-sound it is the only one which cannot be even approximately expressed, and the reader is therefore requested to pronounce it like the French u, or the German a. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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