Synopsis
The books in the Making Out series are fun and accessible guides to languages as they're spoken on the street. This classic phrase book has been updated and expaded for use in informal situations such as bars, parties, or anywhere else one needs to know slang to survive! This book now features phrases written in their native script as well as in English, so the book can be show to the person you are trying to communicate with. With transcriptions revised for easier pronunciation and numerous notes on points of language use and culture, these helpful books will have you making out in no time!!
Author Bio:
Original edition by Ray Daniels who studied Chinese as an exchange student in Taiwan and Beijing. He met his Chinese wife in a tea shop in Taiwan.
Revised by Haiyan Situ, a Beijing native who has taught Chinese at the University of Otago, New Zealand.