Chinese Slanguage: A Fun Visual Guide to Mandarin Terms and Phrases (English and Chinese Edition)

I am not so sure I would buy this for accuracy, or to impress your Chinese friends. I would buy this if you need to know Chinese and find it impossible to recall words. I would buy this as a fun thing to introduce kids to languages. This is really a novelty item, and can only be taken half seriously for learning. After you learn their way of saying the word, go look it up on google translate and make sure it's accurate. Some words I could not find, so I wonder if it's really all in Mandarin. Anyway, me and my son had a great laugh using this book, and it really broke the ice for him learning about a language. This is a book they will actually look at, there may be better books but if it's not interesting enough for a kid to look at what good is it? I haven't examined the accuracy in great detail, so take this review with a grain of salt. I bought both books and Spanish as well, for the fact that they make learning languages fun and interesting.

Okay, so it was silly of me to bring this as my only translation book through China. It's more of a coffee table book than a functioning book. What I really liked about it was that I easily remembered the words I did learn and pronounced things fairly correct because of the book. The downside was it didn't have many words that would have really come in handy (like train station). If this book was expanded it would have been a great book to have on hand. Oh, and the Chinese people really thought it was funny too. :)

Using the book to learn more Chinese, a lot of the language is very formal and not used by most people. Easy to understand and great learning tool.

I have been trying to learn a little Mandarin and this book helps me more than any other on pronunciation.It would get 5 stars except the print is large (I suspect it was so it could be sold as a book and not a pamphlet). I bought both editions and enjoy learning from them. It won't get you talking to your Chinese friends, but you can exchange a few pleasantries.

This is a Christmas gift for a grandson going to China in January....so I expect he will really like it and I hope it even comes in handy for him!The book illustrations and breakdown of the pronunciation seem very clear to me.

I bought this book to bring on my trip to China. It instantly became a conversation piece when I got there. What a great concept! Some phrases and pronunciation aren't 100% correct, and yes it doesn't teach you proper accents or pronunciation, but this is obviously not meant for that. We had such a great time going through the words and phrases and I learned a few things from it.

Not really a educational book. A good way to learn a few words, for casual confersation.

I shown this to Chinese people who I know speaks Mandarin and they told me that this book is a waste of money . I'm told the pronunciation are all wrong but on the positive side I think it close enough to the enunciate of the words of this Chinese language and it can help you as a reference if you seriously studying Mandarin.

The book is perfect for our needs.

A bit expensive for what it is, but none-the-less a fun little book.

This book is brilliant... Chinese is by far the most difficult language to learn but with this book it really gets easier than easy ! Very innovative and itz a great help to check on the pronunciation. Itz just superb !

Love it

We had fun with this little book on our recent trip to China.