Chinese for Beginners
A Comprehensive Guide for Learning the Chinese Language Quickly
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About this listen
If you are looking for a quick way to learn the Chinese language, then pay attention....
Many language learning audiobooks for the Chinese language are designed for full-time training over a long time; this audiobook will help you start communicating as soon as possible!
By using many words and dialogues concerning daily life, you will quickly be confident to start speaking in Chinese.
The content is both practical and fun, making you eager to continue expanding your knowledge.
Numerous examples are included, which will help you find the right phrases during conversations.
Here’s just a fraction of what you’ll learn:
- The basics, such as the Chinese alphabet, nouns, and verbs
- The grammar of phrases and sentence elements
- The grammar of simple and complex sentences
- How to converse around many different topics
- Many common Chinese words and phrases
- And much, much more!
The audiobook includes a vocabulary of the most common – and essential - nouns and verbs useful for both learning the Chinese language and for a long time after.
So, what are you waiting for? Grab this audiobook and start the journey today!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
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- Length: 4 hrs and 44 mins
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Words. We use them all the time, every day, mostly without giving them much thought at all. We take for granted that they’re here at our disposal whenever we need them. But if you’ve ever wished you could communicate more effectively, words are the place to start. It’s incumbent upon you to choose the best words to accomplish your goals, because how you choose to communicate influences—well, everything! The power of communication shapes our professional goals, our relationships, and our lives—so the words we choose to use carry a great deal of power.
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Meh. Glad I didn't pay for it.
- By Paula on 07-23-22
By: Allison Friederichs Atkison, and others
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How to Release Anxiety
- By: Gabrielle Bernstein
- Narrated by: Gabrielle Bernstein
- Length: 1 hr and 29 mins
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It’s not just you. Stress levels are at an all-time high—so much so that a recently convened panel of medical experts in the US has recommended that all adults under the age of 65 be screened for anxiety. In How to Release Anxiety, Gabby Bernstein offers simple, actionable steps for feeling better, living with more ease, and showing up for those around us. Gabby’s unusual advice: Rather than manage your anxiety, what if you befriended it? Gabby posits that what we befriend, we can ultimately be at ease with. So she invites us to get curious.
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Not my thing, but one good point
- By Scott on 10-22-22
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Manifest Now
- By: Idil Ahmed
- Narrated by: Idil Ahmed
- Length: 4 hrs and 23 mins
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Manifest Now provides a step-by-step guide with tools, techniques, and proven strategies to raise your frequency and create the reality you want. This audiobook is designed to guide you through the mental, physical, and spiritual aspects of manifesting and creating all that your heart desires. You'll learn how to start removing mental and emotional blocks so you can rediscover that manifesting is your natural birthright. You'll feel more confident, reconnected, and powerful as you listen.
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This is my first review of 2 years subscribed!
- By Rodrigo on 02-22-19
By: Idil Ahmed
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30 Covert Emotional Manipulation Tactics: How Manipulators Take Control in Personal Relationships
- By: Adelyn Birch
- Narrated by: Kitty Hendrix
- Length: 1 hr and 48 mins
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Identifying covert emotional manipulation is tricky. You sense something is wrong, but you can't quite put your finger on the problem. This powerful book will reveal to you if manipulation is at play in your relationships. It will open your eyes. You will learn 30 tactics manipulators use to get what they want. You will also learn to spot the warning signs within yourself that expose covert manipulation is taking place, even if you can't identify the specific tactics being used.
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This book can change your life!
- By Cat O. on 04-04-18
By: Adelyn Birch
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Mind Mapping
- Improve Memory, Concentration, Communication, Organization, Creativity, and Time Management
- By: Kam Knight
- Narrated by: Jim D Johnston
- Length: 5 hrs
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This is a comprehensive guide to learning about a wonderful technique called mind maps. Mind maps are an amazing organizational and creativity tool that can improve memory, concentration, communication, organization, creativity, and time management.
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make sure to practice
- By Meryem on 04-24-17
By: Kam Knight
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There's No Such Thing as Bad Weather
- A Scandinavian Mom's Secrets for Raising Healthy, Resilient, and Confident Kids (from Friluftsliv to Hygge)
- By: Linda Åkeson McGurk
- Narrated by: Ann Richardson
- Length: 8 hrs and 39 mins
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Bringing Up Bébé meets Last Child in the Woods in this lively, insightful memoir about a mother who sets out to discover if the nature-centric parenting philosophy of her native Scandinavia holds the key to healthier, happier lives for her American children.
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Great concept, interesting writing.
- By Kate on 11-03-17
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How to Write Best-Selling Fiction
- By: James Scott Bell, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: James Scott Bell
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
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Most people think the way to write a best seller is to have a lot of talent and even more luck. As you will learn, there is a recipe for success, and luck may be the least important ingredient in creating a best seller. No one has cracked the code better than James Scott Bell. A best-selling author himself, and the author of the number-one best seller for writers, Plot & Structure, Mr. Bell has been teaching the principles of best-selling fiction for over 20 years, principles that apply to any genre or style.
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I'm a writer and this course is to blame.
- By accentrique on 07-22-19
By: James Scott Bell, and others
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English Grammar Boot Camp
- By: Anne Curzan, The Great Courses
- Narrated by: Anne Curzan
- Length: 12 hrs and 26 mins
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Grammar! For many of us, the word triggers memories of finger-wagging schoolteachers, and of wrestling with the ambiguous and complicated rules of using formal language. But what is grammar? In fact, it's the integral basis of how we speak and write. As such, a refined awareness of grammar opens a world of possibilities for both your pleasure in the English language and your skill in using it, in both speech and the written word.
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Spectacular
- By Quaker on 09-24-16
By: Anne Curzan, and others
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Easy Spanish Step-by-Step
- By: Barbara Bregstein
- Narrated by: Rachel Story
- Length: 37 hrs and 15 mins
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Easy Spanish Step-by-Step is designed in such a way that each section builds upon the last to help your brain progressively create lasting and meaningful connections to each new word and grammar concept. Simply by listening and speaking out loud with us, you will naturally progress, step-by-step, toward Spanish communication and fluency.
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Best so far . . .
- By Medusa in Akron on 07-20-21
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Survival Theory
- A Preparedness Guide
- By: Jonathan Hollerman
- Narrated by: Jim Pelletier
- Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
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This preparedness guide will help you develop a plan to escape the deadly rioting and looting, showing you where you can take your family to keep them safe, even if you can't afford a fully-stocked survival retreat. Jonathan Hollerman's in-depth expertise and recommendations will cover many topics including bug-out bags, SHTF Weapons, tactical gear, survival tools, knives, long-term food storage, livestock, bug-out locations, survival retreat recommendations, and much more.
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Literally a half decent book.
- By LA on 09-29-16
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- BethRoundy
- 08-09-21
Great for beginners
My mother is Korean and nevermore taught me to speak the language. I've been requiring to know more recently and have a lot of free time. I am holding the material greatly and have high hopes of being able to understand a discussion in the future.
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- Cecil Wigley
- 08-15-21
Good for beginners
Fascinating to see basic characters in grass character form. I got a few thousand & hoped to analyze. This would be very helpful for a beginner.
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- Ramiro Staller
- 08-15-21
Learned so much
Learned so much
Book has been a great guide to the audible of the same name. As a starter series, I highly suggest the book for beginners.
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- Benton Butt
- 08-09-21
Brilliant course
I also downloaded the app with the full course so I have the greatest of both worlds. Clear, simple, and begins at the very beginning which is what I required.
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- SiuStoner
- 08-14-21
Great fun to learn chinese
Language Equipped Travelers pulls off another great audiobook. Taught me Spanish and now Chinese! Incredible!!
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- Parker Coatney
- 08-15-21
Perfect guide
Very simple to understand the stroke order and to use it as a teaching guide. Good, solid data about Chinese for Beginners! I recommend it!
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- Shawn W Smith
- 08-14-21
I think there are better resources out there .
For me, this does the learning practice hard because listening to Chinese for instance on the radio course hasn't given me the experience of direct translation Saying that he is an excellent tutor so I would advise anyone to purchase the book, but I believe there are better sources out there.
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- DarleneHaner
- 08-14-21
Method works
I have received more in four months of using this audiobook than 2 years of formal classroom education. Language Equipped Travelers' method makes sense and is almost logical. I went ahead and purchased the follow-on audiobook.
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- RichieBegaye
- 08-14-21
Absolutely Brilliant
I was suspicious at first but it aimed out to be perfect information. I listen and speak along in my car to and from each day and pick it back up each session without missing a beat.
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- Brighton jhon
- 08-11-21
A great start.
I got the grammatical information very useful and the thoughtful descriptions excellent for getting insight into the Chinese way of thinking. I have forever considered languages as a window into a given culture so these insights are very meaningful.
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