{"product_id":"dreaming-in-chinese-mandarin-lessons-in-life-love-and-language","title":"Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eDreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eDeborah Fallows\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780802779137\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eWalker Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2010\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEdition: \u003c\/b\u003eFirst Edition\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e208\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eExcellent, unmarked copy with little wear and tight binding. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeborah Fallows has spent much of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin, China's most common language, or the intensity of living in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she realized that her struggles and triumphs in studying the language of her adopted home provided small clues to deciphering the behavior and habits of its people, and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, bits of the language--a word, a phrase, an oddity of grammar--became windows into understanding romance, humor, protocol, relationships, and the overflowing humanity of modern China.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking that Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in fact, a way to acknowledge and honor the closeness between two friends. She learned that English speakers' trouble with hearing or saying tones--the variations in inflection that can change a word's meaning--is matched by Chinese speakers' inability not to hear tones, or to even take a guess at understanding what might have been meant when foreigners misuse them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn sharing what she discovered about Mandarin, and how those discoveries helped her understand a culture that had at first seemed impenetrable, Deborah Fallows's \u003ci\u003eDreaming in Chinese\u003c\/i\u003e opens up China to Westerners more completely, perhaps, than it has ever been before.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Walker Books","offers":[{"title":"Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language | Deborah Fallows | Hardcover | 9780802779137 | Used: Like New | Back Stacks H 1768838","offer_id":49517683343512,"sku":"1768838","price":8.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0492\/1609\/4360\/files\/718q25lFWlL.jpg?v=1784618217","url":"https:\/\/roundaboutbookstore.com\/products\/dreaming-in-chinese-mandarin-lessons-in-life-love-and-language","provider":"Roundabout Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}