Mandarin Phrase Cards Available?
 

Hi all,<BR><BR>Do you know of any preprinted Mandarin phrase cards with common tourist phrases?(English on one side/Mandarin on the other?)<BR>Can't seem to find any from the "usual suspects": Amazon, Barnes and Noble, Lonely Planet, etc.<BR><BR>Thanks!<BR>

I haven't seen any. Some phrase books have little tear-out cards - but neither of the books I had included them (Lonely Planet phrase book and another one - can't recall name, Barrons, maybe).<BR><BR>I made a card by typing out the words and pronounciation and then taping the paper onto an index card. I covered the whole surface with clear packing tape which made the cards very durable. On the reverse side I made a currency conversion chart. <BR><BR>Anyhow, I found that my attempts at pronouncing anything correctly in Mandarin were totally futile. At least my attempts were entertaining to the Chinese people I interacted with - I must have sounded horrible. Be sure to get a phrase book with printed Chinese characters so you can point to words if your attempt to speak Mandarin fails you.<BR><BR>Anneke

They do exist--I have seen them. Thought your search wouldn't seem futile if you knew. Sorry I don't know where to get them.

I went to a web site I got a lot of info from before I went on my trip to China. This is a group for people going on an adoption trip but has lots of good general info.<BR><BR>They have the cards I had seen. They are approx. 2x3 hooked together on a chain.<BR><BR>The web site is <BR>www.chinaconnectiononline.com/<BR>vocabcd.htm

Thanks for the help. The China Connection folks responded almost immediately to my e-mail request. However, with a trip rapidly approaching, I made a set myself by<BR>translating (and double-checking by translating the translations back to English!) with the Babelfish software on the Altavista site.