Comments on "Dreaming in Chinese" - Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, and Language by Deborah Fallows
Some books come with many recommendations, and, sometimes it seems that they need them, for some reason or other. This book has 7 recommendations, but it does not need any such authoritative defenses. The author, Deborah Fallows, is a very impressive linguistic scholar. For outsiders, her little book is a very engaging introduction to the mysteries of the spoken and written Chinese language.
Among other things, this little journey into the Chinese language and people shows what differences and similarities 5000 years of continuous history and vast, or maximum, linguistic differences have produced among the hundreds of millions of Chinese people, and many of the other people of the world as well.
If these comments were authoritative, they might be an 8th recommendation.
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