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       CONTENTS

       COVER

       TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

INTRODUCTION

THE ESSENTIALS

TRANSPORT

       IN THE HOME

       AT THE SHOPS

       DAY-TO-DAY

       LEISURE

       SPORT

       HEALTH

       PLANET EARTH

       CELEBRATIONS AND FESTIVALS

       ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

       PHOTO CREDITS

       ABOUT THE PUBLISHER

INTRODUCTION

      Whether you’re on holiday or staying for a slightly longer period of time, your Collins Visual Dictionary is designed to help you find exactly what you need, when you need it. With over a thousand clear and helpful images, you can quickly locate the vocabulary you are looking for.

       The Visual Dictionary includes:

       USING YOUR COLLINS VISUAL DICTIONARY

      The points set out below will help to make sure that your Collins Visual Dictionary gives you as much help as possible when using Mandarin Chinese:

      1) How to address people politely

       At work, you can call your peers by their names – a rule of thumb is to always address people by their job title or occupation with their family name first, for example, 张老师 (zhāng lǎo shī), “Zhang teacher”. You may also hear 小王 (xiǎo Wang), literally “young Wang” or 老李 (lǎo Lǐ), “old Li” in the workplace depending on age and seniority, although this is rather informal.

       When invited to meet a friend’s family, unless they are younger or roughly the same age, you shouldn’t call them by their names. You can call their grandparents 爷爷／奶奶 (yé ye/nǎi nai) “grandfather/grandmother”, and their parents or anyone in that generation 叔叔／阿姨 (shū shu/ā yí) “uncle/auntie”, as if they were your own relatives. Addressing the older generations by their names is considered very rude in Chinese culture.

       “你” or “您”？ Although both are translated as “you” in English, 您 is used to show respect when addressing, for example, your parents, grandparents, or boss. On the other hand, 你 is used to address friends and peers.

      2) Measure words

       Measure words are unique to Chinese, and are mandatory when using a noun with a numeral, for example, “one car” is