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Beginning Chinese

Beginning Chinese

by John DeFrancis

1946GrammarChinese languageTextbooks for foreign speakersConversation and phrase booksEnglish
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First published 1946

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John DeFrancis

1911 – 2009

American linguist

Author

John DeFrancis

First published

1946

Pages

498

Read time

≈ 12h

Editions

9

Languages

English, Chinese

Publisher

Yale University Press

ISBN

0300020546

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