Dirty Chinese: Everyday Slang from What's Up? to F*%# Off!

by Edmund Trelawny Backhouse, Brenden O'Kane, Matt Coleman, et al.

Book Overview

Learn all the slang words and modern street phrases you never got to in Chinese class with this fun, super-handy English-Chinese phrasebook.

Next time you're traveling or just chattin' in Chinese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

-Cool slang
-Funny insults
-Explicit terms
-Raw swear words

Dirty Chinese teaches the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1569757275
• ISBN13: 9781569757277
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Ulysses Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.38 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.8" x 7.0"

Customer Reviews

An incredible insight into living Chinese culture

This is a supplement to the text you should have with the boring utility grammar and vocabulary. Do you really want to sound like an outsider? This is slang, sometimes rough, and sometimes late-night cable. Even if you don't plan on using profound insults, you'd probably want to know one when it was said around you. More than the looking-up-the-naughty-words-in-the-dictionary, this excellent little book explains the *why* behind many slang and profane expressions. There is a lot of culture to be found here, and it is often hilarious. Buy this one, hide it from your teacher and family, then flex at the street vendor or karaoke bar. Highly recommended!