Lonely Planet China Phrasebook & Dictionary Paperback – October 1, 2015

Wonderful book; covers all sorts of Chinese dialects, including one of my favorites, Hakka...Even goes into non-Chinese languages like Mongolian, I believe...I only wish it had more on each Dialect than just 10 pages or so...as Hakka is so hard to find...but they did a good job with what they did :) ...

I quoted with four stars only just because one of the Chinese language group is missing (Gan topolect).Anyway I very useful and interesting book.Rui Rocha

great book, great service

print is a bit small, but is a handy phrase book.

Chinese is a hard language to speak effectively using a book. Best to hear it 1st.

Not exactly clear (many of the separated chapters there - Dongbeihua, Sichuan, Xi'an, Yunnan, etc are actually very similar to each other that they don't really need separate chapters. Many Chinese linguists don't even consider these as dialects). Better if you just place the actual dialects with a larger scope - Mandarin, Cantonese, Shanghainese, Hokkien, Xiang, Gan, Hakka + Mongolian, Tibetan, Zhuang, Uygur