#974
Title: Dreaming in Chinese: Mandarin Lessons in Life, Love, And Language
Author: Deborah Fallows
Publisher: Walker & Company
Year: 2010
208 pages
A memoir with a focus on language and sociolinguistics--therefore, very enjoyable for me. Read with some of Peter Hessler's China books for interesting contrasts and comparisons.
Chinese has so many homonyms, but each sound-alike word is represented by its own character..." (152). That'd be "homophones."
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