Excerpt from Easy Lessons in Chinese, or Progressive Exercises to Facilitate the Study of That Language: Especially Adapted to the Canton DialectThe conversations in chapter V., and the exercises in chapter VII., probably cannot be used in other dialects to much advantage without some slight alterations, which the student will find to be a good exor. Cise to make. It seemed desirable to furnish a few sentences to be used with a teacher when the student first sets down with him, and with servants when occasion requires, both of whom may know nothing English, the former ought not to he suffered to talk English even if he knows it.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.