漢言無師自明
CHINESE
WITHOUT A TEACHER
BEING A COLLECTION OF
EASY AND USEFUL SENTENCES
IN THE MANDARIN DIALECT
WITH A VOCABULARY
BY
HERBERT A. GILES, M. A., LL.D. (Aberdeen)
Professor of Chinese in the University of Cambridge.
EIGHTH EDITION
PRINTED AND PUBLISHED BY
KELLY AND WALSH, LIMITED, SHANGHAI
BRANCHES:
HONGKONG—YOKOHOMA—SINGAPORE—HANKOW
1922
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RULES
1.—Do not sound the romanised letters.
2.—Wherever an inverted comma occurs, put in a strong aspirate.
3.—Ow is to be pronounced throughout as in how, and ü as in German, or as the French u.
All other combinations are to be pronounced strictly according to the requirements of the English alphabet.
Dedication
TO THE LADIES AND TO THE MEMBERS
OF THE
MERCANTILE, SEA-FARING AND SPORTING
COMMUNITIES OF CHINA,
MANY OF WHOM I HAVE SO OFTEN HEARD
EXPRESSING REGRET AT NOT KNOWING
"A FEW WORDS OF CHINESE,"
OR HAVE SEEN TURNING AWAY DISHEARTENED
FROM THE ELABORATE SYSTEMS OF
LEARNED SINOLOGUES,
I OFFER THE FOLLOWING PAGES.
This work is in the public domain in the United States because it was published before January 1, 1927.
The author died in 1935, so this work is also in the public domain in countries and areas where the copyright term is the author's life plus 80 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.