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Deborah Fallows has spent a great deal of her life learning languages and traveling around the world. But nothing well prepared her for the surprises of learning Mandarin - China's most typical terms - or the depth of residing in Shanghai and Beijing. Over time, she became aware that her problems and triumphs in studying learning the terms of her implemented home provided small signs to deciphering patterns and patterns of its people, and its culture's conundrums. As her skill with Mandarin increased, items of the terms - a term, a phrase, an oddity of grammar - became glass windows into understanding love, humor, protocol, human relationships, and the overflowing mankind of modern China. Fallows learned, for example, that the abrupt, blunt way of speaking which Chinese people sometimes use isn't rudeness, but is, in reality a way to recognize and honor the closeness between two friends. She learned that English sound system' trouble with reading or saying shades - the modifications in inflection that can transform a word's so this means - is matched by Chinese sound system' inability not to hear tones, or to even have a estimate at understanding what may have been recommended when foreigners misuse them. Dreaming in Chinese is the story of what Deborah Fallows uncovered about the Oriental, and exactly how that helped her make sense of what experienced at first appeared like the chaos and contradiction of every day life in China.
