This book presents the next best thing to a year abroad ."Streetwise Chinese with Audio CD" offers you a unique opportunity to learn first-hand how Chinese is actually spoken. With the help of more than 25 everyday dialogues performed by native speakers, you pick up on the idioms, colloquialisms, slang, and vulgarisms currently used by people from all walks of life. Fascinating features help explain the cultural attitudes behind many expressions. And exercises enable you to flex your comprehension and conversational skills. It includes one 75-minute audio CD.