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| outcast Bilingual Heptaglot Senior Member China Joined 4745 days ago 869 posts - 1364 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English*, German, Italian, French, Portuguese, Mandarin Studies: Korean | Message 1 of 3 02 April 2013 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
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This course is available for free at my local library. It looks exactly like this one
here: http://www.amazon.com/Chinese-Mandarin-Complete-Course-Inter mediate/dp/1402533705 It has: Beginner AI and AII (9cd's each volume) Intermediate BI and BII (9cd's each volume) Intermediate CI and CII (9cd's each volume) I have never used Pimsleur before, and there are tons of different Pimsleur products out there with different looking packaging. I assume part of that is based on newer vs older versions of the same basic courses, just with different packaging. I was wondering if anyone has used the above course for this or other languages. I'll end up taking them out anyway, but I guess my question how much time a day should I put into them, and should it be every day. I guess what are your suggestions for use. I am learning Chinese through another series (Basic Spoken/Written Chinese by Cornelius Kubler), and will go to a Chinese tutor once a week in about a month, and there I will use the New Practical Chinese Reader series. Thanks for any info! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mahasiswa Pentaglot Groupie Canada Joined 4228 days ago 91 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Malay Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Persian, Russian, Turkish, Mandarin, Hindi | Message 2 of 3 02 April 2013 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
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I am currently using Pimsleur to begin learning Mandarin. I did lesson 31 today, and I'm already happy
talking with native speakers for advice and trying out sentences. The pronounciation I have learned so far from Pimsleur alone was not quite right, but it's because I was unsure where the tongue should be for different sounds and it doesn't tell you. You can find this information online though, too, or talk to some Mandarin speakers! I plan to finish the 90th lesson on May 10th, after I start doing two lessons a day on April 20th, when my university exams are over. After the 90th lesson I will buy the books mentioned in Sprachprofi's article on learning to read and write in Mandarin: http://temp.learnlangs.com/chinese/memorizing_characters The grammar is really easy, the tones are only a little more difficult than the grammar, and it's really fun to be able to improvise this many sentences after only a month of studying half an hour a day. I'm also studying Arabic and German in university, so all I can muster until my classes are out is to study Mandarin with Pimsleur. I use it while cleaning the house, driving the car, sitting on the bus, in the morning too, and if I can, while I exercise. It's a really great program for beginning to listen and understand the language. Buena suerte! (Y si quisieras, podrías enviarme un mensaje para platicar un poco más, quizás puedo explicarte mejor en español o utilizando ejemplos de otros idiomas que estudiamos todos los dos. Simplemente, ¡me gusta utilizar los idiomas que estudio!) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7017 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 3 of 3 02 April 2013 at 6:37am | IP Logged |
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There is also a Pimsleur Chinese IV to be released at the end of October 2013, so if that interests anybody, then it will be a nice addition to the many other Mandarin resources out there. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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