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  • Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs
  • By: Pimsleur
  • Narrated by: Pimsleur
  • Length: 2 hrs and 48 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (66 ratings)
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Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1 Lessons 1-5

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Summary

The Pimsleur® Method: the easiest, fastest way to learn a new language. Completely portable, easily downloadable, and lots of fun. You'll be speaking and understanding in no time flat! 

Each lesson in lessons 1 to 5 provides 30 minutes of spoken language practice, with an introductory conversation and new vocabulary and structures. Detailed instructions enable you to understand and participate in the conversation. Each lesson contains practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension and on learning to speak Mandarin Chinese. 

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"Pimsleur programs provide plenty of positive reinforcement that will keep learners on track, and we found that Pimsleur gave us more proficiency and confidence in speaking the new language than any of the other language programs we reviewed." (AudioFile magazine)

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very expensive!

why? for 1 credit you can get a few hours of this or 14 hours of Paul noble Chinese course.

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Poor value for money

Very basic and poor value for money. Paul Noble uses a similar technique and you get many more teaching hours for one credit.

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Does what it says on the tin

It does it in a way that makes learning how to speak Chinese a lot easier!! 🙌

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Easy to learn

Very helpful but useful if you can use a written version of the text too to help with pronunciation. Repetition in each unit seems to help

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great learning programme

great resource for learning and language. It gets you speaking quickly. very useful if you practice everyday. for fluency you'll also need to find a teacher but this gives you the basics.

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Great intro into Chinese learning

A very easy way to start picking up Chinese. Follow along and speak with the narrator. They build up you sentences and vocabulary slowly at a pace you can keep up with. (Mostly)

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Good but

I do like the approach Pimsleur use and have used their courses before, so this is as much a general comment as specifically about the Mandarin course. My BUT comes because the tutor drives me crazy with his condescending tone when constantly repeating Have you pronouned it tbe same way as the speaker? And because for the first few lessons it is so American centric - the learner and one partner of the dialogs is always an American man/woman who is meeting a person for the country where the language being taught is spoken

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So we'll put together!

At first I thought the order it taught things in was odd. But after a trip to China...the order is exactly the order you need! Very well researched and put together. A great piece of work.

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