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Learn Mandarin Chinese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

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Learn Mandarin Chinese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course

By: Paul Noble, Kai-Ti Noble
Narrated by: Paul Noble, Kai-Ti Noble
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Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by millions. You'll be speaking Mandarin Chinese fluently and confidently in no time at all.

Take a simple, relaxed approach to learning a language that has been proven to succeed every time. Unlike more traditional language learning courses, Paul Noble’s unique method has no grammar tests, no memory drills and no chance of failure. Whatever your experience with languages, whether you’re an absolute beginner or someone with basic knowledge who wants to improve their ability, this is the course to get you speaking Mandarin Chinese quickly, easily, and effortlessly. Just listen, interact and learn wherever you are.

In this audiobook, Paul will introduce you to the basics of the Mandarin Chinese language and guide you through over 15 hours of everyday scenarios that will build your confidence.

You will learn a huge range of vocabulary in no time at all, and be able to quickly make your new knowledge work for you in a variety of situations like asking for directions, eating out and talking about yourself.

Native-speaking Mandarin Chinese experts will help you to perfect your pronunciation as you progress through the course. Language learning has finally become fun, enjoyable and accessible.

A downloadable booklet is also included to use as a reference and revision tool.

This download contains the entire course – Parts 1, 2, and 3. To continue your language learning journey once you’ve completed this course, download Next Steps in Mandarin Chinese with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course.

The accompanying booklet is available here: http://collinsdictionary.com/resources.

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Praise for other titles in the Paul Noble range:
‘More than I ever managed in five years of French at school.’
Tom Meltzer, The Guardian
‘I seemed to absorb the phrases taught, without even consciously trying, and quickly felt confident enough to make my own sentences.’
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I am highly suspicious of some reviews slamming this for being repetitive, because we all need reputation to learn!

To give you some back ground, I have about 8 month prior Mandarin Chinese experience, using apps, flashcards various DIY methods.

How I wish I began with this, I didn't have to worry about tones, despite the fact the best explaination I have learned relating to them is actually from this! I didn't have to worry about reading Pinyin and Hanzi (Chinese script).
This way of learning was so natural, almost like being a baby, you learn to speak before you can read. This gave me a lot confidence in speaking the little Chinese I do know. Which is slightly more then what you will learn in this audiobook due to my right months prior learning.
By the end of the book you while no how to say:
你好,我想点咕噜肉,一个菜包子和茉莉花茶。
You will regardless of skill level by the end of book, be constructing such long sentences and it's not just about food, you will learn to say where you are going, what you are doing, if you are driving, if you are allowed, skilled or capable of various different things. It's quite rigid but amazing with this system you will be well on your way. This would have made all my prior learning easier. I did this in the space of just over 1 month and am now looking forward to the sequel! 再见朋友。

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As a regular visitor to China for business I got interested in learning some phrases. This book helped greatly, and although some locals laugh at the phrases ( such as for laptop - hand lift electric brain is now mostly replaced by notebook electric brain) they still understand.

There does appear to be some errors within the audio book though. For instance, at times, instead of the female and male local speakers repeating the word, you'll only get the female repeating it twice. Also, chapters 97 & 98 appear back to front when he introduces the different ways of saying can.

Nonetheless, it's a really good way of learning a language I never thought I'd understand. I feel it could have sections where he asks what the native speakers are asking but it's still an enjoyable course to follow. The hardest part in learning this is if you use one phrase the locals think you're fluent and either speak too fast or use phrases you don't know. it's all part of the experience. Happy travels!

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It had been really easy to follow, Paul does a great job of teaching it.
The style of teaching is also excellent!

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I am not exactly a beginner but I found this very useful for review. I was already aware of a majority of the terms, words and grammar, but I still loved the teaching concept by splitting apart pieces and giving literal definitions.

the iterative nature really helps you to understand the sentence formatting and really helps to construct sentences quicker.

I was however disappointed that the second speaker slowed down about a third of the way through. I was really enjoying having a more naturally spoken example to each sentence because you can hear the differences between slow and fast and even helps you speak faster! for that I can only give this book 4 stars, otherwise it is a fantasic learning guide

great resource for beginners and those above

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I can speak basic Chinese after listening to this. If you want to start speaking and grasping Chinese fast, I can recommend this. The tones section is great. My Chinese friends are amazed

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