The Complete Idiot's Guide language audio programs are guaranteed to work for beginners, as a refresher course, and even with those who have been frustrated in other attempts to learn a foreign language. You can start learning today.
Make the most of your language lesson with this pdf of Chinese characters, vocabulary words, and dialogues.
©2004 Oasis Audio LLC
"too difficult in pure audio"
although i am an experienced language learner, i found it extremely difficult to learn chinese with this audio book. it may be possible with a more similar language such as spanish or portuguese etc.
it looks like there was no adaptation to the written version. it's just very hard to remember the complex words and sounds...
"Pimsleur in much better"
This just does not work as well as the Pimsleur books. Too bad only one of the Pimsleur books on Mandarin is avialable from audible.com