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Behind the Wheel - Mandarin Chinese 1

By: Behind the Wheel, Mark Frobose
Narrated by: Mark Frobose
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Publisher's summary

Behind the Wheel Chinese Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Mandarin, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Mandarin Chinese. An easy-to-understand companion book is provided in phonetic Pinyin, a system of representing Chinese using the English alphabet. This allows the learner to practice Mandarin quickly and easily without the frustration of learning to read Chinese characters. Chinese Level 1 features both a English and native Mandarin Chinese speaking instructors.

©2009 Macmillan Audio (P)2009 Macmillan Audio

Critic reviews

“The audio-only lessons build upon one another, using a native speaker to help you learn useful words and actually construct sentences from the get-go.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune



“Unlike other audio language programs, this series encourages students to create their own sentences, making it more fun and conversational than other more expensive programs.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Focuses on real-world conversation...Great value.” —Men's Health magazine

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    2 out of 5 stars

terrible!

terrible! don't buy. no guide material to help make it easier to understand... really regretted buying this

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  • Overall
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Awesome

- It works.
- Listening to it enough times, it will allow you form sentences and enhance listening comprehension.
- I recommend that you also study grammar at the same time because without some grammar background, it will just be words, and you wont understand why things are spoken the way they are.

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    1 out of 5 stars

inacurate

this program gives you phrases but does not tell you the literal meanings of the words. For example they say the Chinese word for Hi is Nee How. Which really means You Well. I find it difficult to truly lean the language by parroting phrases and not really knowing exactly what they are saying, how can you take this to another level if you don't really know what you said. So for me this method is a one star.

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8 hours for 1 credit , pretty useful vocab

I started out with Pimsleur and saw this for 1 credit an was totally satisfied , pretty simple really , listen and repeat , and they do a little review once and a while , very high frequency vocab so useful in my opinion.

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  • 04-16-16

BOOKMARKS feature is useless

tiny mid grey text on a dark grey background
tiny mid grey text on a dark grey background

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