Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1 Lessons 11-15 Volume 1

Learn to Speak and Understand Mandarin Chinese with Pimsleur Language Programs

De: Pimsleur

Narrado por: Pimsleur

The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn Mandarin Chinese
With Pimsleur you’ll become conversational in Mandarin Chinese — to understand and be understood — quickly and effectively. You’ll learn vocabulary, grammar, and pronunciation together through conversation. And our scientifically proven program will help you remember what you’ve learned, so you can put it into action.

Why Pimsleur?
• Quick + Easy – Only 30 minutes a day.
• Portable + Flexible – Core lessons can be done anytime, anywhere, and easily fit into your busy life.
• Proven Method – Works when other methods fail.
• Self-Paced – Go fast or go slow – it’s up to you.
• Based in Science – Developed using proven research on memory and learning.
• Cost-effective – Less expensive than classes or immersion, and features all native speakers.
• Genius – Triggers your brain’s natural aptitude to learn.
• Works for everyone – Recommended for ages 13 and above.

What’s Included?
• 5, 30-minute audio lessons,
• In total, 2.5 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers

What You’ll Learn
This course includes Lessons 11-15 from the Mandarin Chinese Level 1 program featuring 2.5 hours of language instruction. Each lesson 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. Practice for vocabulary introduced in previous lessons is included in each lesson. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak Mandarin Chinese.

Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what’s going on in the world around you, Pimsleur will help you learn Mandarin Chinese and expand your horizons and enrich your life.

Learning by listening

The Pimsleur method works exclusively through listening and repeating. There are no "official" written materials, but you can find transcripts on the web. For Mandarin , this method is ideal. The biggest barrier to being understood in Mandarin is learning how to make the sounds properly. This involves two different problems: first, making sounds that you're unaccustomed to making in English and second, making the sound with the proper pitch pattern. Although there is a western-type "alphabet" called pinyin, trying to divine the sound and the pitch from it is virtually impossible. So, here, where you have no written materials, you are not tempted to try to "learn by looking." The lessons keep the number of new vocabulary words down to a minimum and the focus is on learning how to make sentences and, you use what you know in many different settings. The upshot is that if you have "learned" something, it means you know how to use it. This is very different from other methods where you could "know" quite a bit about the language in terms of vocabulary, grammar, etc., but being unable to really utter a sentence or answer a question. I think it's, by far, the best thing there is out there.

Working for me so far..

I'm listening to & from work. Each lesson takes approximately 30 mintues, which works out great, since that is the length of my commute. I listen the same lesson 2x a day and it seems like it's helping stick to my memory! Just wish more a few seconds longer was allotted for student's response time.

Pimsleur is great

This is the best way to learn outside of a few apps. If you want to learn to speak and have some down time, this is a great way to learn.

necessary program

It should be no detractor that some of the suggested phrases are not exactly how mandarin speakers would translate the English prompt. For example, when counting money mandarin speakers will not use the quantity word “kuai” ren ming as they practice in Pimsleur. My Chinese wife will listen and give such insights while I practice these lessons. Even still, only since using this program has she said my mandarin pronunciation has started to become very good, while she would just laugh at me and not understand anything I tried to say when I was learning from other subscription websites. I am not a smart person, but I look forward to doing these lessons every day as much as I can. It makes me feel proud of myself, as what seems impossible to remember one day will just spontaneously click after a few days repetition. I see a future where I hope to make jokes and have deep conversations with my wife and her family in China.

perfection

This place in Tim's ller really help me to be able to talk with my friends so much easier I can't wait for the next lessons