Next Steps in Mandarin Chinese with Paul Noble for Intermediate Learners – Complete Course

Mandarin Chinese Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach

By: Paul Noble, Kai-Ti Noble

Narrated by: Paul Noble

Length: 12 hrs and 29 mins

Publisher's summary

No grammar tests. No memory drills. No chance of failure. Welcome to Learn with Paul Noble – a unique, tried and tested language learning method that has been used by almost a million people to speak fluently and confidently in no time at all.

Take your Mandarin Chinese to the next level with Paul Noble's simple, relaxed approach to learning 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. Just listen, interact and learn wherever you are. In this audiobook, Paul will help you build on your existing Mandarin Chinese knowledge and give you the confidence to independently construct sentences and speak Mandarin Chinese fluently in a variety of scenarios.

Language learning has finally become quick, easy and effortless.

This 12-hour course also includes a handy downloadable booklet to help reinforce your learning. Next Steps is an intermediate course, for non-beginners, which follows on from the Learn Mandarin Chinese with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course.

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2019 Paul Noble and Kai-Ti Noble (P)2019 HarperCollins Publishers Limited

Critic reviews

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." (Penelope M. Walsh, Canary Wharf Magazine)

Very helpful

This course really brought together sentence structure and grammar for me in a very easy way. It just reinforces how logical this language is which is what I love about it

Fast, Fun and Effective

Out of all of the different audio courses I have tried so far, this one is the best.

Truly useful for your next level Mandarin

If you have learned the basics of Mandarin and would like to go further, this is the right material for you!

I have basic Mandarin plus extensive self-study and initially, I thought this book might be too basic. However, I still benefited in terms of reviewing and increasing my vocabulary and at the same time reinforcing what I already know.

The audiobook is a perfect companion to supplement your learning as you can use it while travelling, driving or anything else you can do while listening.

Paul Noble may be a Westerner who is not a native speaker but I believe he did study the language and was aided by a team of native speakers to come up with this book. It is not only his language knowledge but his method that helps very much in learning and practicing my Mandarin.

Highly recommended.

absolutely the best if you really want to learn

Paul Noble, Kai-Ti Noble and Dirstin(?) are the best teachers. I have learned so much from them and if they are reading this, I want to say thank you, thank you, thank you. Please consider making a 3rd book too! After I completed their first book I felt that I had learned more with that audiobook than I had with many months of studying using other audiobooks, apps and textbooks. This 2nd book had my head spinning. Still is! It's almost too much, but through every hard bit, Paul guides you slowly, with so much repetition and explanation. There is so much that makes his book better than anyone else's book, but the major thing is that he makes you think and speak all the way through. You start speaking sentences very quickly in the first book, not repeating , but actually putting together the pieces that you have been taught to make sentences. This book teaches you much more complex sentence structures, and there were times when my brain just couldn't take it and i had to go back and start over. This book is much harder than the 1st book and there isn't as much time to answer, so he's making us think quicker. You are constantly having to think and put together sentences using the skills he teaches. Everything is explained clearly though and so many things that I partly knew just "click" into place with Paul's explanations. The end result though is that when trying to talk to my Chinese friends in Mandarin, I actually can. I have learned how to stop and think and make sentences. For instance, what is the word for "car" how to do I say "drive car". How do I say, that "your son is going to drive the car over here and pick you and the kids up, you need to wait over there for him". Yes, I actually had to relay that message to my friend's Chinese in-laws while in DC. I was able to make a sentence and be understood by my friend's non-English speaking in-laws. This happened while a group of us were visiting DC and in fact i even stopped and offered to help take a picture of a chinese family, all in rather stunted Mandarin, but I felt confident enough that between what I had learned and a few sign gestures I could make this offer. The students I was with couldn't believe I did that. This book is not just a quickly put together book to make a profit. This is a book that required a lot of planning to make and is made to really help a person LEARN mandarin, not just learn a bit of vocabulary for a tourist visit . By the way, Paul uses different food names throughout the book and it's worth looking up the recipes and making them. Mapo tofu is now one of my specialties, LOL. I wish I could give more stars! take a look at my other reviews and you will see how many other learn mandarin books I own. NONE of them compare to this one. I gave all the other good reviews, because at the time they each helped me some. I wish I hadn't wasted so much time on them though, I learned so much more from this book. This is the one you want!

amazing! I've been complimented so many times.

The best way to learn. don't think twice. so incredibly well done. I listen in 0.9 and it's excellent for learning the tones.

Excellent Technique

This technique is excellent and works extremely well to teach the actual structure of the language. After dropping $300 and struggling with RosettaStone for 2 months I decided to give this a try. Wow! What a different!

I highly recommend this for beginner's. It will teach you all the basics to get started and teach you how to create sentence structures. Not only that but it will teach you the proper tones.

Now I will go back and attempt to work with RosettaStone. I find that it's a little bit easier now than I know the actual structure of the language.

This is the cream of the crop!

I have both of these books and they've ruined all other Mandarin learning audiobooks for me.
I've got credits that I have no idea what I'm gonna do with because none of these other Mandarin learning audiobooks come close to how good these are.
Even Pimsleur!
I really couldn't be happier with these books and I can't recommend them highly enough for Mandarin learners!

Much better than Pimsleur

I've spent years using Pimsleur to limited results. Paul Noble has exposed the flaws in Pimsleur to me. Firstly one needs tone practice, pinyin, actual explanations of sentence structure and an understanding of what is required and what can be left out, as well as a modern vocabulary. all of these things Noble provides and Pimsleur is lacking.

A good but not sufficient Pinselur alternative.

This book and the previous one will give you what you need to start learning Chinese. Technically speaking, they will get you past HSK 1 and well into HSK 2 vocabulary. That is good. However, it is nowhere near as thorough as Pimsleurs Mandarin Chinese. A good start nonetheless.

Just as great as the first one

I've just finished the second Paul Noble's complete course for Mandarin Chinese (for the second time) and I must say, the books have really sparked my passion for learning Mandarin and are an incredible resource to learn the basics very effortlessly and in a playful manner. Two months ago I couldn't say a word in Chinese, 我会说中文了。