Pimsleur Comprehensive Chinese Mandarin Level I

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This course teaches Mandarin, also known as Standard Chinese. Mandarin is the official spoken language in Mainland China and Taiwan. It is also widely spoken in Singapore and Malaysia, and it is one of the five official languages of the UN. Mandarin is used in Chinese schools, colleges, universities, and in the media. Learn Mandarin Chinese today with Pimsleur.

Comprehensive Mandarin Chinese I includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life ...

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This course teaches Mandarin, also known as Standard Chinese. Mandarin is the official spoken language in Mainland China and Taiwan. It is also widely spoken in Singapore and Malaysia, and it is one of the five official languages of the UN. Mandarin is used in Chinese schools, colleges, universities, and in the media. Learn Mandarin Chinese today with Pimsleur.

Comprehensive Mandarin Chinese I includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus a Culture Booklet. Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures.

  • In the first 10 lessons, you’ll cover the basics: saying hello, asking for or giving information, scheduling a meal or a meeting, asking for or giving basic directions, and much more. You’ll be able to handle minimum courtesy requirements, understand much of what you hear, and be understood at a beginning level, but with near-native pronunciation skills.
  • In the next 10 lessons, you’ll build on what you’ve learned. Expand your menu, increase your scheduling abilities from general to specific, start to deal with currency and exchanging money, refine your conversations and add over a hundred new vocabulary items. You’ll understand more of what you hear, and be able to participate with speech that is smoother and more confident.
  • In the final 10 lessons, you’ll be speaking and understanding at an intermediate level. More directions are given in the target language, which moves your learning to a whole new plane. Lessons include shopping, visiting friends, going to a restaurant, plans for the evening, car trips, and talking about family.

One hour of recorded Cultural Notes are included at the end of Unit 30. These notes are designed to provide you with some insight into Chinese culture. A Notes Booklet is also included in PDF format.

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Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780671790615
  • Publisher: Pimsleur
  • Publication date: 1/1/2000
  • Series: Comprehensive Series , #1
  • Format: CD
  • Edition description: 30 Lessons + Notes
  • Edition number: 2
  • Pages: 159
  • Product dimensions: 12.50 (w) x 11.00 (h) x 1.62 (d)

Meet the Author


Dr. Paul Pimsleur devoted his life to language teaching and testing and was one of the world’s leading experts in applied linguistics. After years of experience and research, Dr. Pimsleur developed The Pimsleur Method based on two key principles: the Principle of Anticipation and a scientific principle of memory training that he called “Graduated Interval Recall.” This Method has been applied to the many levels and languages of the Pimsleur Programs.
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  • Anonymous

    Posted July 21, 2008

    Excellent Series of CDs

    My prior background before listening to the Pimsleur Mandarin Level 1 CDs: First year, first semester Mandarin Chinese repeated three times - 1st time A grade, 2nd time non-credit, 3rd time A grade. Also, exposure to Chinese language from attending a high school with a higher than typical percentage of Chinese students. So I had a 'feel' for Mandarin so to speak. I highly recommend this series of CDs to anyone interested in learning conversational Mandarin. I would recommend though if possible, first take a one semester course in Mandarin if you have never been exposed to a tonal language before and then go listen to the CDs. The CDs make learning fun. I have enjoyed learning Mandarin more from these CDs than from any other source. I had to listen to many of the CDs several times though before moving on to the next lesson. The CDs are outstanding!

    1 out of 1 people found this review helpful.

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