Pimsleur Chinese
Has anyone used it? Got to the end of it? Used it in real life?
How do you find it?It's an audio-only course, very famous, with a method based on continuous repetition. But not only it's expensive, it is sold by physical mail only. you cannot pay and download it. Some poeple find it useful, some don't. It also depends on the language you're studying, I suppose. I have it for Thai, found it extremely boring. But maybe it helps with Chinese pronounciation and fluency. There's no book at all, so that's also a problem.

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Pimsleur Chinese
Has anyone used it? Got to the end of it? Used it in real life?
How do you find it?It's an audio-only course, very famous, with a method based on continuous repetition. But not only it's expensive, it is sold by physical mail only. you cannot pay and download it. Some poeple find it useful, some don't. It also depends on the language you're studying, I suppose. I have it for Thai, found it extremely boring. But maybe it helps with Chinese pronounciation and fluency. There's no book at all, so that's also a problem.

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I doubt whether it is useful to learn chinese.Because if only offer audio,it is no enough for learn chinese.you need to practise write chinese characters,it is very important.

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I have used Pimsleur the first level before even studying pinyin or know what pinyin is, it was really good, but you can't depend on it only, you can find some other resources for teaching writing, and try to widen your vocabulary beyond what is taught in this course.
What is good about it is that it gives you the ability to speak faster. But it's vocabulary is so limited. 
So my advice for you is to use Pimsleur beside another resources because if you depend on it only your progress will be quiet slow.
Check this website :http://www.lingq.com/?referral=hesham119 
it's got a lot of content for beginners and a rich resource for increasing your vocabulary

Hesham

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i know one free soft for chinese study english , but it's only for learning english , it also very boring , i think that' s not good , i suppose u study chinese with chinese friend who know english

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It's very good for kicking off your Chinese. You won't get beyond basic though, even if you do all three levels. If you really want to advance you Chinese get this:

http://fsi-language-courses.org/Content.php?page=Chinese

It's free!

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