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Chinese (Cantonese): Learn to Speak and Understand Cantonese with Pimsleur Language Programs
 
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Chinese (Cantonese): Learn to Speak and Understand Cantonese with Pimsleur Language Programs [Audiobook] (Audio Cassette)

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With Pimsleur Language Programs you don't just study a language, you learn it -- the same way you mastered English! And because the technique relies on interactive spoken language training, the Pimsleur Language Programs are totally audio -- no book is needed!

The Pimsleur programs provide a method of self-practice with an expert teacher and native speakers in lessons specially designed to work with the way the mind naturally acquires language information. The various components of language -- vocabulary, pronunciation and grammar -- are all learned together without rote memorization and drills. Using a unique method of memory recall developed by renowned linguist, Dr. Paul Pimsleur, the programs teach listeners to combine words and phrases to express themselves the way native speakers do. By listening and responding to thirty minute recorded lessons, students easily and effectively achieve spoken proficiency.

No other language program or school is as quick, convenient, and effective as the Pimsleur Language Programs.

The Comprehensive Program is the ultimate in spoken language learning. For those who want to become proficient in the language of their choice, the Comprehensive programs go beyond the Basic Programs to offer spoken-language fluency. Using the same simple method of interactive self-practice with native speakers, these comprehensive programs provide a complete language learning course. The Comprehensive Program is available in a wide variety of languages and runs through three levels (thirty lessons each) in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Russian and Spanish. At the end of a full Comprehensive Program listeners will be conducting complete conversations and be well on their way to mastering the language. The Comprehensive Programs are all available on cassettes and are also on CD in the six languages in which we offer the Basic Program on CD.


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4.0 out of 5 stars Excelent product!, Feb 17 2004
By A Customer
I used this course to try to learn mandarin after several (failed) tries with other profucts. This one works very well and you will remember everything. I think it could use a word list though.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excelent, Jan 30 2004
By A Customer
This course works very well! Although you don't learn very much vocabulary, what you do learn you learn well.I realy wish the comprehensive version was less expensive though. The program leaves you with an excelent accent (or so I've been told)
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5.0 out of 5 stars Confidence Building, May 6 2002
By A Customer
I bought the 30 tape course in November 2001 for a trip to Beijing in February 02. Now maybe I was being a little ambitious expecting to learn much however I have to say that I was very pleasantly surprised.

The course was easy to follow. As other reviewers have done I listened to the tape driving to work. Due to the rapidly approaching holiday I also went out in my lunch hour and parked up in my car in a quiet place listening and repeating. Then driving home I played the tape again. Maybe once more that same night before bed or in the early evening. So each tape was listened to at least 4 times. Sometimes I'd do the same tape for 3-4 days as quite often it was just on as background accompaniment during my commute. Over the Christmas/New Year holiday I was about half way through the course.

The system works. The words and phrases stick in your memory. By the time I went to Beijing I felt able to tackle conversations. I was able to make myself understood to the extent that I had taxi drivers speaking to me in rapid fire Mandarin expecting me to follow the conversation. If I had the money and had another trip back to China I'd definitely buy Mandarin 2 as the only downside is the lack of a really comprehensive vocabulary. Having said that it really is survival Mandarin which is needed in China away from, and even in, the tourist areas.

Finally, to show how good the system was and without being a big head, I was speaking better Mandarin than a guy who'd been living in Beijing for 7 months. Another local Westerner who'd been there for 10 years told me that it had taken him about 2 years to get to the level of speech/understanding that I was at. So thank you Pimsleur.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Learn Mandarin while u drive...
After taking traditional courses in Latin, Italian, and German, I thought it would be a real challenge in my senior years to learn something completely different. Read more
Published on Mar 17 2002 by David M

5.0 out of 5 stars The easiest program I've found
I have to admit, I didn't think I'd learn anything from these tapes but I was very suprised how much I had retained. Read more
Published on Jan 31 2002 by Ben Dover

2.0 out of 5 stars Mostly Garbage
Seriously folks, if you go abroad, you will say good morning a thousand times your first week-- the same goes for all the set phrases the Pimsleur stuff teaches you. Read more
Published on Dec 28 2001 by Skeezix

5.0 out of 5 stars Great for everyone
I've learned so much Cantonese with these tapes in just three weeks. I highly recommend it to anyone interested in learning the language.
Published on Dec 17 2001

5.0 out of 5 stars a few tips
I'm currently using Pimsleur to learn Japanese and Cantonese, and I'm thrilled with my progress. Pimsleur has a truly effective system for learning language painlessly and... Read more
Published on Nov 27 2001 by Jennifer Kerns

5.0 out of 5 stars This course was a turning point in my Chinese studies.
I had learned about 1000 Hanzi on my own, but my listening and speaking skills weren't very good. After completing this course, I am much more comfortable with conversational... Read more
Published on Nov 7 2001 by Frank Simons

5.0 out of 5 stars Wanting More
This system allowed me speak and understand more Mandarin than I had in the previous year of beginners' classes. Read more
Published on Oct 18 2001

1.0 out of 5 stars getting sick of waiting for Mandarin II
It was suppose to be out July 2001 and still it is not out. This is unacceptable! I have been waiting almost a year now and still no Mandarin II. Read more
Published on Sep 26 2001

4.0 out of 5 stars They need to add the pinyin
I'm a beginning Chinese language student. I actually started these tapes a few weeks before my class began. Read more
Published on Sep 5 2001 by Phil

5.0 out of 5 stars We Learn Language through the EAR, not the EYE.
PIMSLEUR : CHINESE MANDARIN - I. 2nd Edition. (30 Lessons on Audio Cassettes). Simon & Schuster Audio, 2000. Read more
Published on Jun 23 2001 by tepi

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