PODCAST · education

Pimsleur - Chinese (Mandarin)

by Armin Moho

What You’ll LearnBuilds upon skills taught in Pimsleur’s Mandarin Chinese Levels 1, 2, 3, and 4.The thirty 30-minute lessons, plus pinyin and select hànzì characters reading practice, will enable you to speak and understand Mandarin with near fluency and with a broad range of conversational skills. In Level 5, the pace and conversation move quite rapidly, accelerating exposure to new vocabulary and structures, approaching native speed and comprehension. You’ll learn to speak more in-depth about your personal life and emotional state, and be able to create complex sentences using a mix of tenses and moods.Some of the topics covered in Level 5:• Travel: exploring the vast and richly varied country of China, discussing the various ethnic groups and cultures found from region to region, buying tickets to tourist attractions, taking family vacations, speaking with a travel agent• Food and drink: restaurants, street vendors, favorite dishes, delicious drinks, discussing differences betw