what I think is the most important thing is to use all these programs and practice what you have learned with your friends and strangers.Lolz, everytime I go to buy chinese food or meet an Asian person,I use phrases and words that I learned from Pim,Instant Immersion and Chinesepod.Although,sometimes I don't understand what they're saying to me,I get the gist of the conversation as I hear words throughout the conversation that I have learned.I'm ludicrous,I listen to Mandarin radio stations.
I agree with you Kentoakowen, Pimsleur is great, i'm using pims right now. I'm up to level 1 lesson 26,although it's conversations follow a set of practical conversations.All the lessons supplement each other to add new terms and phrases.I love it,but it would be nice if it had a more words to juggle around.I want to use Chinesepod in the near future, it's great, but like you said it jumps from topic to topic.My father got me Instant immersion too, it also looks great,very affordable.
Chinesepod is clearly the best - thousands of hours of material constantly growing, filling every niche of my language needs. I too started with Pimsleur - they claim you can become 'advanced' at level 3. At level 3 I could start Chinesepod beginners level. 4 years later I'm intermediate on Chinesepod and can follow all Jenny's Chinese discussion more or less. Chinese is difficult - my wife is Chinese and can't speak English, I live in China and I'm still friggin intermediate!
I have finished both level 1 of Rosetta Stone and Pismleur and all I can say is that RS actually teaches you what they you learn in a Chinese course in an educational setting whereas Pimsleur only focuses on practicality of the language. If you only plan to use and throw your Chinese after your trip, go for Pimsleur, if you want to be fluent at some point in your life, RS is the great way to start.
Rosetta Stone is alright, but do you really want to spend all of your time on the comptuer? Because that's what will happen if you try to learn with Rosetta. I like the MP3's with the transcripts of PDF files the best. You can take those everywhere! Rosetta is expensive too, so there's a lot of opportunity to regret buying it if you don't like it.
get PLECO for iphone, ipod, ipad, android. It's the best dictionary ever, the most valueable of them all.
kentoakowen 1 week ago
I love using Eurotalk. They have good programs.
MultiQueenbutterfly 1 year ago
what I think is the most important thing is to use all these programs and practice what you have learned with your friends and strangers.Lolz, everytime I go to buy chinese food or meet an Asian person,I use phrases and words that I learned from Pim,Instant Immersion and Chinesepod.Although,sometimes I don't understand what they're saying to me,I get the gist of the conversation as I hear words throughout the conversation that I have learned.I'm ludicrous,I listen to Mandarin radio stations.
lemakk72 1 year ago
I agree with you Kentoakowen, Pimsleur is great, i'm using pims right now. I'm up to level 1 lesson 26,although it's conversations follow a set of practical conversations.All the lessons supplement each other to add new terms and phrases.I love it,but it would be nice if it had a more words to juggle around.I want to use Chinesepod in the near future, it's great, but like you said it jumps from topic to topic.My father got me Instant immersion too, it also looks great,very affordable.
lemakk72 1 year ago
Chinesepod is clearly the best - thousands of hours of material constantly growing, filling every niche of my language needs. I too started with Pimsleur - they claim you can become 'advanced' at level 3. At level 3 I could start Chinesepod beginners level. 4 years later I'm intermediate on Chinesepod and can follow all Jenny's Chinese discussion more or less. Chinese is difficult - my wife is Chinese and can't speak English, I live in China and I'm still friggin intermediate!
dancupid 1 year ago
I have finished both level 1 of Rosetta Stone and Pismleur and all I can say is that RS actually teaches you what they you learn in a Chinese course in an educational setting whereas Pimsleur only focuses on practicality of the language. If you only plan to use and throw your Chinese after your trip, go for Pimsleur, if you want to be fluent at some point in your life, RS is the great way to start.
kentpaul65102 1 year ago
I know Michael Phelps uses Rosetta Stone. haha
wucheninaus 1 year ago
I know Michael Phelps uses Rosetta Stone. haha
wucheninaus 1 year ago
I know Michael Phelps uses Rosetta Stone. haha
wucheninaus 1 year ago
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wucheninaus 1 year ago
do you know where i can get the transcipts for Pims 1, 2, and 3 i cant find them anywhere plz help!
BlueZero113 1 year ago
@BlueZero113 I can send them to you if you send me your email. I have them as word files
kentoakowen 1 year ago
@kentoakowen I sent it to message inbox
BlueZero113 1 year ago
I love chinesepod ive been using it. and I STILL remember it! Umm is Rosetta stone good?? I heard it was TERRIBLE.
coolsteven2 2 years ago
Rosetta Stone is alright, but do you really want to spend all of your time on the comptuer? Because that's what will happen if you try to learn with Rosetta. I like the MP3's with the transcripts of PDF files the best. You can take those everywhere! Rosetta is expensive too, so there's a lot of opportunity to regret buying it if you don't like it.
kentoakowen 2 years ago
Really?? I LOVE Rosetta Stone!
futurepilot764 2 years ago
Your list seems to be very helpful! Thank you for doing this, I'll definitely be checking them out!
And lol, the whole vid made me laugh!
"Im a horse & I hate people." <-lol
silverlining18 3 years ago