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Pimsleur Premium features (including Flash Cards, Speed Round, etc.) and Bonus Content are available for this language and 18 other languages, but are not currently available for all languages in All Access. Voice Coach is available for this language, but is not available for all languages in All Access.

Pimsleur All Access subscription is $20.95/month or $164.95/year. Pimsleur Premium subscription is $19.95/month. You will not be charged during the free trial period (the first 7 days of your subscription, as applicable). TO CANCEL YOUR SUBSCRIPTION AND AVOID BEING CHARGED, YOU MUST CANCEL BEFORE THE END OF THE FREE TRIAL PERIOD. To keep your subscription once your trial period is over, you will not have to do anything. Use of Pimsleur app is required to access your course material. Free trial is available to new customers only. High-speed broadband connection is required to initially download the app and course content. Internet access is not required to play your lessons once course content has been downloaded. Click here for full terms.

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Pimsleur Premium Lifetime Purchase

Don't want to subscribe? Our Lifetime Purchase option allows you to own the Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) Premium course. Premium contains the core 30-minute conversational lessons and is enhanced with additional interactive tools to help you review course content and get in deeper with the written language. Learn and review easily through the Pimsleur mobile app or web-based app.
Now you can start to speak Chinese ‐ with a near-native accent ‐ in just 30 days.

With this program you start from zero, learning first survival phrases and vocabulary, and eventually progress to a high-intermediate level of speaking and understanding. By 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. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension, and on learning to speak.

In the first four levels, you'll also learn to read Hanyu Pinyin (Pinyin for short) the official phonetic system for transcribing pronunciations of Chinese characters into a Latin alphabet. In Level 5, the reading lessons are designed to deepen your memory and understanding of learned vocabulary, as well as to begin the work of connecting the words and phrases that you have learned to Hanzi, the characters used in the Chinese written system.

Over one billion people speak Chinese. The two most common dialects are Mandarin and Cantonese. They are not mutually intelligible. Mandarin is the official language in Mainland China, Taiwan, and Singapore. The Mandarin dialect is used in most Chinese schools, and in most TV programs, movies, and radio stations throughout the country, even in Guangzhou (formerly Canton), where people speak Cantonese in their daily lives. Mandarin is one of the six official languages of the United Nations.

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Through his research, Dr. Pimsleur found that traditional teaching methods like memorizing vocabulary, conjugating verbs, and practicing grammar actually SLOW DOWN your ability to learn. He called them the kiss of total silence because they made it nearly impossible to speak. It's the reason learning a language feels so difficult, when it should feel totally natural.

It makes sense when you think about it. Have you ever seen a toddler memorizing vocabulary lists? Or picking out parts of speech in a sentence diagram? Of course not. Children learn language the way we were meant to ‐ by listening. That's because we are hardwired to remember sounds and store them in our memory automatically.

It's the same way you pick up a song on the radio. You don't have to study the lyrics or understand musical notes and chords to remember a song. Chances are, if you hear a song once you can sing along the next time you hear it.

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I've used Rosetta Stone and Duolingo before but you really need to sit down and devote some time to studying on those. With Pimsleur, I can learn while I'm on the train or at work and still get other things done. It's very easy to retain what you get from this as well.
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