xuechengfeng Posted December 28, 2004 at 06:51 AM Report Share Posted December 28, 2004 at 06:51 AM I'll post what phrases are taught in each lesson, and how well I think the program is working. I'm starting on Mandarin 2 since I've already had a year of Chinese. 第一課 我還沒有看甚麼東西。 你是甚麼時候到的﹖ 你是昨天到的嗎﹖ 不是。我是今天早上到的。 我是昨天到的。 我是昨天早上到的。 你想喝一點兒東西嗎﹖ 我想喝啤酒。 今天你要做甚麼﹖ 你做了甚麼﹖ 你做甚麼了﹖ 今天你做甚麼了﹖ 你買甚麼了﹖ 我買了一點兒東西。 我說了普通話﹐然後我吃午飯了。 我買了一點兒啤酒﹐我說了普通話﹐我去了飯店﹐然後我去了(旅館)了。 我跟幾個朋友一起吃午飯了。 我們去了北京﹐我們一點兒茶﹐然後我們在飯店吃午飯了。 那是一家很好的飯店。 你說普通話說得很好。 你在北京做甚麼了﹖ 我看了幾個朋友﹐我買了一點兒東西﹐然後我吃午飯了。 普通話“word”怎麼說﹖ 這麼說“詞。” 你去了嗎﹖ 你去北京了嗎﹖ 我去了。 你喜歡北京嗎﹖ 我很喜歡北京。 你在北京做甚麼了﹖ 普通話“I didn't see”怎麼說﹖ 這麼說“我沒有看。” 我沒有看甚麼東西。 你看甚麼東西了嗎﹖ 我還沒有看甚麼東西。 我很喜歡北京﹐可是我還沒有看甚麼東西。 你要待多久﹖ 你要在中國待多久﹖ 我沒有很多時間。 再見﹗你普通話說得很好。 Most of this was pretty much review for me, but so far the method looks very helpful. It's really good at drilling down the sentence patterns, had a few useful grammar points for shi...de, and le, and also is already helping my tones. New Vocab 待 - dai4 - stay 一起 - yi1qi3 - together Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuechengfeng Posted December 30, 2004 at 06:34 AM Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 at 06:34 AM 第二課 Dan, Chengde 你去了嗎﹖ 還沒有去。 明天我們一起去Chengde﹐好嗎﹖ 明天早上我要工作要作。 你是甚麼時候到中國的﹖ 我是今天早上到的。 你在北京待了多久了﹖ 我是昨天早上到的。 我在這兒待了一天了。 我在這兒待了兩天了。 普通話“word”怎麼說﹖ 這麼說“詞。” 我在這兒待了一個星期了。 你在這兒作甚麼了﹖ 我買了一點兒東西﹐我說了普通話﹐然後我去看幾個朋友了。 你喜歡“Chengde”嗎﹖ 我很喜歡“Chengde。” 喜歡﹐可是我沒有看甚麼東西。 我還沒有看甚麼東西。 今天你作甚麼了﹖ 我在“Qun Ju Duo(?)”飯店吃午飯了。 那是一家很好的飯店。 飯店在哪兒﹖ 普通話“far”怎麼說﹖ 這麼說“遠。” 飯店不遠。 你呢﹖你今天作甚麼了﹖ 我沒有作甚麼。 我還沒有作甚麼。 你在“Chengde”看甚麼了﹖ 我沒有看甚麼。 我還沒有看甚麼。 現在幾點鐘﹖ 現在一點鐘。 你想吃晚飯嗎﹖ 你吃晚飯了嗎﹖ 我還沒有吃甚麼東西。 你想一起吃一點兒東西嗎﹖ 你想去“Chengde”嗎﹖ 我很想去。 我很想去飯店。 對不起﹐我得失陪了。 那是我的朋友。 那個人叫甚麼名字﹖ 那個人是誰﹖ “Chen”太太你認識嗎﹖ 我不認識。 她住在哪兒﹖ Definitely helping tones. New vocab 失陪 - shi1pei2 - to excuse Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beirne Posted December 30, 2004 at 12:45 PM Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 at 12:45 PM I'm curious about something. When I took the introductory Pimsleur courses the instructions said not to write anything down but just listen. Are you finding that approach hard to do, or did the method change? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuechengfeng Posted December 30, 2004 at 01:46 PM Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 at 01:46 PM What I've been doing is completely listening the first day and repeating, then the second day, I listen to the same lesson and repeat, with pauses to write it down just for my own purposes. What those purposes were, I'm not sure, but I have found that it's helping me type out sentences with characters 10 times faster. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marcopolo79 Posted December 30, 2004 at 03:00 PM Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 at 03:00 PM 承德 = Chengde Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
roddy Posted December 30, 2004 at 06:10 PM Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 at 06:10 PM 全聚德 - Quanjude. Famous chain of Beijing Duck restaurants. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xuechengfeng Posted December 30, 2004 at 07:14 PM Author Report Share Posted December 30, 2004 at 07:14 PM Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kink Posted December 31, 2004 at 12:28 PM Report Share Posted December 31, 2004 at 12:28 PM Does anyone here know where I can find the transcript of mandarin 1? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
leoye Posted January 23, 2005 at 08:10 AM Report Share Posted January 23, 2005 at 08:10 AM Does anyone here know where I can find the transcript of mandarin 1? I have it. Email me then I email it back to you. (Pimsleur Companion 1) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Haoqide Posted February 7, 2005 at 01:35 PM Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 at 01:35 PM Does anybody know of a program that's pretty good that picks up where Pimsleur Mandarin III leaves off? I've finished part III, and I'd like to keep going, but I don't know what's out there. Any ideas? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_p0et Posted March 13, 2005 at 02:26 PM Report Share Posted March 13, 2005 at 02:26 PM Does anyone have a transcript of 2 or 3? Pimsleur Companion 2 or 3. All I have is 1 which was very helpful and would love to find the same for 2 or 3. Thanks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shady Posted March 15, 2005 at 04:57 PM Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 at 04:57 PM Yes, i second that. Would be extremely useful to have a companion book for II and III, since the first was an amazingly good help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockytriton Posted March 15, 2005 at 06:31 PM Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 at 06:31 PM I don't think that a companion for II or III exist. From what I heard the companion for I was not a pimsluer file, it was made by some 3rd party and it doesn't seem that one exists for II or III. This is too bad, they should really distribute this with the series instead of the lame book that comes with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shady Posted March 15, 2005 at 06:44 PM Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 at 06:44 PM Yes, the book is totally useless to use it as a study help. At first sight I thought it was a transscript or some additional information about each lesson, but I was disappointed as soon as I opened it. Seriously, the information in that book is something you can easily get from sources elsewhere. But, as you know, hope dies last ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rockytriton Posted March 15, 2005 at 07:44 PM Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 at 07:44 PM Yea, maybe it would be a good exercise to write the PDF (or Word document) yourself. That way you go through the content of the lessons more thoroughly and have a better understanding that just reading the file. Oh yea, and if you do this, send me a copy of that document please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shady Posted March 15, 2005 at 07:52 PM Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 at 07:52 PM I'd love to do that, but I'm soooo busy at the moment. Why don't you start doing it, and I may join you later? If you finish in the meantime, be sure to send me a copy *shift-workload* Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tyr Posted March 15, 2005 at 11:53 PM Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 at 11:53 PM Hi thanks for posting this. Is there any chance I can get the pinyin and english translation of the lessons? This would be very useful for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beirne Posted March 16, 2005 at 12:22 AM Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 at 12:22 AM There is a lot of talk here about writing down the lessons or seeing them in printed form. The point of the Pimsleur method is that you learn via listening. The lessons repeat things a lot to provide reinforcement. It would seem that the need to write things down shows that the system has failed. What is the benefit of written transcripts? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_p0et Posted March 16, 2005 at 01:19 AM Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 at 01:19 AM For the first Unit, I stick with the Pimsleur approach and did nothing but sit back and listen to each lesson at least 1 time through, then the 2nd time through I would write down anything I didn't remember. I'm also trying to learn the characters and learned quite a few from the pimsleur companion I file. I'm half-way through writing a file for Unit II, but it only has pinyin and English for the words that I think are new to that lesson. The downside is that I don't know which character goes with which pinyin so there's no characters. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chili Posted March 16, 2005 at 06:43 PM Report Share Posted March 16, 2005 at 06:43 PM Hi At this address you convert between pinyin and simplified/traditional charaters. You can also translate both ways. It is the best tool I have seen so far: http://www.mdbg.net/chindict/chindict.php?page=simplesearch&PHPSESSID=c77357b0e424d3de75df4e658bcb848b Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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