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March 7, 2010

date: '2010-03-07 13:13:48' layout: post slug: don%e2%80%99t-read-this-if-you-plan-to-listen-to-the-pimsleur-mandarin-audio-course status: publish title: Don’t read this if you plan to listen to the Pimsleur Mandarin audio course! wordpress_id: '767' categories: Language

I like the Pimsleur courses a lot. They allow you to get to a very basic speaking level in a language very quickly.

The courses are audio-only — in fact, they expressly discourage you from reading the language while you are listening to the course.

Nevertheless, now that I am finished the first eight lessons I feel the need to actually see what the written Chinese (both pinyin and characters) looks like. So here is the vocabulary from Pimseur Quick and Simple Chinese Mandarin, Lesson 1. I show both the standard pinyin and in my own phonetic impression of how the words sound.

Words (with translations from Pimsleur)

对不起

dui4 bu5 qi3

dway boo chee

excuse me

英文

Ying1 wen2

een wen

English (language)

会

hui4

whey