Learning Mandarin Chinese with Michel Thomas | Michel Thomas Review | Language Learning | Pimsleur
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- Опубликовано: 17 июн 2020
- Is Mandarin too hard for a Westerner? Are tones too difficult for adult learners?
I just completed Michel Thomas Mandarin Chinese, and I am happy to report that this adult English speaker feels confident that he learned basic Mandarin conversational skills using Michel Thomas. The instructor on the Michel Thomas Mandarin Chinese program is excellent, and he has a great method to learning the tones.
There are four tones in Chinese. Thus far, I can say that learning the tones is no more complicated than learning the genders of nouns if you are studying a language like Greek, German, or French.
I completed Mandarin Pimsleur Level 1 before I started the Michel Thomas. Pimsleur includes pauses between the instructor's requests and the learner's responses, while Michel Thomas often requires the learner to push the pause button. I do recommend going through Pimsleur Level 1 before Michel Thomas for this reason; having your feet wet first might lesson the number of times you have to pause the program.
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Could you do a review of the Paul Noble Mandarin Chinese audio course ?
I will look into Paul Noble. I haven't tried that course yet.
Just finished the Paul Noble Method for beginner and next steps. It's an excellent option and makes you feel confident about learning. You learn greetings, how to ask questions, different foods, time, places, etc. Once you finish both courses, finding that next resource becomes a bit of a challenge. I'm at this point now and struggle to find a good continuation to expanding my vocabulary and gaining a higher level of fluency.
How you getting on with Mandarin Jeffrey?
After I did Mandarin Michel Thomas, I did Michel Thomas Greek, but I plan on doing Pimsleur Chinese II next. I really like learning Chinese. The grammar is so logical.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian Can you speak mandarin now?
Why would you finish Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese 1, but not finish the rest from 2- 5?
That to me is like finishing lesson 20% out of a 100%.
Great question! I just haven't gotten to them yet. I have them in cue. I am currently starting Pimsleur French, but then I'll stear back to Chinese. I have every intention of completing all levels of each Pimsleur course I start, it just takes a while to get through them.
My present wife (2nd) is Chinese born and raised in China and Taiwan. She speaks to her kids (grown) in Chinese and they understand but respond in English. This common among her siblings. Very few nephews/nieces verbalize Chinese. Speaking must be hard.
It's easy, actually. Chinese kids born abroad are just used to and encouraged to speak the language of the host society by their parents from a very young age.
Thky buddy
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It was a bit cringe to hear them teach certain words incorrectly in their translation to English. It was also obvious the Chinese speaker's English wasn't good enough to tell the difference.
I.e. the main teacher kept saying "想“ was "would like" when it literally means "want", a whole different grammatical tense.
For completion's sake in this comment, to say "would like" you would say, in Chinese, "會想“ .
AT LEAST in the strand of Mandarin spoken in Southern China and in Taiwan.
But I really think he was mistaken there in a big way, and I've heard other small mistranslations that you only catch if you've actually lived there.
Note: even Native Chinese speakers have trouble giving accurate translations into English because oftentimes there is no direct correspondence but rather a network of usages.
Often a foreigner who apprehends the language and has gone through the trouble is much better at teaching it than a native speaker. But that is also true of any other language.
Michell Thomas are much slower than pimsleur when it comes to mandarin
I do like both programs. I think the color system for the tones is helpful in Michel Thomas.
@@JeffreytheLibrarian have you tried Paul Noble mandarin? I have done ✅ all 3 and can honestly recommend Paul Noble above everything else