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FSI Standard Chinese: A Modular Approach Now in a Digital Edition! The focus of this course is on understanding in practical situations, and teaches Mandarin Chinese, the official dialect of the People's Republic of China. The material is organized into modules that deal with concrete situations or language topics; you select the modules that you want to study in the order that you prefer. Each Core module consists of tapes, a student textbook, and a workbook, and has from four to eight units. It is recommended that at least Modules 1 and 2 (Orientation, Biographic Information), a third module of your choice, and the Resource Module be studied to achieve basic proficiency in the language. And now we have FSI Chinese in a Digital Edition CD-ROM, featuring audio in MP3 format and text in PDF! FSI Chinese Digital Downloads for $75 Download the digital edition (MP3 audio files and PDF text) of FSI Chinese, A Modular Approach.
Chinese Download Store Buy the FSI Chinese Digital Edition now and receive it today! This is the same content from the hardcopy edition, but with the text in PDF format and the audio in MP3 format. Downloads are a single (per level) compressed RAR format file, so when you purchase, please be prepared to download a large (>100 MB) file. Software to unpack RAR files is commonly available; a free open source compression manager is available at 7zip.org. Upon purchase you will leave this site; this is normal, our download store is supplied through Paypal by a separate service provider. We accept payments for download products by Paypal, Visa, and Mastercard. And your get BIG Savings! Why are our downloads less than half the price of the hardcopy courses? Well, when you buy in downloadable format, we save, so you save! No printing, reproduction, packaging, handling, and shipping costs for us means big savings for you. Go to the Chinese Download Store... PDF and MP3 Samples of the Digital Courses
Chinese On The Go! Portable MP3 Player Pre-Loaded with FSI Chinese Modules 1-3 We are now offering a combined package of FSI Chinese Modules 1-3 and the Apple iPod 30 GB portable music/video player. With support for up to 75 hours of video and a 2.5-inch color display, the new iPod lets you take music videos and TV shows on the road. Now you can study your Chinese anywhere, with a portable audio package that is tiny, reliable, and robust! Tune up on your pronunciation, practice your verbs, work on conversation anywhere, with the entire set of lessons of FSI Chinese. The player comes preloaded with all the MP3 audio tracks and written lessons in PDF format. With this tiny player, you can carry a year's worth of Chinese lessons, practicing pronunciation and conversation drills with the audio tracks, and upload a PDF lesson and read or print it out on any computer. We'll also include a set of CD-ROMs of the courses that come preloaded, in case you would rather just use them on a computer the old-fashioned way, and as back-ups in case anything goes wrong. Complete Chinese On The Go Package Comes with the complete FSI Chinese Modules 1-3 and the Apple iPod. $795 More information for Chinese On The Go!...
Pimsleur Comprehensive Mandarin Course This is a state-of-the-art language learning course for spoken Mandarin. The popular Pimsleur course does not use a book but uses a completely aural approach to language learning, perfect for learning quickly. The course features a proficiency-based system that helps the student learn through listening and speaking practice. 16 CDs. Shipping weight 3 lbs. Level 1 (CD) Retail Price $345 - Our Price $249 (You Save $96) $249 Level 2 (CD) Retail Price $345 - Our Price $249 (You Save $96) $249 Level 3 (CD) Retail Price $345 - Our Price $249 (You Save $96) $249 All Three Levels (48 CDs) Retail Price $1035 - Our Price $699 (You Save $336) $699 More information for Pimsleur courses...
Pimsleur Comprehensive Bookchips for Chinese Bookchips are compact digital memory cards that can hold five, ten, fifteen hours of spoken audio or more. A single Bookchip - not much larger than a postage stamp - can hold entire audiobooks that would traditionally require a half-dozen to a dozen compact discs or cassettes. Bookchips work on many desktop computers, laptops, other handheld PDA devices and mobile Smartphones with SD memory card slots. Bookchips move seamlessly from device to device, remembering your listening position each time. With Bookchips, it's easy to pick up from where you left off the day before, or skip to any chapter you like. Not only do Bookchips hold hours and hours of high-quality digital audio, they are rugged and reliable. Bookchips are completely electronic, and can be played by devices without any spinning or moving parts - which means Bookchips never skip! Bookchips are much easier to travel or exercise with than cassette or compact discs... and lighter, too. Pimsleur Comprehensive courses come with 30 lessons for each level, normally on 16 CDs. Bookchips for Pimsleur Comprehensive levels I, II, and III are available for for French, German, Italian, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Japanese, and Chinese. $199 Mandarin Chinese I Mandarin Chinese II Mandarin Chinese III All Three Levels bundled with iofy Audio Player $575 More about Pimsleur Bookchips...
iofy Audio Player The iofy Player is back and better than ever. With new enhanced features it delivers the same reliable performance of the original in a sleek new design. Easy to use, the iofy Player is designed specifically for audiobook chips, such as the Pimsleur Bookchip. This intelligent device is the only audiobook chip player on the market today that automatically bookmarks your listening position! Unlike cassettes or CDs, just one audiobook chip can hold 5, 10, 15 hours or more of reading material, and plays without spinning parts that might break or cause skipping when you're on the go. With an iofy player, you can "zip" downloaded audiobooks to chips and listen to them anywhere - while you're driving, exercising, or just relaxing. Alternatively, you can buy premade chips, or you can put your own music or other MP3 content on a chip and listen to that as well. The iofy player comes with Earphones and two AAA batteries. With a 16GB SD Memory Card (not included), it holds up to 2400 hours of spoken audio, or 3840 songs in 128-Kbps MP3 format. Supports Content on SD card, MMC-ROM, MMC Flash, Mini-SD, and Micro-SD (requires adaptor). Skip-free playback; Frequency response: 20Hz to 20,000Hz; MP3 (8 to 192 Kbps), MP3 VBR, Speex; One step MP3-CD to chip conversion; CEA 2003 compliant; MPV compliant. $49 More about the iofy Audio Player...
Follow Me Learning Chinese Your search for the quickest and easiest way to learn Chinese is over! This is the premier Chinese video course, designed by native speakers for individuals and language schools. Follow Me Learning Chinese offers you a unique, comprehensive program on 8 videos and 2 textbooks. You will not find this variety, quality, and quantity of materials anywhere else. An excellent value on a complete Chinese language learning video. 8 VHS videos and 2 textbooks. Shipping weight 5 lbs. $345 More information for Follow Me Chinese...
Learn Chinese CD-ROMs The Chinese Cultural Learning Center, established in 1974 for the purposes of teaching Chinese language and culture, now offers a set of CD-ROMs for learning Chinese. Conversation includes 40 lessons that cover the basics of living, such as greetings, ordering meals at a restaurant, counting, days of the weeks, etc. Educational Stories 1 and 2 include 15 stories each, along with the 'Story's Stories' at the end of each CD-ROM which explains why the stories were chosen to be included in the set. Modern Chinese Prose 1 has 10 articles written by Bajin, Xiè Bingyíng, and Bingxin; Modern Chinese Prose 2 has 8 articles written by Zhu Zìqing, Ding Líng, Liáng Shíqiu and Yè Shèngtáo. Each Chinese word is also written in pin-yin and translated literally into English; each sentence is also translated into colloquial English; and there are also versions with both complicated and simplified characters. To use, simply put the CD-ROM into the hard drive, wait a moment, and the Table of Contents will automatically appear on your screen; then choose a selection by clicking on the title. If you wish to listen, you can choose either Chinese or English. To change pages, click the page number located in the space between the complicated and simplified character versions. Also offered are book versions with the same content as the CD-ROMs. Learn Chinese CD-ROMs $49 Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 Modern Chinese Prose 1 Modern Chinese Prose 2 Learn Chinese Books (Each edition comes in traditional or simplified versions.) $35 Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Conversation - simplified Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 1 - simplified Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 - traditional Chinese-English Bilingual Educational Stories 2 - simplified Modern Chinese Prose 1 - traditional Modern Chinese Prose 1 - simplified Modern Chinese Prose 2 - traditional Modern Chinese Prose 2 - simplified Learn Chinese CD-ROM Package Contains 5 CD-ROMs: Conversation, Educational Stories (CD1 and CD2), and Modern Chinese Prose (CD1 and CD2). $199 More information for Learn Chinese...
Speaking Chinese in China A second-year conversation course that teaches Chinese as it is currently being spoken in China. Both Pinyin and Yale translations are employed, so the text can be used regardless of the romanization system the student has already learned. Six cassettes (five hours.) 314 pages. Shipping weight 3 lbs. $195
Sayable Chinese for Advanced Students By Yuen Ren Chao, Agassiz Professor of Oriental Languages and Literature Emeritus, University of California The purpose of Sayable Chinese is to supply the advanced student with readings that are useful for practicing and improving spoken Chinese, as differentiated from the more formal, convoluted elements of written Chinese. A must-have for the advanced student seeking improved fluency. Each volume includes 5 cassettes and a thoroughly annotated text. Volume 1 - Short stories, conversations, excerpts from Prof. Chao's biography. 371-page text. Volume 2 - Though the Looking Glass, translation by Prof. Chao. 285-page text. Volume 3 - Drama: 2 short plays, The Mollusc and The Wild Rose. 355-page text. Shipping weight 8 lbs. $360
Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for Mandarin The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb. $45 More about the Talk Now! series...
Talk Now! and World Talk Package for Cantonese Now get Talk Now! and World Talk from Eurotalk in a bundle and save $15! These courses perfectly complement each other, with World Talk at an intermediate level taking up where Talk Now! for beginners leaves off. Both offer the same format of interactive learning with fun games and tests that monitor your progress while you are having fun and learning. This package is available for learning Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $79
World Talk from EuroTalk for Mandarin (for intermediate learners) World Talk is the perfect follow-up to EuroTalk's popular Talk Now! series. As well as having new activities, there is also dictation, worksheets and a brand new recording section. Topics covered include: the calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather and numbers. The interactive TV Quiz is a definite hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than he looks. You can also compete in a one-to-one match with a friend! World Talk is now available for learning Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. $49 More about World Talk...
Talk Business for Mandarin If you want to succeed in business abroad, then this Talk Business CD-ROM is for you. Aimed at people who already know the basics, it gives the specialised language you need for doing business abroad. It focuses on must-know language ranges from basics like 'what is your website address?' to more advanced discussion of exchange rates, product guarantees and marketing budgets. Special features include: a wide range of topics: business meetings, trading, IT, the internet, advertising, negotiations, banking and many more, words spoken by native speakers so you can repeat and learn., quizzes that test your knowledge, the chance to record your pronunciation, compare it to your 'teacher's' - and then award yourself marks for ability, three levels of awards to achieve, automatic localisation - lets you choose the language you learn from, a printable phrasebook of what you've learnt. $49 More about Talk Business...
Vocabulary Builder from EuroTalk for Mandarin and Cantonese (for absolute beginners) Vocabulary Builder is an interactive flash card system for parents and teachers to help teach basic language, and for children to play games and record their own words and sentences. Help is provided in over 40 languages by a talented talking tiger! Now available for learning Albanian, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM. Vocabulary Builder for Mandarin $49.95 Vocabulary Builder for Cantonese $49.95 More about Vocabulary Builder...
Colloquial Chinese Colloquial Chinese covers all the basics of the Chinese language including grammar and speech. The Colloquial series is our most popular series of language courses, due to its excellent quality, low cost, and amazing range of available languages. These are beginning to intermediate level courses, perfect for travellers, brushing up on skills, or supplementary use. Two CDs and a book are included. $79.95 More about Colloquial Language...