And that's true, now you do speak a little...
The Cunning Linguist disappeared for a little while there, but now she's back with notes for lessons 1-14 of Pimsleur Japanese.
She's also working on Mandarin notes.
Now that I'm halfway through Pimsleur Spanish II, I've picked up my Pimsleur Mandarin I again. I've already been through it once, but it was long ago and while my tones are better since I did the Michel Thomas course, my speech is not nearly as fluid. Hopefully I'll be able to zip through the course and keep my tones intact.
While studying, I've been using a transcript that seems to have disappeared from the net - perhaps one that fell afoul of the DMCA. I'll be curious to see Victoria's notes, however, as her notes for Japanese offer original information on how the language goes together and what you should be getting from the lessons in terms of structures.
Be sure to drop by and get her a green tea (or more) to thank her for her efforts.
She's also working on Mandarin notes.
Now that I'm halfway through Pimsleur Spanish II, I've picked up my Pimsleur Mandarin I again. I've already been through it once, but it was long ago and while my tones are better since I did the Michel Thomas course, my speech is not nearly as fluid. Hopefully I'll be able to zip through the course and keep my tones intact.
While studying, I've been using a transcript that seems to have disappeared from the net - perhaps one that fell afoul of the DMCA. I'll be curious to see Victoria's notes, however, as her notes for Japanese offer original information on how the language goes together and what you should be getting from the lessons in terms of structures.
Be sure to drop by and get her a green tea (or more) to thank her for her efforts.
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Thanks for the link, Geoff! The Pimsleur notes have been a loooooong project - I started transcribing them by hand back in January 2007.
A long time ago I had started work on compiling what would have become almost a grammar manual for Japanese and Mandarin. That project was put on hold when I saw how useful Anki was, and how getting as much material as possible into Anki format would be a really good idea! Once the Pimsleur transcripts are all typed up, I'll be converting the material and adding it into Anki decks which will also go online.
In the meantime, I hope the Pimsleur transcripts will be as useful to other learners as they have been to me. Am slightly behind schedule due to having to reinstall my laptop from scratch last week (!!), but hoping to get units 24 and 25 typed up later today!
Great to see the results you're getting with the Spanish recordings btw, as well as the Michel Thomas suggestion for Mandarin. I'm going to have a listen to those recordings and see how they contrast with Pimsleur, as the principles seem quite similar.
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