Seems that Pimsleur doesn’t like me providing transcripts for their Mandarin Chinese 1 Units and have asked for their removal.
Find the Notice of Copyright Infringement below.
So what are some Pimsleur alternatives for learning a language that are more than happy to provide transcripts.
- Livemocha is a Social Language Learning resource.
- The world’s number 1 in language learning software, Rosetta Stone is another alternative.
- Instant Immersion produces a large collection of language learning programs, in the forms of computer software, audio and books.
- FSI Language Courses is a free alternative with a large number of audio units in the public domain.
There are still plenty of sights that provide Pimsleur transcripts.
- Taryn’s Transcripts provides exact Mandarin transcrpts of all lessons of all units
- Marcel Nijman’s transcripts are still out there Pimsleur Mandarin Transcription Marcel Nijman and Marcel Nijman Pimsleur Mandarin transcription
- Pimsleur Mandarin Transcripts for courses I, II and III by fizzyfizzd
And don’t forgot you can freely download any of the Pimsleur audio books online
Update December 2009: I have made the transcripts available for download;
http://thydzik.com/pimsleur-mandarin-chinese-unit-1-transcripts/
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Ouch…too bad about the Pimsleur transcripts. Slightly comical though…haha, sorry!
Here are a few other places to learn a language online.
Myngle – A marketplace for teachers and students for language learning through their virtual classroom. There’s a lively forum and a library of other resources as well.
http://www.myngle.com/
eduFire – like Myngle, but the focus is broader than just language learning. In addition, eduFire offers both 1 on 1 and group classes for up to 100 people. It also has its own forum, and aspects like flashcards and articles.
http://edufire.com/
The above are good for courses like the resources you listed, but some good supplements are smart.fm (an awesome flashcard service) and Lang-8 (an excellent journal writing service where native speakers correct your entries and you can correct theirs).
http://smart.fm/
http://lang-8.com/
Good luck!
Debbie,
Thanks for the links.
and don’t worry, I think it is comical as well.
Travis
Because of this ruling I will NOT now buy the II and III lessons It is impossible to learn completely without a transcript.
I will buy a different lessoin from somewhere else that DOES provide transcripts
Jenny Ho
This is outrageous.
Pimsleur Mandarin is difficult (and incomplete) enough to be studied without any transcripts. It lacks LOTS of basic grammar explanations and you end up figuring them out most of the time, which I consider a huge defect on itself.
I certainly wasn’t expecting this… 4 months ago I printed myself all the first Lessons transcripsts. Right now I was gonna look for the next lessons and to my surprise, they’re all gone, I’m not able to find neither Pimsleur 2 or 3 online.
I can’t believe it… I don’t know . . . I’d love to have them to keep on advancing on Pimsleur.
this really sucks. my real site tarynstranscripts.com was deleted by weebly.com probably because of the same form letter.
when i get time (whenever that is) i’ll try to recreate the site on awardspace since they’re not in the US.
*sigh*
Guys
I’m more than happy to share the transcripts i once found but never used, about 290 pages if i recall correctly. I finished Mandarin I and havent gotten far with II due to laziness, I stongly disagree that you need the transcrpts to use/learn with pimsleur.
I am at present on lesson 9 of unit II and hope to finish III b4 i go to china this december. I will find the pdf file and will share with anyone that wants it – Debbie says it best.. Its comical.. jeje
Then again i remember sony doing the same to a lyric of a song in an indian movie….. Wouldnt logic suggest if you learn the lyrics = become more fond of the song? Same for pimsleur transcripts? Ah well these cooperate pple someone needs to educate them some ;)
What do i know…? Anyways I strongly recommend you try and push yourself to do it, Unit I was really piece of cake especially after lesson 8 but hey different folks different strokes. There is wisdom though in the way they did the program without the transcript. As they claim and I agree, babies learn to speak before they can read or write.
Xianzai wo keyi shuo yidianr he wo yao qu zhonguo so when i get there, i improve my speaking but learn reading and writing. Goodluck everyone :)
N.B Will check back weekly leave ur email addresses if u want it…
I’d love to have those! samitakamaki[at]gmail.com
Lawal,
If you have them, I’d be happy to receive transcripsts for Pimsleur One.
Thank you very much
Jean-Marc, guepard_2001 at yahoo.fr
Hi Lawal,
I just started Pimsleur Mandarin I two weeks ago and got frustrated for the lack of transcripts!
Please help me!
max.leopold [att] gmail.com
Hi Lawal
If you have them, I’d be happy to receive transcripsts for Pimsleur One.
Thank you very much
Find me at bryantaiwan (att) hotmail.com
Thanks a ton
In fact, If you have any 2,3 I would highly appreciate those too.
ThaNKS AGAIN
Yes Please would love those transcripts!.
oliver_roman (at) hotmail .com
Please can I also get these transcripts at petenke (at) pisem . net !
Thanks a lot a lot !!!
would love whatever transcripts you got (I, II, III)
surfwhales at yahoo dot com
thanks!!
A google search for “Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese Companion” might prove fruitful you guys! ;)
All,
I have made Taryn’s Transcripts available for download from here (for now)
http://thydzik.com/pimsleur-mandarin-chinese-unit-1-transcripts/
Thanks for doing that thydzik!
I hate for all that work to go to waste! If there’s any updates, I’ll figure out a way to get the word out. ;)
Lawal,
I agree, babies learn to speak before they can read or write …
BUT the european languages have NO TONES, so these babies usually don’t hear tones in the essential FIRST 9 MONTHS … and these people have their whole long life problems handling tones as easily and unconscious like native speakers.
I think, if I don’t hear a spoken tone and don’t remember it from my books, it is bad, to repeat the phrase with *ANY* tone … I prefer to look it up quickly and pronounce the word right.
I would love all transcripts you got (I, II, III) …
Thanks for doing that!
dream_mandarine (at) arcor.de
Second the, “would love to get more of the Level II transcripts”.
Thanks for the hosting,
Dave
Lawal
AMAZING to read that someone out there has this very valuable information. If you still have them Lawel please send them my way.
nathancontreras[at]gmail.com
XIe xie ni Lawal. Ni fei chang hao! Zhen da!
I got all the three levels of Pimsleur Mandarin some time ago and have only just managed to get into level 2 recently as I find it hard without some sort of hard copy. Even Rosetta Stone provides this if you are prepared to print it out. I would really appreciate it if you could forward me a copy of the transcripts of the three levels as Pimsleur is expensive and to provide no hard copy. Brian
Ni Hao Lawal! I Must say Xie Xie Nin! This will be a big help and huge blessing!
Ni Hen Bang!
My email is ryanmwoolard@gmail.com
If you have time and still come, it would be greatly greatly appreciated!
Fei Chang Gan Xie!
-yan en
oh also sorry, if you could send me all 3, that would be awesome!
truly appreicate your time and help!~
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i would really appreciate if someone could send me all 3 sets of the transcripts.
thanks a bunch!
i got them…please remove my email address, thanks!!
I would really appreciate, if someone could send all 3 (especially 2 and 3) transcripts to me. My email is stylestatement123 at gmail dot com
thanks
>TopCat
Can you tell us how (and where)you got them?
Yes PLEASE the transcripts would be GREAT! Pimsleur Mandarin II and III.
frank3ders at yahoo.com
So very much appreciated!
Frank
If someone could also send me the transcripts for Pims Mandarin II and III I’d be very grateful.
Cheers!
Tom
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I think, Pimsleur should provide transcripts, BUT they do not.
I respect their opinion & rights, so I will not send out anything under Copyright.
For me it works great using still available pure WORDLISTS (just to be sure, I got the right spelling), so I can make my own transcript fragments while working through the lessons (on paper, no I will not scan that, neither send it anywhere).
I think, that way the learning effect is even greater: not just repeat or formulate the sentences, but write some of them down and reflect the sound marks …
Please remove my email address in the other post (15 posts above: dream_mandarine (at) … , thanks!!