Rosetta Stone Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1&2 (PC/Mac)

• This powerful 2-CD set of learning tools adapts to your personal needs and imparts a strong foundation in a new language
• With this award-winning method used by NASA and the Peace Corps, you’ll learn the way children do — by associating words and phrases with the world around you
• Participate in over 200 lessons where you’ll interact with fluent Chinese speakers to build speaking & vocabulary skills
• Get a full tutorial in speaking and syntax skills
• Graphical speech recognition displays your voiceprint and compares it to native speaker to help improve pronunciation

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin)

Comprehensive Chinese (Mandarin) I includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary — 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions — plus a Culture Booklet.

Pimsleur Chinese (Cantonese)

Comprehensive Chinese (Cantonese) includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary — 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions — plus an introduction to reading.Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to:

• initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations,
• deal with every day situations — ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family,
• communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations,
• avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements,
• satisfy personal needs and limited social demands,
• establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries,
• begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.