No reading, no writing, just the quickest and simplest way to pick up the basics, build your Mandarin Chinese and speak with confidence. Now fully compatible with your iPod so you can learn wherever and whenever you want.

Quickstart Chinese is an audio course for complete beginners. Two 70-minute CDs introduce you to essential holiday language so you’ll learn how to find a place to stay, get around town, order in restaurants, hit the shops, have a drink and enjoy the nightlife. It teaches Mandarin Chinese, which is the modern standard form of the spoken language and which is spoken and understood by the majority of the population.

Quickstart Chinese is a simple and effective way to get going and build your confidence – fast! This engaging and well-structured approach breaks down the key language into manageable chunks and gives plenty of opportunity to listen and practise, as well as produce the language yourself.

Learn Chinese at home or on the move:

• play it on your CD player or computer
• load it onto your MP3 player
• play it on your iPod or iPhone and take advantage of the special features, which enable you to view the dialogues and their translations as you listen. Each episode has been chapterised so that you can navigate easily between sections to revisit what you’ve learned.

Contents:

• 2 audio CDs (CD 1 includes the optimised MP4 files for installation via your PC or Mac, allowing you to use the special features on your iPod or iPhone)
• 40-page booklet 

Also available in the series: Arabic, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese, Spanish.

Special features compatible with:

iPod nano (1st generation 1GB, 2GB, 4GB)

iPod nano (2nd generation aluminium 2GB, 4GB, 8GB)

iPod nano (3rd generation video 4GB, 8GB)

iPod classic (80GB, 160GB)

iPod (5th generation video 60GB, 80GB)

iPod (5th generation video 30GB)

iPod touch (8GB, 16GB, 32GB)

iPhone (4GB, 8GB, 16GB)

iPhone 3G (8GB, 16GB)

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