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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.

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 120 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  
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Linguaphone Chinese Complete Course
The Complete Language course helps you learn all four language skills - listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing. This in-depth course uses a series of real life dialogues in each lesson to help you learn your new language. You first listen to each short conversation, then read the written script of that conversation while listening again--then the handbook (like your personal tutor) gives explanations of grammar, verbs,etc -helping you to fully understand that dialogue conversation while learning step-by-step about your new language and how to communicate effectively. The Handbook is your tutor. Written in your own language, it provides you with all the necessary language guidance and explanations. It also includes a list of vocabulary and covers all the grammatical points as new words and phrases are introduced in the recordings. The Exercise Book allows you to practice reading, writing, listening and speaking. Eight CD audio recordings of native speakers ensure a good accent, and the Textbook is a printed and illustrated transcription of the CD recordings. This means that you can follow the text whilst listening to the CD and so become familiar with the spelling and structure of the language.

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 $199 (You Save $146)
$199  
Level 2 (CD)  Retail Price $345 - Our Price $199 (You Save $146)
$199  
Level 3 (CD)  Retail Price $345 - Our Price $199 (You Save $146)
$199  
All Three Levels (48 CDs)  Retail Price $1035 - Our Price $575 (You Save $460)
$575  
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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.
$175     
All Three Levels bundled with iofy Audio Player
$495  
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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.

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.

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     
Learn Chinese Books
(Each edition comes in traditional or simplified versions.)
$35     
Learn Chinese CD-ROM Package
Contains 5 CD-ROMs: Conversation, Educational Stories (CD1 and CD2), and Modern Chinese Prose (CD1 and CD2).
$199  
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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. The twenty lessons provide lively and colloquial dialogues iintroducing first- or second-year students to Chinese suitable in China. The lessons demonstrate sentences used in everyday situations and familiarize the student with the simplified characters and pinyin transcription now used. There are drills of new patterns, mini-dialogues to encourage spontaneous speaking, explanatory notes on the proper use of structure and vocabulary, and cultural notes that add illuminating and useful details of social custom. 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  

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.