RobAnt Posted June 4, 2007 at 02:25 AM Report Posted June 4, 2007 at 02:25 AM Unfortunately, Marcel Nijman's website has gone off line. He had a fine transcript of the Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese audio lessons on there. Fortunately, I had saved them before they disappeared. Marcel, if you happen to see this, please contact me, as I've been unable to contact you, and ask your permission. I have copied them to my own website, and you can find them here - [click]. I've taken the liberty of : - a) splitting it into 3 separate pages and B) each page is also available in MS Word format, which is also Open Office compatible. Please let me know if you have any difficulties.
viet_la_amour Posted June 4, 2007 at 03:22 PM Report Posted June 4, 2007 at 03:22 PM This is so great. I've always wondered if there were transcripts to their lessons. It really helps to see the words when you try to say them yourself.
Stefani Posted June 4, 2007 at 06:43 PM Report Posted June 4, 2007 at 06:43 PM Xie xie nin! Wow, I am so excited that I have these again now. I got the first part (Mandarin I) from the original marcelnijman's site, but then when I was doing Mandarin II the site went away. I have not found another one that I like as much as Marcel Nijman's. So this is great! I just finished Mandarin II, and hoping to start Mandarin III in a couple of weeks. Duo xie! Stefani.
RobAnt Posted June 5, 2007 at 07:33 PM Author Report Posted June 5, 2007 at 07:33 PM Investigating current outage of my website - it cant be that popular!
RobAnt Posted June 6, 2007 at 12:06 PM Author Report Posted June 6, 2007 at 12:06 PM It is restored to it's former glory!
Stefani Posted June 22, 2007 at 08:05 PM Report Posted June 22, 2007 at 08:05 PM Hi Rob, Thank you so much! I installed Asian Language support (Windows XP) in my computer at home, and now I can read and print the transcripts! This is great. I am starting out Mandarin III (lesson 4 currently), but I am about to repeat Mandarin I again to review. For the reviews I just go through them once, not repeating each lesson. Mandarin I and II I borrow them from the local library, and they seem to be popular enough that I have to request them. I bought Mandarin III so I can listen to those anytime I want. Xie xie nin. Stefani.
taryn Posted June 22, 2007 at 08:39 PM Report Posted June 22, 2007 at 08:39 PM I also did line by line translations of Pimsleur Mandarin I with characters only. It's a useful companion in helping to get over the pinyin slump. Check them out at tarynstranscripts.com. No donation is too small!
david1978 Posted June 26, 2007 at 01:40 AM Report Posted June 26, 2007 at 01:40 AM RobAnt, thank you very much for sharing that very useful site!
lucvileyn Posted July 2, 2008 at 05:38 PM Report Posted July 2, 2008 at 05:38 PM I've posted pimsleur mandarin III transcripts in simplified and traditional Chinese, also a xiezi zidian for Pimsleur mandarin III. Comments are almost welcome. http://users.coditel.net/lucvileyn
artrelf Posted July 16, 2008 at 08:04 PM Report Posted July 16, 2008 at 08:04 PM I can't thank you enough for these transcripts. I'm somewhat hearing-impaired, and I'm not always sure I'm hearing the lessons correctly. Having the transcriptions has made a huge difference in my progress.
chrisd44 Posted June 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM Report Posted June 18, 2009 at 10:03 AM The fsi course is availabbl free if you google fsi language. I am currently using both. I used fsi for the first two units (roughly 3 months worth)and then found and tried pimsleur. I flew thru to lesson 25. The fsi teaches the details, but the pimsleur does a very good job of getting you communicating (FSI stays with the details the cost being it takes longer to build skills, but they are solid once they click). As I am leaving for China in 6 weeks, I will do the pimsleur then return to the fsi. The fsi clearly will take significantly longer than a year to finish
Ezikiel105 Posted August 20, 2009 at 07:31 AM Report Posted August 20, 2009 at 07:31 AM Has anyone tried downloading and using these lately? I have both Microsoft Word and Open Office and neither seem to work.. maybe I am doing something wrong?
Gibbs Posted September 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM Report Posted September 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM They do not work for me either. It appears Simon and Schuster served copyright letters to the websites publishing the transcripts.
PhilipLean Posted September 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM Report Posted September 7, 2009 at 11:40 AM (edited) http://thydzik.com/copyright-infringement-pimsleur-transcripts-simon-schuster/ This page explains it well, the comments are interesting. Edited September 7, 2009 at 12:02 PM by PhilipLean
RobAnt Posted March 20, 2010 at 12:50 PM Author Report Posted March 20, 2010 at 12:50 PM (edited) Sadly, these transcripts are no longer available. Please contact Pimsleur direct and ask them to review their policy on the transcripts. If they can't be bothered to provide them themselves, then there is no other source (legally) available. My own site is now being prepared for other purposes, but I would gladly have left them there, even though I received no recompense for maintaining them (even the Amazon adverts didn't bring anything in). Edited March 20, 2010 at 01:03 PM by RobAnt
roddy Posted November 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM Report Posted November 1, 2010 at 11:00 AM Closing this topic, as there are now no transcripts legally available, and you're not allowed to ask for any that are otherwise available. So this'll save me deleting the requests.
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