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Finns det någon vänlig själ som kan seeda ett tag?

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Looking for a 'English for Mandarin Speakers' Pimsleur download, any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

For anyone who isn't aware, Chinese has several different regional languages. Cantonese is spoken by about 70 million people. The main/major language in China is "Mandarin", which 850 million people speak. If you're looking to learn Mandarin, I have it available here on ThePirateBay as well as on Demonoid (main release) and on MiniNova. You can find the links at http://www.halofubar.com (along with some other schtuff).

halofubar, thanks for the useful comment!

What Halofubar fails to mention in his haste to promote his own torents. Is that Cantonese is the major chinese dialect spoken through out the rest of the world, while Manderin is the official language of China. You are more likely to find Cantonese spoken in your local chinatown than Manderin, thus more useful to you. Of course if you plan on doing business in China, or which to travel extensively in China, then Manderin would be the correct choice. But my advice, learn Cantonese first, as you can put it to use more readily, then learn Manderin, which will be easier once you've learn Cantonese.

What Halofubar fails to mention in his haste to promote his own torrents. Is that while Manderin is the official language of China, Cantonese is the major chinese dialect spoken through out the rest of the world. You are more likely (99.9% more likely) to find Cantonese spoken in your local chinatown than Manderin, thus Cantonese will be more useful to you. Of course if you plan on doing business in China, or wish to travel extensively in China, then Manderin would be the correct choice. But my advice—learn Cantonese first, as you can put it to use more readily, then learn Manderin, which will be easier once you've learn Cantonese. Good luck.

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Good discussion.

While I appreciate this torrent, the audio quality isn't very nice when you play it at higher volume - a little scratchy. I play at high volume especially when there's a word or two I couldn't make out. Not bad, but could be better.

Anyone have a HQ release?

LooseMorals:

I believe most people don't learn Chinese in order to converse with guys in local chinatowns. Be ware, the difference between Mandarin and Cantonese is like the difference between Spanish and Italian. Your advice: "learn Cantonese first, as you can put it to use more readily, then learn Manderin, which will be easier once you've learn Cantonese." is totally misleading, as learning Cantonese will probably *totally hinder* the learning of Mandarin because they have *the same writing system* but *totally different phonetics*. You won't be able to get rid of your Cantonese habits when learning Mandarin, which will be terrible. 100% of Chinese students who study abroad speak Mandarin, while probably 10% speak Cantonese. Also everything in mainland China is in Mandarin. Therefore, learn Mandarin! As long as halofubar's promotion is for the sake of public benefit, I don't see the least bit of problem in it!

And to say local Chinatown guys all speak Cantonese is another stereotyping. In fact there are several other languages among them as well: Hakka, Teochow, Minnan... which are all very much their own languages.