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I vote for Pimsleur CD's as well as I'm learning to speak Mandarin with Pimsleur and I have learnt more useful conversation so far than I did in a whole semester of college Mandarin two days a week. Of course in the college class they teach you to understand, speak, read and write all at once so it was a bit overwhelming at times but the interaction was valuable.
My plan is to finish the 90 lesson course with Pimsleur which will give me quite good understanding and speaking skills and then to work on the reading and finally writing part. I personally think that nowdays it's not that important to be able to write Mandarin as with the language plugin you can type what you want to say in English letters (Pinyin) and the Chinese character choices will pop up to be selected.
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