What to do after Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese 3?

I’ve just answered this very same question on a forum and thought it was defiantly worth mentioning on my blog.

Pimsleur’s Mandarin is a self help audio book and has three levels. Each level has 30 half and hour lessons. Pimsleur was actually one of the first tools I used to start lean Mandarin and although it was slow, quite robotic and very American I feel as though it gave me a good foundation in Mandarin. When I completed level 3 I was quite disappointed that there was nothing else available, so I started searching for alternatives to help me learn Chinese.

My answer? Chinesepod.com. Chinesepod.com produce a Mandarin lesson every day. In fact they currently have around 1,300 lessons so even if they stopped you’ll have a massive archive to go through. Not only that, but you don’t have to worry about the same problem I and many others experienced with Pimsleur and that was them running out of lessons because Chinesepod continue to bring out fresh lessons.

I myself went onto the newbie lessons because I found that there was a huge amount of basic vocabulary missing from my Mandarin pallet. I actually did over 250 lessons as I enjoyed them so much. I’ve just completed around 200 Elementary lessons and am currently making that step between Elemenary and Lower Intermediate.

Also, more and more similar sights are always popping up. I've recently been getting into Chinese101 amognst others. So have a look around and try looking for a subscription service of some sort were you know you aren't going to run out of lessons!