Just a note about this series. I'm English and am trying to learn Chinese for when I go there in December. As a beginner, I found the first four lessons of this series incredibly helpful: the audio is very clear and slow, but even more importantly there's a copy of the text in pinyin and also an English translation for each one.

But I'm extremely disappointed to find that there's no pinyin or English translation for the remaining 26 lessons, only an audio file. Am I missing something here? Because without them, the lessons are relatively useless to me. This is a real shame, as this series initially looked very useful. If anyone could perhaps supply me with pinyin and English transcripts for lessons 5-30 I would be so grateful!

Actually, I am not a contents provider of this series, so I don't have a right to edit these lessons. You can check up all the lessons on the following site. But unfortunately, they are not all free, you have to pay to use them.
http://chinesepod.com/store/index

Maybe you can find all the information about lessons on the following course.
Daily Life Newbie Bridge Course
http://chinesepod.com/store/individual/index/pr...

If you use some of the contents that I created, I will supply you with pinyin and English transcripts.

If you are extremely disappointed to find that there's no pinyin or English translation, just use the following tools.

For English translation

1) Google translate
http://translate.google.com/?hl=en&tab=wT

2) If you don't find a good answer, just use the following dictionary to find a good translation of quite short phrases.
youdao dictionary
http://dict.youdao.com/

请问 有 菜单 吗？
有 的。请 稍等。
好 的。

English translation
(by Google tranlate)

Is there a menu?
There's. Please wait.
Good.

(by youdao)
请问 有 菜单 吗？=Do you have a menu?
有的。（There is no good result, because this short sentence has a various meaning according to a situation.)
请 稍等。=Just a moment,please.
好 的。（There is no good result, because this short sentence has a various meaning according to a situation.)

In conclusion, you can understand the meaning thanks to two translation tools.

For pinyin
http://www.words-chinese.com/pinyin-converter/

the result by this converter

qǐng wèn yǒu cài dān ma？
yǒu de;dì;dí。qǐng shāo děng。
hǎo;hào de;dì;dí。

Pay attention to some Chinese characters which have many pinyins by the context.
Pinyin converter does not recognize all the characters correctly.

For example,
"的“ has three pynyins such as "de", "dì", "dí".
But we usually say "de"
"好“ has two tons such as "hǎo", "hào"

So, while listening to the lesson, you have to correct the result by the pynyin converter as follows.

qǐng wèn yǒu cài dān ma？
yǒu de。qǐng shāo děng。
hǎo de。

Hi! If you want to have pinyin for the text (also include the meaning) , just use this tools (it's free!) :

1) For Mozilla :
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/...
^ open in Mozilla only.

2) For Google Chrome :
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hlcdd...
^ Open in Google Chrome only.

Hope you (and anyone else) find this useful.

I know this is probably a very late reply, but I'll give my two cents anyway. I'm also going through the DSC lessons. Here's what I do. Open up a Hanzi to pinyin converter. You can find a lot of them on Google. Copy and paste the Chinese text for the DSC lesson you're on. Go back to the text and create lingqs for all the words you don't know, including the pinyin in the lingq. For example, my lingq for "小姐" is "young lady, Miss (xiǎo jiě)". You'll be able to piece the sentences together from your lingqs and get a sense of what is being said. As has been mentioned, online translators will also give you a good idea of what the sentences mean and what definitions to use in your lingqs.

Alternatively, the MDBG Chinese dictionary includes the pinyin with each character. Just copy and paste the definition and pinyin into your lingq. Listen to a sentence, pause the audio, and hover over the words to piece the sentence together yourself. Again, Google translations will also be good, and you can edit them to make them flow/make more sense based on your dictionary and how the sentences are put together in Chinese. I've been doing this to get through the DSC series, and I'm still making progress with it, so I hope this helps.

In my opinion, these are the best free Chinese lessons out there:
http://www.youtube.com/user/ShermerIL/videos

http://www.youtube.com/user/ShermerIL/videos

Fun ++
Tones ++
But no 漢字。