Six 90-minute cassettes and three listening guides. Level 1 places emphasis on basic vocabulary and simple expressions. Level 2 expands vocabulary and adds new expressions. Level 3 features advanced vocabulary and more advanced expressions.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Great resource: Lacks Traditional Mandarin Characters in booklets,
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This review is from: Chinese/English: Set (3-Level Set): VocabuLearn: Music-Enhanced (Audio Cassette)
Essentially this is a great resource. I would give it a five star if they made two changes to the program.
1) Give the mandarin three times in a row (with different voices). This is because the brain imprint maximum impact for learning occurs with three repetitions in a row. I think another product does this, but that product does not have anywhere near the quantity of vocabulary terms. 2) Give the Traditional Mandarin character alongside the simplified. This is important for anyone where the traditional characters are used instead of simplified. Each level has about 1500 words and phrases. You can listen to one part of one side of a tape/cd file for less than 20 minutes and repeatedly drill yourself on 170 words. This is very helpful. After ten or fifteen times of doing this you will recognize most of the words and eventually build a strong vocabulary. Each level has 1500 words, so if you learn all three levels you will be seriously on your way to speaking decent Mandarin. These are a mix of nouns, adjectives, adverbs, verbs and expressions. Many of the words are commonly used so the selection is very practical (unlike Rosetta Stone which starts out with elephant). In essence this is an audio flash card file. If you don't mind listening to it for awhile, you can just turn it on while you are browsing or doing something else and allow words to become introduced to you. If you repeat that over and over you will start recognizing more and more terms. And if you want to focus on the words, rather than absorb them in the background, you can pull out the booklet and read along. They give the English, Simplified Character and then Pin Yin. I find it very helpful. In about 18 minutes you get an audio flash card drill of 170 words or so. If you repeat those same 18 minutes about 10 times, you have a decent initial exposure to enough vocabulary to get started. Then after you know most of those words, move on to the next section of the material. If you use this method to work through these six tapes you will know 4,500 words and phrases when you are done. I know of no other product that gives you so much exposure to Chinese. I used this method in Russian years ago and it helped me communicate in a number of instances when other foreigners around me could not. So I'm adding this to my Chinese lessons and it is helping me already. Another thing they have done that I like is to mix in a bit of classical music. It fades in and out to help keep your attention focused. Otherwise such a long list of words can become mind-numbing for some people. The music provides a pleasant background mix to help you stay focused. I like it. Then this product challenges you by reversing the order. Giving Chinese words first and then the English. I personally don't like this part of the product as well, but it does make me think differently and I'm sure it has benefit. The one advantage I see of using this product is that it can raise the number of vocabulary terms you know by several hundred in just 20 or 30 hours. That can help you know at least some of what's being talked about when you are around native speakers. And it can help them communicate better with you when you speak out a word that you understand so they know what words you know and what words you don't know. The idiomatic expressions are particularly helpful. I would not want to go without this product. I think it's excellent!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great Supplemental Tool for Increasing Your Vocabulary,
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This review is from: Chinese/English: Set (3-Level Set): VocabuLearn: Music-Enhanced (Audio Cassette)
The Baroque music, which plays in the background and is intended to enhance your focus, concentratin and retention of the words, doesn't run throughout the recordings, but comes and goes. The reasoning behind this, when they were creating these recordings was that if the music is played all along, you may drift too deep into a trance (I don't think that's bad for learning, though), and that it would be better if you stay closer to the conscious level.
Trying to consciously remember all the words as they are poured out may be too much, but you can have the recordings also play in the background while you're doing other things. It will help to impress them upon your subconscious mind and you may just find yourself enjoying increased comprehension; and then you'll eventually find yourself using these words with greater ease. Each level contains 1,500 words and it will definitely help you to rapidly increase your vocabulary
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
mmm... accent-free?,
By chaica (U.S.A.) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Chinese/English: Set (3-Level Set): VocabuLearn: Music-Enhanced (Audio Cassette)
Any study material has both pros and cons, and depending on how you use it, this material could be a great learning tool for learners of Mandarin Chinese.
Only my complain is that the Mandarin speaker in this recording sometimes mis-pronounces words (actually very frequently and I know it becuase I listened to it with my Chinese friends.) According to my native Mandarin speaking friends, approximately 10 to 15 % of the words in the entire recording are either mispronounced or do not exist. But that means that it makes you explore the Mandarin vocabulary by yourself; checking words in a dictionary or go ask your Chinese friends what they mean, etc; which is good because since this material only provide you with word-to-word translation practices, you need to learn how they are used in sentence levels by yourself. And there is no such thing as "accent-free" anyway. Everybody thinks his/her own accent is the standard, (although those mispronounced words in these CDs are not the matter of accentual variation, but simply mispronounced.) Anyhow, it was a good practice for me to learn how to use a Mandarin-English dictionary.
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