Chinese the Fast and Fun Way with Cassette(s) (Chinese Edition) [Paperback]

Lifei Ji (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Barron's Educational Series; Book and Cassette edition (March 1998)
• Language: Chinese
• ISBN-10: 0812084519
• ISBN-13: 978-0812084511
• Product Dimensions: 11.5 x 9.8 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.5 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,618,374 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your money or your time, August 1, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Chinese the Fast and Fun Way with Cassette(s) (Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

It's astonishing that anybody could find this item useful. From the first lesson, inconsistencies abound. After learning to count to ten, one gets an illustrative dialog featuring an alternative form of the number "two", not yet introduced. In fact, alternate forms appear without comment seemingly at random. Much of the enunciation on the tape is quite difficult to hear, especially that of the unfamiliar phenomes. The writers & editors seem to have simply put together a package that they could justify calling "teaching Chinese" without any thought to whether it would benefit a beginning student.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars waste of time, August 16, 2003

By 

Hal W. Snyder MD "drxyzzy" (Chicago, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chinese the Fast and Fun Way with Cassette(s) (Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

This text was used in a local community college class in
beginning Mandarin, and even the teacher was dissatisfied.
It seems not very clearly laid out, a phrase book with tiny
snippets of grammar that don't give enough background.

Have a look at Yong Ho's Beginner's Chinese, or the
Practical Chinese Reader (new or old editions) - you may
like them better.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Simplified, January 23, 2003

By 

Jeff Jacobson "JJ" (Taipei, Taiwan) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Chinese the Fast and Fun Way with Cassette(s) (Chinese Edition) (Paperback)

This is a great tool if you are headed to Mainland China. If you plan on coming to Taiwan you need to find something with traditional characters. Just like English, Chinese also has dialects. Mainland Chinese accent is much different from a Taiwan accent. I do, however recommend that you learn Hanyu Pin Yin. You'll be glad you did!