Earworms Chinese: 200+ Essential Words and Phrases Anchored into Your Long Term Memory With Great Music (Earworms: Musical Brain Trainer) (English and Chinese Edition) [Audiobook, CD] [Audio CD]

Berlitz (Creator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0841600457 | ISBN-13: 978-0841600454 | Publication Date: March 19, 2008 | Edition: 1 Blg

BERLITZ EARWORMS MBT® RAPID CHINESE VOL. 1

Effortless, enjoyable, fast and effective language learning through music


The term earworms or catchy tunes refers to those songs which you hear a few times and then just can t get out of your head. Berlitz Earworms mbt® Rapid Languages puts the words and phrases you need not just on the tip of your tongue, it transports them deeply into your long-term memory, ready for instant recall.


Simply listen to the music CD filled with rhythmic repetitions a few times and listeners will subconsciously acquire a collection of verbs, nouns and connecting words, all the while picking up the correct accent. This is your survival kit of immediately useful words and phrases for your visit abroad. Listen a few times to be able to ask for a table in a restaurant, order food and drink, take a taxi, rent a car, buy tickets, deal with money, numbers, times and days, ask for directions, deal with typical problems, hold a simple conversation and more.


Volume 1 deals with the essentials for your visit abroad. It covers typical situations, polite phrases, finding your way, numbers, how to deal with problems, and so on.


What Makes It So Effective?

*Effortless, enjoyable and effective

*Essential phrases for your trip abroad

*Words anchored deeply into your memory by gentle repetition to music

*Stimulating and self-motivation through real rapid progress

*Developed by language teaching experts

*Target language spoken by native speakers

*Pronunciation acquired automatically

*Listen and learn, anytime anywhere

*Phrase book included

*Content can be uploaded to iPod® or other MP3 players for use on the go

Editorial Reviews

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I really do believe you guys have cracked the code. I am truly terrible at language but your system sticks in my brain it must be magic! --Row Turner, BFBS Radio 1

About the Author

About Berlitz


For more than 125 years, Berlitz has been the most trusted name in language learning. Berlitz was built on the principle that language skills are best acquired through conversation, with a focus on real-life situations. Today, we offer self-study audio language programs, phrasebooks and dictionaries in more than 30 languages for children and adults.


With more than 450 language schools in over 60 countries, Berlitz has taught millions how to speak another language.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Berlitz Travel Guide; 1 Blg edition (March 19, 2008)
• Language: English, Chinese
• ISBN-10: 0841600457
• ISBN-13: 978-0841600454
• Product Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.1 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,629,816 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Worked for me, August 7, 2010

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Bingmayong - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earworms Chinese: 200+ Essential Words and Phrases Anchored into Your Long Term Memory With Great Music (Earworms: Musical Brain Trainer) (English and Chinese Edition) (Audio CD)

I lived in China for a year, and so used this product to help me learn Chinese. I found a lot of other methods online too dry, and boring for me, but Earworms worked well. I agree not including the pinyin was a mistake, but I was still pleased that I could easily recall Chinese words very quickly and easily. I think the pronunciation they teach is fine, everyone understood me when I used a new word I had learnt from it. I would recommend it to others, mainly as a first step into the language, to brush up on key language, or if you have a short attention span.

5/5

0 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Will teach you bad pronunciation and won't help you get around in China, February 25, 2009

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A Customer (Beijing) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Earworms Chinese: 200+ Essential Words and Phrases Anchored into Your Long Term Memory With Great Music (Earworms: Musical Brain Trainer) (English and Chinese Edition) (Audio CD)

Like other Berlitz Chinese phrasebooks, this one makes the serious mistake of using its own phonetic system for pronouncing Chinese (ie, putonghua) words, instead of the one used in China, namely pinyin.

First, although pinyin is not easy for foreigners to learn, if you're going to China and making the effort to speak a bit of Chinese, then you might as well learn pinyin. Place names, for example, are usually written in pinyin, and so if you can pronounce things correctly using pinyin, then you will be better able to tell a taxi driver where you want to go.

Second, although pinyin has its problems, so does the phonetic system used in this book. A good phonetics system for English-speakers would be one where you could read the word as it would be said in English, and it comes out sounding correct in Chinese. I know how to correctly say many of the Chinese (putonghua) words in this book. I skimmed a few pages of this book, and using the English-pronunciation method, for me the words do not come out sounding like the correct word in Chinese. The book does include pinyin alongside its own system, but I think that will teach you the incorrect pronunciation of pinyin.

Therefore, using this book you will trade a flawed but useful phonetics system (pinyin) for another flawed but useless phonetics system.

Otherwise, the teaching/learning method of this series of foreign-language phrasebooks looks good, and the selected phrases are useful. But those advantages are far outweighed by the disadvantages of the serious risk of learning bad pronunciation, and not learning (correct) pinyin pronunciation.

Thumbs down, way down, on this book. Instead, look for a phrasebook that uses pinyin, for example the one from Collins.