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VocabuLearn Korean/english: Level I with Book(s)

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I'm pretty sure the Seller doesn't know this, but the first cassette has a fatal flaw. The person annunciating the English word, and the person speaking the Korean equivalent are out of sync. The Korean speaker is annunciating word 86 (for example) while the English speaker has spoken word 85. So the Korean speaker is one behind the list sequence. You can throw the that cssette away, but the other is in-sync.

If that weren't enough, the Korean speaker speaks too fast, and says the Korean word, or phrase, only once.

But, if you buy it used, it's still worth the money.

Dan

This book (really a pamphlet with approximately 20 pages of words) is good if one wants to learn vocabulary. The strength of this program is that it focuses on words and not phrases or dialogue like most programs. When you think about it it is useless to learn phrases without knowing vocabulary, you may know what you are trying to say, but you will be clueless when a native speaker responds to you in their language, if you don't know vocabulary. The problem I have with this program is that the words are given in random order which makes in more difficult to retain. In addition, when a word is given it is not repeated, so you have to rewind the tape if you wish to hear the word again. All in all it is not a bad program and the price is right.