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Fast and Easy Mandarin (Living Language) (Audio Cassette)
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Author/Publisher: Living Language
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Format: Audio CD |
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List Price: $12.95
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Editorial Reviews
Book Description
300 essential words and phrases on cassette
Audioscript with pronunciation guide
Fast
If you've always wanted to learn Mandarin or need to learn it in a hurry,
here is a quick, stress-free introduction to the basics. This 60-minute
audio course features more than 300 essential Mandarin words and phrases.
Easy
A narrator guides you through the program, providing brief explanations of
the foreign phrases. All you have to do is listen and repeat after the
native speakers.
Effective
Brief quizzes in this interactive course help you think in Mandarin. Lessons
include short dialogues so you can hear Mandarin spoken naturally. Learn
both pronunciation and comprehension skills. To help with memorization, each
phrase is spoken twice, with ample pauses for repetition.
Portable
A transcript with pronunciation guide is included, but the cassette may be
used alone. It's easy to learn on the go: in a car, on a plane, even while
walking or jogging.
Contents
Greetings Shopping
Polite Expressions The Post Office
Directions The Airport
At the Hotel The Train Station
At the Restaurant The Telephone
Numbers Questions
Telling Time Days and Months
Inside Flap Copy
300 essential words and phrases on cassette
Audioscript with pronunciation guide
Fast
If you've always wanted to learn Mandarin or need to learn it in a hurry,
here is a quick, stress-free introduction to the basics. This 60-minute
audio course features more than 300 essential Mandarin words and phrases.
Easy
A narrator guides you through the program, providing brief explanations of
the foreign phrases. All you have to do is listen and repeat after the
native speakers.
Effective
Brief quizzes in this interactive course help you think in Mandarin. Lessons
include short dialogues so you can hear Mandarin spoken naturally. Learn
both pronunciation and comprehension skills. To help with memorization, each
phrase is spoken twice, with ample pauses for repetition.
Portable
A transcript with pronunciation guide is included, but the cassette may be
used alone. It's easy to learn on the go: in a car, on a plane, even while
walking or jogging.
Contents
Greetings Shopping
Polite Expressions The Post Office
Directions The Airport
At the Hotel The Train Station
At the Restaurant The Telephone
Numbers Questions
Telling Time Days and Months
Product Details
- Audio Cassette
- Publisher: Living Language (September 29, 1998)
- Language: English
- ISBN: 0609603418
- Product Dimensions: 0.5 x 4.2 x 7.2 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces.
- Average Customer Review:
based on 3 reviews.
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Customer Reviews
| 1 of 2 people found the following review
helpful:
Almost worthless, September 19, 2000
I agree with the previous reviewer and am just reenforcing his/her
opinion. Some things are cheap and still over-priced. The Barron's
Gettings By in Chinese is a much better value. |
| 1 of 3 people found the following review
helpful:
A Good Place to Start, September 18, 2000
I listened to this cassette everyday in my car for three months. When I
got to China, I was able to greet and thank people, ask for chopsticks,
forks, tea. I was also able to talk genially with our bus driver about
when we were eating. I understood time and money and the food being
served. Being horrible at foreign languages, this was just the right speed
and the right amount of phrases, not so many as to be confusing. Because
it is listen and repeat, I could not read or write anything but everyone I
spoke to in Mandarin was impressed, said I spoke very clearly and were
really happy to hear an American speaking Mandarin. |
| 18 of 18 people found the following review
helpful:
Stay away if you want to learn anything, February 11, 2000
The tape wouldn't be so bad if it were backed up by a text of any
quality at all. But the leaflet it comes with is less than worthless --
it's misleading.
First, it doesn't use pinyin as its phonetic spelling system. They make
up their own. This will teach you very bad habits if you care to move past
this very simple level.
Beyond that, it gives nothing but phrases to say with no hint to what
the words in them mean.
The text is just a transcription of what's on the tape. The only
additional information is a short bizarre pronunciation guide and a
woefully inadequate description of tonality.
A very low-level introduction to the language. Appropriate only if
you're not willing to spend more than 30 minutes studying the language. |
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