Rapid Mandarin Chinese

Volume 1

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Andrew Lodge

Length: 2 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Earworms mbt© is a revolutionary accelerated learning technique that takes the hard work out of learning.

By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of Mandarin and English a few times, you pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue, but will be burned deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time.

If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, earworms mbt© Rapid Mandarin Chinese is the course for you.

Volume 1 is your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad.

You will feel you are learning within minutes and might just be amazed by how easy acquiring a language can be!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.

©2006 earworms mbt (P)2006 earworms mbt

lose the music

the narrative my have been usable, but the music was so distracting that it was unusable. please don't ever do this on language audios, or if you do, read up on the mozart effect or something...this music was was too percussive and loud ... awful...

Who came up with this stuff?

I was enjoying the earworms method, started learning things fast. When I shared what I had learned with my Mandarin-native-speaking friend, though, I was informed that the phrases this audio teaches are often antiquated and not the way people actually talk. Which makes me think this was a hack-job by someone who didn't really know Mandarin, and didn't have Chinese friends to check with before publishing.

Useless waste of time

This audioproduct is utterly useless. The background music is so loud and percussive that you can`t really hear the pronounciation of the chinese words.

Mandarin with a beat

This is an interesting way to learn a language. In this series (I also did the Spanish version) uses background music during the teaching of phrases. You don't speak to the beat or anything like that, but the music takes the boredom out of repeating phrases and words.

I speak Mandarin but it was 'rusty' so I tried this book. I found the lessons a good revciew but don't think it would be good at all if you don't already have some familiarity with mandarin. The two instructors are good but one has a very heavy chinese accent when she speaks english and is sometimes very hard to understand. The other instructor does not sound asian in anyway - his pronunciation of works is average but not a good role model.

The pace starts off slow then ends up going too fast (especially if you don't already speak Mandarin).

There use of music is a most intersting learning tool and if you teach languages you might want to listen just to experience the method.

backgroung music

The background music playing all the time makes it hard to understand.

what is w/ the background music

i hated the background hip hop music so much i couldn't get through the first chapter, it put my nerves into overdrive when really all i wanted to do was learn some chinese, horrid