Smartphone Mandarin Intensive

English and Chinese Edition

By: Mark Frobose

Narrated by: Mark Frobose

Length: 4 hrs and 20 mins

Publisher's summary

Smartphone Mandarin Intensive is the most effective and versatile basic Mandarin Chinese audio program in the industry. It can be used anywhere for any duration of time to teach to you speak authentic Mandarin Chinese while in your car, at home, or on your smartphone! Designed specifically for use while on the go, this challenging, versatile and fast-paced program introduces the basic sentence structures necessary for effective communication. It then reviews and challenges you to interact successfully with a trained and educated Mandarin Chinese speaker. Great for learning from any location during your otherwise wasted down time.

©2012, 2014 Mark Frobose (P)2014 Mark Frobose

Slightly disappointed 😒

If listened to two other audiobooks by Mark Frobose, and I liked them.
But in this one, it was mainly review. All I really learned from this book are a few verbs. There was WAY too much on numbers. Since I already have the numbers down perfectly, I fought the frequent urge to 😴!
Hopefully other reads will be better. ☹️

Greatly Simplifies and Speeds Up Learning to Speak

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

I would definitely recommend this book to anyone wanting and extremely fast and simple way to learn to speak a complicated language like Mandarin.
This system is so refreshing after having tried Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, and other more expensive options. I am amazed they can offer such a great program for such a low price.
Basically, Smartphone Mandarin is totally portable.
The author explains all the details and the native Mandarin speaker (a woman) teaches the tones, the accent, all while showing you how to create original senteneces.

Who was your favorite character and why?

I have two favorite characters in this audiobook language program.
One is the female native speaker from Beijing and the other is the narrator who explains everything to you in plain English.

Which scene was your favorite?

I love the part where you get to learn how to say
I want, I like, I'm going to, I have to
and then combine that with
to talk, to walk, to eat (a meal), to sleep and lots of other verbs to say things like
"I want to sleep" "I have to pay" etc .... and then they teach you how to say "now" and "later"
so you add that to the sentence
"I want to pay now" "I have to pay later" and so forth.
Keep in mind that I learned all of this while I jog in the morning, shop in the evening, and during my commutes to work.

If you were to make a film of this book, what would the tag line be?

How to learn to really speak Mandarin in detail with one great easy program that you take everywhere with you and learn with in little segments wherever you are.

Any additional comments?

Buy it and compare what you get out of this with and what they teach you, and the time they take to break all of it down for you to explain which word goes where, and then to review it all for practice.
Compare that with the other Mandarin programs out there and see how amazingly superior this is to other programs.