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Summary: This is my first attempt at Mandarin...
Review: and I found this product to be helpful. It does go a little fast, but explains well in the booklet. I recommend pairing it with a phrasebook, but it does alright on its own. One really helpful thing is that units are put on separate tracks, so you can find a unit easily. Both male and female voices are used. This one is well worth the 21.95!
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Summary: Waste of Money
Review: If it weren't for the fact that Korean language resources in the United States are almost universally bad, I would call this the worst ever. Track after track of nothing but lists of words and static phrases is only the beginning. The real punchline is this: It's incorrect. Yep. Nouns are listed with particles at the end-sometimes object particles, sometimes subject particles. If you go around thinking that "yojarel" means woman, you are going to entertain a lot of Koreans. It also teaches only long-form grammar, which is great...except for the fact that you will never hear it spoken in Seoul. Little speedbump there, eh? Furthermore, the cultural notes at the end of the second tape are outrageously stupid. DO NOT refer to Mr. Kim as Kim Ssi. That is just wrong, wrong , wrong. And the words they recommend for familial terms sound like they're out of the Confucian Analects. For the record, I studied Korean exclusively for almost two years in the U.S. before moving to Seoul. I lived in Seoul for almost two years, during which time I also spent a semester at Yonsei University. I know what I'm talking about.
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Summary: Terrible Format
Review: The Language 30 series is without a doubt one of the worst language products on the market. It's a mere phrasebook recorded on tape in poor quality at high speed. You will not learn Korean from this tape, at best you will learn a bunch of Korean phrases with very approximal English translations. The other bad features are too many to go into.
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