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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: 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: Ok, it's not that bad and you have to assume a couple things
Review: Assumption:
Yes, the verbs, nouns and other phrases sound kinda funny in the CD but that's because the assumption by the publisher is for you to PLACE those words into the preceding phrase. However, this won't make any sense for those who are just learning Korean.
So I would have to say that this isn't for beginner's. In fact, I don't recommend this to anyone w/o prior Korean knowledge. I'm a heritage speaker (grew up speaking this w/ family but never had formal upper level education) and I found it useful to fill in some gaps.
This is the 3rd audio learning guide for Korean and I would have to say it's not too bad but the better one had 4 CDs and it is from VocabuLearn. There's a lot of learning stuff out there, but I think that trying to learn a 'hard language' (Korean is a 'hard language' defined by CIA/State Dept/FBI) w/ a few CDs will be impossible.
Find a Korean friend if you can.
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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: If you want to study Korean go elsewhere! Why?
Review: If you are looking to study Korean, learning Tagalog will leave you up a creek without a paddle. Why? Because Tagalog is the national language of the Philippines, not Korea. Tagalog is the major ethnic group of people of the surrounding metro-Manila area, hence Tagalog was adopted as the national language for the Philippines. There are close to one hundred major and minor languages in the Philippines, with many having dialects and subdialects. Ilocano, Bikol and Cebucano are three the largest by population languages spoken. However, Korean is not related to Tagalog, obviously, since Korea is located several hundred miles north of the Philippines by a sea and Japan. Anyway, as a study effort for Tagalog, this particular program is pretty good for an introduction to Tagalog. If you know nothing about Tagalog, it will quickly have you speaking basic phrases and give you a beginning vocabulary of Tagalog. You will not be speaking like a native in the language, but it is a great starter that served me well. It does offer a more intensive program if you wish to persue the language further. Good luck.
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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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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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