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| Learn Chinese Now! 9 (PC/Mac) | 
 enlarge | From: Transparent Language
Category: Software
List Price: £39.99
Buy New: £23.48
You Save: £16.51 (41%)
New (2) from £22.39
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 1251
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.6
Dimensions (in): 9.5 x 8.2 x 2.1
Model: 744573059330
UPC: 744573059330
EAN: 0744573059330
ASIN: B00005Y3VF
Release Date: May 3, 2002
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
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| Editorial Reviews:
Amazon.co.uk Review
Learn Chinese Now! 9.0 comes with two CDs, one of which has various key sections--useful "survival phrases", fun activities, conversations and practising speech against the voice of a native speaker. The other CD has a thorough grammar tutorial. This combination is certainly a valuable one for people who are serious about learning a language, and the product is clear and easy to use: in role-plays, phrases are highlighted in a box and their English translations placed underneath, while the voice recognition software allows you to measure your own voice against that of a native speaker and the games hone the things that have been learned. Sections are tailored to various activities, such as getting around, going out and business situations, while at any point you can call up a grammar tutorial that will explain a topic in more detail. The section on survival phrases will be of much use to those who have already reached a basic level. There are several practice dialogues based on common situations--in the hotel, the bar, the airport, etc.--with some examples that demonstrate a wicked sense of humour. Although some of the advice borders on the infantile ("When you decide to travel outside the USA, you will probably need a passport"), much of it is useful and rounds out a well-composed package for someone starting out on the road to using the language overseas. --Toby Green
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| Customer Reviews:
Chinese Now March 3, 2005
6 out of 19 found this review helpful
Ok so this CD has some neat features, but as far as teaching someone chinese goes it's a faliure. Mandarin isn't built around singular word meanings, like western languages, it's built around phrases. This product shows a fundamental lack of understanding in the language it attempts to teach, by being too idiomatic. It doesn't explain anything, so a user of this product isn't going to really understand how mandarin works which is the first stage towards actually speaking it. It has a crass monkey-see monkey-do approach which may be ok for someone visting china who wants to know a few phrases, but this is no good for a serious learner of the language. It also has many tone errors on words, and many of the phrases are outdated. The one thing you can learn well from it is pronounciation, but there's no reason why this shouldn't be accompanied by a teaching structure and content that actually works.
DIFFUCULT TO SAY WHICH IS MORE COMPLICATED November 26, 2003
20 out of 36 found this review helpful
Its bad enough deciding to learn Chinese. On top of the language difficulties, having to find your way around this software does not help. The whole programme appears to be without structure and I am not exaggerating when I say that I couldn't figure out where to begin, even after a few honest attempts. There must be an easier way to learn!!
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