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CHINESE in 10 minutes a day® with CD-ROM
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List Price: $24.95
Special Price: $16.47
Your Savings: $ 8.48 ( 34% )
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Manufacturer: Bilingual Books, Inc.
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 495.182421
EAN: 9781931873017
ISBN: 1931873011
Label: Bilingual Books, Inc.
Manufacturer: Bilingual Books, Inc.
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 132
Publication Date: 2008-01-31
Publisher: Bilingual Books, Inc.
Studio: Bilingual Books, Inc.
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CHINESE in 10 minutes a day® with CD-ROM is an easy-to-use language kit designed to develop an immediate speaking ability. The illustrated workbook contains 132 colorful pages filled with practical words, built-in study tools and essential categories. The CD-ROM puts Flash Cards, Sticky Labels, a Color Pallet, and Numbers exercises at your fingertips, bringing the book to life on your computer screen. Both PC and Mac friendly. The focus is on success, practicality and fun.
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Summary: Chinese in 10 minutes a day
Comment: The Kershul method of learning is a great way to learn a new language. I took this method of language learning to help me learn Russian well over twenty years ago and I still remember much of the course curriculum. I would recommend this method of learning as a supplement to actual immersion training for everyone.
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Summary: A good book for adults and children
Comment: I use this book to learn Chinese along with 10 others. When I get bored from using other Chinese book, I will come back to this one. It's simple to use for both adults and young children.
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Summary: fantastic book
Comment: not enough said about this book, it takes you from basics to conversation.
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Summary: Children's picture book for the deluded
Comment: The title really speaks for itself. I was desperate to learn Chinese quickly for travel, was up late, read the reviews, flipped out and bought it. Another romance language if you know one in 10 minutes a day maybe, Chinese if you speak English from a book without audio-not so much....
Let's review the logistics. They don't read English so you can't point to it. You don't read Chinese so you're looking at pictures (not when driving to work). So after dinner you paste romanized Chinese words around the house. Time's up. The next day you memorize a few words that may have a different meaning from the one you intend because you don't have audio phonetics and its a tonal language. Gotta go. The next day, you forget evrything because you only spent 10 minutes and you can't relate it to English. You do the math.
The approach reminds me of the Monty Python skit, where Hungarian tries to buy cigarettes using a phrasebook that inspires him to say "my hovercraft is full of eels" .
And as to the reviews, we don't laugh at Clark Griswold for saying "look at how greatful the French are when we make the slightest effort to speak the language...." because other countries are more grateful when we try to butcher their language. We laugh because he buys "French on the airplane" and believes it works. On the way to China, you're tired, you drink, its crowded, you don't read Chinese, unlike French, they can't read this book, you take out "Chinese in 10 minutes a day" on a 17 hour flight, oops that's my day. Exaggeration, but not by much.
You would either have to grow old or land in Hong Kong!
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Summary: good to start a basic vocab and concept
Comment: This was a good book to start a basic vocab and concept of what would later be studied in the Chinese language. I use this book very frequently to start learning a new language and, the only thing that would be missing would be an audio guide to the book. Pronunciation in Chinese is very essential to the word and understanding of the language.
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