Features
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License:
Free to try; $45.99 to buy
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Editor's Rating:
Not rated
- Average User Rating:
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Downloads:
24,378
- Operating Systems:
Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98
- Additional Requirements:
Windows 98/Me/2000/XP
- Limitations:
Dictionary and pinyin sections are enabled
- Date Added:
April 17, 2006
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Previous Versions:
Publisher's description of Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin
Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin is a revolutionary and award winning new system for learning Chinese designed by language experts. The program contains personalized lessons that give special attention to every day language and pronunciation.
Users have access to two different speeds of playback for each item. The InstantSpeak method uses a unique audio flash card system that allows you to effortlessly recall what you have learned. Users guide themselves through over one hundred lessons. Each lesson contains a real world conversation between two native speakers. Conversations are further broken down into individual sentences which include pronunciation, meaning and the literal translations of the words that make up the sentences. Once the user has gone through a lesson, the items from that lesson can be added to a flash card section of the program for review. Items from all sections can be added to the flash card section for review.
Version 2.7 contains new and updated lessons. Please modify the search listing to say "Learn Chinese through conversation based lessons."
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 2.5 stars out of 11 votes
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4 out of 4 people found this review helpful
Version: Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.7
"Ok for an average person who doesn't know any Chinese"
Pros: Has a good dictionary using simplified Chinese while listing them in frequency. So you can study the characters that are used most. There are also many common phrases that you can find the appropriate translation for. I guess its good for conversational Chinese
Cons: Not good for Chinese speakers who just need to learn how to read Chinese characters. The Flash Card system (as well as the whole system) is online-based which is just too slow. For this purpose I downloaded CueCard and had to manually input them in the free program.
*Most importantly, they will not give you back the refund within their given time-line. Also, there is no number to call them to cancel and when you follow the online instructions to cancel and send them a postal mail following their instructions, they will not give you back the money. Then if you send them a support email telling that that you've submitted the request for a refund within the time-line, you will get no response. I suppose you must dispute it from your credit card at this point, in which I just said "forget it"
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2 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.7
"confusing and of limited value"
Pros: the dictionary and phrases log are useful as in character library
Cons: pronunciation is highly questionable on many words. I do not believe this is standard Beijing Mandarin as there is no other Manadrin resources that pronounce some words the way this program does. Many sentences are spoken so quickly the words are slurred and the slowed down version is a pathetic joke!
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.7
Pros: nothing
Cons: -tries to install trojan
-repeatedly attempts to access internet
-difficult to remove
-no speech recognition
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.7
Pros: None.
Cons: It says free to try but there's nothing to try if you don't pay, the program is -blocked-. Very low.
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Version: Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.7
"Lesser value than other options"
Pros: The phrases taught are useful, and this might be of interest to someone new to Chinese.
Cons: The way the phrases are introduced and taught is not very conducive to efficient learning. I would recommend using more structure. Check the progressive approach used by LearnChineseEZ.com to see what I mean.
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