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From Fluenz: A full session from Fluenz Mandarin 1+2 version 1. This software was designed by a small team with a clear mission: get people speaking Chinese as quickly as possible. We designed and built our ideal learning program, combining common sense, solid linguistics and the latest technology to allow for faster learning of what's truly relevant. At the center of fluenz mandarin is a real life instructor, Sonia Gil, a Cornell graduate who went to China to learn Mandarin herself and whose more than 150 video clips in English are embedded throughout the program. Fluenz has been designed around three objectives: 1. Instead of learning with Chinese logic, you need to start by relating basic Chinese grammar and syntax to that of English 2. You need to start learning those few words and structures that will allow you to communicate the most in the least amount of time and 3. You need to learn in a way that will allow you to internalize the material to avoid quickly forgetting what you just heard.

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  Fluenz Mandarin 1+2

  Relevant and effective

  by: rhammerstein on 10-Feb-2007 12:39:16 PM

  Pros: I just got back from a trip to China, and I found Fluenz invaluable for my preparation - it focused on the language I needed, there was a wide variety of exercises, and the presentation was superb.

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  Fluenz Mandarin 1+2

  Good product but no native speaker

  by: Sara_Mike on 18-Jun-2008 08:26:27 PM

  Pros: The multimedia features are very good

  Cons: The speaker is not native Chinese (but has very good pronunciation)

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  Fluenz Mandarin 1+2

  thank u fluenz

  by: sai srinivas on 09-Jul-2007 07:54:53 AM

  Pros: u gave free acess so that every one can develop there english

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  Fluenz Mandarin 1+2

  Non-threatening and fun, great for all ages

  by: yujieterrall on 04-Jul-2007 04:53:53 PM

  Pros: I've lived in China for 4 years and I've never seen anything that does such a good job of making learning Chinese fun and non-threatening. Everyone in my family from my little sister to my mom enjoyed it. They liked it so much that they were telling other people how great it was.

  Cons: I would like to see a level 2 and even 3. I've mastered survival Chinese, but I would love a program that would help me progress farther. Also, the writing exercises were boring and slow, even for someone who is very familiar with pinyin.

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  Fluenz Mandarin 1+2

  Best language learning software/course EVER!!

  by: bonvillain on 16-May-2007 05:21:18 PM

  Pros: So I wanted to learn Mandarin and proceeded to get a little dictionary (useful now that i can speak some), the Pimsleur Method and Rosetta. Without going deeply into why I disliked the last two solutions on my list, as soon as I finished the demo lesson I downloaded of Fluenz I had an email into them that night and begged them to get a copy to me by Friday (before the weekend) so that I could dig into the course. I am on lesson 14 now and still love it and have learned more in a much shorter time than with either of the other methods...and more importantly retained it and find myself thinking of sentences using the verbs and such that I have been learning. The workouts are engaging (albeit frustrating at times ;-)) and the instructor led portions are crucial for understanding the dialog in a way that breaks it down to where you arent just understanding what was said, but how to use that information in other ways. I can't wait to finish this course and I am hoping they are working on an advanced course for people that have finished this one.

  (am thinking that once I finish lesson 15 Ill go back and do the first 15 again, just to reinforce)...either way, this software rocks, I love it.

  Cons: the version 1.0 has a few small bugs in it, but i just got 1.1 in the mail today, so maybe they have fixed those things. Small stuff really - like when you are typing in the phrase or whatever (in pinyin) and you are using the same accented character twice successively, you have to cursor over to the input field again, click on the end of the word you are working on and then insert the new character - otherwise for some reason if you are doing it the way it normally (and is supposed to work) the repeated character inserts right next to the previous instance of it (say a dropping/rising O for instance).

  Other than a couple small things like that (which are easy enough to fix with a couple of code tweaks), its outstanding.

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