Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin 2.7

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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.

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  Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin

  Ok for an average person who doesn't know any Chinese

  by: abcinchina on 07-Dec-2006 10:09:39 PM

  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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  Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin

  confusing and of limited value

  by: gorae on 02-Sep-2007 05:17:48 PM

  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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  Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin

  Dispicable

  by: sodaguy22 on 08-Aug-2006 10:00:15 PM

  Pros: nothing

  Cons: -tries to install trojan

  -repeatedly attempts to access internet

  -difficult to remove

  -no speech recognition

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  Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin

  Can't be used

  by: anakayama on 26-Jun-2006 09:39:21 PM

  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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  Learn Chinese and Speak Mandarin

  Don't download unless you got 50 bucks burning a hole in your pocket.

  by: Music Pirate on 17-Apr-2006 03:07:37 PM

  Pros: None.

  Cons: Just to try if for the 30 days you have send them 50 bucks. Then they said money back guarantee, but who knows. I wouldn't recommened this unless you got 50 bucks to kill. I don't even no if it works because I'm not paying 50 bucks to just try something.

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