VocabuLearn: Chinese, Level 1

By: Penton Overseas Inc.

Narrated by: uncredited

VocabuLearn is the only audio language learning system designed to teach the way you learn best...concentrating on vocabulary and helpful expressions. This three-hour program contains over 1,500 commonly-used words and expressions - the building blocks of language. This audio flash-card system will have you communicating effectively in the shortest time possible. Recommended by educators world-wide, VocabuLearn is prepared by professional instructors and recorded by dialect-free native speakers, giving you the authentic pronunciation of each word. VocabuLearn is ideal for those studying foreign languages. It can also help you prepare for more enjoyable trips to foreign countries...and can even improve your job and business opportunities. Best of all, you can listen to VocabuLearn anywhere...in your car, at home, or on a portable digital audio player - wherever you are. No textbook is required!

(P) and ©1986 Penton Overseas, Inc.

You won't listen to it !

No structure, no idea, just a bunch of words put without any order. How can anybody get something useful from this ? And that loud music, through which you can't even hear words properly. They could have at least better inserted some pop music then I could use this book for other means ..

Awful

Background music is incredibly loud. The words they teach have nothing in common. Just a random cluster of words. First words are grass, moon, sound, airport, December, hand, hope?, etc. Then the next chapter they throw in another month in the middle of list. One would hope they would at least put months together in a single unit.

Some of the English words are homophones (e.g., "flower" vs. "flour"), which makes it difficult to know what word you are actually learning.

Maybe if you already had a crude knowledge of Chinese, this might
benefit you, but it is not for beginners.

absolutely useless

I would give it zero stars if I could. This is a completely random list of words read first in English then in Chinese. Do not waste your time or money.

Almost useless

I own several other titles and enjoy them all. This one, unfortunately, is unuseable, even irritating. The words given are utterly random, sometimes so random it makes you laugh. Worse, the music is so repetitious you end up remembering the musical phrase, minus the words....a complete waste.

Don't buy this one!

I love the French series Audible.com has.

I have tried lots of different systems but this Chinese one is the WORST. It would be okay if there were no music but the music irritates you after just 2 minutes. At least the music stops from time to time....

You also know there is a problem when the very first vocabulary word is "the grass".

I'd be willing to pay $30 for a good system such as the French series than this price for simple vocabulary. I would prefer Chinese phrases to get a sense of the sentence structure. Otherwise, how could I possibly figure out how to say "Don't run on the wet grass" and other "useful" phrases????