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Mandarin
We have learnt other Languages (French and Spanish) with EuroTalk and found them to be first class and my daughter and I are now racing each other to see who can learn the most words with this excellent little application. Good for learning a decent range of basic words but then you'll have to go on to one of their other products in the Euro Talk range.
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Rosetta stone?
Very similar to the rossetta stone methodology. Learn by pictorial memory games that tell you the sound of the word/phrase. Mostly for learning vocabulary. It was useful for me since I'm learnig mandarin to be able to speak with my mother in law. It's a fast way to learn some useful words. However it has two major flaws:
-not enogh phrases, mostly vocabulary.
- crashes sparingly
The crashing doesn't happen often, but it has happenend a few times while on 'game mode'. Overall I'm satisfied with the product and it's a good alternative for those who want to learn the language. Has both Chinese characters and pinyin.
Rcommendations for improvement:
- it'd be great if the software could analyze your voice recording and tell you weather or not you're doing the 'tones' correctly.
-also the 'hard' game doesn't help you learn much because it is more of a memory game. It would be cool to have a game where you would have to say the word corresponding to the image shown.
-not enogh phrases, mostly vocabulary.
- crashes sparingly
The crashing doesn't happen often, but it has happenend a few times while on 'game mode'. Overall I'm satisfied with the product and it's a good alternative for those who want to learn the language. Has both Chinese characters and pinyin.
Rcommendations for improvement:
- it'd be great if the software could analyze your voice recording and tell you weather or not you're doing the 'tones' correctly.
-also the 'hard' game doesn't help you learn much because it is more of a memory game. It would be cool to have a game where you would have to say the word corresponding to the image shown.
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Pretty useful
Pretty usefull, could use some more variety in the games and features though. Maybe when you flip the card you can see the character as well? Hopefully there will be additions to the vocabulary library as well. Besides that this is a great way to memorize vocabulary and a few phrases are included also.
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One of the Best!!
This is a fun, easy to navigate app. that covers the basics with pictures and male and female speakers to give us a different slant on pronunciation.
Included also are three fun tests graded from easy to more difficult and a recording facility to test our pronunciation.
Ive had a look at quite a few and I'd say this would be the best app for Mandarin beginners.!!!
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