Learning Chinese Mandarin is easy if you use the right language course. Yes you can try to learn Chinese Mandarin by reading textbooks, watch free videos online, take free course, etc. But I can guarantee you that you won’t learn enough Chinese Mandarin using these resources on their own to speak and understand conversational Chinese comfortably.
The reason is that these Chinese Mandarin learning resources is not structured and comprehensive enough to teach you conversational Chinese Mandarin.
Textbooks won’t teach proper pronunciation since there’s no audio lessons.
The free audio lessons you can took online don’t teach you enough words, sentences and grammar so that you can create your own sentences as it’s required. And most people don’t have the money or time to take a formal Chinese tutor class.
So what is your next best option? You join a good and proven Chinese language course that you can take online and offline that will make learning Chinese Mandarin easy and fun.
Is there such a course you might ask? Yes there are a couple good one on the market today; however Rocket Chinese is my number one recommendation. The course is affordable and caters for beginner up to intermediate level.
You can download the audio lessons and take it with you and there’s a lot of fund and interactive activities, quizzes and software games to use.
Read this Rocket Chinese review for more info about the product and some other product recommendation you might like to try out.
Always remember to have fun when you learn a new language like Chinese Mandarin, otherwise you’ll quickly lose interest and stop learning Chinese Mandarin as you’ve dreamed of doing for so long.
Friday, March 26, 2010
Thursday, October 8, 2009
Learning French
Most people say they'd like to visit Paris at some point in their lives. Even the sound of the name is romantic! But on a practical note, a knowledge of French comes in surprisingly handy in many walks of life, whether you plan to travel or not. If you're not sure why you should learn French, here are some facts to help you make up your mind.
I recommend you get the Rocket French Premium course if you really want to learn French the easy way. Also have a look at their advance French course, Rocket French Premium Plus.
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I recommend you get the Rocket French Premium course if you really want to learn French the easy way. Also have a look at their advance French course, Rocket French Premium Plus.
Click here and visit our learn a language site for free lessons, video tutorials and language course reviews...
Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Learn To Speak German Fast
Learn To Speak German Fast!
Are you wondering how you can learn to speak and understand German fast and easy? You might even ask yourself if it is even possible. Maybe you are planning a trip to Austria or even directly to Hamburg in Germany. It does not matter what your reason is for learning the German language, as long as you know how to learn German fast and easy so that you can converse with your new found holiday friends as fast as you can. They will respect you so much more for learning their proud language to begin with. You will be surprised how many doors it can open for you over there.It's really not as difficult as you might think. An important aspect of learning any foreign language is to develop a good ear for the way the new language sounds. A very good starting point in your German learning adventure would be to listen to authentic German conversations. You will discover that many German sounds, sound totally different from their English rival. "Th" in German is pronounced like an English "T." The letter "G" is never soft, either. As an English speaker you might find German as a harsh language, but the more you familiarize yourself with the sound of the language the quicker you will learn to speak and understand it.
Go buy or rent a DVD starring an actor or actress that speak English with a German accent. Practice speaking some of the actor's lines, mimicking the accent as closely as possible. You're still speaking English but you're using your newly-trained ear to teach yourself what German feels like on the tongue. Becoming familiar with the sound and feel of the German language will help you master the German language faster than if you were to learn it from scratch as a foreign sounding language.
Of course, neither of those steps really teaches you German. For that you need some kind of course. Many people nowadays enjoy online learning, because they can study at their own pace and repeat lessons until they've mastered them. Other people would prefer audio or software based language courses or by taking an evening class at their local College. Whichever way you choose to study, however, make sure your coursework emphasizes oral conversation. Learning German is a dynamic activity, and you can't learn to speak the language from a book because the book can't speak back. You will learn German fast only if you speak it and hear it spoken.
Please take note of this very important tip as you learn to speak German: remember that all German nouns have genders they are either masculine, feminine, or neuter. This isn't something we have to worry about in English, so gendered nouns may be new to you. Masculine nouns include dog (der Hund) and coat (der Mantel). Feminine nouns include blanket (die Decke) and vacation (die Ferien). Neuter nouns include house (das Haus) and pig (das Schwein). As you can see, the article "the" can be translated as either "der," "die," or "das" depending upon the gender of the noun it accompanies. There's no way to predict whether a noun is going to be masculine, feminine, or neuter, so if you want to learn German fast, always remember to learn the proper article at the same time you learn the noun.
Here is my final and most important tip how to learn the German language fast: I recommend you make a German friend so that you can practice having a German conversation whenever you have the opportunity to do so! Dialogues on tapes or CDs are great, but to really get the feel of a language, you need to speak it just as you would your own. For that you need a partner. You'll not only learn German fast that way, but you'll improve your social life at the same time!
Gerrit founded the popular language learning site Learn a Language.
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Monday, January 12, 2009
Dark Lord audio book by Ed Greenwood
Dark Lord audio book by Ed Greenwood
"When he mysteriously finds himself drawn into a world of his own devising, writer Rod Everlar is confronted by a shocking truth – he has lost control of his creation to a brooding cabal of evil. In order to save his creation – and himself – he must seize control of Falconfar and halt the spread of corruption before it’s too late. Dark Lord is the first epic installment in The Falconfar Saga from bestselling author Ed Greenwood."
Publisher : 2008 Brilliance Audio Inc
Author : Ed Greenwood
Narrator : Christopher Lane
Length : 14 hours (Unabridged)
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Tuesday, November 18, 2008
Tarzan the Untamed audio download by Edgar Rice Burroughs
Tarzan the Untamed audio download by Edgar Rice Burroughs:
" Here is the continuing adventure of one of fiction’s most dramatic heroes, Tarzan the ape-man. In this new episode, Tarzan has given up his jungle ways and is living contentedly on a farm with his beloved wife Jane, as a wealthy member of British nobility.
But when he returns one day from a trip to
Publisher : 2008 Blackstone Audio Inc
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Narrator : Patrick Lawlor
Length : 10 hours 57 minutes (Unabridged)
Download your own audio book copy of Tarzan the Untamed by Edgar Rice Burroughs today!
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Tales From My Table audio book by Ann Tudor
Tales From My Table audio book by Ann Tudor:
"Tales from My Table is a collection of twelve true stories about food. Bittersweet, funny, and thought-provoking, the stories explore the way food influences our lives and our memories.
We learn about relationships, about life, and about the thrill of eating what you love to eat and cooking what you love to cook. Imagine Anne Lamott and Garrison Keillor meeting under a full moon for a midnight picnic.
As author Ann Tudor says: "I value food prepared and served with love. And I value the memories that we store in our taste buds. Not all those memories are welcome ones..."
Publisher : 2008 Listen & LiveAuthor : Ann Tudor
Length : 1 hour 15 minutes
If you like cooking then I recommend you download your own audio book copy of Tales From My Table by Ann Tudor today!
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization by Anthony Esolen
The Politically Incorrect Guide to Western Civilization by Anthony Esolen:
"Western civilization is under attack. At universities and in the media, professors and pundits decry Western civilization as exploitative, destructive, and without value.
But fear not: coming to its defense is Professor Anthony Esolen’s The Politically Incorrect Guide™ to Western Civilization.
This “P.I.” guide will knock down the relativist arguments and show how the West laid the cornerstones for all of modern civilization, including historical, artistic, and intellectual achievements."
Author : Anthony Esolen
Publisher : 2008 Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 11 hours 7 minutes (Unabridged)
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Friday, August 8, 2008
The Stones of Green Knowe audio book by L.M. Boston
The Stones of Green Knowe audio book by L.M. Boston
"L. M. Boston's thrilling and chilling tales of Green Knowe, a haunted manor deep in an overgrown garden in the English countryside, have been entertaining readers for half a century.
This is the sixth book in this classic series.
While eagerly following each stage of the new stone manor house his father is building to replace their old wooden Saxon hall, a young boy, part Saxon and part Norman, becomes involved with ancient magic that carries him through time."
Publisher : 2008 Listen & LiveAuthor : L.M. Boston
Narrator : Simon Vance
Length : 5 hours (Unabridged)
Download your own copy of The Stones of Green Knowe audio book by L.M. Boston today.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Two Plays for Voices by Neil Gaiman
Two Plays for Voices by Neil Gaiman - Audio book
"SNOW GLASS APPLES: Once upon a time there lived a young princess with skin as white as snow, with hair as black as coal, with lips redder than blood. Most people think they know what happens to this young unfortunate girl. Most people are wrong.
Tony-award winning actress Bebe Neuwirth (Chicago, Sweet Charity, and TV's Cheers) stars as a wise Queen who wants nothing more than to reign over her kingdom peacefully but is forced to match wits with an inhuman child who has an unnatural taste for blood."
Publisher: 2006 Harper Collins US
Author: Neil Gaiman
Length: 2 hours (Unabridged)
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Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Pimsleur Russian I Complete Course
Pimsleur Russian I Complete Course - Russian language lessons - Learn to Speak Russian"Russian Level I: Complete Course- Lessons 01-30 Inc Reading Booklet & User Guide
Includes 16 hours of spoken language practice in thirty 30-minute lessons from the Pimsleur Comprehensive Level I program, plus an introduction to reading. A Reading Booklet and a User’s Guide are included to introduce you to the Pimsleur Method.
Devised by language educator Dr Paul Pimsleur, Simon and Schuster’s Pimsleur Language courses provide the listener with a comprehensive, self instructional, step-by-step guide on how to learn a new language."
Length: 16 hours (Unabridged)
Author: Dr. Paul Pimsleur
Publisher: 2006 Simon & Schuster
Russian language lessons - Learn to Speak Russian
Friday, May 30, 2008
Exit A audiobook
From the bestselling author of Jarhead comes an unforgettable novel about the legacies of war and the dangers of love.
Seventeen-year-old Severin Boxx lives on Yokota, an enormous American Air Force base on the outskirts of Tokyo. Like most of the other young American men on the airbase, Severin is mad for Virginia Kindwall, the base general's daughter, who is a hafu-half American and half Japanese. Beautiful, smart, and utterly defiant of a father who wields godlike military power, Virginia has become a petty criminal in the Japanese underground that lurks in the mad neon netherworld just outside the base, around the nearby rail station's Exit A.
Severin is soon caught up in Virginia's world. But their romance is short-lived as they find themselves in trouble way over their heads and subjected to the enormous, unforgiving tensions that remain between America and Japan in the wake of World War II. Years later, Severin and Virginia remain lost to each other - until an emotionally frayed, thirty-something Severin embarks on a quest to find Virginia, and reclaim the part of himself taken from him when his boyhood abruptly ended.
Like Jarhead before it, Anthony Swofford's Exit A is darkly irreverent, frankly erotic, and more than a little wicked, a tale told in a brooding, pained voice filled with the simple human fury of being alive.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anthony Swofford, a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, won the PEN/Martha Albrand Award and the Pacific Northwest Book Award for Jarhead. He lives in New York City.
ABOUT THE READER
John Slattery has starred on Broadway in Rabbit Hole, Betrayal, and Laughter on the 23rd Floor. Off-Broadway credits include Three Days of Rain (L.A. Critics Award, Drama Desk nom.), and The Lisbon Traviata. On television he has been seen in Ed, K Street, Sex & the City, and Will & Grace. Films include Flags of Our Fathers, Mona Lisa Smile, The Station Agent, 'Traffic, and Sleepers.
Written By : Anthony Swofford
Narrated By : John Slattery
Published By : Simon & Schuster
Length : 9 hours
Category : Crime
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Monday, May 26, 2008
Eldorado audiobook
A knight tiring of his search for Eldorado - a place of great wealth - takes the advice of a supernatural creature and continues his search..
Play sample of Eldorado.
Written By : Edgar Allen Poe
Narrated By : K. Anderson Yancy
Published By : Wollcott & Sheridan Aural Performance Library
Length : 6 minutes
Category : General
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Thursday, May 22, 2008
Dubliners audiobook
"I am trying...to give people some kind of intellectual pleasure or spiritual enjoyment by
converting the bread of everyday life into something that has a permanent artistic life of its own....Do
you see that man who has just skipped out of the way of the tram? Consider, if he had been run over,
how significant every act of his would at once become."James Joyce
In his first published work in prose, James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the people of Dublin, his city of
birth, in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland."
From the first story, in which a young boy encounters death, to the haunting final story involving the
middle-aged Gabriel, the book gives an unflinching and realistic portrayal of "dear, dirty Dublin" in the
early 20th-century. This brilliant study is by turns bawdy and witty, but always darkened by a paralysis
of spirit and emotions.
Frederick Davidson is a recipient of the Golden Voices Award and numerous Earphones Awards. After performing for years in many BBC radio plays, he came to America in 1976. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks.
Play sample of Dubliners.you see that man who has just skipped out of the way of the tram? Consider, if he had been run over,
how significant every act of his would at once become."James Joyce
In his first published work in prose, James Joyce paints vivid portraits of the people of Dublin, his city of
birth, in a collection of stories whose larger purpose, he said, was to depict a "moral history of Ireland."
From the first story, in which a young boy encounters death, to the haunting final story involving the
middle-aged Gabriel, the book gives an unflinching and realistic portrayal of "dear, dirty Dublin" in the
early 20th-century. This brilliant study is by turns bawdy and witty, but always darkened by a paralysis
of spirit and emotions.
Frederick Davidson is a recipient of the Golden Voices Award and numerous Earphones Awards. After performing for years in many BBC radio plays, he came to America in 1976. He has narrated more than eight hundred audiobooks.
Written By : James Joyce
Narrated By : Frederick Davidson
Published By : Blackstone Audio Inc
Length : 8 hours 30 minutes
Category : Classics
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Monday, May 19, 2008
Double Indemnity audiobook
Tautly narrated and excruciatingly suspenseful, Double Indemnity gives us an X-ray view of guilt, of duplicity, and of the kind of obsessive, loveless love that devastates everything it touches.
First published in 1936, this novel reaffirmed James M. Cain as a virtuoso of the roman noir.
Written By : James M Cain
Narrated By : James Naughton
Published By : Harper Collins US
Length : 3 hours 30 minutes
Category : Horror & Suspense
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Friday, May 16, 2008
Doctor Who - The Power of the Daleks audiobook
The first doctor becomes the second in this exclusive recording of Doctor Who's original regeneration story, starring Patrick Troughton with linking narration by Anneke Wills
' I've been renewed... without it I couldn't survive .'
Before the astonished eyes of his companions Ben and Polly, the Doctor's whole body has apparently been transformed. Now they are confronted by a stranger who claims to be their old friend - but how can they know whether to trust him?
The Tardis's arrival on the swamp planet of Vulcan brings its own problems; the Doctor is mistaken for an official come to solve the Earth colony's in-fighting, and soon he and his companions are embroiled in political wranglings. However, a far more serious threat lurks within the colony. The scientist Lesterson has discovered a crashed space capsule, within it a group of inert metallic creatures which the Doctor identifies as Daleks. Refusing to heed the Doctor's warnings, Lesterson supplies power to the Daleks and revives them.
The awakened Daleks claim to be faithful servants of humanity - but could such a thing ever be possible? By covert means they seek an increasing level of energy, but for what? By the time the Doctor and his friends discover the Daleks' true plan for the colony, it looks as if it might already be too late to stop them...
Anneke Wills , who plays Polly in the story, narrates this debut story for the second Doctor, Patrick Troughton , first broadcast in 1966 and long since missing from the television archives.
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Length : 2 hours 30 minutes
Category : Sci-Fi
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