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Rapid French: Volume 1
- Narrated by: Marlon Lodge
- Length: 1 hr and 9 mins
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Summary
Earworms mbt© is a revolutionary accelerated learning technique that takes the hard work out of learning.
By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of French and English a few times, you pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue, but will be burned deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time.
If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, earworms mbt© Rapid French is the course for you.
Volume 1 is your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad.
You will feel you are learning within minutes and might just be amazed by how easy acquiring a language can be!
PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying reference material will be available in your Library section along with the audio on our desktop site.
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- Rosemary
- 09-10-07
complimented on my French!
I've played this audiobook many times now, for obvious reasons, and never found it irritating or the need to shout 'Get on with it'. No.. I admit to getting in the rhythm and singing back the responses. The results have been effective, tried and tested with confidence in France.
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- Roger
- 16-02-09
Interesting format
Very good idea. Works very well in its execution with one problem. I am not sure whether I have picked that much french up.
One minute I am convinced I have and then I can't think of anything french to say.
I think that it is a problem with learning a language. I have tried to listen to some french after this and its very hard to follow.
It does work as a good introduction and I would recommend some free podcasts after this.
All in all get it - but dont imagine that you will be fluent in french at the end of it. ;)
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- WonkoTheSane
- 19-05-21
Useful introduction but spoilt by the music.
Many of the words and phrases used are excellent in helping to build your vocabulary. Being unhindered by grammar or gender aids learning basic vocabulary and useful phrases for tourists to survive in French speaking countries. For those actually learning french, the book helps to drum in common vocabulary.
Unfortunately the audio book has a music track backing which sometimes obscures the spoken words. This could well do with being 50% quieter.
An added benefit would be to have, instead of a picture of the book, essentially the subtitles displayed. This would go along way in helping both beginners and intermediate students of the language.
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- Cathrine
- 31-05-08
Great
I am one of those people who know the lyrics to music, not because I particularly like the song, but just because they are set to music, so this way of learning French really worked for me.
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- Kilrymont
- 21-07-21
Nice concept, with repetitions
But. It's spoilt by the present totally silly inclusion of "music" constantly battling with the speech content.
Why? Fashion. What other reason could there be?
The content is decent enough, and the vocal elements building phrases into sentences and questions and answers with added vocabulary are all well enough done.
But. Again. Why are we pestered with disco "music" half drowning the spoken content? It is sometimes very distracting and it's totally counter intuitive in what purports to be a tutorial title.
Offer it up again with no music, I'll buy every volume in French that you record. But as it is, its inbuilt stupidity is so irritating that I can't get past a few minutes of it.
I have decent Higher and 6th year Studies certificates in French from my ancient schooldays so French is not new to me. Just deeply buried. Even so, the distraction - it detracts, and reduces the real value of what seems a decently structured set of language introductions.
I'd like to have had idioms explained more deeply. For example, "Enjoy your meal" translates into different words that do the same job but aren't a straight translation. Bon Appetit means literally Good Appetite, hardly difficult to guess but it's helpful for learners to know exactly what they're saying and to understand the differences in equivalent phrases between the two languages.
But - to reiterate - I never EVER attended any language class that had a background of disco -or any other - music!
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- Elinor Dashwood
- 08-03-09
teaches a few useful phrases
Pleasant to listen to, and I wound up knowing a few useful phrases. But it does not teach you how to speak French. It started slowly, but some of the sections were too rapid and I could not catch what was being said.
Fine for what it is.
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- A Merriman
- 19-07-21
Earworms learning
Really good I love the accompanying pdf and it consolidates my learning on Duolingo french
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- Andrea
- 20-11-19
Torture
I understand the principle, repeating words and phrases over a background music track to help them really sink in, unfortunately the music, or more accurately muzak, is so awful it is all but impossible to refrain from throwing my phone accross the room. If played in lifts it would compel people to throw themselves down the lift shaft to escape. After only a few minutes the only words I could think of were "make it stop, please, make it stop"!
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- Ginny Santer
- 10-01-12
Hooked!
I am hooked. I downloaded volume 1 and 2 of Italian, French & Spanish in order to brush up languages I had previously learned to varying degrees. I am already wondering what language to attack next! I travel a lot with work and have the audiobooks on as I'm driving around and am already memorising words and phrases that I'd either forgotten or never knew. I don't feel that I need a book, although I have downloaded the accompanying pdf files for reference. Almost everything I can pick up straight from the recording - just as language is acquired naturally by children - listening and repeating.
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- Amazon Customer
- 29-09-23
Easy to listen to and learn.
Loved it. I liked the repetition and how it was like speaking to someone. The transition from reading and writing to conversation is difficult but easier with this method of learning if you haven't anyone else to speak to. I look forward to the next level.
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