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earworms mbt© Rapid Languages is the first language trainer to get your toe tapping. You pick up a language simply by listening to catchy and relaxing songs!
Volume 1. is your survival kit of immediately useful words and phrases for your visit abroad, listen a few times to be able to ask for a table in a restaurant, order food and drink, take a taxi, rent a car, buy tickets, deal with money, numbers, times and days, ask for directions, deal with typical problems, hold a simple conversation and more.
Simply by listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions a few times, the sound patterns are indelibly burned into your auditory cortex.
You will have successfully learned the phrases and have the correct accent ringing in your ears. Wherever you are, whatever you are doing: In the car, while jogging, in the bath, doing the ironing...you can be learning a language at the same time!
Experience something ‘a little different'...after just a few listenings, foreign words will be popping out of your memory...when you least expect them!
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There has been a lot of talk in recent years about improving the way we learn languages and the way we learn in general, to make it better suit the way our brains operate. Learning in rhythm, using repetition to anchor information, learning complete meaningful chunks of language instead of single words, using music to put the learner in the optimal state of conciousness for learning (relaxed but receptive), these are some of the strategies of accelerated learning.
Now, for the first time all of these approaches have been unified into one powerful learning package which make acquiring a language easy, effective and enjoyable.
Now, for the first time all of these approaches have been unified into one powerful learning package which make acquiring a language easy, effective and enjoyable.
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34 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I enjoyed learning from the Rapid Chinese CD a few months back and so knew what to expect when this arrived. This is a very similar presentation, with the same 10 track titles: I would like...; To order; Have you ...?; To the airport; Numbers; days & times; Is there ...?; Directions; Where, when & what time?; Problems, problems!; and Do you speak English? In fact they have mostly the same phrases. Ordering a bottle of wine somehow seems more natural for German that it did for Chinese!
The way it works is there is a native German-speaking woman and a native English-speaking man. The English comes first then the German. As the track titles above suggest the 10 lessons cover useful phrase book stuff, at the most basic level. All the time there is a music track playing - easy to listen to. I do not know if the music helps memorizing the sentences but it does make the CD easy to have on in the background while working or doing other things. There is a handy 20 page booklet with the CD, which shows all the phrases on the CD, as well as describing the theory behind the learning method.
I did 'O' level German at school, which seemed to be all about learning the 16 words for "the". Thankfully not a mention of that here: ein/eine/einen/zum/zu/der/das/die/etc. are all introduced in context without being pointed out. After my German exam (I passed by the way) all I could speak in German was gutentag and "der das die die, dem dem den den", which does not get you very far. Listening to this CD course, in every school lesson, would have made a lot more sense. And we could have played cards while doing it. (Sadly the only class we actually got away with playing cards in was sociology.)
If we are looking for downsides the CDs are maybe a bit pricey, and are quite passive: no quizzes or chances for active usage of the language. But that is fine, it would not be easy to have on in the background if it was like that. Just do not expect this can be your only tool to learn the language.
Overall I like these EarWorms CDs and they will be my first choice when I want to learn the basics of a new language.
The way it works is there is a native German-speaking woman and a native English-speaking man. The English comes first then the German. As the track titles above suggest the 10 lessons cover useful phrase book stuff, at the most basic level. All the time there is a music track playing - easy to listen to. I do not know if the music helps memorizing the sentences but it does make the CD easy to have on in the background while working or doing other things. There is a handy 20 page booklet with the CD, which shows all the phrases on the CD, as well as describing the theory behind the learning method.
I did 'O' level German at school, which seemed to be all about learning the 16 words for "the". Thankfully not a mention of that here: ein/eine/einen/zum/zu/der/das/die/etc. are all introduced in context without being pointed out. After my German exam (I passed by the way) all I could speak in German was gutentag and "der das die die, dem dem den den", which does not get you very far. Listening to this CD course, in every school lesson, would have made a lot more sense. And we could have played cards while doing it. (Sadly the only class we actually got away with playing cards in was sociology.)
If we are looking for downsides the CDs are maybe a bit pricey, and are quite passive: no quizzes or chances for active usage of the language. But that is fine, it would not be easy to have on in the background if it was like that. Just do not expect this can be your only tool to learn the language.
Overall I like these EarWorms CDs and they will be my first choice when I want to learn the basics of a new language.
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
I thought my days of learning a new language were long gone. I have been listening to this audio CD for 6 months whilst driving, and I have absorbed the entire CD.
I disagree with the other reviewers that the music is boring! This music is deliberate, it goes to the beat of the words that you are learning to, and this is why you are able to recall the sentences easily. You learn a "song" and you just "sing" it back. It's so much easier to remember a song than sentences, same as you can remember stories better than facts. "Facts tell, stories sell" and it's certainly true in this audio CD.
I disagree with the other reviewers that the music is boring! This music is deliberate, it goes to the beat of the words that you are learning to, and this is why you are able to recall the sentences easily. You learn a "song" and you just "sing" it back. It's so much easier to remember a song than sentences, same as you can remember stories better than facts. "Facts tell, stories sell" and it's certainly true in this audio CD.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
Format:Audio CD
Rapid German Volume 1 is superb. Here I am, one week after first listening to it. And I can instantly recall and say loads of different phrases in German. Not just words on their own. Phrases. Complete sentences. It took me years and a trip to Paris to be able to have such confidence in my French. Yet, here I am, able to speak phrases in German. I have tried other language learning products/software. With those products comes all the anxiety of making sure you remember the phrase, get the pronunciation right and remember the word order. This approach to language learning gets rid of all the anxiety, nerves and frustration normally found within the learning process. I have detailed experience in accelerated learning and still, I have not seen anything as good as this product.
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
A fun way to learn how to get by in German
[Please note: I am going to refer to both Volume 1 and 2 in this review, as I believe it will be more helpful to prospective purchasers to have an idea of what the complete course... Read more
Published 5 months ago by Esofagus
Supplimentary at best
Thinking about it, I am not sure if there is any point to this product. It doesnt work as a teaching aid on its own, and if you are learning German from another source then im not... Read more
Published 11 months ago by Mr. C. J. Parker
rapid german
not what I was expecting, I thought for the money there would of been more than the few words I alreday know.
Published 14 months ago by mrs sheila sleigh
The easiest way to learn
Having tried and failed several times to learn a language, I tried Earworms. It works!
In my experience, it's by far the easiest way to learn the basic words/phrases to... Read more
In my experience, it's by far the easiest way to learn the basic words/phrases to... Read more
Published 16 months ago by BookReader
Easy way to remember the language
I used this CD since the start of December and on a visit to Germany last weekend (2 months learning) I was genuinely astounded as to the amount I knew and could communicate with... Read more
Published 16 months ago by David
Basic German
I have had experience with Earworms before and was expecting this course to be first-rate. I was not disappointed and after playing the disk through several times, found that it... Read more
Published 24 months ago by Derek E. Carpenter
Probably great for raw beginners, not for returners to the language
I echo others, that the premise of this is a good one. I used the Earworms Rapid Chinese CD Rapid Chinese: v. Read more
Published on 12 Jan 2010 by D Peers
good produce
I am enjoying trying to work out the German in this CD. I have now ordered vol 2-one draw back-learning words but dont always know what they mean
Published on 22 Sep 2009 by Dr. Colin Gibson
Brilliant way to learn
I have been doing beginners German now for 12 months, and to help in between times someone from class recommend these 2 CD's to me. Read more
Published on 11 July 2009 by Foxy
review
i thought that this was a complete waste of money. A fun idea but not a lot of use.
Published on 8 Jun 2009 by jo from saltford
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