Learn To Speak Chinese? - A Review Of The New Rocket-Chinese

By Jorge Chavez

Learn to speak Chinese you say? Why would I want to do that?

Well, for starters, it's the language spoken by more people than any other language on earth! And the 2008 Olympics are being held in China. Many thousands of people from all over the world will be traveling to China, where most people only speak Chinese. You will need to know enough to ask directions or order lunch!

The Chinese economy is growing rapidly. China is producing goods that are being sold worldwide. Huge amounts of commerce are going on between English-speaking countries and China. So we should know how to communicate with the Chinese in their own language.

To help English-speakers learn everyday conversational Chinese, the Rocket Languages people have put together another super language-learning course. They use the conversational learning approach, which lets you learn Chinese the same way you learned English; learn a few words and practice using them in sentences.

Gradually you expand your vocabulary and master more and more complex sentences. You learn by communicating, making the new words real and applicable to everyday life as you learn to express yourself and understand others. The course uses many well-known words and phrases, situating them in realistic everyday contexts.

The course includes 31 interactive audio lessons with corresponding grammar lessons to explain the mechanics behind the words and sounds. The lessons average about 25 minutes each, to total over 14 hours of audio learning.

They teach modern Chinese, ignoring the older more formal forms that are little used any more (The English equivalent of learning from Hemingway, not Shakespeare!) You learn loads of Chinese Words with MegaVocab, their software-based Word Building Game which is included.

The focus is on learning real conversational competence, fast. You learn by using. Forget the old classroom monotony of memorizing vocabulary. You learn by interacting through questions, answers and everyday conversation. This makes it interesting and effective in helping you rapidly master communication in Chinese.

You can get the whole course shipped to you in printed books and CD's for just under $350. Or, for just under $100 you can get the entire course in digital downloadable form. Once on your computer's hard drive you can offload lessons to your iPod or other portable audio device.

You can burn the lessons to CD's, then take them with you to listen to and interact with on any CD player. You choose the time and place for your lessons and you decide on the speed of covering the materials. You learn from excellent native speakers, enabling you to learn to speak without an accent.

You can even take your lessons with you and be practicing with them during your plane trip to China!

Looks like Rocket Languages has crafted another winning language learning product here. With excellent quality, mixing a variety of teaching/learning methods and very reasonable prices, it should be well-received and widely used.

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To get all the details of how to rapidly and easily learn to speak good modern Chinese, follow this link: Learn to Speak Chinese Jorge Chavez is an internet entrepreneur and marketer. He began to learn Spanish after he was 30, now is bilingual English-Spanish. He has monolingual friends, relatives and clients who only speak Spanish and others who only speak English. Now he is learning Chinese at http://learn-to-speak-Chinese.com