Product Description

Musical Audio Language Learning / On CD with supporting booklet

earworms (mbt) Musical Brain Tranier

Rapid Languages: Volume 1 deals with the essentials for a visit abroad looking at typical situations like; taking a taxi, at the hotel, at the restaurant, requesting, polite phrases, finding your way, numbers, dealing with problems and so on.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #2378 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-15
• Format: Audiobook
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Audio CD
• 20 pages

Synopsis
Earworms learning - Musical Brain Trainer. The new, scientifically proven language learning concept and a genuine breakthrough. A system that is motivating, enjoyable, convenient and highly effective - Listen and learn, any time anywhere, in the car, jogging, at the gym or even on the plane

From the Publisher
A break-through in language learning!

This new, unique accelerated learning method is based on recent scientific research into memory enhancement, using (groovy) music to burn words, phrases and grammatical structures into the long-term memory.

From the Author
The earworms learning method not only anchors words and phrases into your memory in a very short time, it also fits in with busy lives, saving time. You can learn in a traffic jam, on the Underground, while jogging, doing the ironing…where and when you want to.

You take control and you can be using your newfound knowledge within hours.

earworms adopts the lexical approach to language, as opposed to first concentrating on grammar. In essence, this means we look at language in terms of whole meaningful chunks, then break these down into their component bite-sized, easily digestible, easily absorbable parts and then reconstruct them.

You not only learn complete, immediately useful phrases, you pick up the correct accent and intonation and intuitively learn something about the structure (the grammar) of the language.

This approach (as expounded by Michael Lewis in his book "The Lexical Approach") has been taken up in the classroom with positive results.

Results in classroom trials have been beyond expectations; students regularly achieve 90% or more in difficult vocabulary tests, while those who learn without the earworms method attain 50% or less.

The themes of these courses, closely follows the Common European Framework for language learning level one, a recognised benchmark of simple conversational language proficiency, and the emphasis is on usefulness to the learner.

Customer Reviews

A great intro for the scared
I couldn't do languages at school, wasn't bad at other things, but with languages I always had a kind of block in the brain. But having a partner and his family who spoke French made me try to learn as an adult, and this has truly helped me. I'm not going to tell you that I'm suddenly fluent, but listening to this CD made me realise that I could do it. I learnt the whole CD after several listenings and felt a real achivement, and it spurred me on to learn more (I went onto Michel Thomas who is great). I'm actually enjoying language learning now which I didn't before, and it was because this CD made French accessible to me, if not providing a huge range of vocab. You could go straight to Michel Thomas from nothing, but this did a great job of giving me a little and boosting my confidence first. I listen in my car on the way to work and that requires no effort at all re reading or computer work. Get the second CD too, it's very good, though again quite scary at first!

The easy & enjoyable way to learn a language for holiday use
As someone who has studied languages to degree level and also taught foreign languages in secondary school, it would be fair to say that I am generally sceptical of DIY langauage teaching CDs - and often with good cause. However, Earworms CDs are an absolutely invaluable learning resource. They will equip you, with minimal effort on your part, with a basic understanding of the language building blocks - which coupled with vocab covering the usual holiday scenarios, such as ordering drinks, food, buying things, counting, etc, will enable you to begin to start to extrapolate from what you have heard on the CD and, with the help of a dictionary, build your own sentences to meet your specific needs. Some grammar is explained - just enough to help with exactly what I've just said above - but not too much to be overwhelming.

I would thoroughly recommend these CDs to anyone who wants just 'holiday' language, or to anyone who is wishing to study the language in greater depth but would like a gentle introduction first.

The learning process is stress-free and fun. These CDs are so easy to listen to, as the background tracks are non-intrusive, rhythmical, and really do help to nudge the words and phrases into your memory. Everything is repeated several times, with one presenter speaking English and the other saying the same things in the target language. Everything is delivered in time to the music, which aids recollection later, there is good use of humour now and then, and all phrases are broken down so that you can see exactly how they have been made up. The emphasis is on repetition, so there is no feeling that things are moving too quickly. The idea is that you just relax, rather than straining to follow a fast-moving coaching CD. It really does work - once you have listed to the CD a few times, you will find you are remembering whole phrases.

Fun, flirtatious and easy to learn!
I have listened to Volume 2 (on my iPod whilst cycling into work) 3 times now and am already finding myself coming out with the phrases either in my head or when talking to the rest of my family.

The couple are very flirtatious, which also works as it helps to take your mind off trying too hard and the lady's accent and voice is beautiful, add into that the soft rymthical tunes behind the voices and you have an excellent product I would highly recommend.

Moving to France to live is a challenge to say the least. As a family we have bought almost every type of course available however this one is by far our favourite.