Product Description

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!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #18597 in Books
• Published on: 2005-07-15
• Format: Audiobook
• Original language: English
• 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
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

From the Author
Most people don't like to spend hours on end pondering over language textbooks, but they do like to listen to music. I realised quite early on that music is the ideal medium for teaching ,especially languages. My students really love to work with this sytem. They often memorise 100% of the material and it stays in their long-term memory ready for instant recall. We all have this ability. I am sure you too remember song lyrics from way back, even though you don't particularly want to...Voulez-vous coucher.... see what I mean!
This system of learning is easy, effective, fun and motivating through the real rapid progress you make.

Customer Reviews

Quick and effective learning
I have bought vol 1 and 2 and have found both cd's excellent. Undoubtedly it is a good way of learning particularly if you are an auditory learner-the phrases really do seem to stick in the memory.
I like the music although would have prefered some greek tunes for added interest.
My only real criticism is about the small book that is included with the cd;the way the Greek has been transliterated is confusing. I have virtually every Greek book on the market as I teach Greek and have never seen Greek transliterated in this way.
Another minor criticism for vol 2 is after listening to the cd over and over again the female speaker's giggling gets a little annoying.
Overall I would recommend this series to people wanting to speak a good level of holiday Greek. I hope they bring out another volume.

It's all greek to me....
Volume 1 has already been useful - my wife, daughter and myself were in Greece a couple of months ago and having even limited skills in the language totally changed the attitude of the locals towards us! Christine (daughter) was a great hit around the town we were staying in as she was the only British child who had any skills at all in the language.

The Rosetta Stone system is pretty good (and goes further) - but for pain free and quick learning of basics of a language at sensible prices, I'm really impressed with the Earworms method!

Volume 2 expands on vol 1 - although it can mostly be used standalone, you'll want some of the parts from Vol 1 - particularly the numbers track.

This volume leads you into talking about yourself and interacting with other people - it's billed as "allowing you to flirt" which is pushing what it gives you.

It includes a basic intro to verbs - how to speak in past/future and conditional, and extends counting introducing eleven to a hundred. Also covered is a meal at a taverna.

Good - a bit basic, but recommended!

Alex

Greek made easy
If you want to acquire some basic Greek phrases then I would highly recommend this CD as your best starting point. It is made up of ten tracks which cover some 200 basic words and phrases. Each track has music in the background - more about this later. There is also a booklet which accompanies the CD. It has the text which is spoken and also some advice on using the CD.

Everyone wants a shortcut to learning and it would be easy to be disappointed by any course which made such bold claims. This is not, in my opinion, a shortcut to learning a language. There is no magic here. The reason why it seems to work so well is that the musical background makes it much more palatable to listen to it over and over and over again. And, with repeated listening, things do start to stick.

Once you are familiar with the pronunciation on the CD you can then follow the text in the booklet. I also thought that this was useful. For example, the word for 'please' is often given phonetically as 'parakalo.' In the booklet it is written as 'baragalo.' By adopting a compromise between what was heard on the CD and what was written in the booklet, it did seem to result in an improvement in my pronunciation (I hope!)

Also with language CD's you can find that you are suddenly presented with a lengthy sentence which is difficult to assimilate. Here the sentence might be spoken and then broken down into its component parts. You get a chance to repeat each part before the whole thing is then reassembled. The repetition of words and phrases is very well done.