Talk Now! Cantonese | 
 enlarge | Author: Eurotalk
Brand: TOPICS Entertainment
Category: Book
Buy New: $31.21
New (8) Used (1) from $31.21
Rating:  9 reviews
Sales Rank: 302923
Format: Cd-rom
Platform: Windows 95
Media: CD-ROM
Discs: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5 x 0.6 x 7.8
MPN: amt5048
Model: 9 781 843 520 481
ISBN: 1843520486
UPC: 781735501320
EAN: 9781843520481
ASIN: 1843520486
Publication Date: January 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: Brand New. Delivery is usually 5 - 8 working days from order, International is by Royal Mail Airmail
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| Features:
| • | Multiple games and quizzes introduce basic elements of Cantonese culture, while explaining simple words & phrases | | • | Fun quizzes and challenging memory games will reinforce learning | | • | Handy print & picture dictionary with both text and pictures to help you look up unfamiliar words | | • | Recording tools let you record your own voice, to compare pronunciation with a native Cantonese speaker | | • | Track your abilities and measure your progress, for greater improvement - you can even print out special certificates to prove you completed the program |
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Product Description
Talk Now! Beginners Cantonese is the perfect way to study a new language. It operates on multiple levels to create an immersive learning experience. Through vocabulary lessons and cultural exercises you'll develop a solid Cantonese vocabulary -- and you'll have fun, too!
Amazon.com Product Description
This unconventional language-learning series offers games and quizzes that make the learning process fun, relaxing, and, as such, more successful. Ideal for beginners, Talk Now! Cantonese includes such topics as vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more. A handy print and picture dictionary produces entries with both text and pictorial references. This interactive software title also features a recording tool, so you can compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers (microphone required). Quizzes and a challenging memory game let you test your newly acquired skills. You can also track your scores and print awards to celebrate. Best of all, you can change Talk Now! Cantonese's onscreen help and menus to the language of your choice. With more than 70 languages from which to choose, this software makes learning Cantonese accessible to everyone.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 4 more reviews...
 Great Cantonese Software August 23, 2007
Andrew Lynch (Houston, TX USA)
For people just trying to learn their vocabulary, this tool is fantastic. Much better than flashcards.
 Great piece of software! July 24, 2007
Jean Smith (New York, NY)
I really love the Talk Now! programs. I have a similar one in French, and I think it's absolutely wonderful. This is for people who have never spoken/understood a word of Cantonese in their lives. It starts at the very beginning, and contains hundreds of useful words and phases. Get a different program if you need to learn grammar too. But this one is top notch for vocab and beginning words
Great for what it is August 21, 2005
Joseph Mclaughlin (San Francisco)
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
Each language software package can only handle a few angles on language. Talk Now! offers inspired games and oral repetitions for learning vocabulary, telling time and more. The bad reviews must be generated by users who expect everything from one cd. Not me. I love Talk Now! for what it is and hope they expand their scope with all languages as they have with Cantonese. If you want to become fluent, buy several software packages and visit the country for more than a year. If you want an almost effortless and fun introduction this is it. It's one of a kind.
 Not the best product I've tried March 3, 2005
chittydog (Bedford, TX USA)
6 out of 7 found this review helpful
If you just want to learn a few words in Cantonese and learn well by plain rote, this is probably a fair course. However, if you're serious about learning Cantonese, skip this one and try something else. This course just throws out random words with no context of how they'll be used. Grammer and enunciation are given very little attention here. If you've studied Cantonese at all, you'll understand the importance of both. The audio is not terribly clear and the pronounciation doesn't seem to jive with what I'm learning from my wife and other courses.
This course is okay for the price (I got it on sale bundled with the Mandarin course for $10), but if you plan on ever having a conversation in Cantonese someday, I'd recommend the excellent Pimsleur course. Basic Cantonese by Virginia Yip is quite good as well. Even Teach Yourself Cantonese by Hugo Baker is pretty good once you get used to the format.
 Great methods, mediocre content December 14, 2004
Scott Paffrath (Riverside, CA)
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
The good part about this software is that it provides a fun and engaging way to learn some basic Cantonese vocabulary. The words and phrases are spoken twice, in a male and female voice with accompanying pictures. The games and self tests are fun to work through. It also provides a way to record your voice and compare it to the speakers' pronunciation.
The bad part is that it does not go very far in how much content it provides. If you are a serious student this will not provide you with any grammar, no section on enunciation of particular sounds (a necessity for those of us starting from only romance languages which do not have these sounds), and no explanation how to read the Romanized spelling of words. Also, it gears some of the vocabulary towards tourists but then much of the dialogue is a very formal type that is not even spoken in practice. If the content is geared toward the casual learner then one would suppose they would teach the language as it is actually spoken. My tutor/girlfriend taught me which parts of this program I should ignore.
Do not buy this expecting it to go very far in teaching you Cantonese. It is only useful as a supplement to another introductory curriculum that might be lacking in good teaching tools.
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