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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes  Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 33 of 38 11 September 2012 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have been using the German Vocabulearn CDs for a few Months now. My thoughts:
1. They are pretty boring. 2. They are pretty extensive in the range of vocabulary included. 3. The audio is very clear, even if it seems a tad slower than regular speech. 4. I think that the CDs are too long personally. Given that they are around 30 minutes each, it really feels like way too much information for a single listen. I think the way to go would be to break it out into 3-5 minute "mini-lessons". Overall, I like them. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 34 of 38 11 September 2012 at 9:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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As you say, it is of course possible (using Reaper, Goldwave or Audacity) to break the
lessons down into 5 minutes blocks - which makes the courses relatively painless to use if you are going for a quick stroll or want to tack on a bit of vocab after your main language learning lessons (if you use a dialogue type course). Edited by Elexi on 12 September 2012 at 12:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| atama warui Triglot Senior Member Japan Joined 4701 days ago 594 posts - 985 votes Speaks: German*, English, Japanese | Message 35 of 38 12 September 2012 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice idea to break the lessons up. I should do that too.
Did the Japanese Vocabulearn Levels 1 and 2 but somehow didn't have time and motivation to continue. I guess I'll go for it again. The words introduced are great stuff, as they're not some obscure never used terms. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 36 of 38 18 November 2012 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good news for those of you in the UK: amazon.co.uk now has vocabulearn (and learn in
your car) available in their mp3 store. I almost bought Vocabulearn French level 1, then spotted the full set on CD for £10 used, so I got it instead. I spend about an hour a day commuting, so a large chunk of my learning is audio. I have mixed feelings about the value of Vocabulearn, but since I have time on my hands it certainly can't hurt. As to how I'll use it, I'm not going to bother to play with audacity, etc. It is already broken up into 10-12 minute chunks, which is just fine in my opinion. I think I'll just put a single track on repeat for a single trip of 1/2 hour, and repeat that track for several days, then move on to the next track. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4668 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 37 of 38 19 November 2012 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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German Vocabulearn has an Austrian accent ;)
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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4689 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 38 of 38 19 November 2012 at 3:45pm | IP Logged | ||
Is this true? If so, it would make sense that the pronunciation sounds just a little different than I've heard in other lessons/podcasts... I could never quite figure out what sounded "off" about the girl's pronunciation. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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