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Teach Me Chinese (Paperback and Audio Cassette): A Musical Journey Through the Day |  | Author: Judy Mahoney
Publisher: Teach Me Tapes
Category: Book
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 2529177
Media: Audio Cassette
Edition: Book and Cassette
Reading Level: Ages 9-12
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 12.4 x 9.5 x 0.6
ISBN: 0934633843
Dewey Decimal Number: 420
EAN: 9780934633840
ASIN: 0934633843
Publication Date: September 1, 1996
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Product Description
The universal language of music is at the heart of this introduction to Chinese.
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 Disorganized book, nice audio. July 31, 2008
E. Cho (Petaluma, CA, USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I got this hoping it'd help me improve my Mandarin since I only know Cantonese Chinese. It was a great disappointment.
The audio portion is lovely, but the book that accompanies it is poorly organized. It does not contain all the lyrics in Chinese characters, and you need to flip back and forth in the book to get the "additional lyrics" in pinyin. The English translations are in the back of the book, so you cannot cross-reference meanings easily either.
The pictures and vocabulary words in between each singing section are cute and useful, but I would not recommend this CD and book set to anyone wanting to learn Mandarin Chinese.
Teach Me Chinese (Paperback and Audio CD): A Musical Journey Through the Day November 4, 2007
jinshui (United Arab Emirates)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
i am a native Mandarin speaker and have a BA in English. i've been a Mandarin instructor for adults and children for the past 12 years.
Positive: CD comes with book inlcuding lyrics in SOME of the songs. Book's illustration has many pictures along with the Pin yin for the songs. kids can use the pics in the pages for coloring.
Negative: Some of the songs are wrongly translated... like "The More we get Together Song". That's why previous comments mentioned how the songs when translated into Mandarin, do not rhyme. Lyrics are not printed for ALL the songs on the CD.
Other comments:
I wonder why are there English songs in the CD too? I understand why they have the songs in English then translated into Mandarin with the same tune. But some songs are only in English.
I want to add that some previous comments mentioned the "high pitch" voice of the female singer. As a native Mandarin speaker, i feel that is normal how children songs are sung in Mainland China. Its a folksy style which is very common... No, that's not how Mandarin is spoken (high pitch/ squeeky etc) But if you compare with nursery rhymes in English, you will notice a distinct difference in them too - they are usually sung with a certain accent or tone. We do not speak English like the way they were sang in songs.
the idea of using the tune of English nursery songs is a good because it may encourage children of non-native Mandarin background to feel familar and hence interested to learn the songs. Unfortunately, in this case, it was a poor attempt or it has not been proofed?
Eg. the song "Are you sleepng" - there is a chinese version which i learnt as a kid. the song is called "San zhi lao hu" translated as "3 tigers". instead of using san zhi lao hu's lyrics to the song, the translator translate word for word "Are you sleeping" from English to Mandarin which resulted in forcing syllables to cramp into the original notes.
I would have to modify many parts of the book to suit learning.
I have limited resources where i teach - cant use a dvd player either. so i bought this, based on previous reviews and whats available.
would i recommend this? Only if you have no other better alternatives.
 Easy listening July 24, 2007
K (Plantation, FL USA)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter will take Mandarin in school, so we wanted some exposure and got it with this set.
 Annoying but Effective November 14, 2006
anonymous (Vermont)
My 2 1/2 year old loves it. She asks to listen to this CD every day, instead of her old favorites. The first week or two she complained that she didn't like the Chinese parts, but now she likes it all. She walks around the house singing phrases in Chinese to herself. She counts to ten in Mandarin with no accent, like a native Mandarin speaker, according to a Chinese friend. Misses the last star because the voice on the tape is so obnoxiously sickly cutesy I can barely leave it on.
Ouch, My Ears! October 24, 2004
Laura De Giorgio (Canada)
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
English part on this CD is awesome - both the background music and the voices sound professionally done. The problem with Chinese is not that the vocalists are bad - for the most part they sound decent - but no matter how good voice you may have if you keep on trying to squish 5 - 10 syllables into a beat of music that can accommodate harmoniously only one or two - it's not going to work.
The music on this CD was created to accommodate English verses. When these English verses got translated to Chinese, the number of Chinese syllables that has to fit into the same music constantly comes out as being either not enough or too much.
it makes me wonder if musicians who were involved in creating these songs didn't have ears to hear how bad the combination sounds, or they didn't care, or thought that kids for whom it was made, would either not notice or care.
This recording could've been done beautifully if instead of using popular western music to accompany Chinese verses, they picked perhaps some Chinese music.
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