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Rapid Japanese

By: Earworms Learning
Narrated by: Marlon Lodge
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Summary

Rapid Japanese: The Musical Brain Trainer, a genuine breakthrough and your easy and effective access to the Japanese language.

Earworms MBT is a revolutionary accelerated learning technique that takes the hard work out of learning.

By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of Japanese and English a few times, you pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue, but will be burned deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time.

If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, Earworms MBT Rapid Japanese is the course for you.

Volume 1 is your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad.

You will feel you are learning within minutes and might just be amazed by how easy acquiring a language can be!

This audiobook also comes with a free booklet to accompany the course which you can download by clicking on this link. Free booklet
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Sceptical at the start ...

What can I say ... I was sceptical at first when i purchased this title, ?9.49 for a basic Japanese language course, but let me put that scepticism to rest here and now ... this course is great & well worth the money ... think the Ronseal advertisment ... 'does exactly what it says on the tin!
There is no work on formal written japanese text but lets be honest, i think being able to speak enough basic japanese to get by will be enough for most people !
Like myself, i'm sure that you all remember learning french or whatever at school and how boring or how much of a chore it was ! Well the Earworms learning aid makes practicing the language a fun and enjoyable time! I actually look forward to practicing the course! If only i'd have had this or one off the other language courses by Earworms, I would have surely continued studying a language of some description before now !

I've only had the course just under a week but im quiet able and confident in my ability to use what i have learnt from the course itself. The reason for purchasing the course is due to a possible job offer in Japan and i would like to be able to pass myself intially while i'm there.

Great course, great layout, great results after only a few days ! Check it out and see what you think !

Though i do have to point out, like all things, you have to want to learn the material and for people who already have a baisc knowledge fo the language, i would imagine you should sit tight until volume 2 comes out !

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Quite Strange

[REVIEW IN PROGRESS]

I'm not sure if its just me, or not. I haven't finished it yet (given the length of the audio book which is great value) But I'm half expecting to hear this man and woman getting it on very soon with the way it's going so far. You could cut the sexual tension here with a knife. I hope by now they are both now happily married.

The vibe of the music is very strange and quite mysterious sounding as opposed to a positive catchy actual ear worm.
I get the musical element as a learning concept, but the voice tone of the Japanese lady is a just too effected and breathy for the most part, making it less clear and difficult when making out syllables etc and also distracting, like "What the hell is going on here?!"

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

Excellent learning system

An innovative way to learn! I found the idea of learning Japanese quite daunting, but this way of learning made it relatively painless. The music and repetition seems to make it stick! The teachers have lovely voices, which makes it very easy to listen to. Recommended.

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Awful

If this book wasn’t for you, who do you think might enjoy it more?

No one

Would you ever listen to anything by Earworms Learning again?

Never

Would you be willing to try another one of Marlon Lodge’s performances?

No

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Rapid Japanese?

The background music

Any additional comments?

You can't decipher the Japanese due to the ridiculous background music.

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  • Overall
    4 out of 5 stars

A good quick fix

Like any of the language courses, you get out what you put in. This course uses a music background with a native and English speaker going over Japanese phrases and words. The course tends to provide a sentence, in English, and then in Japanese and then breaks down all the words in the sentence, and the pronunciations for the words. The course is similar to the other earworms courses, and if you liked one of the others I imagine you'll like this one.



It's not a bad idea, although the tunes are not that great, I find that I can recall some of the sentences. A good supplement for learning, or for a quick fix before heading on holiday but it is not a good standalone course.

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  • Overall
    5 out of 5 stars

It's like remembering song lyrics!

It really is that easy, i've even got my mum learning some!

The music in the background is great for just playing it whilst doing other jobs or lying in bed, very relaxing yet upbeat in times too. I find it doesn't get boring either like ones where there is no music, nice to add that touch and definitely helps with the learning process.



The topics spoken about are relevant to those going there, numbers, how to travel, how to ask where places are, how to order food and drink and more.

I am looking forward to purchasing the second one.



Plus the two narrators have great voices so it's easy to remember them saying it when you're out and about.

Definitely recommend!

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  • Overall
    3 out of 5 stars

Background Music ruins it

The background music makes it sometimes hard to understand, would have been better without it.

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Excellent trippy alternative music journey

1. British English ✖️10.000 gold stars!
2. Playful rhythmic dialogue with soft & smooth voices.
3. Never heard anything like it. Moments with natural dialogue, different types of repetition. Different pronunciations. Cultural advice.
Summary: It is a joy to listen to. It’s like rhythmic art poetry with music that moves forvard continuously.
IM SUPER IMPRESSED 👌🤩👍 love it ❤️

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personally, for me, the method was not right

Personally I found the music distracting and the repitition method a bit childish. It is just not my way of learning.

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    4 out of 5 stars

Good

Personally I liked the background music besides for one chapter, it was fun to follow a long with and funny with the echo effects which can get annoying but still hilarious to me. My biggest problem was they wouldn't elaborate on things that needed slowed down for me but would do it on words I diddn't need. I would recommend it. If you liked the sample then go for it if not maybe don't pick this audio book. 👍 :)

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