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Nibble -

http://www.thelanguageexpert.com/12goldenrules/

It's a 222-page ebook by someone called Bryan Todd. Has anyone read it? Is it worth the money?



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Shadowdh -

I have read it and its really not worth the money... I found that from 222 pages only 50 or so had
anything worth reading (and most of those were amusing-ish anecdotes) as most of it is filled with
the "you can acheive this you are the language man" type of drivel and the rest is mostly common
sense type stuff... having said that he does have some very good insights into learning the
language... but just not 222 pages worth...










roddy -

Haven't read it, but I'm inherently dubious of ebooks - barriers to publishing are way too low -
and particularly when there is no 'sample chapter' or similar provided. Are there any reviews /
comments on non-affiliated sites?

From what Shadowdh has said, it sounds like bits of language learning advice with lots of
motivational-type stuff. I wouldn't bother.

Roddy










Nibble -

That is pretty much what I was afraid of. The "free 5-day e-mail course" was mostly just common
sense, and the only thing it promised the book would have was a list of the 600 most common hanzi
and the most common compounds they're in, but I'm sure that's freely available on the internet.










Shadowdh -

The free trial was most of the useful stuff from the book by memory... there may be one or two
other tidbits of info but not much...










ocpaul20 -



Quote:

bits of language learning advice with lots of motivational-type stuff.

well, I need lots of motivational stuff :-)

Why is that a bad thing?










Shadowdh -

Because its given in the "hallelujah" type of evangelical style... its pretty much all that and
you have to pay for it... you would be better off spending the money on a book and actually
studying... truly it does have one or two good points on how to study Chinese but the dross is far
too much compared to the nuggets...










self-taught-mba -



Quote:

list of the 600 most common hanzi and the most common compounds they're in, but I'm sure that's
freely available on the internet.

And they are. Recently I found someone selling the list of 1000 most used characters as the
"secret" when they are freely available many places.










David W Jackson -

If the testimonials are to be believed, maybe this is worth a pop. Anyone already taken the
plunge? Feedback? Worth 30 dollars? http://www.masterchinesefaster.com/12rules/










roddy -

Merging - different url, same 'product'

Roddy












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