Title: random, rote list not a good way to learn
Product review: Hungry for Korean listening materials, I bought level 2 of this 3-level set. It is boring and pointless to listen to an endless list of words uttered first in English, then in Korean. Worse for Korean learners of English is the random inclusion of articles "the" and "an" before nouns. I suppose the purpose is to distinguish nouns that take "a" and nouns that take "an," but "the curiosity" is unnatural because this countable noun would need the article "the" only if modified by an adjective clause as in "the curiosity that children show..." The "a/an" distinction is easy to learn. It would make more sense to distinguish clearly between countable and uncountable nouns by using "a" before countable nouns and nothing before uncountable nouns.A companion CD to a textbook would reinforce language learned in the context of a thematic unit, but a random list is not a useful tool for increasing vocabulary.I will not buy any more Vocabulearn CDs.
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