Title: Got halfway through lessons before trip to China...very helpful
Product review: I bought this programmed learning experience because of an upcoming post-cruise tour of China. We were in China for 12 days, after being at sea for 2 weeks, and even though I had only gone through 22 of the 45 lessons before leaving the U.S., what I had learned was very helpful and serviceable. I also had tried to use the Rosetta Stone program at my university, but it was so cumbersome as to be ineffective. As a teacher, I think that the Fluenz program does a very good job of preparing the traveler for travel conversations and basic communication, which, believe me, was very much appreciated by the Chinese people we encountered in the 3 cities we visited. I recommend this program to anyone who wants to jump start their learning of useful Chinese sentences. I have Windows Vista Ultimate and the program worked fine with my 3 gigs of ram.
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