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Great intro to French language

Revisado: 01-20-22

This podcast helped ingrain certain phrases and words, so that i easily remembered “oh, you say this concept THIS way”, and it became quite familiar and automatic.

The Scottish accents when speaking the English portion are a bonus, and are warm and friendly. (I have family from Glasgow, aways back.)

Mark takes time explaining pronunciation and also common pitfalls beginners make which was SO helpful. I have listened to this podcast on and off for years.

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Excellent! Accessible! Engaging!

Revisado: 01-12-22

I sometimes struggle to get through books, because I get bored or because certain areas are lingered upon too long. But, I found this one to be engaging, and touched on a variety of topics in order to make the examples, and also keep it interesting.

The way I listened to it was during a media fast, when I was watching no TV or anything else, and I allowed myself listening to audiobooks when doing things like yoga or walking or cooking. And this was a great book to do this with. You can start and stop quite easily.

Highly recommend!

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Another great one!

Revisado: 12-04-21

I was so glad he finally put one out for Japanese! I was hoping he was seeing as he had Chinese, and recommended it on his website. Low and behold, less than a year later, Japanese! Whether it was from suggestions or not, I was just really excited to see it within less than a year!

I’m an intermediate learner, however, never quite grasped sentence building in a meaningful way. I was missing the glue to hold all my vocabulary together and make it conversation.

That is one thing I will say about Paul’s courses, as you get practice being put on the spot an actually tHINKING about how to assemble them. You can pause anytime of course. But it’s almost the same situation as being in a real time conversation with a need a speaker, but less pressure. It’s still put your brain in the mode of “how would I say this?“ Only, you get to see an answer right away, and test how you are doing.

I love that Paul always has his explanations in English and the native speaker demonstrating. Not that non-native speakers can’t speak well. But it just helps to hear japanese without any non-native accents.

I have his books in French and one in Chinese, they are both excellent. Bought the German one but haven’t gotten started yet. Amazing series! Something to learn for every level. And tons of practice, very easy to listen to in the car.

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Can’t find this in searches on app!

Revisado: 05-17-21

I had a recommendation for this book, and searched the Audible app store for it. Nothing! (I tried variations of the title, the full title, the author, and the narrator).

When I looked it up on Amazon, I see that there is in fact an audible book option. So I added it from there. But it was very frustrating that it’s missing from the app catalog. I hope this can be fixed! Now this has me wondering how many titles I am missing because they are not included in the app catalog.

I love the premise of this book, and got a little sample on Amazon. I will write a formal review once I’ve gotten a chance to listen to the book.

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Yes! Amazing!!

Revisado: 05-13-20

I have this french course and it made me progress in leaps and bounds. It tied together stuff i learned in various places, like Duolingo, and made me able to put sentences together fast. I can’t gush enough about it.

Very soon in, i could already say a few basic sentences. But understanding them, and retaining. I could confidently use and adapt the things he covered. (Duolingo’s french course is actually pretty great! But Paul’s course is like the puppetmaster, to learn how to make things work & be utilized. It was like a magical key of the Universe!)

Paul makes it accessible, fun, and comes at languages from the angle of understanding how sentences function- the nuts and bolts of how a language works. So you can build and rebuild your own sentences vs being stuck to memorizing a few lines. You can critically think your way through speaking/listening.

The Chinese course is amazing also!
I will be trying german as well. ((I hope he creates one for Japanese! That’s been my main language i’ve studied for YEARS but i am only soso on composing sentences to utilizing vocab)). JPN, FR are my mains, GER, CH, Korean, i dabble with.

Thank you Paul, i love your content!! (And your speaking voice & accent lol. Brilliant.)

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Insta-purchase! Love this!

Revisado: 05-13-20

I have his french course and it made me progress in leaps and bounds. It tied together stuff i learned in various places, like Duolingo, and made me able to put sentences together fast. I can’t gush enough about it.

When i saw he had a CHINESE course, as i’d just started dabbling with various learning platforms.... i was thrilled! I was finding those sources too impenetrable & unhelpful. Very heavy on chinese characters vs english letters.

So, 15MIN into this audiocourse and i can already say a few basic sentences.

Paul makes it accessible, fun, and comes at languages from the angle of understanding how sentences function- the nuts and bolts of how a language works. So you can build and rebuild your own sentences vs being stuck to memorizing a few lines. You can critically think your way through speaking/listening.

Having 2 native speakers on this is super helpful also!

Thank you Paul, i love your content!! (And your speaking voice & accent lol. Brilliant.)

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Amazing!

Revisado: 01-15-20

This was absolutely fantastic! The acting, the story, the pacing, the music. Everything was exceptional! And the history itself was fascinating.

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Sort of yes and no

Revisado: 11-21-19

A lot of the ideas are really good but there were some definite frustrations. Preoccupation with love interests got in the way of the flow of the story - the events. Some of the dialogue was cringey. Frankly the main character was aggravating many times. Though at other times seemed written a bit different and i liked her. The one love interest was frustrating because he was so naggy and sounded like her father. As an aside, some of the smells described were... jarring. Just really weird picks. Along with some of the fashion choices.

On the other hand there were definitely some compelling moments that could bring you to the edge of your seat. I guess i just hoped for more of that - the really good and interesting plot stuff. But it was met with the filler of being overly fixated at every moment with the love interest and excessive descriptions of strong arms and things that sounded like in depth kisses but then somehow weren’t actually kisses. Idk.

Anywho the Voice Actor was pretty good. My only complaint was Alyssa sounded really whiny, or forced drama-y which could be part of why I didn’t like her. 1st love interest had a weird take on his voice that was really unattractive (yes this is subjective so take opinion with a grain of salt). The accent done on one of the main characters was always very interesting to me, I appreciated that part. Tho my absolute favorite voice was a side character and I would have LOVED to have more. Sister 1, the nicer one. That voice had so much to it, felt really polished and SO interesting! Also many of the side characters had good voices.

Now, one technical complaint - the whispered voices were too soft. I couldn’t hear them and had to rewind, crank volume. I think in editing the should have been made a bit louder. So it would obviously be a whisper but not too quiet to hear.

Again, some very interesting concepts but felt like filler at times... the narrative was just missing a feeling of depth in the moment to moment. Perhaps in further books this narrative becomes stronger. Not sure.

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Great voice actor & interesting story!

Revisado: 08-31-16

The voice acting was fantastic - lively and engaging, with different voices for all of the people. The story was thought provoking and told with an abundance of imagery and descriptions which activated all of the senses.

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2hrs in...

Revisado: 01-26-16

2hrs in and i am still feeling restless to get to the point. This is just my personal take, but i feel trapped in a world of obsessively documented minutia. I want to know about the tie between schizophrenia and shamanism but that has yet to be broached. I feel like i am being regaled with baby pictures (and accompanying descriptions), in an endless stream, of a stranger i have no cause yet to care about.

I'm frustrated because this has a lot of promise, the subject matter does, but by god get to the point! Sorry. Maybe it picks up later on but i think 2 hours is a solid and honest effort to give the benefit of the doubt.

I'm just not sure why the decision was made to keep this so lengthy, and to not edit it so that only pertinent things were relayed? Maybe the author felt it was ALL relevant.... But as a reader i'm floundering with all of this info that seems disjointed and seems to not support certain ideas he wishes to get across. Brevity can also be an art.

The human attention span is generally 30 seconds.... Where is the hook to pull in one's interest, aside from the book's description?

I hope this review doesn't sound mean or hurtful - i don't intend it to be. I'm just quite bewildered with the meandering and almost unfocused nature of this book thus far. Again, my personal assessment. Others may have a different experience.

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