Review Of Learn Chinese From Movies

Reviewer: Tony Chen

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Website Reviewed: Learn Chinese From Movies

Learn Chinese From Movies (LCFM) is a new product launched recently. The moment when I saw this product, something from the past had caught me – the time I was learning English. When I was learning English seven years ago, I was kind of getting frustrated and bored with classes. Then my teacher who is my good friend now from America told me to go home and watch English movies.

I bought a lot of movies and started to watch them. Few months later, by consistently watching and enjoy the movie I was no longer frustrating with learning English and my English skills were dramatically improved. That's probably why Learn Chinese From Movies had immediately caught my attention after it launched. Then I took a look from the inside of the product. I hope you can find out useful info of this review of Learn Chinese From Movies.  

Learn Chinese From Movies (LCFM) is designed for people to learn Chinese by watching movies. You probably think it’s easy and just simply get any Chinese Movies you can start to learn Chinese. That’s not true. If you just watch the regular Chinese movies from DVD, you can get subtitles in various language including Chinese and English.

However, the problem is if you watch with Chinese subtitles you can only get Chinese subtitles. If you want to see what it means in English, you have to switch into English subtitles. Any it’s definitely impossible to switch back and forward the subtitles between the two languages. This is where LCFM step in with this method of learning Chinese.  

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What made LCFM stand out with other Chinese movie DVDs is the “magic subtitles”. The product includes the movie called “Spring in a Small Town” with a Chinese Language learning program based around it. The movie is referred as “The Greatest Chinese Film Ever Made”.  

What are those “magic subtitles”? With the LCFM, you can watch the movie with various subtitle choices. Let’s take a look at the screen shot of the LCFM  

Let’s take the subtitles down. 

我得改变生活
Chinese Subtitle (1)
 
wǒ děi gǎibiàn shēng huó  
Pinyin Subtitle (2)
 
I need to-change life.
WFW Subtitle (3)
 
I need to change my life.
English Native Speaker Subtitle(4)
 
There are four kinds of subtitles: Chinese Character Subtitle, Pinyin Subtitle, WFW (Word-to-Word) Subtitle and English Native Speaker Subtitle. The greatest parts I like are the Pinyin Subtitles and WFW Subtitles. With the Pinyin Subtitles you can easily read each word as you are watching the movie. And the WFW Subtitles can give you the direct translation to tell you the meaning of each word. It saves you hours of time to check dictionary. These are something I have never seen in any other DVDs. This is something I didn’t have when I was learning English by watching movies, if I could have something like this it could save me a lot of time.
 
There is one more option that you can choose Simple Chinese Subtitles and Traditional Chinese Subtitles. Most of the place in mainland of China is using simple Chinese, but Traditional Chinese is still used in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau.
 
This product has two DVDs: one DVD includes the movie and all the subtitles. You can choose different subtitles combination according to your need. Other DVD includes tons of study guides, tools, charts, transcripts and bonuses. I had taken a look at those bonuses and I personally think these are great bonuses. With all the resource from the second DVDs you will get:

• A transcript of the entire dialog of the movie in all subtitles.
• A vocabulary list of every word used in the movie presented by scene.
• Flashcards for all Chinese character from the movie.
• A special video version of the Movie with Magic subtitles that can be played on cell phone, iPod.
• A 3 month study guide that lead you to learn how to read most of Chinese characters.
• Secret Chinese character memorizing method. Chinese characters are different with English vocabulary, you can’t remember them as you do with English. This is a great method to remember Chinese characters, it make all the lines and strokes meaningful and easy to memories.
• A Chinese dictionary software with over 80,000 words and phrases which can be installed on any cell phone.
   

I personally think this is a great method to learn Chinese and any other languages. Learn Chinese From Movies (LCFM) is based on this method with very handy tools to make your learning process faster and joyful. You won’t waste so much time as I did when I learned English. I strongly suggest you to check this one out. This is a great program for people who want to learn Chinese in a casual way, especially if you are not a classroom learner.
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