Learn Mandarin for free with your iPhone
Monday, October 6th, 2008 running time 01:58
Lonely Planet's free Mandarin iPhone app will transform you into an international superstar.
Sarah loves and recommends the Mandarin iPhone app. Great for travelers and great for expanding your mind. Learn more about the app and check out other languages from LonelyPlanet.
Highlights
Mandarin language
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1:20
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popSiren
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0:10
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nobody's perfect
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1:15
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lonely planet
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0:29, 1:27
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Automatically Generated Transcript(may not be 100% accurate) ( more )
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" Eleven but it's -- popSiren -- gracious host Sarah Lane. The Beijing Summer Olympics still fresh -- memories and and our -- I've got a cool new free iPhone app that just that Michael Phelps was using you know in his free time when he wasn't. In the water would in those they gold matte is I. The travel company lonely planet and you've probably seen their travel books supporters here. Even use them if you travel abroad they released -- Mandarin audio freeze the top compatible with iPhone an iPod touch called. Now basically if phrase -- slash dictionary with over 600 phrases. -- once you find the travel section of any bookstore but totally digital which is a huge -- The menu to organize an categories like transport accommodation food and drink so on and so forth that includes a spoken audio clip. The Chinese character written form. And the spelling of the way it sounds. Now having been to China myself and having people stared blankly at me after I spent an hour trying to protect Mandarin version of the word broccoli -- true story. I can assure you. These features are key couple complaints. Because you know nobody's perfect audio elements a nice touch for anybody unfamiliar with the complexities of the Mandarin language but there's no option to slow down an idea don't you know if you want to practice that a slower. Inequality could be a little bit better lonely planet offers nine other phrase books available for download but the Mandarin version is the only ones -- it while hot. Like X -- one. Others think -- Philly it's a lonely planet Mandarin the last word that is like this -- that -- and I can't. And don't forget our full length weekly show -- at the going to -- you episodes of live every Thursday if you can't eastern and Pacific for now that's I got thanks -- and --"
" War."
" Eleven but it's -- popSiren -- gracious host Sarah Lane. The Beijing Summer Olympics still fresh -- memories and and our -- I've got a cool new free iPhone app that just that Michael Phelps was using you know in his free time when he wasn't. In the water would in those they gold matte is I. The travel company lonely planet and you've probably seen their travel books supporters here. Even use them if you travel abroad they released -- Mandarin audio freeze the top compatible with iPhone an iPod touch called. Now basically if phrase -- slash dictionary with over 600 phrases. -- once you find the travel section of any bookstore but totally digital which is a huge -- The menu to organize an categories like transport accommodation food and drink so on and so forth that includes a spoken audio clip. The Chinese character written form. And the spelling of the way it sounds. Now having been to China myself and having people stared blankly at me after I spent an hour trying to protect Mandarin version of the word broccoli -- true story. I can assure you. These features are key couple complaints. Because you know nobody's perfect audio elements a nice touch for anybody unfamiliar with the complexities of the Mandarin language but there's no option to slow down an idea don't you know if you want to practice that a slower. Inequality could be a little bit better lonely planet offers nine other phrase books available for download but the Mandarin version is the only ones -- it while hot. Like X -- one. Others think -- Philly it's a lonely planet Mandarin the last word that is like this -- that -- and I can't. And don't forget our full length weekly show -- at the going to -- you episodes of live every Thursday if you can't eastern and Pacific for now that's I got thanks -- and --"








