Rapid Greek: Volume 1

I've listened to this only a few times and am amazed at how many phrases I can remember. The narrators sound like they are having fun (quite unlike other audio language courses I have tried) and the music really helps memory retention. In an attempt multi-task by breaking the monotony of my horrendous daily commute AND being able to have proper conversations with my friends in Greece, it's absolutely perfect. I hope Rapid Greek: Volume 2 will be appearing soon!

This has to be the best learning, device ever.relax and learn far better than trying to learn yourself from books. Over the years i have spent a lot of money trying to speak greek. this was a bargain. I have learnt more words and sayings than i have in the past ten years. Simply the best.

I have studied
foreign languages for a lifetime and this has to be the most effective and enjoyable method so far.

The bonus is that the teachers seem to be enjoying themselves and who wouldn't want to be taught by such enthusiastic people not to mention the very becoming voice of the young lady teacher.

I have a real issue learning from a book or being told constantly with repetition. Earworms has enabled me to learn Greek very quickly with music, I don't know how it works, but it does! After a couple of weeks, I had to buy volume 2 because I was fluent in the greek taught on volume 1! I would definately recomend this to people who learn more by sounds than reading.

There is a good range of phrases for many situations that you may encounter on holidays. What put me off was the continuous background music which very quickly becomes extremely irritating. After my first listening, I used the Collins Greek instead and concentrated on mastering everything on Collins. Returning to this a couple of years later I still find it annoying and the enunciation of some of the words is not as clear as it could be. I totally mis-heard one of the English words they were using. It was not until I had played it through several times that I suddenly realised that a different word was being said.
This may be ideal for people who learn better with music in the background but even then, why not provide your own choice of music? Personally, I like clear pronunciation so that I can imitate all the inflections as close as possible to the correct one.

I purchased this along with the Michel Thomas book and the One Day Greek book. Repetition is the key - but I think I might go mad if I continue to repeat the Earworms learning tape.... the music is beginning to mask the vocabulary.

I think too that it's value lies more in building vocabulary than teaching the structure of the language, something the Michel Thomas tape achieves very well.

I am glad to have the Earworms book - variety is good in any repetitive method - but I won't be buying book 2 just yet - although I have ordered the foundation and advanced courses by the Michel Thomas method.

The One Day Greek book is also an easier listen than this.