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Title: Spanish for Health Professionals: Interactive Language Exercises : Doctors, Dentists, Nurses, Psychologists, Social Workers & Related Fields (Significant Learning Series.) by Dario Sanchez, Ruben Juarez ISBN: 0-9658803-1-1 Publisher: Computer Resource Associates Inc. Pub. Date: 01 December, 1997 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $39.95

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Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (4 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Useful and practical
Comment: A great buy. This book and CD does not make any reference to grammar, these are strictly many hours of listen and repeat drills that help you with your pronunciation. I learned a lot with the CD, now I speak more Spanish at work and they understand me! I give it five.

Rating: 2
Summary: Very disappointed-- returned item.
Comment: For a product titled "Interactive Language Exercises" and referring to its "workbook", I expected a textbook-like format with actual "exercises"-- fill-in-the-blank, multiple choice, translate this phrase, etc. All this has is a list of phrases in English and Spanish. All the CDROM does is pronounce said list of phrases. The only "exercise" is rote memorization of these phrases. There is no instruction on grammar or why you say things the way you do, so there is absolutely no flexibility in learning how to say anything other than the exact phrase they have.

I personally already speak quite a bit of Spanish, so I could use these phrases to pick up some more vocabulary, but I could do that just as easily and much more conveniently from a medical dictionary or from my other variety of much cheaper medical phrasebooks. For someone who doesn't speak much Spanish I think this would be terrible. Who can rote memorize "680 dialog situations, 1200 vocabulary terms, 200 common expressions"? This TEACHES absolutely nothing!

Rating: 2
Summary: Don't expect much from this one
Comment: This book tries to cover Spanish for Health Professionals from the receptionist to the Doctor/Dentist. It does not adequately cover any of these areas. It tries to teach by showing the reader a conversation, but it goes no further. It has no discussion of common phrases or grammar, and the conversations are too situation specific. It does have a list of colors, months, numbers, etc. in the back of the book. The software portion is more of the same. I have limited knowledge of Spanish, and bought this book for a medical trip to Peru and found it to be practically useless. I would recommend spending your money on a good dictionary or phrasebook, or looking into some of the Spanish language software that is available.