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Title: Haitian-Creole by Pimsleur ISBN: 0-671-57929-0 Publisher: Pimsleur Intl Inc Pub. Date: 01 September, 1997 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 5 List Price(USD): $95.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (8 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: A Good Start...
Comment: Given the lack of available information on learning Haitian Creole, I was very happy when I found the Pimsleur tapes, and even happier when I was able to get them at a discount on Amazon.com. I agree with the other reviewers that the limited content is disappointing, but it's a good start and overall I'm happy with my purchase. My wife (who is Haitian) and her friends and family are amazed at the progress I've made in such a short period of time. Now the pressure is on to keep on improving. If Pimsleur made a second and third course, I'd buy them in a heartbeat.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great starter but....
Comment: The Pimsleur method is a great way to start, but the five tapes can quickly be mastered. It would be better with more content/more tapes. Obviously you're not going to learn the language and strike up a conversation after following this course...but that was never my intent.....I was looking for a starting point. All-in-all I satisfied with the course and think it worth the price.
With all that said, they could have hit a home run with 3 things. 1: more tapes, 2: a pronunciation key, 3: the reading guide for each unit should have covered the words used in the corresponding unit on tape.
If Pimsleur expanded the course (before I mastered the language through other means) I would purchase it.
Rating: 2
Summary: There are better...
Comment: Tapes are DEFINITELY the way forward - unless you're going to live and work in a country for a couple of years or more. Even then, a head start is worth something. You won't learn much language in a couple of months in a country starting from scratch (unless you stay with friends who have the patience to teach you in a structured way). Of course, if you can afford face-to-face tuition or learn it in college, nice. If not, then tapes will at least teach you how to pronounce things "properly" (which is not to say idiomatically). They will give you a basic vocabulary.
However, this course is so SLOW - the lessons are repetitious rather than allow the student to judge when to repeat something. One could get far more material into 5 tapes. I acquired them for my son and we were tempted to edit them into something compact. They do not equip you to hold a conversation but give you a basis.
The alternative is "Ann Pale Kreyol" (Valdeman) which costs three times the price but has about six times the material and would prepare you competently to strike up a simple converstaion from the word go.
The Pimsleur publishers might approach a full length course differently, but this abridged course is not good value for money. Students could make good the somewhat deficient volcabulary if they speak intermediate (or above) French because many French words have been drawn into the Kreyol vernacular - colours, for instance. The grammar is quite different and to be fair, the Pimsleur does drill many of its idioms into you. So, if you have six to eight months before you visit Haiti and can afford it, go for the "Ann Pale Kreyol" set. If not, this will do at a pinch. If you're a keen listener you'd soon start to pick the language up. It would also help to lay your hands on any easy books in Kreyol, even newspapers - and if you have a contact in Haiti, ask her/him to send you tapes of radio broadcasts.
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Title: Creole Made Easy by Wally R. Turnbull ISBN: 0967993717 Publisher: Mountain Maid Self Help Project Pub. Date: 15 November, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Creole-English/English-Creole (Caribbean): Hippocrene Concise Dictionary (Hippocrene Concise Dictionary) by Stephanie Ovide ISBN: 0781804558 Publisher: Hippocrene Books Pub. Date: July, 1996 List Price(USD): $11.95 |
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Title: The Oxford Picture Dictionary: English/Haitian Creole: Angle/Kreyol Ayisyen by Norma Shapiro, Jayme Adelson-Goldstein, Carole Berotte Joseph, Shapiro Adelson-Goldstein ISBN: 0194351955 Publisher: Oxford University Press Pub. Date: February, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Haiti in Focus: A Guide to the People, Politics, and Culture (In Focus Guides) by Charles Arthur ISBN: 1566563593 Publisher: Interlink Pub Group Pub. Date: 18 January, 2002 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Bel Peyi Mwen by Kristopher Battles, Elizabeth Turnbull ISBN: 0967993741 Publisher: Mountain Maid Self Help Project Pub. Date: 01 December, 2000 List Price(USD): $5.95 |
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