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Title: Learn in Your Car: Complete Language Course: Spanish by Henry N. Raymond, Oscar M. Ramirez ISBN: 1-56015-141-2 Publisher: Penton Overseas Pub. Date: 01 June, 1993 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 6 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.81 (21 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: The Best Way for Busy People to Learn a Language
Comment: I strongly recommend this 3 level program. I began the tapes a few months ago with almost no knowledge of Spanish, and have used just the tapes - no book. After about 2 months of using the tapes in my car, I enrolled in a weekly class in beginning conversational Spanish, and found that I was way ahead of the rest of the class due to the tapes. I have continued to augment my classes with the tapes, and have found that the tapes have dramatically accelerated my progress. The lessons are real-life situations with words and phrases that one uses in everyday conversational Spanish. There is just the right amount of time to respond in Spanish before the tape gives the Spanish phrase, and the speed of the Spanish speaking people on the tape increases slightly with each tape, forcing one to think a little more quickly as one progresses. The way the lessons are set up is quite logical, and one lesson flows to the next. I play and respond to each tape over and over until I have really mastered the material before moving on to the next tape, and now, near the end of level 3, I am wishing that there was another level in this series to which I could progress.
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent Audio Backbone for Studies in Espanol.
Comment: I'm a third of the way through Level 2 and am just starting to be able to construct/speak with useful sentences and understand very basic Spanish if they talk slow. My reading is much better. I do not enjoy a natural talent for languages - especially in listening comprehension. I have tried all sorts of media aids, including interactive CD ROMS and several tapes and books. First off I think it is neccesary to learn a language by engaging as many of the faculties of your mind as possible so I do not subsribe to this CD as the sole means of learning the language. Most people will need to do a lot of reading, memorization, listen to Spanish TV shows/movies, writing excercises and if they are lucky some interaction with Spanish speaking people. Find a good text book as the backbone of your studies. Also you will not learn the language in 30 days with this or any other aid - think in terms of months and years depending on how well you want to know the language. Probably 6-12 months and 6 hours a week for a very basic but functional level of conversational skill. So I recommend a good book, something fun and not too academic - for example: Asi Es by Nancy Levy-Konesky, Karren Daggett (this also includes an audio CD - but it is completely inadequate).
For a supplement to the main structure of your course work these CDs are the best audio aid I have come across, particularly assuming that this work will be done in your car where you will not be able to look at a book. The CD is not a massive vocabulary dump without sufficient practice in gramatical structure (such as The Complete Idiots Guide to Learning Spanish on Your Own), rather it slowly builds vocabulary as it trains you to compose simple phrases and sentences, not by gramatical rules, by example. Nor does it have any superfluous introductions to each lesson, "amusing" anecdotes or explanations that will drive you absolutely nuts when you have to play the CD tracks repeatedly to learn the Spanish - another fault of the Idiots Guide. The recordings are done in a studio with good pronunciation so you can clearly hear the words.
It comes with a small book which has the printed dialogue and very succinct explanation of the grammar as it is introduced. You will only need to refer to it occasionally. The Spanish and English are on seperate tracks so you can alternately test your listening comprehension and speaking by turning down the left or right speaker.
The 3 levels of the course will give you all the basic elements of the language so it is indeed a reasonably comprehensive audio course in basic Spanish. The total vocabulary is limited but you will pick up many more words in a text you should buy and will get lots of practice from these CDs putting together properly structured sentences. It can only help to listen to other audio aids (Idiot's Guide tape does have lots of vocabulary) to add variety of structure, accents and rhythm, but I recommend this as the main audio learning tool.
Note: You can buy these CDs one Level at a time. If you choose to do this, of course you will get Level 1 first. But after you complete Level 1 you should buy both Level 2 and 3 because at this point you may need to skip between Levels to use the material that complements your main course of study, in particular to work on the same verb tenses you are studying in your text.
Rating: 2
Summary: decent attempt but didn't work for me
Comment: OK - yeah, you will improve your Spanish with these tapes, but I think for the money, the quality is quite low. For one, the recording quality is extremely poor, indicating obvious studio mistakes - levels go up and down, cut out sometimes, etc. Secondly, I just don't agree with how this course is designed. It claims to be based on real life scenerios, but seems to lack any flow between units. While I like some sections, I wonder why "telephoning" was just randomly thrown between two units on grammar, with no clear connection between the units. But hey, perhaps some people would appreciate the randomness of it all - a real life scenerio as it were.
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Title: Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use ISBN: 0486280861 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 26 May, 1994 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: 1001 Most Useful Spanish Words (Beginners' Guides) by Seymour Resnick ISBN: 0486291138 Publisher: Dover Publications Pub. Date: 07 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $1.95 |
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Title: Learn in Your Car Spanish: The Complete Language Course : 3 Level Set (Learn in Your Car) by Henry N. Raymond ISBN: 1591252075 Publisher: Penton Overseas Pub. Date: 01 May, 2002 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Conversational Spanish in 7 Days by Shirley Baldwin ISBN: 0844244538 Publisher: McGraw-Hill Pub. Date: 11 January, 1991 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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Title: Easy Speedy Spanish by Mark A. Frobose, Language Dynamics ISBN: 189356410X Publisher: Language Dynamics Pub. Date: 09 July, 1993 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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