Audible Audio Edition
Listening Length: 3 hours and 4 minutes
Program Type: Audiobook
Version: Unabridged
Publisher: Barrons Education Series, Inc.
Audible.com Release Date: October 10, 2008
Language: English
ASIN: B001I7RRKA
Best Sellers Rank: #142 in Books > Audible Audiobooks > Language Instruction > Spanish
This course is the worst in the world! the speakers on the the tapes don't sound the least bit native and the way the words are spoken is not natural, at all. It does present a good amount of vocabulary. The course seems to assume that the reader has a basic understanding of Spanish,as well, making it not completely for beginers. I highly suggest that anyone planning to purchase a Spanish speaking program spend more money on a better program, of which there are many.
This is a collection of short dialogues reflecting various everyday situations. I found them to be very lively and well put together. Being a collection of dialogues, not a course as such, it can be used as a great supplement to any text-based or even an audio course, to enhance one's vocabulary and especially to train one's ear for comprehending spoken Spanish.It is a graded collection, and the level rises quite steeply, so one can't expect to absorb them all in one shot, but only as one's knowledge of grammar and vocabulary evolves.The voices on tapes are native Castialian Spanish, at least in the previous edition I own. I highly recommend these tapes as a very high quality study supplement.
I have picked up various programs to learn Spanish and this one is the hardest one to follow. The conversations are entertaining but the speakers talk so fast that I cannot understand them. As a beginner, I need to hear each word separately. When they run all the words together, I cannot tell where one word ends and the other begins. They also don't help you work on pronunciation. This is not a good program for beginners.
You need to be taking lessons for these cds to be effective. But they do help understand how the language sounds.
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