Type of bind: Audio Cassette
Dewey Decimal Number: 468.2421
EAN num: 9781560151418
Format: Audiobook
ISBN number: 1560151412
Label: Penton Overseas
Manufacturer: Penton Overseas
Quantity: 6
Printing Date: 1993-06
Publishing house: Penton Overseas
Sale Popularity Level: 83738
Studio: Penton Overseas
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Amazon.com Review:
Look ma, no textbooks! The Learn in Your Car series treats you like a child--in the best possible way--starting with one-word phrases ('please,' 'good-by'), counting exercises, and simple nouns ('bus,' 'train') designed to imitate a child's learning process. First you hear the words in English, then they are repeated slowly in clear, unaccented pronunciations. The method is extremely effective for those who don't know a thing, or for those who want to brush up by testing themselves when the English words are spoken. The tapes emphasize the building blocks of communicating in a foreign country rather than rote phrases that only apply on the tape and not in real-life exchanges. Level 1 painlessly covers basic verb forms, essential prepositions, near future and past tenses, as well as shopping, hotel reservations, and other travel-related situations. The series includes French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish in three levels that can be purchased individually or in boxed sets. Each individual level contains two 90-minute cassettes (or CDs) and an accompanying booklet (not for use behind the wheel) with helpful explanations and scripts for the lessons.
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This is not a tutorial at all. This is just 2 people saying words in English and Spanish. This is horrible for someone who doesn't know Spanish at all. I am highly disappointed in this product.
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This is probably the worst set of tapes I have ever listened to. It's no more than a list of words on one set of tapes and some verb conjugations on the other set. While I couldn't bring myself to complete the tapes they were so boring, I don't think they ever used the words in context. I bought the advanced level and it was anything but that. At least a third of the vocabulary were cognates that any beginner or intermediate student would recognize anyway. This is a huge waste of anyone's money.
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Dear Amazon.com:
When I ordered this item, I was sure that I will receive it on CDs, while I received it on tape. Unofrtunately, my car does not have tape recorder, so the item is useles. What could you recommend me to do?
Andrei
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As the editor of the Learning Spanish Products Reviews (LearningSpanishProductsReviews) site, one of my responsibilities is to review Spanish courses that are listed on Amazon. I am also a native Spanish speaker of Argentina and a professional private Spanish instructor.
I will start with the good points of Learn in Your Car Spanish :
1. The course starts with a very thorough overview of how-to-learn-a-language by language-learning guru, Graham E. Fuller. If you are not familiar with Graham E. Fuller he is the author of How to Learn a Foreign Language. To one extent or another, Fuller has studied more than a dozen languages including Latin, Greek, Russian, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and countless European languages. In Learn in Your Car Spanish, Fuller begins by giving the student a roadmap to learning a foreign language. Although he does not hesitate to tell the student that learning a foreign language takes lots and lots of hard work, he does provide the student with a roadmap that has numerous short cuts.
2. Learn in Your Car Spanish puts an emphasis on communication and the author of the course knows that it is not always necessary to use a complete sentence to convey a thought when having a typical conversation.
3. Learn in Your Car Spanish is based upon the premise that the best way to learn a language is the way that a child learns, by learning one-word sentences, two-word sentences, three-word sentences, etc.
4. The course also teaches the most useful vocabulary very first instead of having the student memorize vocabulary that she will never use. It also puts an emphasis on survival and Spanish for getting-around.
5. When Spanish grammar is introduced in the course it is done so with the use of examples as opposed to rigid rules.
6. No textbook is required. So just like the name of the course, you can "Learn in Your Car Spanish." But the transcript is included in case you are an auditory-text learner.
7. The course attempts to use literal translations whenever possible to enable the student to understand the structure of Spanish grammar and to understand the definition of Spanish words. I personally use this technique by teaching my own students that "me gusta el carro" does not mean "I like the car," but "to me it's pleasing (the car)."
8. The greatest point of the course is that it covers a tremendous amount of content. I don't know of any auditory Spanish course for just over $30 that covers nearly as much content.
But Learn in Your Car Spanish is not a Spanish course that's devoid of an Anchiles heel or two:
1. There are some mistakes in the audio translations.
2. The teaching method is basically a listen-and-repeat approach. A listen-and-repeat method is probably not the most modern and advanced way for a complete newbie to learn a foreign language because the newbie is not forced to really think in the target language. But a listen-and-repeat method can be helpful for an intermediate or advanced student that is looking to expand her vocabulary. Even though the course has a frailty or two, I still give it 5 stars. Compared to what else is on the market in this price range, you are not going to find a course that covers so much content and that gives you a bonus lesson in language-learning by one of the world's greatest language-learning experts.
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This is a tourist conversation guide , not a learning tool.
Who really wants to know how to say " when is the subsequent train to madrid ?" or "Can i get two tickets to Mexico", no fundamental apporach.
waste of money. And the tapes moves on so fast.. You cant even get it right , unless you rewind it..
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