Spanish For Dummies Audio Set [Audio CD]

 

 

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Spanish For Dummies Audio Set is divided into three lessons which are subsectioned into thirteen topics for lesson one, fifteen topics for lessons two, and twelve topics for lesson three. Lesson one provides the basics, which is broken down into topics such as personal pronouns and formalities, saying "hello" and "goodbye", saying and replying to "how are you?", introducing yourself and talking about where you're from, and indispensable words. While, lessons two and three cover topics on the nitty gritty: language structure and real-world situations respectively. Each lesson is assigned to an hour-long CD which can be conveniently taken around and played in your CD player, car, home stereo, or on your computer.

This audio set is accompanied by a booklet with lesson numbers that correspond to the track numbers on each CD. The introduction on each CD is track one. The narrator of the CDs presents words and phrases in English, followed by a native Spanish speaker who does the Spanish version. There is a pause provided for the listener to say the word or phrase himself, followed by the repetition of the same word or phrase by the Spanish speaker, and another pause to provide the listener with another opportunity to practice saying the word or phrase. Listeners are expected to repeat these steps for CDs one, two and three. The supplemental booklet is divided into four parts. The first three are in direct association to the three lessons on the CDs, while section four presents a mini Spanish-English dictionary.

I give this product 3 stars. It really isn't that bad but when compared to other methods of learning Spanish, this is not something that I would recommend.

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These cd's go through some vocabulary and some small sentences which is helpful. I did find it difficult to follow along in the last half of disc 2 - they go into all the different tenses (past, future), negative, etc. - which was quite confusing! It was like going from grade 1 to grade 5 and wondering how you got there. I realized that I will have to look at some books to learn all the different verb tenses etc. It just seems so much more advanced that the other parts of the cd's. Also, the spanish speaker has a very strong accent - in spanish he pronounces "d" like "th" - I was aware of the spelling, and know that this is a pronunciation from certain spanish speaking areas.

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