All-Audio Spanish Cassette (LL(R) All-Audio Courses) [Audio Cassette]

Irwin Stern (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: August 5, 1997 | Series: LL(R) All-Audio Courses

The most complete, up-to-date all-audio course available!

Learn in Your Car
Learn Anywhere
No Reading Required
Six Cassettes -  Six Hours

Learn in Your Car
- Learn Anywhere

If you have trouble finding time to fit in language lessons, All-Audio Spanish is the perfect solution. Developed by the experts at Living Language, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn Spanish as you drive, do household chores, or work out at the gym.

Short, Easy-to-Follow Lessons -  No Reading Required

An English-speaking narrator guides you through the short, easy-to-follow lessons - all you have to do is listen and repeat after the native Spanish speakers. No reading is required, but a listener's guide is provided if you want to look up spelling or grammar rules.

Vocabulary - Grammar - Dialogues - Culture

Each lesson begins with vocabulary and some grammar basics before introducing a lively dialogue that includes the most current Spanish idioms and usage. Interactive exercises reinforce what you've learned. You'll also find out some intriguing facts about Spanish customs and culture. All-Audio Spanish is a complete, thoroughly enjoyable learning experience!

Speak Spanish fluently with the most complete, up-to-date all-audio course available!

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The most complete, up-to-date all-audio course available!

Learn in Your Car
Learn Anywhere
No Reading Required
Six Cassettes -  Six Hours

Learn in Your Car
- Learn Anywhere

If you have trouble finding time to fit in language lessons, All-Audio Spanish is the perfect solution. Developed by the experts at Living Language, this program is designed for people on the move. You can learn Spanish as you drive, do household chores, or work out at the gym.

Short, Easy-to-Follow Lessons -  No Reading Required

An English-speaking narrator guides you through the short, easy-to-follow lessons - all you have to do is listen and repeat after the native Spanish speakers. No reading is required, but a listener's guide is provided if you want to look up spelling or grammar rules.

Vocabulary - Grammar - Dialogues - Culture

Each lesson begins with vocabulary and some grammar basics before introducing a lively dialogue that includes the most current Spanish idioms and usage. Interactive exercises reinforce what you've learned. You'll also find out some intriguing facts about Spanish customs and culture. All-Audio Spanish is a complete, thoroughly enjoyable learning experience!

Speak Spanish fluently with the most complete, up-to-date all-audio course available!

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Living Language (August 5, 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0609601369
• ISBN-13: 978-0609601365
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6 x 1.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,113,124 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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21 of 21 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Too fast for basic!, March 19, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: All-Audio Spanish Cassette (LL(R) All-Audio Courses) (Audio Cassette)

If you have some background in Spanish, and just want a review, this would be a good tape. However, even with 2 years of Spanish it moves much too quickly. Many phrases do not have time to repeat in the time allocated, the Spanish speaker is speaking much too quickly and the words are not intrepreted into English once one phrase is given several sentences back. I would be completely lost if I didn't already have some background in the language. The Spanish words and phrases need to be broken down and spoken more slowly and with a chance to repeat them on a word by word basis the first time they are used.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother, June 5, 2000

By 

Scott - See all my reviews

This review is from: All-Audio Spanish Cassette (LL(R) All-Audio Courses) (Audio Cassette)

You will not learn Spanish with these tapes. They move far too fast. Difficult words and phrases are only given once. You will be very disappointed if you buy these with little or no previous knowledge and expect to learn anything.

I can't comment on how this course might serve as a refresher since I'd have to finish learning and then forget Spanish before I could comment on its merits as a refresher course. :)

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars no pause for refreshment, March 17, 2004

By 

Stephen Sykes (Rockville, MD USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: All-Audio Spanish Cassette (LL(R) All-Audio Courses) (Audio Cassette)

I have no natural talent for foreign languages. None. I learn them by playing audio tapes over and over in my car during my daily 2 hour commute. Learning this way is less like memorization and more like osmosis. I learn the language the same way I used to learn the lyrics to songs that got played repeatedly on the radio. With a two hour daily immersion, it's impossible not to soak up the material.

In my experience, most audio language programs suffer from a single critical fault - there is no pause between the English speaker and the foreign language translation. The absence of this seemingly insignificant nuance prevents the student from being able to say the phrase before the foreign speaker, if he has learned it. The result is that the student never builds the proper recall memory necessary to become really fascicle with the language. All that's ever built is recognition memory. Students learn to recognize the foreign language, but they never learn to create it.

The Living Language all audio program is very thorough and would be a wonderful way to learn Spanish but for this critical fault. It's targeted at the language student, not the impending traveler. The material is nicely balanced between explanation, grammar, vocabulary, and phrases, and is probably more thorough than the Penton version of the same product ("Learn in Your Car Spanish"). The grammar explanations in particular are very helpful. But, I don't believe that a student can develop the same facility with the language that they can with the Penton product simply because the student is rarely given the opportunity to perform.

To its credit, The Living Language program does offer dialogs, during which the student can supply one side of the conversation. But they are very short and don't begin to reinforce the entirety of the material. So, while it pains me to do so, I can't recommend this series except, perhaps, for the student who is already very familiar with the Spanish language and merely wants to expand that knowledge.