Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour [Audio CD]

Mark Frobose (Author)

Book Description

Series: Behind the Wheel | Publication Date: April 7, 2002

At last a Spanish CD course which requires no reading and which teaches you to actually speak Spanish in a minimum of time and effort. The course also comes complete with a complete 207 page illustrated text with tapescript, same page answer keys and English translations for home review. Designed by the experts at Language Dynamics, 'Behind The Wheel Spanish For Your Car' takes the learner form basic to intermediate level Spanish without the guesswork and pain usually associated with language learning. An expert English speaking instructor talks you through these tapes in English while a trained professional native Latin American Spanish speaker teaches you Spanish the way it is really spoken.

Behind The Wheel Spanish For Your Car is the ideal way to learn Spanish while you drive because there is no confusion, no reading, no looking up meanings, and no guessing. It's all on the tapes. Use your commute time to effectively learn Spanish with this delightful course whose method will have you speaking your first words in Spanish within minutes of receiving your course, and enjoying it.

Editorial Reviews

Review

Perfect solution to learning Spanish. Fantastic CDs in the car. Great book review at home. -- James Lachter

About the Author

Mark Frobose is a well known foreign language teacher, speaker, and author who has taught numerous languages at the high school, private school, corporate, and university levels. Mark's long list of accomplishments in the field of foreign language education include numerous degrees and certificates from foreign and American universities where he has studied and taught such as the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana where he was rated as an excellent instructor by his students, the University of Grenoble, France, the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the Universidad Catolica in Quito, Ecuador, and the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City to name a few. Mark founded Language Dynamics in 1981 with the express purpose of simplifying and thus speeding up the language learning process. This philosophy of speed and simplicity is evident in every one of the over 60 foreign language titles he has authored.

Product Details

• Audio CD: 207 pages
• Publisher: Language Dynamics (April 7, 2002)
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN-10: 1893564428
• ISBN-13: 978-1893564428
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 7.1 x 1.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (102 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #626,269 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #94 in Books > Books on CD > Languages > Language Instruction > Spanish

Customer Reviews

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286 of 299 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Better Than Pimsleur or Learn In Your Car, March 18, 2005

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Samantha - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour (Audio CD)

My hearty congratulations to Language Dynamics for having produced what I consider to be the industry standard in professional, high quality Spanish instruction without the hassle. Both the American instructor (sounds like a friendly college professor) and the Spanish speaker are both excellent and really teach you Spanish.
I personally prefer Behind the Wheel Spanish 8 CD with text over Pimsleur Spanish and Learn in Your Car Spanish, both of which I have tried and since returned.
Behind the Wheel Spanish is better than Pimsleur because you have multiple tracks and don't have to keep your finger on the fast forward button to get to where you want to go.
If you fast forward with Pimsleur, you miss the graduated interval recall benefit which is programmed into the course. Too rigid for me.
Learn in Your Car doesn't provide you with the sentence building techniques that makes Behind the Wheel Spanish so effective. I was actually 'communicating' with my own sentences after just a little over 35 minutes with this course. Amazing.
Behind the Wheel Spanish is by far the best Spanish course I have tried because it gives you abundant and reusable templates that you form on your own to create your own specific communication. This is far better than the competition.
Both Learn in Your Car and Pimsleur give repetitions at the same native speed. Language Dynamics gives you the first Spanish repetition a little slower so you can understand and imitate the pronunciation more effectively. They then gives you a second Spanish repetiition at native speed. Much better.
Lt's not forget that Behind the Wheel Spanish is the only one on the market that includes
rea-life idiomatic of folk expressions like 'I stuck my foot in my mouth' and 'I got up on the wrong sde of the bed'. I mean, NOBODY has this stuff but Language Dynamics.
Last and certainly not least, Behind the Wheel Spanish comes with a 200 page book with drawings and English right under the Spanish. The answers are right there too so it's a no brainer.
My results speak for themselves. This course really works.

164 of 169 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Solid basic Spanish for people on the go, February 19, 2004

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Robert Crowe (St. Louis, MO) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour (Audio CD)

I had a little Spanish in college and a few visits to Spanish-speaking countries. I needed a major brush-up before a two-week trip to Latin America. This CD set was ideal. It covers a lot of ground, sometimes rather quickly,but refreshed my memory for vocabulary, verb structure, the nuances of pronouns and some idioms. The sound on the CD set is excellent and the Spanish speaker has superb diction. I've been listening to it in the car, my only free time to do that, and that works very well. Just rewind to go over something again or hit pause when traffic distracts you. Very satisfied overall.

69 of 69 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Great Spanish Course for the Car, April 14, 2006

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Stewart "Stewart" (Chicago) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour (Audio CD)

I'm going to weigh in on the debate over which is better, Learn in Your car or Behind the Wheel?
For my money, Behind the Wheel is the best.
I too purchased both courses. My experiences are as follows:
1. Behind the Wheel is much more 'friendly'. It is more effective because it actually teaches you how to communicate, not just memorize phrases. You actually 'speak your mind' with Behind the Wheel.
2. I had plenty of time to repeat. To me, the response times are perfect. What's more, they always review everything so thoroughly that it is impossible to miss anything.
3. Lots of explanation, practice, vocabulary with Behind the Wheel. Great method.
In a word, I am not the Spanish review guy. I am a gringo learning Spanish. While effective to a point, Learn in Your Car lacks the memory technique, sentence building technique, great native speaker voice, explanations, and so forth that make Behind the Wheel Spanish my all-time favorite.