Behind the Wheel Portuguese (Ten 60 minute CDs) (Behind the Wheel) (Portuguese Edition) [Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Mark Frobose (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 2003

Behind The Wheel Portuguese is the ideal way to learn authentic spoken Portuguese while you drive because there is no confusion, no reading, no looking up meanings, and no guessing. It's all on the CDs. Use your commute time to effectively learn to speak a new language with this delightful course whose method will have you speaking your first sentences in your new language within minutes of receiving your course, and enjoying it. At last, a foreign language CD course which requires no reading and which teaches you to actually speak and understand conversational Portuguese in a minimum of time and effort. Designed by the experts at Language Dynamics, 'Behind The Wheel Portuguese' takes the learner from basic to high intermediate speaking and comprehension level without the guesswork and pain usually associated with language learning. A native speaker of Portuguese teaches you her language the way it's really spoken while a trained accentless American instructor explains it all in clear English so you always understand everything you're learning. Most language learners spend over 50% of their time looking up meanings instead of learning the language. With Behind the Wheel courses the language learning process is speeded up by giving you immediate answers to exercises, clear English translations, dynamic sentence building techniques, and high frequency vocabulary that teach you to speak Portuguese naturally, like you learned English as a child.

Editorial Reviews

Review

'Behind the Wheel' courses are rated among the best and 'A GREAT VALUE' by Men's Health Magazine, September 2003. -- Men's Health Magazine, September Issue, 2003

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: Language Dynamics Inc.; Unabridged edition (July 2003)
• Language: Portuguese
• ISBN-10: 1893564924
• ISBN-13: 978-1893564923
• Product Dimensions: 7.3 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,190,817 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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28 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent Well Produced Brazilian Portuguese Course, March 18, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Behind the Wheel Portuguese (Ten 60 minute CDs) (Behind the Wheel) (Portuguese Edition) (Audio CD)

From beginning to end I was impressed by the method used in Behind the Wheel Portuguese. I had tried Living Language and Berlitz, both of which had me guessing at meanings as I drove in my car.
No guessing here. The American instructor gives you the English and the native Brazilian speaker repeats the Portuguese twice.
Most important for me. Besides the pronunciation of Brazilian Portuguese which can be tricky, I was most impressed with the structure this course gives in learning how to truly speak the language in a natural way.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Worked Well in Portugal Também, November 19, 2005

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Ines (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Wheel Portuguese (Ten 60 minute CDs) (Behind the Wheel) (Portuguese Edition) (Audio CD)

Although Behind the Wheel Portuguese features a native Brazilian speaker, I got very good results with my communication in Lisboa, Portugal with the natives there.
The cool part is that they sometimes thought I was at least related to someone from Brazil because some of the words and accent are different. Still, the similarites must be great because I was clearly understood and I understood them too most of the time.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars good format - poorly executed, October 19, 2007

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Steve Young - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Behind the Wheel Portuguese (Ten 60 minute CDs) (Behind the Wheel) (Portuguese Edition) (Audio CD)

The format of this audio learning cd is very good. Good repetitive used of a verb in different tenses with different nouns. Good repetition in a well thought out way. That is to say a saying is repeated at different times so as not to be to monotonous.

A word / saying / sentence is said in English and the Portuguese speaker repeats it in Portuguese two times.

Unfortunately when the Portuguese speaker says the translation the first time, there is no pause when she repeats it again. Furthermore after the Portuguese speaker finishes repeating the sentence for the second time, the English speaker starts with the next sentence to be translated almost immediately. If you are trying to repeat what the Portuguese speaker has just said you are talked over by the English speaker. Every time you try to repeat a saying in Portuguese weather it is after the first time the Portuguese speaker says something of the second time you do not have enough time to repeat the saying.

I can not understand how a seemingly intelligent person cannot understand that a learner is trying to repeat what was just spoken. I have listened to In Flight Portuguese and Portuguese for Dummies and these are professionally done. There is ample time to repeat a saying. Because there in not time allotted to repeat a saying I would not recommend this to anyone