Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1 [Audiobook, CD, Unabridged] [Audio CD]

Behind the Wheel (Author), Mark Frobose (Creator)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 1427205558 | ISBN-13: 978-1427205551 | Publication Date: September 16, 2008 | Edition: Unabridged

Behind the Wheel Spanish Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Spanish, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Spanish. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and two native Latin American Spanish speakers to aid with your pronunciation. Includes a companion book to reinforce and enhance the audio experience.

Editorial Reviews

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"The audio-only lessons build upon one another, using a native speaker to help you learn useful words and actually construct sentences from the get-go."—Minneapolis Star-Tribune

 

"Unlike other audio language programs, this series encourages students to create their own sentences, making it more fun and conversational than other more expensive programs."—The Cleveland Plain Dealer

 

"Focuses on real-world conversation...Great value."—Men’s Health magazine

What satisfied customers are saying:
"I know how difficult it is to try to learn a new foreign language at a distance and in one’s spare time. Behind the Wheel French was the course I found the most helpful in acquiring a basic understanding of the language. The explanation and sequencing of topics in this first level course made learning French both enjoyable and accessible. From my thirty years of teaching experience, I can attest to Mark Frobose's excellence as a teacher.
    —Dr. Gautam Dasgupta, Professor, Columbia University

“Of all the language series that I have ordered in the past from other companies, Language Dynamics has been by far the best…. the voices are easy to listen to and quite entertaining! You have developed a wonderful product and I would recommend it to anyone who wants to learn a language in an easy to follow method.”

   —Diana Wood, Human Resources, Motorola

“I would recommend any Behind the Wheel course in any language to anyone wishing to learn to speak a new language quickly, easily, and enjoy the process.”
    —Jeni Atkins, Educator, Portland, Oregon

About the Author

MARK FROBOSE is the founder of the Behind the Wheel series. A foreign language instructor for more than thirty years, he has built a career on “taking the foreign out of language.” He is a nationally recognized foreign language speaker, teacher, and author.

Product Details

• Audio CD: 8 pages
• Publisher: Behind the Wheel; Unabridged edition (September 16, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1427205558
• ISBN-13: 978-1427205551
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.6 x 2.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (63 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,194 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #1 in Books > Professional & Technical > Automotive > Foreign
  • #3 in Books > Books on CD > Languages > Language Instruction > Spanish
  • #8 in Books > Books on CD > Nonfiction

More About the Author

Mark Frobose has created more bestselling foreign language programs than any living person in America today.
Mark is the nation's only living architect of a successful major language method, a major language memory technique, and a major language audio line, that is now owned and published by Macmillan Audio of New York.
Mark's popular and innovative 'Behind the Wheel' language method was given rave reviews in Men's Health Magazine, who rated Mark's approach and language programs as an 'excellent value' when compared to Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone.
Leslie Marshall called Mark 'fascinating' to her millions of listeners while interviewing Mark on her live, nationally syndicated radio talk show.
Dennis Miller recently called Mark's answer 'brilliant' in an exclusive live radio interview before an audience of over two million listeners on the Dennis Miller Show.
Columbia University professor Guatam Dasgupta says he attests to Mark's excellence as a foreign language instructor after successfully learning successfully learning languages from him.
Bestselling author and world-class business consultant Alan Weiss says that Mark Frobose is the leading language teaching expert in America today and recommends you try his "unique approach and creative, unconventional methods". "You can't go wrong with Mark Frobose," Alan says.
In the years since Mark's foreign language students at the University of Illinois rated him as an excellent instructor, Mark has emerged as nothing less than the very quintessence of superb foreign language teaching.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

53 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars If you drive 15 minutes a day, you can learn Spanish!, December 19, 2008

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S. Pinson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1 (Audio CD)

I drive 15 minutes to work and 15 back. I have used this course and improved my Spanish dramatically just by doing what I do 5 days a week. Instead of listening to the radio, I listen to these CDs. It is almost effortless. A native speaker allows you to improve your accent. I took an adult education course recently and by far my accent was the most authentic. It is well organized, even though at times you wonder where he is going. I am so enthralled with this course that as I was finishing part 1 and looking at part 2, I ended up buying both 2 and 3 at the same time. And I am glad I did.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fun and improved!, October 13, 2008

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Pentworth "pentworth" (West Haven, CT USA) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1 (Audio CD)

These discs are a lot of fun to fill the time on the commute and it is great to learn such a useful language without effort or having to make time for it.

These are based on early an earlier cassette version, but they are completely updated with additions and more user friendly timing, i.e. longer pause for translations.

72 of 82 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Thoroughly disorganized, May 18, 2009

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Antje (USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1 (Audio CD)

Knowing that I wouldn't really have time to sit down and study Spanish at home or on the computer, I was looking for a CD-base program that could make my learning largely happen during my commutes.
I made it through the first 6 CDs before I left for Costa Rica. Ok, I did survive there, and was even identified by locals as the translator on our serving team, but little thanks to this CD program (the pocket dictionary with concise grammar section had a lot more to do with that success!)...
These CDs may work for somebody like me who has already learned a language before and knows how to apply the concepts learned before to the bits and pieces that this program throws at you - but I pity the learner who does not have that prerequisite knowledge.
The program is thoroughly disorganized and jumps around like crazy, rather than teaching a concept sufficiently before moving on to the next.
There are lots of times when just the words are thrown at you without the concept being explained, other times when a concept is explained without examples given to practice the concept.
The learning is very fractured, just for the sake of avoiding to admit that conjugations exist.
Basically all you do is memorize words, without being pointed in the right direction for how to apply what you're learning to other words or sentences.
The only reason I am giving this program 2 stars instead of 1 is because of the extremely useful very first section, which introduces the phrases "I want...", "I have to...", "I like...". That was awesome, but afterwards it really went downhill in usefulness.
The accompanying book is even worse. Not only do the chapters in the book not match up with the learning on the CDs, but the review sections at the end of a chapter are using words and concepts that weren't explained in the chapter or the CDs, so this is new material rather than a review - which is very frustrating for a learner who is trying to apply the concepts learned in this chapter to the exercises. And it fails in little details as well, like the vocabulary sections not being lined up so you could actually cover up one side to practice translating the words.
I don't know if there are any better CD-based programs out there, but this one is too disorganized for my taste.