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Complete Nepali with Two Audio CDs: A Teach Yourself Guide (TY: Language Guides)

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I had a difficult time finding a Nepali language course that includes Cds. The advantages of hearing a native speaker to model are immeasurable. I was so pleased when this was just released and enthusiastically snapped it up.

Ugg - what a waste of money! I have used many other language book/tape or book/cd courses over the years (Mandarin,French, Spanish, Farsi, Italian) and this was the worst.

1)The sound is so muddy you cannot understand what the female speaker is saying.

2)There are whole chapters that just have one or two words on the CDs.

3)The course is not laid out in any kind of logical order for learning unless you have many, many months or even a year.

4)The book does not correspond well with the CD

5)The course is terribly overpriced - but even for half the price it is not worth it!

6)I'm sorry but I cannot say anything good about this product.

Overall a good text, but for beginners a little tweaking would make it even better. Newcomers to the Devanagari script would recognize the letters faster if they were in a larger typesize. Also, chapters could be organized a bit better so readers can easily flip to most useful sections. Placing basic greetings in the front, along with brief explanation of formal and informal polite address would be great.