Hablando Ingles Americano 6 Audiocassette Tapes [Audio Cassette]

Mark A. Frobose (Author), Language Dynamics (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 9, 1993

Some w audiocassette tapes quickly take the reader from beginning to advanced level English by teaching the learner to speak a maximum amount of useful and practical high frequency English in a minimum of time. Research shows that most foreign language learners spend over half of their time looking up meanings and guessing at answers instead of learning the language. Hablando Ingls Americano is an exciting and effective 'learn on your own' taped course that literally 'takes the foreign out of language by providing clear Spanish translations, explanations, and answers for all English exercises. This time saving element completely eliminates guesswork and frustration so you always quickly know and understand what you are learning. Futhermore, clear and concise answer keys allow you to check your own work throughout the course providing you with immediate feedback as to your progress. These marvellous tapes and also provide you with a pronunciation guide, notes on culture, complete answer keys, Spanish translations, a complete verb list, diagrams, illustrations, as well as writing and conversation practice sections to enhance the learning of English even more. Suitable for all levels and ages, Hablando Ingls Americano is ideal for travelers, businesspeople, students and language aficionados of all levels and backgrounds.

Why high frequency language? How would you feel if someone taught a foreign exchange student at your house the word 'antidisestablishmentarianism'? You would say 'Why did they teach you that word?' 'It isn't even English.' 'No one even knows what it means.' The fact is that it is English, but it is a low frequency word. All languages are literally cluttered with tens of thousands nearly useless low frequency words and structures that the average student must stumble over. The problem is that many foreign language authors and teachers love to teach their students such words because they think they sound neat, and as a result their students never learn to really communicate in a second language. Fortunately for us, all languages also have little gems called 'high frequency' words which are used thousands of times more often than other words and structures and are therefore much more valuable to the language learner because they increase communicative ability in a minimum of time.

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Mark Frobose is nationally published foreign language author, teacher, and speaker with over twenty foreign language titles currently in print. Mark is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, German, and Portuguese and is the founder of Language Dynamics Inc., a foreign language training and publishing company. He has lived and studied throughout Latin America and Europe and holds numerous degrees and certificates from foreign and American universities. Mark has studied and/or taught languages at the Universidad Ibero-Americana in Mexico City, Universidad Cat--lica in Quito, Ecuador, L'Universit de Grenoble, France, Illinois State University, University of Illinois, and the University of New Mexico. Mark has received numerous awards and was rated as an excellent instructor by his students at the University of Illinois in Champaign-Urbana.

About the Author

I come from a family where no one speaks a second language and I therefore know what it is to come from a place of no language background to a place of fluency in not just one but a number of languages.

My first major foreign language experience began when my junior high counselor told me in 7th grade that I couldn't learn French because my algebra scores were too low. Disappointed, I waited a year and took a semester of French as an 8th grader. My second experience occurred in a youth hostel in Scotland where as an Explorer Scout I was forced to save a friend who was being beseiged by a group of verbally hostile French students. I ran to his rescue with my inadequate French and learned how different it was to really speak the living language of another country instead of repeating some esoteric verb form in a foreign language classroom. But I was enthused because I had truly communicated in French and had learned my first high frequency language.

My second major formative experience occurred with International Fellowship, a foreign exchange group that existed in the seventies. I was supposed to go to Toulouse, France (note the irony - Toulouse/to lose) which was normal since I had studied French for three years. Two weeks prior to departure International Fellowship (pronounced by the Latins as 'fellowsheep') informed me by phone that I was to be sent to Quito, Ecuador and I knew not a word of Spanish.

The next thing I knew I was at the airport in Quito surrounded by hundreds of Spanish speaking relatives of my new 'family' and I could barely say 'Hola'. Between dancing the 'cumbia' (a popular latin dance) and giving 'seranatas' (I also play guitar and sing) I became quite fluent in Spanish in just a few months. This was fortunate since my host family didn't speak a word of English and if I hadn't learned Spanish we simply would not have communicated.

These delightful experiences were followed by hundreds of others in many different countries with many different languages and cultures, but in many ways deep inside I am still the junior high student back in Illinois struggling to learn a facinating new language.

In other words, I know how you must feel.

You want to learn a new language and you are afraid, perhaps apprehensive, or maybe just slightly confused or uncertain where to start. My advice to you is to forget everything everyone has ever told you about learning a new language and start here. Start here because at least you will learn the language as it is really spoken in another country. You will learn common words, phrases, and expressions that people really use and will immediately recognize and understand. You will also benefit from a greatly simplified approach to language learning that totally demystifies the language learning process.

Product Details

• Audio Cassette: 200 pages
• Publisher: Language Dynamics; Cas/Bklt edition (July 9, 1993)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1893564088
• ISBN-13: 978-1893564084
• Product Dimensions: 8.8 x 4.9 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,953,135 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars EXCELLENT BEGINNING LEVEL COURSE FOR SPANISH SPEAKERS, January 5, 2001

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This review is from: Hablando Ingles Americano 6 Audiocassette Tapes (Audio Cassette)

I teach ESL in a community college in California. One of the biggest problems I encounter when I teach English to Spanish speaking immigrants is the difficulty they encounter in understanding the sounds and meanings of English words. 'Hablando Ingles Americano' is the only course we have used here which goes slowly enough for the reluctant uneducated learner to grasp the sounds and sentences structures necessary to read, write and speak English. The instructor on the tapes speaks very slowly and clearly and gives Spanish definitions for all English. The text is complete and has Spanish and English for all stories and exercises. It is the favorite tape program of my class and the favorite book. I therefore give this course an A plus based on the results we have all received from it.