Icelandic Conversations [Audio Cassette]

Kenneth G. Chapman (Author), Erla Trygvadottir (Author), Petur Petursson (Author), Harold A. Roe (Editor)

Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Audio-Forum; Pap/Cas edition (April 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0884325156
• ISBN-13: 978-0884325154
• Product Dimensions: 11.2 x 9.2 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,732,699 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Useful conversations; poor recordings., April 17, 1999

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Jack Shipley ([e-mail]) (Lake Tahoe, California USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Icelandic Conversations (Audio Cassette)

The "Icelandic Converstaions" cassette tapes contain lots of useful phrases for the student of Icelandic, and the transcription is the only written material I know of containing English and Icelandic side-by-side, which is a great tool for learning. However, the recording was done long ago on primitive equipment, and it's quality is so poor as to be almost unintelligible. The speakers talk really fast and often kind of mumble. The result is useless unless you can re-record the tapes digitally, boosting the high frequencies and slowing down the speed. There is also too much time wasted on between-conversation English instruction, and the written transcription contains several errors. Plus, in my copy at least, the transcription is missing one complete page. Buy it, because there is nothing else available, but the whole thing needs to be re-done.