Latin American Spanish in Three Months Book and CD (Hugo) [Audio CD]

Isabel Cisneros (Author)

Book Description

Series: Hugo | Publication Date: June 13, 2003

The Hugo series of popular self-study language courses prepares the visitor for vacation or business travel in France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Spanish-speaking Central and South America. The books guide the language student through essential grammar, pronunciation, model sentences and word lists to build up vocabulary, conversation exercises to practice speaking skills, and a small bilingual dictionary. Native speakers of each language demonstrate proper use of the language, including the words and exercises from the books as well as specially adapted vocal drills for oral work, making pronunciation easy with Hugo's unique "imitated pronunciation" system.

Product Details

• Audio CD
• Publisher: DK ADULT (June 13, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0789495007
• ISBN-13: 978-0789495006
• Product Dimensions: 9.7 x 6.7 x 1.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.3 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,386,301 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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24 of 25 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Useful review, September 25, 2003

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Felicia A Williams (Whidbey Island, WA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Latin American Spanish in Three Months Book and CD (Hugo) (Audio CD)

This book can serve as a useful review for those who have studied Spanish previously, but it is definitely not designed for beginners. Right in the first lessons some of the more difficult and less useful grammar items are introduced such as complex relative pronouns and demonstrative pronouns which are not usually presented until advanced courses.

Also the presentation of "tener" as the first verb to be studied in Lesson 1 - along with its idiomatic uses followed by "estar" and "ser" in Lesson 2 is a bit mind boggling, but with advanced students who need just a review, it would be worthwhile trying.
Although this is labeled Latin American Spanish some of the peninsular Spanish is slipped in, i.e vosotros and its forms and some vocabulary items. For a student who just needs a review and has a tutor or group to practice conversation based on the material in the text this could possibly be a worthwhile text.

17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not quite Latin American, July 14, 2005

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Sallinita Pinto (Liberty, NC, US) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Latin American Spanish in Three Months Book and CD (Hugo) (Audio CD)

Although this is supposed to be for Latin America it does not serve its purpose for two reasons. First it treats Latin America as a whole and ignores differences between the Mexican language, the Argentinian language and so on. Secondly it uses Castilian second person forms of address and this is for Spain not Latin America. Not good enough!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars not as good as the cassette version it replaces, October 9, 2004

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Patrick Moore LMT BA (Tucson, Arizona) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Latin American Spanish in Three Months Book and CD (Hugo) (Audio CD)

I wore out my cassette version by Isabel Cisneros, which I love (five stars). I hoped this version on CD would have the same voices. But the voices on this CD are poor in comparison, the people do not sound enthusiastic, so listening is not fun. If only they took the old analog tapes and simply made a CD from the old stuff, that would be great. Still, CDs are easier to use to learn, because it is easy to skip the lessons you already know well.

The book is the same, only slightly different formatting. The book is very clear, includes grammar lessons, not just "conversational" spanish.