Customer Reviews

Panorama: Introduccion a La Lengua Espanola

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I am really disappointed with this item. We used the buy back program, which we have never used before. The book did come in a timely manner with the codes to go online to do the homework. However, the CODES DID NOT WORK!! My son went to my parents over the weekend and had spanish homework. My sister HAD TO PAY AN ADDITIONAL $70.00 to get new codes so my son could do his homework for the semester. If a book comes with codes or anything like that, and are necessary for homework, which is ridiculous, you might as well buy the book new.

The book did not come with the activation code for the vista website that is required for the class. very sleazy tactics.

Great service I will buy from them again.I bought the book for my daughter college and it was the wrong book.and sent it back get my money back.

Let's talk about how rubbish this book is.

1) It is ENTIRELY too busy. The layout is horrible. A massive, virtually incomprehensible, jumble of overly colorful concepts with ridiculously poor mapping if you hope to reference back to anything during your course.

2) There are no answers to the questions. This is college. Too often professors can't be troubled to provide answers and just skim when going over homework. So, you are S.O.L. if you wish to know if you are on the right track. I suppose ordering the teacher edition would address this issue.

3) You are essentially forced to use the Supersite at an added expense of $50 (2011) even after you've shelled out probably over a hundred dollars for the book and workbook/video manual (which ALSO has no answers to check yourself against). There is just no way to acquire these materials in a thrifty manner. I am minutes from breaking down and purchasing the supersite code separately in order to hopefully make some sense of this material. I am so very fortunate to be familiar with Spanish because the rank beginner is going to have a sad time of it trying to orient to this cruddy door stop.

I've never taken Spanish before and only knew a few common terms. I have no talent for languages, and, in fact, have had to take "beginning 1A" courses in Italian several times at different schools, with different texts before I feel like I "get" it. All of the classes I took had some 'online" component. This program, with workbooks and online tutorials and practice exercises, videos and audio tools is by far the best I have used. Everything works together. If you do it all (and there are A LOT of exercises and homework), I don't see how you couldn't learn the language. I would also say it is the most difficult because of the sheer amount of work involved (the content is the same and the explanations are similar). It seems like it is overwhelming just because of the huge number of assignments, but many are similar and just provide new practice on the same thing. Repetitive but that's what it takes.

Terrible seller! I ordered this item two months ago, it was never shipped and I never received it! I will never buy anything from this seller again!!!!

I ordered books several times from Amazon. The price is very low, but the books are very new, though they labeled used. If I want to buy a book, no where than Amazon is my first choice.

Book was in great condition. I received it on time and overall it was a great buy. also the book was really cheap

Seller shipped item right away and it was exactly what the description said it would be.

The book that I ordered arrived very soon after I ordered it. It was in the exact condition that the seller had stated in the description. Overall this was the best Amazon ordering experience I've had so far. Thanks!