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Practice and Improve Your Spanish Plus with Book (Practice & Improve)

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This is an excellent course in intermediate to advanced Spanish. If you have already mastered some introductory courses such as "Teach Yourself Spanish", or "Just Listen n' Learn Spanish", or even "Suenos-2", then you are ready for this one. The course is a story about an office worker (Merche) in an advertizing agency in Madrid, Spain. The plot is interesting and full of valuable colloquial Spanish. The course consists in 2 books and several hours of audiotapes. The story unfolds as we listen to Merche's conversations with her friends, her employers, with government officials, or even with a garage mechanic. The lively and captivating conversations are interspersed with a music that I am not particularly fond of but got used to after listening to the tapes for more than 10 times. At first, the audiotapes may seem to be a considerable hurdle. You may struggle to identify the foreign words and to decipher the meaning of the rapidly flowing conversations. However, if you persist, and keep listening, you will gradually get used to the voices and sounds and eventually, you will master the whole course. This course greatly helps in improving your listening comprehension of everyday Spanish. It is certainly worth the price.

The music on this tape set is so annoying and bizarre that I can't stand to listen to it again. And it takes up a good portion of the tape.

On the positive side, most of the dialogue seems fairly clear. The transcript appears reasonably complete. The packaging is attractive.

Best of all this tape set helps to smash the myth of better learning through the addition of music.