Spanish Say Hello [Audio Cassette]

Louis Aarons (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 1996

Audiocassette program, 3.75 hours, of basic Spanish for native speakers of English includes pronunciation guide, word lists, and dialogs for communication. Study and review tests, essential grammar, and glossary are in the reusable and correlated workbook. WordMate's proven learning system is patented. It requires the use of stereo headphones which are not included with the programs. The programs, for ages 12 through adult, have more than 1,000 most frequently used words and expressions -- over 95% of the words used in everyday conversation. Brief lessons take about 30 minutes each day. Both sides of the brain are used to speed up learning.

Editorial Reviews

From Scientific American

You don't have to concentrate as much. In other words, half the work is done by the tape. That's the beauty of it...it works.

From The New Yorker

Real benefit ... in reinforcing the vocabulary in an easy and relaxed manner.

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Product Details

• Audio Cassette
• Publisher: Wordmate; 2nd edition (November 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1887447008
• ISBN-13: 978-1887447003
• Product Dimensions: 10 x 7.2 x 1.2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,332,109 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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1 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Time saver and great for beginners., April 2, 1998

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This review is from: Spanish Say Hello (Audio Cassette)

Louis Aarons, a foreign language dropout and later a research psychologist, figured there must be a better way to learn languages. After studying learning systems involving unconscious listening, he developed what appears to me to be a very good program. He uses recordings combined with a manual. Instead of the typical grammar-plus-vocabulary base, his primary focus is vocabulary. After thoroughly learning several lists of topically related words with practice speaking and writing, students hear dialogues that use them. Then more lists and more dialogues. Just enough grammar is presented along the way to make sense of the language. The right and left stereo channels are used to present either foreign and native words or native only words. By listening to both channels at once, each word on the lists is heard first in the two languages simultaneously, then in the foreign language only. Of course you can listen to only one channel if that works better for you.

Although the program is more like ones for travel preparation than for serious scholastic study, I have an idea that those who faithfully go through the four cassettes and the manual will have a better preparation than those taking a brief high school course. The thorough grammar, needed for more complex study can come later and without oversimplifications to overcome. This program would be my first choice or nearly so except for young children.