Customer Reviews

Talk Now! Learn Catalan - Beginning Level [Old Version]

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Learn Catalan is a fun activity and a good learning experience for those with no spanish base; however, i have taken about 5 years of Spanish and found the CD to be fairly basic, and while catalan differs in many ways, many of the things they teach are not as useful as i would hope. There are a lot of items and phrases neccessary to be a tourist. I definitely have benefitted from this CD because i can hear the way the language is pronounced and become more absorbed in it. Overall, great for beginners, and only slightly helpful for someone with spanish knowledge.

AV materials for Catalan are very difficult to find. But Catalan is certainly worth investigating, and this makes for a highly pleasant intro. Now if only Eurotalk would come up with a second CD.

I was abit disappointed with this CD. The price certainly is a bargain; but I agree with the other reviewers in that it is a good introduction to some basic Catalan terms but don't expect to be carrying on conversations about global politics with your taxi driver. The games are - interesting. The interface - well, interesting. But, the actors in it are downright creepy -- a strangely - almost perverse - course that has animated human actors voicing out the words. Interesting? Yeah, kind of -- but, creepy nonetheless.

Good for the tourist -- but, watch out when the native Catalan speakers start talking as rapid as they do. Then you may have more respect for the creepy animations on this CD.

The "Talk Now!" series is inexpensive and really useful. If you're going to Catalunya and want to pick up enough Catalan to, well, make friends and influence people--and in a very short time, and in a very enjoyable way--by all means get this program. Well worth the money.

The only reason I don't give it five stars is because EuroTalk also produces a five-star series called "Movie Talk," which is only available in a few languages, Catalan not among them. Four stars or not, I highly recommend it.

Those who like it will also want Teach Yourself Catalan Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself Language Courses) and Colloquial Catalan: A Complete Course for Beginners (Colloquial Series).

Winter Laite is the author of SKEE