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Summary: Really Fast and Effective Communication!!!
Review: I am a former US diplomat and current international business consultant. I can say that Language Dynamics courses are the only courses I know of that are truly dedicated to effective and immediate communication in the target language. Academic courses often reflect the literary interests of professors, many of whom never had the experience of learning the target language as a second language. With these courses, you can hit the streets after every lesson knowing you can say more than you could yesterday.
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Summary: Excellent Tape Program!
Review: I bought Audio Fluency Spanish about a week ago and I am very pleased with both the teaching method and what I have learned in so short a period of time. I expecially appreciate the time the instructors take to explain things that other tape programs leave out. I am truly enjoying learning Spanish with this excellent program.
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Summary: Beginner's Spanish Course Has Many Flaws
Review: This audio course, produced by Language Dynamics, consists of
8 cassettes and a brief learning guide/tapescript. Each cassette, one hour in length, features an American instructor
speaking a word, phrase, or short sentence. After each utterance, the Spanish equivalent is provided by a native speaker. Unfortunately, the American instructor spends too much time
speaking in English, and explaining common grammar rules that
could be easily studied from a manual. He elaborates on Spanish customs and cuisine which, however interesting, takes up too much recording time. His own diction and grammar falters on
occasion ("gonna" and real good"). The Spanish teacher mis-pronounces the Spanish "v" many times, and at one point, exclaims
"You betcha!" I expect instructors in any language field to exercise proper diction and grammar at all times. The listener, on the other hand, is asked too frequently merely
to repeat vocabulary words: days of the week, months of the year, hours of the day, numbers, names of countries, verb infinitives, etc. and sometimes sentences such as "I'm hungry"
"It's raining" etc. Much of the same material is reviewed in
subsequent tapes, too. As a result, at the end of eight hours, an insufficient amount of
Spanish has been taught, limited mostly to the topics mentioned
above, which, by the way, is normally covered in the first chapter of any college textbook. Fast and easy, yes. But, this
is not my idea of a basic/intermediate course. The program may possibly appeal to those who wish to flirt with
Spanish for a bit, before taking up some other pastime and relegating the tapes to the next yard sale. Serious students of Spanish, however, will not benefit from this
course.
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Summary: Beginner's Spanish Course Has Many Flaws
Review: This tape set is the same as All the Spanish you'll Need which I purchased about 6 months ago. After studying spanish here and in Costa Rica and re-reviewing the tapes they do contain flaws. The content is good for someone who wants to learn basic phrases and sentences. However, if you want to really learn spanish I'd go another route. The main flaw that I see now is that the pronuciacion is not correct, especially the V sound which on the tapes are spoken as a V...very bad and the inconsistant and excessive use of person pronouns (yo, usted) need to be fixed.
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Summary: Follow up and previous review
Review: This tape set is the same as All the Spanish you'll Need which I purchased about 6 months ago. After studying spanish here and in Costa Rica and re-reviewing the tapes they do contain flaws. The content is good for someone who wants to learn basic phrases and sentences. However, if you want to really learn spanish I'd go another route. The main flaw that I see now is that the pronuciacion is not correct, especially the V sound which on the tapes are spoken as a V...very bad and the inconsistant and excessive use of person pronouns (yo, usted) need to be fixed.
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