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Summary: More of the same (which is very good)
Review: If you liked Comprehensive I, you will like Comprehensive II. Interesting, interactive lessons add new vocabulary while reviewing the old. Conversations are at normal speaking speed. This helps your brain learn to cope with real speech, but if you need to pause and review frequently, it can make the lessons take much more than a half hour.This set of lessons covers informal usage, the past tense, the conditional tense (could, would), should and must, and ends with the present progressive (am talking, etc.).
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Summary: Expensive, Bad Focus and CD Quality!
Review: My problem with this CD course is the level of appropriate
communicative ability one has after using the course to deal with everyday situations.
I believe that the focus of the program is to teach you certain vocabulary which is repeated ad nauseum and then, when you are bored to tears, abruptly ends. It is then you realize that the high price you paid was not worth the money.
The CD quality seems poor to me. I would think that for the price of the course one would receive a better quality CD set and recordings.
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Summary: Great program to begin speaking Spanish
Review: Pimsleur programs may be most valuable for people who are having hard time pronouncing words correctly - and when you're learning languages with which you are completely unfamiliar.
Pimsleur program will make it practically an effortless experience.
I don't know what kind of a problem the previous reviewer had with CDs - mine play perfectly. I did get all three levels of Spanish and am very happy with the entire set.
I also got numerous other programs, but out of the entire variety my favorite additional program was Platiquemos. It is somewhat cheaper and you can learn much more and faster. The truth is I love them both.
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Summary: It doesn't get much better than this
Review: The Pimsleur family of language courses is probably the best available in the English-speaking world. However, if you're even considering buying this it means you've probably already finished Pimsleur Spanish I... so you're already familiar with what the product is like and how it works. The main thing I can say about Pimsleur Spanish II is that when I finished I actually started to feel like a Spanish speaker. Maybe not a fluent speaker, but proficient enough to survive (or perhaps drive a taxi!) in a Spanish-speaking country. It's a much different feeling than completing Spanish I... where I had learned just enough to grasp how much there was yet to learn. If you haven't done so already, I would also recommend finding some basic grammar book to look over. A Pimsleur principal is that it's more "natural" to pick up grammar rules by osmosis as you listen to conversation. While that may be true, you also have to consider that as a child it took me 10-15 years to master my native tongue's grammar by osmosis... and that was being surrounded by native speakers and taking classes in school! While learning grammar from books alone is counter-productive, I can't count the never of times that something confusing me on the Pimsleur CD's was cleared up INSTANTLY by reading a rule in the grammar book. If you're investing this much time and money into gaining Spanish proficiency, you might as well go the extra few inches and read up on your grammar basics. Another extra I would recommend is some basic Spanish reader. I don't mean a phrase book... I mean some sort of "Dick and Jane"-style reader where you can learn new words in the context of reading natural text rather than exercises or travel phrases. The reading exercises in Pimsleur courses are the only aspect that I found to be slightly disappointing. There is really NO correlation between the vocabulary in the reading exercises and that which you're learning in the main lessons. Most words you learn will never show up in reading exercises, while allot of words you see in the reading exercises are never taught! I suppose that the idea here is to teach you how to pronounce written Spanish even when seeing unfamiliar words. However, I enjoy learning Spanish by reading natural text as much by hearing natural dialogue... and there are countless readers out there for beginners. All in all, you can't go wrong with Pimsleur's courses. Once you've finished the "Spanish II", you'll be itching to move on to "Spanish III". These courses may be a more effective (and affordable) option for those more serious learners that would otherwise consider taking night classes.
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Summary: It doesn't get much better than this
Review: The Pimsleur family of language courses is probably the best available in the English-speaking world. However, if you're even considering buying this it means you've probably already finished Pimsleur Spanish I... so you're already familiar with what the product is like and how it works. The main thing I can say about Pimsleur Spanish II is that when I finished I actually started to feel like a Spanish speaker. Maybe not a fluent speaker, but proficient enough to survive (or perhaps drive a taxi!) in a Spanish-speaking country. It's a much different feeling than completing Spanish I... where I had learned just enough to grasp how much there was yet to learn. If you haven't done so already, I would also recommend finding some basic grammar book to look over. A Pimsleur principal is that it's more "natural" to pick up grammar rules by osmosis as you listen to conversation. While that may be true, you also have to consider that as a child it took me 10-15 years to master my native tongue's grammar by osmosis... and that was being surrounded by native speakers and taking classes in school! While learning grammar from books alone is counter-productive, I can't count the never of times that something confusing me on the Pimsleur CD's was cleared up INSTANTLY by reading a rule in the grammar book. If you're investing this much time and money into gaining Spanish proficiency, you might as well go the extra few inches and read up on your grammar basics. Another extra I would recommend is some basic Spanish reader. I don't mean a phrase book... I mean some sort of "Dick and Jane"-style reader where you can learn new words in the context of reading natural text rather than exercises or travel phrases. The reading exercises in Pimsleur courses are the only aspect that I found to be slightly disappointing. There is really NO correlation between the vocabulary in the reading exercises and that which you're learning in the main lessons. Most words you learn will never show up in reading exercises, while allot of words you see in the reading exercises are never taught! I suppose that the idea here is to teach you how to pronounce written Spanish even when seeing unfamiliar words. However, I enjoy learning Spanish by reading natural text as much by hearing natural dialogue... and there are countless readers out there for beginners. All in all, you can't go wrong with Pimsleur's courses. Once you've finished the "Spanish II", you'll be itching to move on to "Spanish III". These courses may be a more effective (and affordable) option for those more serious learners that would otherwise consider taking night classes.
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Summary: Pimsluer Spanish II Review
Review: The Pimsleur programs are the best at home language learning tool you can buy. It breaks up difficult words so you can pronounce them correctly. It also moves along at an easy to learn pace. I do reccomend taking one year of spanish in a classroom along with this, to be able to understand grammer. If your serious about learning Spanish, this is a must.
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Summary: Pimsluer Spanish II Review
Review: The Pimsleur programs are the best at home language learning tool you can buy. It breaks up difficult words so you can pronounce them correctly. It also moves along at an easy to learn pace. I do reccomend taking one year of spanish in a classroom along with this, to be able to understand grammer. If your serious about learning Spanish, this is a must.
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Summary: Excellent product for teaching everyday Spanish
Review: The system is great. I get by easily in Mexico after going through blooks 1 and 2. However, the quality of the cassette tapes in my book 2 is TERRIBLE. Very poor audio on most, two tore after several plays. The worst part is the company doesn't appear to stand behind them. I've emailed them and talked to a local dealer and nobody gets back to me.
If you order their product get it on a CD. If you get tapes, copy them to good quality tapes right off. I wish I had done that because their tapes are junk. For what they charge they should pay attention to quality and have some loyalty to their customers. But again, their learning system is very good.
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Summary: Excellent method, POOR quality audio tapes
Review: The system is great. I get by easily in Mexico after going through blooks 1 and 2. However, the quality of the cassette tapes in my book 2 is TERRIBLE. Very poor audio on most, two tore after several plays. The worst part is the company doesn't appear to stand behind them. I've emailed them and talked to a local dealer and nobody gets back to me.
If you order their product get it on a CD. If you get tapes, copy them to good quality tapes right off. I wish I had done that because their tapes are junk. For what they charge they should pay attention to quality and have some loyalty to their customers. But again, their learning system is very good.
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