All The Spanish You'll Need/8 One Hour Audiocassette Tapes/Complete Learning Guide and Tapescript (Cassettes)

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Summary: Disappointing
Review: My second tape was defective. The booklet sent with the tapes in no way matches the page references in the tapes. There is a huge jump to the future tense in tape 5. The 'easy' content has a lot of patronizingly slow instruction whereas something like the future tense has little treatment. The highpoint is that the speaker is native to South America. Other than that these tapes are low quality.

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Summary: Super fast and easy course. Very effective!
Review: Several months ago I bought 'All The Spanish You'll Need' for my family to prepare us for a trip to Mexico. I work for a company that has branches throughout Latin America and Europe and from time to time they fly us to certain destinations for training, etc ... This time they let me take my family and I wanted everyone to be prepared. Especially me. I couldn't be happier. This course is so fast, easy and effective that even my five year old was running around saying phrases and speaking Spanish. My boss was impressed as well as my Mexican counterparts, some of whom speak English, and some who don't. But in any case, it was obvious from their comments that I impressed them with what I was able to say and understand. Everything I learned was in a three week period and from this course. Need I say more? This was more than I needed in the way of Spanish and was a true bargain. I highly recommend that you buy it and see for yourself.

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Summary: All The Spanish You'll Need
Review: Tape program is clear and builds from basic language to more complex in approprate sequence. Both the English and Spanish phrases are repeted twice. The English could have been stated only once. The tape does not leave adequate time for the learner to repeat after the native speaker, additional time could have been added. Stopping the tape occasionally is inconvienent, but the product is still a good one.

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Summary: All The Spanish You'll Need
Review: Tape program is clear and builds from basic language to more complex in approprate sequence. Both the English and Spanish phrases are repeted twice. The English could have been stated only once. The tape does not leave adequate time for the learner to repeat after the native speaker, additional time could have been added. Stopping the tape occasionally is inconvienent, but the product is still a good one.

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Summary: Louder please!
Review: This product would get an easy four stars except the quality of the recording is poor. You would think for this kind of money he would at least give you a decent tape. You have to turn it all the way to the max to hear it and if there is any noise going on around you, forget it. So walking down the street listening to the tape is fine as long as there's no traffic. It wasn't just my tape either I have his French tapes and they have the very same problem. His technique keeps your attention, speakers are clear, but the sound quality is so annoying it makes me want to return both sets of tapes!

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Summary: These tapes are not worth the money
Review: With most language tapes, you have to read the book to understand what is going on. This is dangerous if you are in the car driving to work! These tapes have the virtue that English and Spanish are both on the tape. But that is their only virtue. You get very little for a lot of money. Large parts of the tapes are blank and a lot of time is taken up with irritating comments from the host, such as "Listen carefully listener, very good, OK, Did you get that?" You seldom learn anything useful. How often does one want to say, "John is English. he speaks English. Mateus is a Portugese wine. What time is it? It is twenty to one in the morning." Tenses, genders, pronouns are presented in no apparent order and you never learn the things you want to be able to say, such as "What time does the show start/train leave. Where can I get something to eat," etc.
The idea behind the tapes is good but it is very poorly executed.