¿Que tal? Student Edition with Listening Comprehension Audio CD and Video on CD

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Summary: Illustrations vague and confusing; hard to follow exercises.
Review: Frequently introduces new vocabulary in exercises without translating them. Awkward.

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Summary: Great for listening and writing comprehension
Review: I am a student that had to use this manual for a class and being able to interact with the tape for the oral excersizes and the book for written excersizes I learned the correct pronunceations and spellings for a large vocabular of words and phrases

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Summary: Don't get this unless you are stuck buying only this.
Review: This only gets one star, at best.

Book starts in the middle of nowhere and wanders all over the place. It's like trying to paint a house following a fly from room to room with a roller and a can of paint.

The publisher does a better job selling, and over-selling, the book and supplies than supporting (much less explaining) the CDs and Videos that can be purchased.

If you can find a simplier book, get it. This will work, but you'll have to wade through small print, "cute" articles, and silly exercises to get to the meat of the matter - learning Spanish.

I had to buy this for a continuing education class, but I have an old set of books and LPs that I really learned from to pass the course.

Any language course that "sells" you on learning "with your computer" was probably designed by people who think the computers on Star Trek really talked....