Spanish in Three Months (Three Months Cassette Courses)

Rating:
Summary: ¡Me encanta! ¡Me encanta! ¡Me encanta!
Review: I knew quite a large amount of Spanish before reading this book, but now that I have done, I am almost fluent. This book explains the fundamental basics of the language right up to quite complicated grammar. I find languages easy, but even if it were more of a struggle for you, I think that this course would be incredibly useful. This book explains almost all you could want to know about the language and if you finish it and want to know more, it does have a sequel, 'Advanced Spanish Course' which is also very good although it doesn't focus so much on the essential grammar but more on Spanish culture. Even a complete beginner would find this course helpful and I am proof of that as I taught myself Dutch from the book from the same series. Solamente puedo decir compradlo compradlo para que me entendáis si nada más.

Rating:
Summary: Dreadful tape quality ... not really useable .
Review: The book is fine .
The course design is quite good .
But the audio quality of the cassettes is really bad .
The set I got had loads of distortion and an irritating clicking sound all the way through in the background .
I would look at it again , only if they would take more care over the audio and do it on CD .

Rating:
Summary: Good introductory course
Review: This is a pretty good intoduction to the language. It gives you a pretty good summary of all the grammar (although sometimes an explanation of how the grammar works in English might help) and a basic working vocabulary.

If you are travelling to a Spainish speaking country you will be able to make yourself understood and you will be able to understand some very basic conversation. Do not expect to be fluent - you need way more vocabulary than this book supplies ... but it does give you the building blocks from which to work on.

I also got the tapes that you can buy with the book, although found them very disappointing - the person pretty much just reads the lists of words/sentences in the book. A more imaginative/useful and better quality audio program could be produced to supplement what is a very useful book.