Rapanese Spanish Series 3

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Summary: BOBBY THE MAGICAL JUGGLING CLOWN
Review: I allmost didn't buy this cool CD because of a listener that left a bad review Toro NYC. He said something about "hace frio" is correct and "esta frio" is wrong. I bought it anyway and nowhere on the CD does it say either of these words. I guess he has a right to say anything he wants. Actually at my level of Spanish who cares. Either way a spanish speaking person will figure out that I am cold.

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Summary: Rapanese (The Musical Method of Learning Spanish), Series 1
Review: I had such hopes for this series, but was agast at the glaring errors it made in just the Elementary edition. For instance, the verb "estar" is used in place of the verb "hacer" to convey the weather (e.g. "esta frio" instead of "hace frio"). That ended my faith right then and there as I do not want to sound like a dumb American when traveling. The editors should be ashamed that the linguistic background of the author is so lacking that he'd make this error and who knows how many others.

Rating:
Summary: BOBBY THE MAGICAL JUGGLING CLOWN
Review: I had such hopes for this series, but was agast at the glaring errors it made in just the Elementary edition. For instance, the verb "estar" is used in place of the verb "hacer" to convey the weather (e.g. "esta frio" instead of "hace frio"). That ended my faith right then and there as I do not want to sound like a dumb American when traveling. The editors should be ashamed that the linguistic background of the author is so lacking that he'd make this error and who knows how many others.

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Summary: Pronunciation is awful
Review: I threw my tapes out after listening to them twice and being unable to believe that someone could put out a Spanish instruction tape who spoke Spanish so poorly himself. If I remember correctly, the guy who did the tapes bills himself as an effective high school Spanish teacher. His accent is very Anglo and his grammar is not always correct. His method may be a cute gimmick, but his students are going to sound funny to somebody who knows the language.

Rating:
Summary: Pronunciation is awful
Review: I threw my tapes out after listening to them twice and being unable to believe that someone could put out a Spanish instruction tape who spoke Spanish so poorly himself. If I remember correctly, the guy who did the tapes bills himself as an effective high school Spanish teacher. His accent is very Anglo and his grammar is not always correct. His method may be a cute gimmick, but his students are going to sound funny to somebody who knows the language.

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Summary: Musical Method of Learning Spanish: Rapanese Spanish
Review: This audio cassette is fun and useful! For those of us who hope to actually learn to speak Spanish coherently someday, a tape like this really helps to "tune up" the ear to proper understanding and pronunciation. Repetition is the key to learning a language, and the Rapanese method makes it entertaining as well as instructive.