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Title: Teach Yourself Latin American Spanish: A Complete Course for Beginners by Teach Yourself Publishing, Juan Kattan-Ibarra ISBN: 0-8442-3888-0 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: December, 1995 Format: Audio Cassette Volumes: 2 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Different regional dialects
Comment: What led me to buy this book and audio cassette set was the use of different regional dialects. Most of the audio cassettes I've purchased have native speakers from Spain. I enjoyed listening to the different conversations by the speakers from Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, and Argentina. However, I think that the book is better suited for non-beginners. (I started learning Spanish when I was 14, so this was a review for me.) The speakers speak a little too fast on the cassettes for the beginners, but overall this is a good buy.
Rating: 4
Summary: Only for the experienced
Comment: I agree completely with the previous reviewer about for whom this book is most appropriate for, although I am not as harsh with my rating. I have used four books by Teach Yourself in my spanish studies: Spanish, Further Spanish, Business Spanish, and this book. Each book is very helpful for one with a basic background in spanish, but many words are not translated in the chapters (you have to look them up in the index) or not translated at all. Most of the dialogues on the tapes for each series were uneven at best, with one speaker talking very quickly and one more slowly. The dialogues should have started out more slowly and perhaps provided two versions of each dialogue, one slow and one faster. There certainly is room on the tapes for more dialogues; perhaps TY could offer a longe-running tape in their next versions. I found the book exercises challenging and helpful, and each chapter presents language skills that are immediately usable. I did, however, find that many of my Latino friends disagreed with some of the usage. As it is said, you learn spanish by the book, and then by speaking it with native speakers you learn "real spanish". I have been overall pleased with all the TY books (I have also used Italian, Japanese, Chinese, German, and Finnish), and for the money they are a great bargain, but I would be willing to pay a few dollars more for a more perfected version.
Rating: 1
Summary: not for beginners
Comment: I bought the book first, because it used the conversational method, and thought it was great -- all it needed was the cassette tape to go with it. So I bought the tape, and it's a big disappointment. It has one fatal flaw: the spoken phrases and conversations begin at rapid-fire rate from the very beginning. There's no pause between sentences, no pause between speakers, no time to listen. There's no way a complete beginner can listen to something like this on a cassette player without constantly pausing, pausing, pausing, desperately trying to hear what these people are saying. It defeats the whole purpose of a language tape. I notice that the two reviewers who liked this tape both have previous Spanish language experience. If you don't know a word of Spanish, find something else.
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Title: Teach Yourself Latin American Spanish Complete Course by Jaun Kattan-Ibarra, Juan Kattan-Ibarra ISBN: 0844239321 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 January, 1996 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Spanish Extra! (Teach Yourself (Book and Cassette)) by Juan Kattan-Ibarra ISBN: 0658004905 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Berlitz Latin American Spanish by Berlitz, Berlitz Publishing ISBN: 2831578515 Publisher: Berlitz Multimedia Pub. Date: August, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Spanish: Complete Audio Cd Program by Juan Kattan-Lbarra, Juan Kattan-Ibarra ISBN: 0071414444 Publisher: Teach Yourself Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Teach Yourself Spanish Vocabulary by Pilar Caldeiro Lopez, Mike Zollo ISBN: 0844239860 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 11 August, 1996 List Price(USD): $8.95 |
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