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Italian: Complete Language Course Level 1, 2 & 3 (Learn in Your Car) by: Henry N Raymond, Henry N. Raymond List Price: £35.99 Price: £33.95 You Save: £2.04 ( 6%)Prices subject to change. |
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Binding: Audio CD Dewey Decimal Number: 458 EAN: 9781591252108 Format: Audiobook ISBN: 1591252105 Label: Penton Overseas Inc Manufacturer: Penton Overseas Inc Number Of Items: 9 Publication Date: October 01, 2002 Publisher: Penton Overseas Inc Studio: Penton Overseas Inc Sales Rank: 186651 Related Items:
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 Rating: - Good, but a bitdull.With a holiday to Italy coming up, preceded by several long car journeys, I bought three language CDs to listen to in the car: Earworms, Learn in Your Car Complete Language Course and BBC Quickstart and I'd rate them them in that order, Earworms being easily the best and getting 5 stars. I found all of them easy to use in the car, although in the end I felt they were better suited to short journeys rather than doing a lot in one go. Unlike the other two, which are aimed at the holiday goer, Learn in Your Car is a complete language course, just as it says on the cover, and is good value for money. However, I can't review it thoroughly, because I never got past the first disc. It's basically a little dull, just lists of vocab. ... Read More: Rating:  - Dull and not all that useful really!I bought these CDs second hand thinking they would help to supplement other learning materials as I am studying for the Italian GCSE, but in comparison to other audio courses I found this very dull and not a good way of learning at all. It is just words and phrases which you are given a very short time to repeat and that's the last you hear of them!! As mentioned before, you are given no chance to repeat again so nothing goes in (I found!). It's not fun at all and could send me to sleep which is never a good thing when you are driving!! I am working my way through 'Pimsleur speak and read essential Italian I, II and II' and they are simply awesome. You wouldn't use them in the car because you do need to concentrate and use the pause button but ... Read More: Rating:  - Very good audio trainingWhen I started learning Italian I bought many books and software programs before I got this, so I consider myself qualified to give a comparative review. Books are good but you need several to cover everything.. PC learning software is useful in it's multi-media approach, but most of them have no concise guidance. With this audio set, you just turn it on, listen and repeat. The nine discs progress through, gradually introducing new words, verbs, pronouns, nouns, etc incorporating the grammar rules as you go. It is certainly the most satisfying and fun way to learn that I have tried. I found it interesting to use the things was already familiar with, but you could use it without knowing ... Read More: Rating:  - Creates time to learnI would endorse all the comments made by Graham Phillips, who has made a good factual description of the product. I spent a good deal of time going through all nine CD's and I have now just returned from Italy, having had the first chance to try my skills out. My impressions were as follows: 1. I can think of no other way of learning so much of the language without taking time out to do lessons or study books at home. Those 30-40 minutes a day in the car, every day, would be difficult to find otherwise. 2. You are learning to speak by listening and speaking out-loud, not by reading. This gives extra confidence in speaking. The repetition of listening to a native speaker over and over again gives you a good feel ... Read More: Rating: - A few clarificationsHere are a few extra comments to help avoid misunderstanding. Grammar. The course does cover Italian grammar. Each lesson (there are over a hundred in all) illustrates one or a few grammatical points. These are (quite sensibly) explained in the accompanying booklets rather than on the CDs. The course does not go into great detail, and you may want to get another grammar book as well. Vocabulary. Certainly this course emphasises vocabulary. Some other courses cover far fewer words, with the consequence that you can find yourself in Italy confident of your imperfect subjunctives but unable to ask where the bathroom is. Learning vocab is a necessary part of learning a language, and this course makes the process less painful than most. Context. ... Read More: |
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