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Immersionplus Spanish Complete: The Final Step to Fluency! (Immersionplus(tm) Audio Series) (Spanish Edition) | 
| Author: Inc Penton Overseas
Publisher: Penton Overseas
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
Buy New: $13.57
You Save: $6.38 (32%)
Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 97872
Media: Audio CD
Number Of Items: 3
Pages: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 159125227X
Dewey Decimal Number: 468
EAN: 9781591252276
Publication Date: September 2002
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Product Description
Each program consists of a variety of entertaining dialogues introduced briefly in English, and then spoken entirely in the target foreign language. The vignette is first heard at a normal conversational rate, then at a slower rate to aid comprehension. The same dialogue is then repeated at the normal conversational rate used by native speakers.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 7 more reviews...
 Building your Spanish ear... April 2, 2004
118 out of 122 found this review helpful
Learning to read, write, and speak a foreign language is challenging but the hardest step is listening and understanding. Native speakers seem to speak quickly and don't cooperate by using vocabulary words that you know! You can hold a very slow one-on-one conversation but the evening news blows by quickly with you recognizing only words here and there. This CD set is designed to help with this problem. It consists of 7 dialogues (for example, a couple discussing where to go for dinner). Each dialogue is presented 3 time - once at a native rate, once slowly, and again at a native rate (each in its own track). Additionally, a booklet provides the text in both Spanish and English. Each time you listen, you pick up more and more and get basic comprehension (rather than trying to literally translate word-for-word and losing track of the conversation). It's much better than turning on the Spanish channel on cable because you can listen to the dialogues over and over and, if you really get stuck, can look up the text. You need to be comfortable with a variety of verb tenses/moods (e.g., the subjunctive comes up often as it does in real life) so this would be most useful for an intermediate or advanced student.
This is It March 25, 2006
41 out of 43 found this review helpful
This is what you've been looking for. An advanced Spanish CD that REALLY IS ADVANCED! This is one step below watching Univision.
A native of Honduras listened to this and told me that no one speaks this way. The speakers on the CD speak too clearly. EXACTLY!!! They speak at a normal speaking pace, but the pronunciation is more clear than native speakers. That is the only difference between this set of CDs and listening to actual conversation of native Spanish speakers.
It has a CD (accompanied by a booklet) with more than a few conversations about every day activities including golf, fishing, buying a house, eating out, etc... Each conversation has three audio tracks. The first is at regular conversation pace. The second is the same conversation but at a much slower pace. The third track is the same as the first.
You listen to the first track, improve your listening skills, but if you miss a few words you can pick them up on track 2 and then go on to track three to perfect your listening skills.
This does NOT teach grammar or vocabulary (although important grammar and vocabulary is used throughout the CD). It assumes that the listener already has studied basic, intermediate and advanced Spanish grammar. This tool is designed to accostom the student to hearing Spanish spoken by native speakers, and it is exactly what I've been looking for.
Slower speed tracks a great idea June 28, 2006
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
As the original reviewer has noted, of the four skills of hearing, speaking, reading and writing, the first, i.e. understanding the spoken language is the hardest for most students. Most intermediate/advanced courses present their material at normal native speaking speed - they usually justify this by saying "but that's how they speak, get used to it!" But I say you have to walk before you can run. What is the use of listening to stuff spoken so fast that you consistently fail to understand whole phrases? It is frustrating and discouraging. Here's where Immersionplus Spanish comes in with its repeated fast and slow tracks. You can listen a few times to each fast track and get as much as you can, then play the slow track. I found that this solved virtually all difficulties. With other advanced courses I could only resolve the difficult bits by referring to the transcript. How much better for them to be resolved simply by hearing them spoken more slowly. A simple and obvious idea, but this is where this course wins out over so many others. The dialogues are excellent too, lively, colloquial, everyday language. Great value.
Great value for Advanced Spanish CD February 1, 2006
25 out of 26 found this review helpful
I purchased 3 Advanced Spanish CDs to get ready for a trip to Mexico. This was the cheapest and most effective of the 3 programs I purchased. I am conversational in spanish, but not an expert speaker. I need refreshers to help keep my "ear" in sync with native speakers. This course was excellent for that purpose. The course includes a booklet with a full translation of the dialogue on the 3 CDs. The booklet was very helpful. I could read it at home and at my office and see the translation of words that didn't quite make sense. I learned several variations of words I've used in Spanish. I listened to the CDs multiple times and am pleased that it knocked much of the rust off my spanish listening and speaking skills.
 Good Practice... with one drawback April 13, 2007
13 out of 13 found this review helpful
This is a great product for the price (under $10 used!) if you are an intermediate or advanced spanish student. It provides multiple conversations in regular speed and reduced speed, with a booklet giving you the translations. I would reccomend to people not to view the booklet until you have listened to the conversations multiple times, because it is sort of cheating and won't help you very much. For the price, you can't beat this good practice. Perfect if you have a decent commute to work or regular drives. I work at a bar till 4am in a town 40 mins away and these CDs make the drive fly by.
The only thing I would say about this CD set I do not like is the horrible people/actors they hired for this voiceover. They COMPLETLEY lack any vocal inflection and it is not always clear when they are upset, happy, etc. They talk like robots would, so it is not really how a true fluent speaker talks. It is actually kind of funny though to listen to their lack of vocal inflection, and critiqueing the CD will help you learn more in my opinion. Apart from that this CD set is great practice, just do not expect to be fluent from listening to it. It should be solely one part in your efforts to improve your Spanish. Good luck!
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