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Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (Spanish Edition) | 
| Author: Pimsleur
Publisher: Pimsleur
Category: Book
Buy New: $345.00
Rating:  61 reviews
Sales Rank: 58301
Format: Audiobook
Media: Audio CD
Edition: 2nd Rev
Number Of Items: 16
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 12.7 x 11.2 x 1.5
ISBN: 0743523571
Dewey Decimal Number: 468
EAN: 9780743523578
Publication Date: April 1, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Product Description
Comprehensive Spanish (L.A.) I includes 30 lessons of essential grammar and vocabulary -- 16 hours of real-life spoken practice sessions -- plus an introduction to reading.Upon completion of this Level I program, you will have functional spoken proficiency with the most-frequently-used vocabulary and grammatical structures. You will be able to: * initiate and maintain face-to-face conversations, * deal with every day situations -- ask for information, directions, and give basic information about yourself and family, * communicate basic information on informal topics and participate in casual conversations, * avoid basic cultural errors and handle minimum courtesy and travel requirements, * satisfy personal needs and limited social demands, * establish rapport with strangers in foreign countries, * begin reading and sounding out items with native-like pronunciation.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 56 more reviews...
audiobook format is awkward on mp3 player January 3, 2009
You will need to buy several audiobooks as each has five chapters. The problem is ALL six books have the SAME title. Thus I must scroll the entire length of the title to see which book it is. Try scrolling "Audible: Spanish 1, Second Revised Edition: Lessons ...." six times to find the book you want. My complaints to Pimsleur and to Audio.com have not resolved this. The format for learning Spanish is good, the voices are very pleasant and the pace is suitable. Thus I will tolerate the inconvenience of scrolling. Soon there will be a new repetitive motion injury. Instead of Blackberry thumb we will have Scrolling Calluses. All they need to do is change the sequence of the words in the title so the number of each Lesson appears first. Is this not common sense?
 OK For Beginners, Too Formal for Southern US December 2, 2008
This is a good start for a beginner who knows almost no Spanish at all. I personally found it way too elementary for me and found myself giving the Spanish equivalent for the spoken English words and phrases BEFORE the speaker on the CD could. Also, this is formal Castillian Spanish, not the Spanish spoken by most Spanish speakers in the US. Also, I have not heard the more personal form of "you", which is "tu" used yet. I find the topic of the conversations somewhat offensive and people are asking each other to give them money and being choosy about it. I wished I had gone with Rosetta Stone.
 An excellent auditory learning method May 27, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This is the third language I've learned the rudiments of via the Pimsleur method. I had Spanish and French in high school (during the last century) but I also picked up enough German to negotiate a hiking trip in Austria and I'd never learned it before. The Spanish CDs have been a boon to me and if you are primarily an auditory learner as I seem to be, I believe you will be pleased with them.
Pimsleur Spanish I Review February 27, 2008
Good complement to a traditional Spanish language class.
Focuses completely on listening and speaking.
No written exercises or teaching. All vocabulary
learning is through the interactive excercises
which feature enough random repetition to keep
you on your toes.
Should be a good training for dialog and every day
conversation. I probably would not want to use
this as my only way of learning the language.
 Price tag out of step with quality and usefulness February 20, 2008
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I'm happy to say that I didn't have to pay the ultra-high price-tag for this course. My uncle has opened a language products store and I'm running through some of the beginners Spanish courses to help him recommend one.
Pimsleur definitely has an innovative approach. It will help an absolute beginner get off the ground, for sure.
However, one would be much better off by buying the Michel Thomas beginners course (which is far better than Pimsleur and much cheaper) plus one or two others as well as the Thomas course is light-on for non verb related voacbulary.
Many lessons have a point where a speaker starts instructing you in Spanish what to ask or say. He might say "ask him if he has seen the movie." So you say "have you seen the movie?" That exercise feels like an utter waste of time, the instructions would better have been delivered in English.
I would recommend Pimsleur if it was $50, for sure. Until it hits that price I won't recommend it to anyone who isn't loaded with cash.
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