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 Which is Better? Behind the Wheel Spanish or Learn In Your Car? Oct 11, 2008
Alright. Which is better? Behind the Wheel Spanish Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1 (Behind the Wheel) or Learn in Your Car??
The titles sound similar, but the courses are quite different.
I have both and have benefited from both. Of the two, I much prefer Behind the Wheel Spanish. My reasons for this follow:
1. Behind the Wheel Spanish is a much less rigid and more intuitive type of course where you are allowed the freedom to create your own sentences on the first CD and beyond. While Learn in Your Car is great for vocabulary, there is no such feature included.
2. Learn in Your Car uses a 'non-interview' instructional type format which is somewhat reminiscent of your high school language class days. Very structured and a bit geekish.
Behind the Wheel has an English speaking teacher with great native speakers that sort of stroll you through the language. You really never feel like you are in a class, but you are always learning to speak.
3. While I use both courses, I always walk away from even a short session with Behind the Wheel knowing how to say and understand more immediately after my lesson, whereas with Learn in Your Car, the material does not 'stick with me' nearly as fast or as easily.
4. Behind the Wheel has taught me some certifiably cool idioms like 'Me costó un ojo de la cara' or 'It cost me an eye out of my face' that all the native Spanish speakers with whom I have spoken have instantly understood. They nearly embrace me when I use these little 'gems'.
Once again, Learn in Your Car doesn't have any of this stuff.
Conclusion: Buy and use both courses, especially if you like variety.
If you only have enough money for one, then by all means purchase Behind the Wheel first. The advantage to using both is that the more rigid structure of Learn in Your Car can be a refreshing (albeit much less effective) change to Behind the Wheel.
 It's not bad Sep 22, 2008
While there are a lot of useful words and phrases on these cds, there are equally as many redundant and/or useless ones. I really don't need to know 7 different ways to say "these suitcases". I think if you have a remote so you can skip the next chapter easily, it's much more enjoyable.
A great way to learn Spanish! Jan 30, 2008
I have learned a lot in just under a week with this series. If you are committed to listening to it every day and going over the included workbook it is great. The only problem that I had with it is that sometimes the narrator is difficult to understand as far as annunciation and volume.
Beginner's guide to Spanish May 25, 2007
This is an affordable learning system and full of useful phrases for the basics of language learning. The lessons are ordered in a way that allows for combinations of phrases. I suggest Level 2 and 3 to get a better understanding.
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 Which Is Better? Behind the Wheel or Learn in Your Car Spanish? Apr 17, 2007
Which Is Better? Behind the Wheel or Learn in Your Car Spanish?, April 17, 2007
Reviewer: John Cartier (New York, N.Y.) - See all my reviews
I personally enjoy using Learn in Your Car Spanish. It is a good value for the money and the production is very good, the vocabulary is worthwhile and the speakers voices are decent.
That said, I heartily recommend you first purchase Behind the Wheel Spanish 8 CDs and text so that you have something to compare Learn in Your Car with.
My observations lead me constantly to the same conclusion: both courses are extremely valid but 'Behind the Wheel' is way ahead in terms of ease of use, flexibility in teaching approach, the speed at which you learn to speak Spanish (I started making my own sentences with BTW Spanish in about 10 minutes into the course). The fact that you are able to make original sentences with Behind the Wheel is one of its hallmarks, and places it way ahead of all competetion I have purchased, including 'Learn in Your Car'.
I still gave 'Learn in Your Car Spanish' a five star rating. Let me explain why.
If I have a technology that is the best in an 'old technology' category then I still will rate it high.
There literally is nothing on the market that can compete with Behind the Wheel Spanish. It is so far ahead of the other courses I have tried that there is nothing even close to which I can compare it.
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