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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.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Great learning tool May 25, 2007
This is an affordable learning system and full of useful phrases. The lessons are ordered in a way that allows for combinations of phrases that translate into real learning. I suggest Level 1 and 2 as well.
76 of 78 found the following review helpful:
Spanish by natural repetition instead of gramatical study Sep 14, 1999
An excellent study/review tape. I have purchased three sets of cassettes to reveiw my spanish and this was my favorite.Note however that I already speak spanish at a lower intermediate level. I lived in Colombia for over two years. I mainly bought this cassette to increase my vocabulry during time otherwise wasted in my car. It was an excellent tool for this. If you already speack Spanish and wish to improve I would give this a 5 star rating. If you are trying to learn Spanish... then you will need to judge for yourself (thus I gave a 4 star rating as it might not be as perfect for that) Good Luck! (Buena Suerte)
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