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0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Does what it says on the tin. Oct 06, 2008
I went to Amazon.com having failed to find an audio aid to rote learning Spanish verbs in the UK. Although I chose the slowest and cheapest postage I was amazed how quickly the CDs arrived (4 days). More to the point I am delighted with the product. I did not want a tricksy show, just a simple repetition of the verbs that I can copy, and that's just what I got. Thank you Amazon.com and Stacey.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Bad piece of software May 14, 2008
I really enjoyed using Study Spanish in your Car -- that was the foundation of what Spanish I have learned. I enjoyed that series so much that when I had gone through all 100+ lessons I am paying a graduate student at my University to create more MP3's in this genre that were tailored to my interests. So I was hoping for more of same. No. An endless, boring, useless list of verbs. Total waste of money. No use at all. Get the "Study Spanish in your car" series but don't bother with this one.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Flashcards May 05, 2008
Consider this set of four CDs to be something like the flashcards you used when you were learning in grade school.
I feel that listening to this set, along with the other things I am doing to learn Spanish, will be helpful. I have gotten to the point where I can speak and read Spanish reasonably well, but then can not understand a native speaker when he or she replies to me; so I am trying methods that involve listening rather than reading, as this is a different type of learning and probably a better way to learn a language.
This is also helpful because I discovered that when I was pronouncing verbs I was conjugating as I wrote them out (my old method) I would sometimes place the accent on the syllable that changed rather than the proper syllable.
This set is currently priced on Amazon at $14 - that's a good value for a four CD set.
The only thing I am confused about is the pronunciation of the letter "V." The narrator usually pronounces it like the "V" is pronounced in English, instead of pronouncing it like a letter "B." I don't understand why the words are presented this way - is this a regional accent from where the narrator learned Spanish?
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Love it...! Sep 16, 2007
This cd set is excellent for everyone wanting to learn. I have bought many cd sets and found that most of them are too advanced for me to follow along. Stacey did a great job. The cd set includes a small written pocket notebook that is exceptionally useful for quick reference to verbs when studying or testing classmates.
I recommend this cd set.
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Drums are annoying Mar 10, 2007
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Author is good with the Spanish. Her English is Monotone!
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Overall this is a good practice program. Unfortunately you have to listen to a drum beat between verbs and it's nerve racking. To make matters worse the volume of the drums tend to be higher than the voice on the CD. A slight pause would have been sufficient. Thank goodness there were no "dings".
Yes the author is mono tone but overall the concept is a good idea.
I wish they would have taken one verb and gone all the way through the different tenses, i.e. present, preterite, imperfect, ..... then switch verbs. By doing so one would get the full flavor of the verb and the drum beats would be okay because they would not be as often. But the common protocol is to cover each tense with a different verb before switching tenses.
This product would have been really nice if it had a CD for the computer so one could select a verb then listen to ALL of its conjugations in ALL tenses and also see them written down.
I strongly agree with the person who said "reversed the order of the English and Spanish phrases so the CD's say the English form once, e.g., I speak, followed by the Spanish form twice, e.g., yo hablo"
Also, I believe the person giving the English words should be different from the person saying the Spanish translation. Doing so would stop the CD from sounding so boring.
I would have given the product 5 stars except for the following issues: drum beats (major issue!), each verb covered only one tense at a time, no computer interaction.
The most important thing is that this product has a lot of potential and hopefully if there is another revision the producers will listen to and incorporate the user's comments.
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