Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (Spanish Edition)

Additional Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (Spanish Edition) Information

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.

What Customers Say About Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (Spanish Edition):

Would recommend to any and all looking for a fast self-paced immersion course, which only takes 30 minutes a day. Excellent program, halfway into the program and I have a uncanny sense of confidence when speaking about basic subjects such as date, time, heat, places, and basic conjugations. Will be purchasing the entire set.

Run far.Run fast.Crawl fast.whatever you have to do DO NOT BUY anything from these people because they might just fraud money from you.This company IS NOT a good bussiness idea. I ordered a 4 CD set and everything was O.K. UNTIL,the people at Primsleur sent me a 16 CD set that I didn't order(called a Free Trial")It was anything but FREE.I told the Primsleur woman was rude to me when I tried to explain that I didn't want the CDs and was sending them back.Long story short I was sent a billed for something I DID NOT ORDER.

Try scrolling "Audible: Spanish 1, Second Revised Edition: Lessons." six times to find the book you want. Instead of Blackberry thumb we will have Scrolling Calluses. The problem is ALL six books have the SAME title.

Thus I will tolerate the inconvenience of scrolling. All they need to do is change the sequence of the words in the title so the number of each Lesson appears first. Soon there will be a new repetitive motion injury.

You will need to buy several audiobooks as each has five chapters. The format for learning Spanish is good, the voices are very pleasant and the pace is suitable. Is this not common sense.

Thus I must scroll the entire length of the title to see which book it is. My complaints to Pimsleur and to Audio.com have not resolved this.

Also, I have not heard the more personal form of "you", which is "tu" used yet. This is a good start for a beginner who knows almost no Spanish at all. I wished I had gone with Rosetta Stone. 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 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.

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. 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.