- Hardcover
- Publisher: Teach Yourself Books (2 Jun 1994)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0340595175
- ISBN-13: 978-0340595176
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,168,348 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Designed for adult learners seeking to acquire practical communication skills in Latin-American Spanish. This cassette accompanies a book suitable for beginners or for those wishing to refresh or advance their knowledge. There is also a book/cassette pack available.
About the Author
Juan Kattan-Ibarra was born in Chile and has travelled extensively in Latin America and Spain. He has degrees from the University of Chile, Michigan State University, Manchester University, and the Institute of Education, London University. He has taught Spanish in colleges and to businesses and has been an examiner for various examining boards. He is now a full-time author.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
When i started this book i was a semi-novice, having previously studied spanish within my spare time (not at school) but now being sufficiently rusty to warrant a beginner's course. This Book/Cd combination has been an incredibly useful tool for me whilst trying to learn latin american spanish. It covers all the necessary tenses and provides a good grounding in essential vocabulary. The dialogues are effectively presented, helping to encourage the reader to learn each tense within an applicable situation, such as "when is the next train to... ?". It progresses at an appropriate speed, and by the end you feel adequetely prepared for a basic conversation. I thoroughly recommend buying the full audio book as it helps you to familiarise yourself with the various different accents in Latin America, particularly how more expressive they are than us British folk, and how accentuated each stress should be. Mexico, Columbia, Peru, Chile & Argentina are represented a lot more than other countries, with the remainders making fleeting appearances. Different places in Latin America will obviously have different words for certain things which is appreciated throughout the book, and more emphatically in the back of the book where a few pages dedicated to these words aswell as varying pronounciations of letter/letter combinations are included.
I would say that although this is a complete look at Latin American Spanish, it is 50-100 pages shorter than the other Teach Yourself books i have, and that in order to feel truely confident it may be necessary to compliment this book with another more comprehensive guide if you wish to take it a step further. This is particularly notable with respects to vocabulary. I purchased a practice makes perfect book in conjunction and found the two make a good partnership.
In essence; a great place to start aquainting yourself with, or rediscovering, this beautiful language.
I would say that although this is a complete look at Latin American Spanish, it is 50-100 pages shorter than the other Teach Yourself books i have, and that in order to feel truely confident it may be necessary to compliment this book with another more comprehensive guide if you wish to take it a step further. This is particularly notable with respects to vocabulary. I purchased a practice makes perfect book in conjunction and found the two make a good partnership.
In essence; a great place to start aquainting yourself with, or rediscovering, this beautiful language.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
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I have tried this course but found it pretty useless, the book doesn't correspond with the CD and the CD was obviously initially recorded as a tape so doesn't really work as a CD. For example, I was constantly told to 'rewind' the tape and listen to something again, which wasn't possible on a CD - meaning I had to listen to whole tracks again. I strongly recommend not buying this item and buying a Michel Thomas introductory Spanish course instead, which I used after this and quickly learn a lot with.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This is a good course. I am using it and I am happy with the lessons. It is good that we now have proper courses for latin america rather than having to use peninsular spanish and then you are not understood, which has happened to me. This is a step forward, but in my view is not enough. Within latin america there are many differences. There are important pronunciation differences, in the vowels, in final s, in h for x, and many others. There are also important structural differences, like the verbs that go with vos and the tuteo. In my view, we should have at least two separate courses, one mainly for Mexico and one mainly for Argentina. If we are serious about courses that really teach the language for the country where you go, we cannot iron out the differences.
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