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Linguaphone PDQ Greek (book and 4 CDs) (Audio CD)

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Product details

  • Audio CD
  • Publisher: Linguaphone Institute Ltd (Nov 1999)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0747308446
  • ISBN-13: 978-0747308447
  • Product Dimensions: 25.6 x 20 x 4.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 302,318 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Synopsis

Designed with busy people in mind, PDQ is an effective way to learn essential and practical Greek. Native speakers take the listener to Greece to learn the essential Greek he or she needs to get by. Topics covered include: meeting people for the first time; asking a question; ordering food and drink; starting a conversation; getting to know someone; talking about your family and friends; finding your way around and asking directions; talking about your home and where you live; hiring a car; and sightseeing. The recordings are bilingual so the learner can study simply by listening to the lessons. The book offers helpful backup and extra practice.

From the Publisher

PDQ Greek on Cassette
Linguaphone aims to provide a solution for every language requirement, The PDQ range of language courses is designed specifically to bridge the gap between our full language courses and the requirements of the traveller or holiday maker.

PDQ is the perfect course for the person who wishes to take the first steps towards speaking a new language or would like to learn all the language needed for travelling and holidays abroad.

Contents

Audio Recordings PDQ covers a wide range of every day situations and uses native speakers to deliver an active vocabulary of over 500 words. Lessons are bilingual, which means that it is possible to complete a PDQ course by simply listening to the recordings.

Lessons on audio-cassette are ideal for learning in the car or whilst listening to a personal stereo.

Course Book PDQ contains a full-colour 64 page programme guide. Packed full of pictures and illustrations it helps give a feel of the country and set the scene for language learning. In addition the course book reinforces the language learnt in the audio recordings as well as teaching reading and writing skills, which will be extremely useful when abroad. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars Good audio course, but not for the tourist, 14 Oct 2006
By Bob Pearce (Perth, Western Australia) - See all my reviews
  
The strength of this beginning Greek course is in the four audio CDs which can almost be used as a stand alone course for learning while driving the car. They are clearly spoken, interesting, and move the course along at a good pace. Key points are repeated to assist learning, and there are a variety of spoken exercises to assist memorising the vocabulary. The 64 page book which comes with the CDs is colourful with many photographs and breakout sections, but it is not well organised for language learning and can be difficult to follow. It has the text of the main dialogues and vocabulary in Greek and English and some token exercises.


The are two main problems with this course. One is the choice of vocabulary. Linguaphone claim the course teaches 500 words, though there are just over 300 in the vocabulary at the end of the book. The vocabulary is not well adapted to the needs of some-one visiting Greece, it is more a general introduction to the language. The second is the hit and miss approach to the grammar or the patterns of the language. Greek is an inflected language (i.e the endings of nouns and adjectives change according to their role in the sentence) but the changes are rarely explained in this course, which means that it is difficult to move beyond the phrases and sentences presented because you don't understand how to use the words you have learned in different contexts. Obviously in a short course such as this it is not possible to deal with the grammatical complexities of the language in any detail, but even so this is a serious weakness of the course. I hadn't got past Unit 2 before I went out and bought "Essential Modern Greek Grammar" (Douglas Adams, Dover, recommended) so that I could understand how the language worked.

For all that, the course is good value for money, especially at the Amazon discount price, and will be a great help in learning to speak Greek and understand it when spoken. It is good as a beginning for some-one who will be embarking on a more serious and structured course, or as a supplement to such a course. The tourist or holidaymaker will find the BBC course "Talk Greek" much more focussed on their needs and the more serious learner will find the Oxford "Take Off in Greek" a better introduction. However, neither of these can match this Linguaphone course for the value of the CDs in learning to speak fluently.
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39 of 42 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars A good way to acquire basic Greek but a difficult language, 5 July 2001
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...This course is good and ideal for the car. I struggled at times but feel prepared for Halki now. My personal reservation is that a greater emphasis on food/wine and shopping would be better. The course aimed to strike a difficult balance between business travellers and tourists. I personally have no interest in learning about the Greek for Trade Fair Centre or Athens University. All in all, and considering the price, I was satisfied.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Good starter for Greek, 1 July 2009
This is a good little starter pack for Greek, the CD's are very good and there is lots of practice. It is really quick to get through too - I felt that I was making progress very quickly.

The units build up and use elements from previous units, and the sections on the CD are well broken up so that you can quickly get back to the start of a topic and go over it again.

I'd have liked more on the definate article and which goes with what word, they are in the course but it wasn't as clear as I would have liked and a better section on pronunciation would have been good, particularly for some of the letter combinations that are out of the oridinary.

Some of the subject matter is a little strange, but overall a good introduction to greek.
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