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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7208 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 1 of 1 12 April 2005 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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Musical Spanish - Lessons for the Road is a 2 CD set
meant to teach you some of the basics in the context of musical selections. The basic format is a complete song is played in Spanish. I have this feeling the music is performed by the author's husband. He's a good singer, the arrangements are generally upbeat. It's a light weight program. I bought the CD to be part of my Spanish studies for a 12-14 hour road trip. I also had Platiquemos, and a children's verb conjugation song tape. In the context of my road trip, it was worthwhile purchase. Not because of what it taught me, but for it's "fun factor". Back to the format of the CD. There are about 30 tracks per CD. 10 tracks are songs. 10 tracks are the translation of the songs. The other tracks, about 4 per song are on some grammatical point. So now that I've established I'm satisfied with the purchase, here's some things I didn't like. The narrator is not a native speaker. She has a fine accent and she admits she's not native. This is a digital recording. The normal pauses between narrative phrases are chopped out. It's the sort of hack job I might do myself if I had enough coffee. It's kind of tiring to listen too though because the pace of the narrative is forced fast. For my road trip, I'd listen to a song and the 5 other tracks which is about 16 minutes. A good length for a breather between Platiquemos units. The song selection is mostly classics, but some of lyrics seem to have been changed. Like "La Cucaracha" mentions "Nintendo", which wasn't around when Mel Blanc and Speedy Gonzales did it for Bugs Bunny back in the 60s. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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