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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6151 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 1 of 21 08 June 2012 at 3:22pm | IP Logged |
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Barron's have released new versions of their Mastering Vocabulary series for French and Spanish.
Mastering Spanish Vocabulary Mastering French Vocabulary I purchased the new French edition, and the amount of audio is incredible. It says ten hours but when I extracted the disk it came to nearly 13 hours. I've listened to the first couple of units and nearly all the vocabulary is on the recording. This means the audio material covers at least 12,000 terms. I was initially concerned the audio was computer generated, but it is actual live recordings. The other big surprise is the cost. It seems incredibly cheap for the book never mind the recordings. I've developed a method for using the material which works well for me. 1. Listen to the unit using repeat track a couple of times listening for words you recognise and those you don't. 2. Read the unit in the book. Check if you correctly recognised some words and check the meaning of those you don't. 3. Re-read the unit so you're roughly familiar with the translations. 4. Listed to the track a large number of times. This can be done commuting or during other dead time. 5. There is a gap after each word to repeat it. 6. Make sure you listen to the audio so much that the meaning comes instantly when you hear the word. I found with repeated listening the words crept from passive to active recall. I didn't expect this. Sometimes when I repeated the word I visualised the meaning rather than thinking in English. I think each track has about 40 to 80 words and lasts between five and ten minutes. I should also add that I listened to each track about thirty times. Edited by DaraghM on 08 June 2012 at 3:23pm 13 persons have voted this message useful | |
| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4838 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 2 of 21 08 June 2012 at 7:01pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the update that is exactly the type of thing I'm looking for
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| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6659 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 3 of 21 08 June 2012 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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How is the material laid out? Is it a set of categorized lists according to different themes just read aloud with a
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| sekard Newbie England Joined 4694 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 21 08 June 2012 at 8:35pm | IP Logged |
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DaraghM Don't they do an Italian version?It's a shame if they don't. Edited by sekard on 08 June 2012 at 8:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 21 08 June 2012 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for posting this, I've just ordered the Spanish version. It looks like an
efficient and fun way of building vocabulary. I'll post my thoughts once it arrives. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5034 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 6 of 21 09 June 2012 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
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I could get use out of both these books. Thank you for telling us about them!
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5882 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 7 of 21 09 June 2012 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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Is the audio just of the words, or do they say the sample sentence as well?
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| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5271 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 8 of 21 09 June 2012 at 7:47am | IP Logged |
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Could you please make a scan of some of the pages from the book, to see how it's laid out - amazon doesn't provide the Look Inside function for these books.
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