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Splog
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 Message 9 of 21
09 June 2012 at 10:25am | IP Logged 
Having just bought these books about three months ago, I now feel a bit glum that new versions have come out that include audio. Mind you, at those prices I am tempted to buy the new versions just to get the audio recordings, and give the "old" ones away (even though they now seem to be Collector's Items commanding a high price.
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DaraghM
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 Message 10 of 21
09 June 2012 at 11:20pm | IP Logged 
Hampie wrote:
How is the material laid out? Is it a set of categorized lists according to different themes just read aloud with a
pause?


Yes. That's pretty much it.

sekard wrote:
DaraghM Don't they do an Italian version?It's a shame if they don't.


I haven't seen one. Hopefully they'll do more for other languages.

sabotai wrote:
Is the audio just of the words, or do they say the sample sentence as well?


It has the sample sentences as well, but not those in the highlight boxes.

Splog wrote:
Having just bought these books about three months ago, I now feel a bit glum that new versions have come out that include audio.


I know how you feel. I picked both up earlier this year and they then released these in May.
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maydayayday
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 Message 11 of 21
18 June 2012 at 4:26pm | IP Logged 
arturs wrote:
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.


There you go


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Jeffers
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 Message 12 of 21
18 June 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged 
I pre-oredered the French book with CD, but was disappointed that the audio was French only. I guess I was hoping it would function something like Vocabulearn, and I could use it while commuting.

I'm sure it would work well using the method you've outlined, Daragh, but I have plenty of "sit down and read" material. I need more material for when I'm out and about, and unfortunately, listening to monolingual word lists doesn't work for me.

Still, it is probably the most comprehensive vocabulary book available in English, and even with such an immense amount of audio, it costs about the same as its competitors. As cheap as it is, I don't regret buying it. I just wont be using it as much as I had hoped.
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 Message 13 of 21
19 June 2012 at 3:39pm | IP Logged 
Jeffers wrote:
I pre-oredered the French book with CD, but was disappointed that the audio was French only. I guess I was hoping it would function something like Vocabulearn, and I could use it while commuting.

I'm sure it would work well using the method you've outlined, Daragh, but I have plenty of "sit down and read" material. I need more material for when I'm out and about, and unfortunately, listening to monolingual word lists doesn't work for me.

Still, it is probably the most comprehensive vocabulary book available in English, and even with such an immense amount of audio, it costs about the same as its competitors. As cheap as it is, I don't regret buying it. I just wont be using it as much as I had hoped.


I'm tempted to make a recording of the English as I have some down time coming up but my daft northern accent would upset some folk and I am not going to put an accent on for 10 hours!
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 Message 14 of 21
25 June 2012 at 9:50am | IP Logged 
I wish there was a German version of this!
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brian032
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 Message 15 of 21
13 July 2012 at 4:10am | IP Logged 
Has anyone purchased the Spanish version yet? I wonder what accent they use in the audio. I've tried
looking for audio samples, but it seems like a lost cause.
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luke
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14 June 2014 at 7:02pm | IP Logged 
I found this at the bookstore today. I didn't buy it, but I'm wondering if anyone who has can provide a further update. Has it been something you could stick with? How has it been useful?


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