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| BrianDeAlabama Groupie United States Joined 4330 days ago 89 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 03 October 2012 at 11:57am | IP Logged |
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Just today I found an Arabic Travel Pack that I bought probably around 10 years ago.
It contains a phrase book with 1 CD. I was excited until I downloaded the CD to my ipod and got into the basic expressions. I have numerous complaints with the product only having listened to the 1st 8 minute track. The speakers mostly seemed to be British but one of them sounds like he is an effeminate man with a British accent trying to speak Arabic. The quality seemed like some type of comedy when that male spoke. I have no confidence in the CD now. Berlitz's pronunciation guide was also horrible. It would nearly require a student to learn their private interpretation of the English alphabet. I haven't purchased many Berlitz products and but can anyone advise if they have the same opinion of Berlitz or speak any redeeming words as pertaining to some other products they may have? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Peregrinus Senior Member United States Joined 4303 days ago 149 posts - 273 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 4 03 October 2012 at 1:22pm | IP Logged |
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Doing a search on this domain, you can find the following results for past threads. Note that some refer to the old book only self-teacher courses and others to the modern audio ones, both in conjunction with a book and without.
Also formerly active poster and language professor, Dr. Arguelles, has two youtube reviews of Berlitz, part of a series where he reviews various courses. Berltiz pt. 1 Berltiz pt. 2 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5119 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 3 of 4 03 October 2012 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
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I like their books. I'm referring to, which are in the library:
Essential XXX Intermediate XXX Advanced XXX Grammar Vocabulary I don't know about the pocket size / travel / phrase books, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5376 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 4 03 October 2012 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
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The Basic/Intermediate/Advanced aren't too bad once you work out: a) that you have to
download the dialogues from the internet and b) all three take you to the A2 range - so they are not intermediate or advanced at all. But as a gentle introduction to a language they aren't that bad. Its just that other things take you further, better, cheaper. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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