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| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5932 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 9 of 12 14 November 2013 at 9:47am | IP Logged |
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I’ve used both Perfect courses for French and Spanish. The textbooks are fine if a little basic for an advanced course, but the audio is dreadful. There is far too much English on the audio. It feels like they expanded one CD worth of recordings into two, by padding it with inane instructions. This is the case for both the Perfect courses I’ve tried.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5705 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 10 of 12 16 November 2013 at 10:32am | IP Logged |
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Interesting, I have never used the Perfect Your "_____" courses before and I don't think I will as I already think the regular Teach Yourself courses have far too much English. This "Discover Method" doesn't look like it's a worthwhile change so I may have to think about not buying the newest Teach Yourself courses. Edited by mick33 on 16 November 2013 at 10:34am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| haziz Bilingual Triglot Newbie United States Joined 3643 days ago 28 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian)*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 12 09 May 2014 at 12:51pm | IP Logged |
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I too found it a bit confusing when I looked at what ultimately proved to be two editions of Teach Yourself Latin
American Spanish by Juan Kattan-Ibarra, namely a second and third editions of the same book. They are poorly labelled on the Teach Yourself website and very poorly labelled on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1444192647/ref=oh_details_o 02_s00_i00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 http://www.amazon.com/Complete-Latin-American-Spanish-Audio/ dp/0071750649/ref=sr_1_16? s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1399629019&sr=1-16 I ultimately purchased both; it turns out the first link is a new edition (the third) of the text. Fortunately the changes are substantial enough to make me feel not cheated. There is now a greater emphasis on fairly useful exercises and a self discovery of the language, which of course TY is now calling their "Discovery Method"; while their earlier text had large swathes of grammar explanations and cultural background in English. The new book is a little shorter but with a tighter emphasis on self discovery of the target language. I really doubt it would get me to intermediate mastery of the language however, as it claims. It is more of beginners Spanish with an emphasis on travel needs. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4947 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 12 of 12 09 May 2014 at 6:28pm | IP Logged |
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Apart from 'Perfect your' there were also 'Further' and 'Improve your'. I took a look at the last two, they seemed different and useful, but I don't think it's worth doing more textbook study on German anyway, if my focus is just on using the language.
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