Series: LL(R) All-Audio Courses
Audio CD
Publisher: Living Language; Compact Di edition (March 16, 1999)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0609603973
ISBN-13: 978-0609603970
Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 6.3 x 1.3 inches
Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
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This was useful to me, but I strongly recommend against it for beginners forimportant reasons. It amazes me that a company so clue-less about what isneeded to learn a language is succeeding at selling these CDs.As some other reviewers have pointed out, the coverage about basicpronunciation is incredibly incomplete and arbitrary. Even the worseclassroom instructor would quickly learn that students need to know all of thebasics, because the students would be asking, "How do I pronounce this?" and"How do I pronounce that?" Living Language must never trouble themselves totest their products with people who don't already know the target language.A beginner may not notice, but anybody with beyond that level will notice inthe very first chapter that (a) the two speakers pronounce German entirelydifferently, and (b) the female's pronunciation is clearly wrong for the majorGerman variants including High German. This woman must have slept her way intothat job, because she can't even speak the second letter of the alphabetcorrectly in German. In German, the letter "B" is in fact NOT pronounced sothat it rhymes with the English "me". She repeats this same mistake over andover for the following letters, and you can easily prove this to yourselfbecause the male narrator pronounces one of the letters correctly right beforeshe pronounces it wrong.The other problem is that the great benefit of the all-audio drills iscounter-acted, and the whole process made frustrating, by ambiguity.
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