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Learn in Your Car Spanish Level One (Learn in Your Car) | 
 enlarge | Author: Henry N. Raymond
Publisher: Penton Overseas
Category: Book
List Price: $19.95
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Avg. Customer Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 92054
Media: Audio CD
Edition: Com/Bklt
Number Of Items: 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.4 x 1.1
ISBN: 1591257301
Dewey Decimal Number: 468
EAN: 9781591257301
ASIN: 1591257301
Publication Date: September 2006
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Amazon.com Review
Look ma, no textbooks! The Learn in Your Car series treats you like a child--in the best possible way--starting with one-word phrases ("please," "good-by"), counting exercises, and simple nouns ("bus," "train") designed to imitate a child's learning process. First you hear the words in English, then they are repeated slowly in clear, unaccented pronunciations. The method is extremely effective for those who don't know a thing, or for those who want to brush up by testing themselves when the English words are spoken. The tapes emphasize the building blocks of communicating in a foreign country rather than rote phrases that only apply on the tape and not in real-life exchanges. Level 1 painlessly covers basic verb forms, essential prepositions, near future and past tenses, as well as shopping, hotel reservations, and other travel-related situations. The series includes French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Spanish in three levels that can be purchased individually or in boxed sets. Each level contains two 90-minute cassettes (or CDs) and an accompanying booklet (not for use behind the wheel) with helpful explanations and scripts for the lessons.
Product Description
Our best-selling audio language-learning program provides comprehensive grammar and vocabulary to beginners and advanced students, offering guidance in pronunciation in addition to language fundamentals. Updated for the 21st century and re-recorded with fresh voiceovers, Learn In Your Car includes terminology for cell phones, computers and the Internet, as well as contemporary currencies and usages. Listeners learn pronunciation, vocabulary, and grammar of a new language without the need of a textbook: Level 1: Key words and phrases, basic grammar skills, emphasizes travel needs; Level 2: Expands vocabulary, new grammar concepts, more day-to-day activities; Level 3: Broadens vocabulary base, more advanced grammar skills, enriches conversational ability. 3 hours of audio on 3 compact discs, 1 Listening Guide with recorded text for reference and grammar notes.
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Which is Better? Behind the Wheel Spanish or Learn In Your Car? October 11, 2008
Alright. Which is better? Behind the Wheel Spanish Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1 (Behind the Wheel) or Learn in Your Car??
The titles sound similar, but the courses are quite different.
I have both and have benefited from both. Of the two, I much prefer Behind the Wheel Spanish. My reasons for this follow:
1. Behind the Wheel Spanish is a much less rigid and more intuitive type of course where you are allowed the freedom to create your own sentences on the first CD and beyond. While Learn in Your Car is great for vocabulary, there is no such feature included.
2. Learn in Your Car uses a 'non-interview' instructional type format which is somewhat reminiscent of your high school language class days. Very structured and a bit geekish.
Behind the Wheel has an English speaking teacher with great native speakers that sort of stroll you through the language. You really never feel like you are in a class, but you are always learning to speak.
3. While I use both courses, I always walk away from even a short session with Behind the Wheel knowing how to say and understand more immediately after my lesson, whereas with Learn in Your Car, the material does not 'stick with me' nearly as fast or as easily.
4. Behind the Wheel has taught me some certifiably cool idioms like 'Me costo un ojo de la cara' or 'It cost me an eye out of my face' that all the native Spanish speakers with whom I have spoken have instantly understood. They nearly embrace me when I use these little 'gems'.
Once again, Learn in Your Car doesn't have any of this stuff.
Conclusion: Buy and use both courses, especially if you like variety.
If you only have enough money for one, then by all means purchase Behind the Wheel first. The advantage to using both is that the more rigid structure of Learn in Your Car can be a refreshing (albeit much less effective) change to Behind the Wheel.
 It's not bad September 22, 2008
While there are a lot of useful words and phrases on these cds, there are equally as many redundant and/or useless ones. I really don't need to know 7 different ways to say "these suitcases". I think if you have a remote so you can skip the next chapter easily, it's much more enjoyable.
A great way to learn Spanish! January 30, 2008
I have learned a lot in just under a week with this series. If you are committed to listening to it every day and going over the included workbook it is great. The only problem that I had with it is that sometimes the narrator is difficult to understand as far as annunciation and volume.
Beginner's guide to Spanish May 25, 2007
This is an affordable learning system and full of useful phrases for the basics of language learning. The lessons are ordered in a way that allows for combinations of phrases. I suggest Level 2 and 3 to get a better understanding.
Learn In Your Car Spanish -vs- some othe On-the-Go Spanish courses May 7, 2007
23 out of 23 found this review helpful
I tried this course as well as several other Spanish courses that are designed to teach Spanish while driving in the car. I rate this product as being "fair." What it gives you is an English speaker saying a word or phrase in English, next you will hear a pause, and then a Spanish speaker repeats the word or phrase in Spanish. And then the process is repeated with a new phrase. This same process is repeated over and over again. But you are never given any real life situations to relate the phrases in order to reinforce what you are learning. You also never interact with the English speaker and Spanish speaker on the recordings. You are just repeating their phrases. There are also absolutely no grammar explanations in this course. Not explaining any grammar may work for a child but not for adults who have grown to be accustomed to questioning everything and committing the error of attempting to "think" in their native language instead of the target language.
There are several Spanish courses for learning Spanish in your car that I found more helpful than this course and at various price ranges. In the more economical price range:
Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour uses an instructor that is very encouraging. His teaching method is a lot more fun than the method used in Learn in Your Car Spanish. He provides ample explanation about grammar without over-doing it. The native speaker on Behind the Wheel Spanish has a very comforting but strong voice that will relax you but at the same time his voice motivates you. I have found that I not only learn more but retain more when I am relaxed and focused on my studies. On the other hand, the method used in Learn In Your Car Spanish tends to make the listener sleepy.
Michel Thomas Speak Spanish For Beginners: 10-CD Beginner's Program (Michel Thomas Speak...) is another very reasonably priced course that is ideal for learning Spanish in your car. Michel Thomas is what I would consider the Michael Jordan of language instruction. He is naturally gifted when it comes to teaching foreign languages. The only problem with his course is that Michel Thomas is a not a native Spanish speaker and he does not use native Spanish speakers in his Spanish course. So you will have to find another technique to supplement your pronunciation development.
Comparing Learn In Your Car Spanish with the economically priced courses for learning Spanish on the go, I rate them in this order:
1. Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour 5 Stars.
2. Michel Thomas Speak Spanish For Beginners: 10-CD Beginner's Program (Michel Thomas Speak...) 4 Stars.
3. Learn In Your Car Spanish -- 3 stars.
In the more costly price range, I also found two Spanish courses to be more helpful than Learn In Your Car Spanish. Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1 is designed for the car, but they also give you a link to download the transcript so if you wish, after you finish your drive, you can sit down with the transcript and go over what you just learned in the car.
I think LSLC's greatest feature is that it puts an emphasis on teaching the conversational Spanish that native Spanish speakers actually speak. They also use native Spanish speakers from various countries from Central and South America so you will be prepared when it comes to time to speak with and understand native Spanish speakers from different Latin American countries. The only problem that I have with that course, is that besides the transcripts, you really aren't given any visual materials to assist you in learning. The instructor in LSLC also provides ample explanation about grammar without over-doing it.
Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (Comprehensive) is another learn-on-the-go Spanish course in the more costly price range. Pimsleur Spanish uses a method that makes learning Spanish pretty easy. The negatives are that the course does not cover much content (vocabulary and grammar). Another minus about the course is that the Spanish is very formal (which may actually be a major plus for many). Unlike, Learning Spanish Like Crazy, Pimsleur does not give the student access to the transcripts so it is difficult for adults to reinforce what they are learning. That's great for a child. But after many years of learning by reading, adults need to have the opportunity to reinforce what they are hearing/speaking by reading.
Comparing Learn In Your Car Spanish with the pricey courses for learning Spanish on the go, I rate them in this order:
1. Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1 - 5 Stars.
2. Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (Comprehensive) - 4 Stars.
3. Learn In Your Car Spanish - 3 stars.
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