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Teach Yourself Catalan Complete Course Package (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself Language Courses)
Product Details Author: Alan Yates Binding: Audio CD EAN: 9780071430289 Label: McGraw-Hill Dimension: 1.6 x 9.5 x 6.4 inches ISBN: 0071430288 Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Publisher: McGraw-Hill Number of items: 1 Publication date: September 28, 2004 Studio: McGraw-Hill Ratings & Comments (Average:  )
 - Lack of language immersionI would like to find a teaching book that could put me in Catalan idiom immersion. As it changes constantly from English to Catalan (and vice-versa), it took more difficult to assimilate the idiom. Too few audio media. Need more do learn the idiom.  - Pretty good but there's little elseI have studied several languages and wanted to learn a little Catalan before a recent trip my husband and I took to Barcelona. This book helped. The CD is absolutely necessary because Catalan pronunciation is very different from English, Spanish and French although related to the latter two. My biggest complaint about the CD was there was rarely enough time to repeat phrases and sentences after the speakers. I would recommend this course mainly because there is little else out there about Catalan. For this reason I gave it 4 stars. If there was more choice of programs the rating would probably go down to 3.  - The problem was Amazon this order was processed twice, even after I had called and said this was adouble order!  - A great little courseI really like this language course, even though the previous edition may have provided more detail. Each chapter gives several practical dialogues, followed by grammar points and exercises. The CDs are very useful, following the text, but also include plenty of listening comprehension exercises with questions to answer in the book. As someone who is already advanced in Spanish and intermediate in French, I appreciate the way this book allows for rapid progress and presents useful phrases from the beginning. I also find the content engaging, never boring. For example, one chapter includes some useful Internet vocabulary, and another gives "personal ads" like you'd find in a newspaper, with an exercise to match the people up based on who they are and what they're looking for. So it's more of a colloquial language course, rather than an academic grammar book. It gives good suggestions at the end for where to find further resources for learning Catalan on the net. With this book and accompanying CDs, I feel very confident that I'll be able to speak and understand enough Catalan in time for my trip to Barcelona in a few months. I've already learned a lot in just a couple of weeks. - Don't try this in your car!Catalan is a difficult language to find audio lessons. I'm going to Barcelona in a couple of months, so I wanted a disc to learn some basics while I drive in the car . Apparently, the only way to use this audiopack is to read the book at the same time. It is not concise. It does not repeat basic information like numbers. It is truly not for the beginner. I suppose I'll use it to hear the ambiance of the language. I've looked into purchasing a different software pack from another web site.
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