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.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1438762 in Books
• Published on: 2006-09
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 3
• Binding: Audio CD

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.

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Henry N Raymond

Customer Reviews

Worthwhile for me
I greatly improved my Italian with this program. I got it packaged with Vocabulearn Italian Level Three as Global Access Italian Advanced. Level Three is very good for the student who already knows the basics of Italian grammar, but cannot recall the forms quickly enough to carry on an intelligent conversation. The examples can give comfort in using common sentence patterns as well as providing a more advanced vocabulary. I found it most valuable in the sections dealing with reflexive verbs and the conditional tense as well as certain idiomatic usage. The basic technique is simply repetition and logic. I did not find it a particularly fast process, but my knowledge of the conditional tense and reflexive verbs is firm. I don't have to think about using them. It's automatic. I wish I could find something comparable that would give me the same ease in using the passato remoto and the subjective tenses. I think this is an excellent supplement to the study of Italian grammar. Four stars.