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Better Than Pimsleur or Learn In Your Car
My hearty congratulations to Language Dynamics for having produced what I consider to be the industry standard in professional, high quality Spanish instruction without the hassle. Both the American instructor (sounds like a friendly college professor) and the Spanish speaker are both excellent and really teach you Spanish.
I personally prefer Behind the Wheel Spanish 8 CD with text over Pimsleur Spanish and Learn in Your Car Spanish, both of which I have tried and since returned.
Behind the Wheel Spanish is better than Pimsleur because you have multiple tracks and don't have to keep your finger on the fast forward button to get to where you want to go.
If you fast forward with Pimsleur, you miss the graduated interval recall benefit which is programmed into the course. Too rigid for me.
Learn in Your Car doesn't provide you with the sentence building techniques that makes Behind the Wheel Spanish so effective. I was actually 'communicating' with my own sentences after just a little over 35 minutes with this course. Amazing.
Behind the Wheel Spanish is by far the best Spanish course I have tried because it gives you abundant and reusable templates that you form on your own to create your own specific communication. This is far better than the competition.
Both Learn in Your Car and Pimsleur give repetitions at the same native speed. Language Dynamics gives you the first Spanish repetition a little slower so you can understand and imitate the pronunciation more effectively. They then gives you a second Spanish repetiition at native speed. Much better.
Lt's not forget that Behind the Wheel Spanish is the only one on the market that includes
rea-life idiomatic of folk expressions like 'I stuck my foot in my mouth' and 'I got up on the wrong sde of the bed'. I mean, NOBODY has this stuff but Language Dynamics.
Last and certainly not least, Behind the Wheel Spanish comes with a 200 page book with drawings and English right under the Spanish. The answers are right there too so it's a no brainer.
My results speak for themselves. This course really works.
March 2005 · Books