Excellent Audiobook

Innovative Language has excellent language programs. I have tried several other language programs, and these are by far the best I've ever used. The audiobooks have the best format and the best teachers. This one, as every book I have used, has interesting and entertaining teachers. I have used at least a dozen, and each set of teachers bring their own unique personalities to the performance-all great! I enjoy the dynamic between the two teachers and the relaxed, conversational-style lessons in each book. I have used several levels of Greek, French, and Spanish. Each one is wonderful in its own way. It's an exceptional value as well. The many lessons and written book which I print keeps me learning for many, many hours. Thanks Innovative Language! I love your courses!!!

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Don’t Go to Their Website Looking for the Transcript!

The dialogues in Level 2 are very helpful with the accompanying PDF. I suggest listening to it, reading through the PDF, copying out the dialogue by hand, and then listening to each lesson a couple times to get the most benefit. The sentences are challenging enough and the scenarios are interesting enough (e.g. more interesting than ordering at a restaurant or checking into a hotel scenarios available in every beginning language course ever).

I think they did a good job explaining the grammar in each lesson as well.

I made the mistake of going to the SpanishPod website to look for the accompanying transcript, as they tell you to do at the end of each lesson. Don’t do that! The PDF is available in the Audible app (click on the three little dots to download it), but it is nowhere to be found on the SpanishPod website. If you sign up for an account on SpanishPod (another mistake I made before finding the PDF on the Audible app), you will not only still not find the transcript, but you will be inundated with emails asked you to pay for a SpanishPod subscription.

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The worst language book

Would you try another book from Innovative Language Learning and/or Natalia Araya and Carlos Acevedo ?

Hell no!

Who would you have cast as narrator instead of Natalia Araya and Carlos Acevedo ?

Anyone who can speak English without an accent

What reaction did this book spark in you? Anger, sadness, disappointment?

confusion

Any additional comments?

The most useless language book since, "Learn how to speak Spanish, was translated into Spanish"It starts off, with the narrator speaking so fast I could not get a word. Then having a second person explain the context by going to high school renditions of Past Perfect, Conjugations, past participles etc. while lapsing into Spanish, while explaining past perfect as it relates to conjugation in temporal space. Do the people who put this together think that people are so mentally nimble that they can go back to the original rules of English sentence structure, while remembering the different tenses and definitions of proper language structure, WHILE learning new words (that are defined long after the chatter), and putting them into a sentence with TWO people talking?! Really, if you are that smart you should already know the world languages .It was like trying to learn how to cook while Stephen Hawkin was talking over the cooking instructions and explaining how heat of the stove effects the atomic structure of protein matter. If you can get this linguistical gibberish you are so smart, you probably already know how to speak Spanish and a number of other languages and you probably just don't realize it yet-So habla spanol to you but I gots to find another book!!P.S. for the educational geniuses who put this language book together, STAY AWAY FROM PUBLIC SCHOOLS. They have enough problems.

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