• Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition)

  • By: Mark Frobose
  • Narrated by: Mark Frobose
  • Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (260 ratings)

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Now improved with a complete transcript/listening guide, Power Spanish I Accelerated is where you will learn to speak and understand more Spanish from one audiobook than from 16 CDs from other more expensive and boring programs. Want to learn to speak Spanish quickly and easily and have fun in the process? Designed to teach you to speak Spanish while on the go, Power Spanish I Accelerated is a refreshingly intense, upbeat and positive audiobook language program whose 144 Study Units establish a challenging pace and friendly tone that are designed to keep you constantly motivated and learning to speak and understand Latin American Spanish at optimal speed. Expert language teacher Mark Frobose talks you through the program in English while several trained native female and male Latin American Spanish speakers teach you Spanish the way it is really spoken. This highly acclaimed method is so easy and so fast that you'll be speaking Spanish within minutes of receiving your program!

©2012 Mark Frobose (P)2012 Mark Frobose

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Power Spanish Accelerated: The Best Audio Program

Would you recommend this audiobook to a friend? If so, why?

Yes. Without reservation. Being able to form your own sentences to say what you want to say is obviously a major goal of the Power Spanish Accelerated audio program. In fact, the creator seems to be obsessed with that objective. In order to do that you have to remember what you learn. The Power Spanish method somehow gets you to quickly memorize large amounts of Spanish without your being fully aware that you are doing so. There is nothing mysterious about it. It is simply a matter of constantly presenting new material while at the same time reviewing previous material. You are moving forward even during those times that you are looking back. Sometimes you look backwards but you never move backwards. Power Spanish always keeps you charging ahead and learning to speak and understand Spanish quickly – more quickly, I believe, than either of two other programs that I have also used.

What other book might you compare Power Spanish I Accelerated to and why?

I have purchased and listened to beginning level Spanish audio programs produced by Pimsleur and Behind the Wheel. You'll learn a fair amount of Spanish using either of them. But the Power Spanish program using more native Spanish speakers than either of the other two. It also contains a lot of creative and unique drills and exercises, including one that is called "Audio Snapshot," that aren't found in either Behind the Wheel or Pimsleur. Power Spanish is very upbeat. It's easy to listen to. The others tend to get monotonous after awhile. Power Spanish just has more variety, which keeps you listening again and again. To get the full effect of a language audio program you have to listen to it again and again. If you get bored you won't do that.

Which character – as performed by Mark Frobose – was your favorite?

There are no 'characters' in the traditional sense because this is not fiction audio book. The narrator and native speakers function as 'characters,' so to speak. Power Spanish Accelerated has a variety of native speaking 'characters.' You don't have to listen to the same one or two speakers throughout the entire program. This variety makes Power Spanish Accelerated more fun to listen to than other language audio program that I have heard.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

A few of the lines might make you laugh. And being able to use what you learn to make some of your own sentences is nothing to cry about.

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I found Power Spanish Accelerated to be quite fast and effective at teaching basic conversational Spanish. It teaches a lot of vocabulary words, it has what for me is a very effective memory retention technique, it uses several native speakers, and, as language audio courses go, it is simply fun to listen to.

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Excellent..Strongly recommend it..

Would you consider the audio edition of Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition) to be better than the print version?

Yes - I bought these CDs from Amazon and have been extremely happy with this purchase. Use it in my car and listen while driving. Am now more comfortable talking in Spanish or ordering in restaurants than I have ever been. I'd been trying to learn from books and Rosetta Stone, but none gave me the confidence to speak in Spanish like these tapes have.

Who was your favorite character and why?

Mark Frobose and the native speakers are all favorite characters of mine. They do a great job of keeping the tempo upbeat and me motivated. The "listen and repeat" exercises are simple and practical – they are not only helping me speak and pronounce correctly but have also increased my response time to answer in Spanish tremendously. There is a nice pace throughout and repetitive nature of the exercises makes it easy to recall and improve.

Have you listened to any of Mark Frobose’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

I have not listed to any of Mark Frobose's other tapes ..but now that I have listened to Part 1, I am looking forward to Part II of the series

Was there a moment in the book that particularly moved you?

I guess the biggest "aha" moment for me when I Mark broke up Spanish into simple usable high frequency phrases that I could begin to use immediately. This happened from the first CD itself.

Any additional comments?

If I had known these CD’s would help me so much, I'd have bought the set sooner. Thank you Mark - you are a great teacher and hopefully you will make more such audio books..as you are doing a great service helping adults like me learn new languages.

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Program Builds Confidence and Fluency in Spanish

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I am really glad I purchased this Power Spanish audio program. There are a lot of lessons in these 8 hours of audio teaching. A lot of vocabulary words and phrases are used. They are all used in sentences so you are not just learning a list of words you are also learning how to apply them to conversations. That’s why it is not at all boring. It is cheery and moves along and keeps your attention.

Words and sentences used in beginning sections are sprinkled into later sections along with the new lessons so you can review the earlier things without having to always be reversing the audio. That is obviously done on purpose to help you review. It is very helpful.

There are several Spanish speakers so there is a variety of voices that you hear. The approach helps you build confidence a little at a time as you learn to speak Spanish gradually. I also like that the Spanish speakers say the words and sentences kind of slowly and then faster. That makes it a lot easier to understand what they are saying and to pronounce everything right.

I have listened to this once all the way through and again more than half way through. I have learned enough so far that I can definitely say that it has been time and money well spent.

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Good way to learn Spanish in my opinion

What did you love best about Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition)?

Good Spanish Program - don't be misled by some unfair reviews.

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This Spanish language program allows you to actually understand and participate in authentic conversation in Spanish at native speed.
But to accomplish that feat, you need to begin slowly. You cannot rush comprehension and practice. Every farmer knows you can't "cram" for the harvest like you can cram for a college exam.
You can cram for a written vocabulary or verb test in Spanish class, but you can’t cram speaking fluency. Speaking fluency requires – demands – time and practice. And patience. This program gives you that valuable Practice along with lots of explanations, virtual interaction with Spanish speakers, help with memorizing, and you practice with common words and sentences. You are responsible to put in the time. Add some patience and you will get there. I know. I am getting there, partly thanks to this program for learning to speak Spanish.
I know that people all have different likes and dislikes and I respect that but I think that some of the criticalness about this program by some people is not right. I think its a good way to get speaking practice in my opinion.

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Better Than Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone Combined

If you could sum up Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition) in three words, what would they be?

I have tried all the major players in the Spanish instruction category. Living Language, Berlitz, Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone.
Power Spanish Accelerated is by far the fastest and easiest way I have yet found to speak Spanish. I think all the other competitors are just Mark Frobose 'wannabees' because they can't even scratch the surface of what Power Spanish has taught me.
Here are a few highlights:
1 The approach. Fun, easy to learn. Fast. Varied. Lots of Spanish speakers.
2. Tons of vocabulary and then they show you how to put it all together.
3. Tons of practice. Different angles. Never gets boring.
4. Tons of review and memory building.
Pimsleur is a rip-off. They teach you 5 words of vocabulary for one program.
Rosetta Stone cost a fortune and you're tied to your computer.
This Power Spanish is dirt-cheap and works like a charm.
Don't be fooled by negative reviews planted by the competition to keep you away from the best Spanish program ever made. It's obvious they didn't even care enough to listen to the program.
Buy it and use it. You'll learn to speak Spanish like I did.

What other book might you compare Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition) to and why?

The only program I could begin to compare with the excellent Power Spanish is Behind the Wheel Spanish by Macmillan Audio. Same author. Yep. Mark Frobose was even a consultant for Macmillan Audio and created all their language programs for them.
The difference is that Power Spanish is far better and more motivating.

Which character – as performed by Mark Frobose – was your favorite?

Mark Frobose is a one-of-a-kind language teacher who has been in the language field for around 30 years. I have heard his radio interviews and read his ebooks. I was one of his earliest fans back in the 90's when he began teaching on audio. Now Language Audiobooks is the best and this Power Spanish is great.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

It made me laugh to think that I spent only $19 bucks to really learn Spanish at last.
I cried when I thought of the small fortune I spent on garbage like Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone and all the other programs out there that just can't compare to this.

Any additional comments?

My advice is to realize that the competition in language programs is fierce and that you need to really "review the reviews" for truth. Whenever you see a fine program torpedoed, it's because it's too good for the competition to bear.
Look .... If you were selling language programs for a fortune and getting a bunch of dummies to buy from you, wouldn't you want to get rid of a fantastic program like Power Spanish that can get you really speaking good Spanish for just $19.00?

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You learn to use words ro make your own sentences

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I love the way this program Power Spanish takes the many words that it teaches and gives you lots of practice showing you how to put them all together correctly into different sentences with a lot of originality. You can learn words from any Spanish dictionary. The great thing about this program is that it shows you how to put them all together to express your own thoughts and desires. I have never seen this in any other program and I am excited about how fast I am learning to speak Spanish.

A huge amount of words, phrases, and short statements are first taught, then reviewed by a variety of native Spanish speakers. Once again, all are presented so that they may be easily used in useful daily conversation with a reasonable degree of originality.
There is enough information here to keep you busy learning for many, many hours to come. Good, good audio program if you want to improve your pronunciation and learn to speak more fluently, like a true Spanish speaker.

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Waste of money

What would have made Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition) better?

This is repetitive in the extreme, teaching very very little in each hour. It gives equal emphasis to phrases that require almost no memorization like "no" and "si" and those that comprise full sentences. At the end of this you will be able to utter a few tourist questions but I doubt you will understand a single word of the responses.

Has Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition) turned you off from other books in this genre?

I would have to listen to, and approve of, a section first before ever shelling out a dime for another one.

How could the performance have been better?

The writer repeats the promo for his program ad nauseum. It is one thing putting it in the intro but leave the rest of the time for doing what is advertised, that is, studying Spanish.

If you could play editor, what scene or scenes would you have cut from Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition)?

The whole thing could be condensed into 30 minutes.

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Don't buy it.

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Not very accelerated but a bit annoying

What disappointed you about Power Spanish I Accelerated - 8 One Hour Audio Lessons - Complete Transcript/Listening Guide (English and Spanish Edition)?

I had to keep checking to see if I had Shuffle on, since words and phrases would appear in Review areas but I hadn't heard before; then, a lesson later, words and phrases introduced much earlier would be reintroduced. You spend a lot of time repeating "gracias" but no time understanding how to say "I get by in Spanish," a phrase which appears from time to time out of any context. Another reviewer mentioned that the tone is a bit irritating as well; for example, during a drill when you're supposed to provide the correct response, the narrator says, "You SHOULD have said..." After hearing that a few dozen times, and checking again to see if shuffle was on, and then repeating "gracias" a few more times, I had to stop.

What do you think your next listen will be?

Possibly Pimsleur Spanish.

Would you be willing to try another one of Mark Frobose’s performances?

Nope.

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

Frustration at the glacial pace, confusion by the seemingly haphazard construction of the lessons, irritation by the tone, and more irritation by the useless grammar points ("Here's how to use subject pronouns. But don't use them unless you want to sound like a gringo.")

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Spanish Program I Have Ever Used - Really Works

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I have tried Learn in Your Car Spanish, Pimsleur Spanish, Rosetta Stone, Berlitz, Rick Steves and I am amazed that none of these programs comes close to what I have learned from Power Spanish 1 Accelerated in the first lesson alone.

I'm no language expert. I'm just a guy who's trying to learn Spanish for work, family, and travel.

No course has ever gotten me speaking so well so soon, and having so much fun doing it.
The technique is brilliant. The instructor, Mark, acts as a language teacher/coach who guides a group of native Spanish speakers into teaching you how to speak Spanish.

The reason it's working so well with me is because I'm enjoying the program so much that I can't put it down. It's a blast.

Second, they make it like an educated game to remember stuff you learned. They always go back and ask you "Did you get that?". Then you think to yourself "Oh shoot (or another word) and then you try to remember, and then you finally do get it.

I'm telling you guys out there that this program stands heads and tails above, and I mean "way above" anything out there.

It should cost $250.00 or more, but it's only $19.00.

I use it on my IPhone and take it everywhere with me. And I am "hablando espanol".

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I couldn't get past the introduction

What could have made this a 4 or 5-star listening experience for you?

The introduction needs to be shortened! The content was mostly promotional, and it just kept going on and on, and was repeated ad nauseam, so I finally gave up on this audiobook before I ever got to hear the actual content. The author/narrator should remember that once someone begins listening to his audiobook he doesn't need to keep trying to convince them that they need to buy it, because chances are they already have!

What was most disappointing about Mark Frobose’s story?

It was too difficult to get past the introduction and listen to the content.

Would you be willing to try another one of Mark Frobose’s performances?

I doubt it.

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