Rapid Spanish

Volume 1

By: Earworms Learning

Narrated by: Marlon Lodge

Length: 1 hr and 11 mins

Publisher's summary

Earworms mbt© is a revolutionary accelerated learning technique that takes the hard work out of learning.

By listening to these specially composed melodies with their rhythmic repetitions of Spanish and English a few times, you pick up over 200 essential words and phrases that will not just be on the tip of your tongue, but will be burned deeply into your long-term memory in next to no time.

If you like music, and want to make rapid progress without any formal knowledge of language learning, earworms mbt© Rapid Spanish is the course for you.

Volume 1 is your survival kit of essential words and phrases to get you by on your trip abroad. Volume 2 will have you talking about yourself, past, present, and future, expressing your opinions, chatting, and flirting (who knows?).

You will feel you are learning within minutes and might just be amazed by how easy acquiring a language can be!

PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.

©2005 earworms mbt (P)2005 earworms mbt

Difficult to understand

Being an older man (67) and with my hearing probably not perfect,I find the background music distracting. I also find the voice of the softspoken lady not clear enough.

Disappointing

I need to mention first that the female speaker doesn't have a lisp as was remarked in another review - that's the correct pronunciation of the language in many parts of Spain, where the soft "c" sounds are pronounced as "th". This is one of several ways that the Spanish of Spain differs from the Spanish in Latin America and most of the U.S.
Nonetheless, I was disappointed by Rapid Spanish. The CD didn't offer grammar information (as "Spanish with Michel Thomas") or repetition (as in the Pimsleur series) or silly, memorable bits, as in the Berlitz/Beckman Rush-Hour Spanish. I didn't find myself retaining much from this CD, and I doubt I'll order any subsequent "part 2" editions.

If I could give 0 stars, I would.

Quite possibly the WORST purchase I have ever made here on Audible. DON'T WASTE YOUR TIME!!

Not for the beginner

I purchased this audio lesson set (volume 1 & 2) based on its description. Having had some Spanish classes in my past, this should have been relatively easy for me to pick up. I burned it to CD to use in my car in order to have an easy method to rewind/replay. No matter how I adjusted my car stereo, I found many of the words to be indistinguishable. On top of that, I found the accompanying music only added to the work of trying to understand the pronunciation of words. The music was almost at the same volume as the speaker. I tried the CD on my PC and then tried streaming it on my PC - both with similar dissatisfaction. I then gave the lesson a try on my MP3 player, which plays any other audiobook and music without the slightest problem. Nope. So, I gave up and purchased "Learning Spanish Like Crazy" (also offered by Audible). Seems a little better so far but I'm only as far as the first few lessons....