Behind the Wheel - Spanish 1

De: Behind the Wheel, Mark Frobose

Narrado por: Mark Frobose

Behind the Wheel Spanish Level 1 covers beginning to intermediate level Spanish, providing a flexible, solid and universal foundation in speaking, understanding, and creatively expressing yourself in Spanish. The program features an English speaking instructor to guide you through the lessons and two native Latin American Spanish speakers to aid with your pronunciation. Includes a companion book to reinforce and enhance the audio experience.

©1982 Language Dynamics (P)2008 Macmillan Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“The audio-only lessons build upon one another, using a native speaker to help you learn useful words and actually construct sentences from the get-go.” —Minneapolis Star-Tribune

“Unlike other audio language programs, this series encourages students to create their own sentences, making it more fun and conversational than other more expensive programs.” —The Cleveland Plain Dealer

“Focuses on real-world conversation...Great value.” —Men's Health magazine

One of the good language audiobook makers

This audiobook has a good no. of repititions of pronunciations & examples, for a steady learning curve, that one feels confident after the first run of the book itself.

Excellent

This has turned out to be the best audio-only language instruction I've found so far, and I've wasted some money in the process. The whole course is over 9 hours, and covers everything from a-b-c to verb forms to idiomatic cliches. Expect to spend a lot of review time, because practice, practice, practice is the basis for any language learning. Don't believe the "learn a language in 30 minutes" people. If it were that easy everyone would speak many languages. This course is set out systematically, and the speakers go slowly enough that I could usually follow the first time. I reviewed every unit at least twice, some of the harder ones I did on both the morning and night commute for a full week. At the end I find I can assist my teenager in her second year high school Spanish!
Whatever I choose for my next course will include some printed material. There were a few times I could have either heard a word spelled or been able to see it in print. But for a course for an absolute beginner, this one lays a firm foundation and a great value.

This is decent for intro Spanish lessons

This program is OK for learning some basic Spanish. There isn't much logic to the way the course is structured, but since there is some basic material, this is the best of the 3 BTW Spanish courses. New concepts are introduced randomly and without explanation, while at other times, very basic lessons are belabored. The narrator is somewhat annoying, as others have pointed out. His pronunciation is very poor, though thankfully, most of the lessons are spoken by a Peruvian native speaker who has a rich accent. He frequently says things like "remember, an infinitive is the dictionary definition of a verb". This is nonsense. I think if you learn Spanish exclusively with this series, you're going to end up with a poor grasp of it, since so much is glossed over. This is just an adequate auditory supplement to other more interactive courses where you will learn actual grammar and spelling.

helpful aid to an actual course

it is helpful but it needs to be paired with a course in spanish or atleast a book in order to learn how to conjugate verbs.

Best audio series

This is by far my favorite audio book series for learning a new language. It is easy to follow and learn from. I play it for my children as well. Would definitely recommend to others.