Learn Spanish - Level 2: Absolute Beginner Spanish, Volume 2: Lessons 1-25

Absolute Beginner Spanish #49

By: Innovative Language Learning

Narrated by: SpanishPod101.com

Length: 4 hrs and 41 mins

Publisher's summary

Start speaking Spanish in minutes, and grasp the language, culture and customs in just minutes more with Absolute Beginner Spanish, Volume 2, a completely new way to learn Spanish with ease! Absolute Beginner Spanish, Volume 2 will have you speaking with proper pronunciation from the very first lesson and arm you with cultural insight and other information to utterly shock and amaze your Spanish friends.

Why are the audio lessons so effective?

• Short and to the point - 25 eight-minute lessons make them the perfect length
• Syllable-by-syllable breakdown of each word and phrase, so that you can say every word and phrase instantly
• Repeat after the professional teacher section, so that you can practice proper pronunciation
• Quick cultural tips in each lesson will help you navigate your way even better
• Above all, fun and relaxed approach to grasping a lot of information quickly and easily
• Effortlessly learn from a bi-lingual and bi-cultural host as they guide you through pitfalls and pleasures of Spanish culture and Spanish

You see, unlike other audio books, we actually teach Spanish and Spanish culture.

With each lesson, you will master a target phrase and key vocabulary. This is a complete lesson taught by a professional, bi-lingual teacher! Listen to the preview now!

This is NOT a vocabulary audiobook with just words and their translations.

These 25 short and effective audio lessons will allow you to:

Speak Spanish within minutes of your first lesson

Understand culture, customs, and the Spanish people

Order the food you want in restaurants

Travel in taxis, trains, buses and cars with confidence

Master manners, etiquette, and customs

Surprise phrases and tips that will leave your guests wondering where you learned them

This audiobook comes with downloadable lesson notes totaling over 100+ pages.

Start speaking Spanish now!

Download the accompanying reference guide.

©2008 Innovative Language Learning, LLC (P)2010 Innovative Language Learning, LLC

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!!!

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.

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.