VocabuLearn: Swahili, Level 1

By: Penton Overseas Inc.

VocabuLearn is the only audio language learning system designed to teach the way you learn best...concentrating on vocabulary and helpful expressions. This three-hour program contains over 1,500 commonly-used words and expressions - the building blocks of language. This audio flash-card system will have you communicating effectively in the shortest time possible. Recommended by educators world-wide, VocabuLearn is prepared by professional instructors and recorded by dialect-free native speakers, giving you the authentic pronunciation of each word. VocabuLearn is ideal for those studying foreign languages. It can also help you prepare for more enjoyable trips to foreign countries...and can even improve your job and business opportunities. Best of all, you can listen to VocabuLearn anywhere...in your car, at home, or on a portable digital audio player - wherever you are. No textbook is required!

(P) and ©1986 Penton Overseas, Inc.

Horrible waste of money!!!

This book is pathetic! They say a word in English, and then repeat it in Swahili, and then go on to the next word. I heard no sentence structure, and no grammar lessons. Just words spoken and then repeated in Swahili, never to be repeated for usage.

OK if you speak the language

Just a list of words, random, in no context, with out any 'conversation'. This will not get you out of the airport unless you have perfect audio memory and can re-assort the words into something useful.

Don't waste your money

Very poor audiobook. Consists solely of one voice saying a word or phrase, followed by the swahili word. Mostly nouns, adjectives and adverbs. No conversations, no syntax, no verbs are congugated. Useful series of words or related words (numbers, months, days of the week, colors) are not offered.