VocabuLearn

Arabic, Level 1

By: Penton Overseas Inc.

Narrated by: uncredited

Length: 3 hrs and 5 mins

Publisher's summary

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!

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What is the use of this?

It is hard to imagine what one might use this for. Just random lists of words spoken quickly and often unintelligbly.

Arabic tutorial

Much too slow, and who needs all that western classical music filling up space. If it's going to be so basic, it should explain articles in Arabic so listener knows what it's listening to re single words. Try again.

Don't Buy this

This is the absolute worst way to learn a language. It is randomly chosen vocabulary words without contrast, spoken without clear enunciation and annoying muzak in the background. By the time you begin to pronounce one word, the next is fired at you. In addition the words are often rediculous....phrases like "the hope". the chainsaw......

Good vocab, but ditch the music!

What would have made VocabuLearn better?

Stop playing loud music that both distracts the listener and makes the vocab hard to hear.

Would you be willing to try another book from Penton Overseas, Inc.? Why or why not?

No, the issue with the music was a rip-off, and made this purchase a waste of time.

What do you think the narrator could have done better?

The narrators were fine.

What character would you cut from VocabuLearn?

N/A

Any additional comments?

Not worth the money.

The music...

The #@%$#^ music in the background is just too distracting to be able to absorb even a modicum of the language.

Note to editors: those of us who desire to learn a language aren't in the market for background music.

Note to potential purchasers: save your $$$

The booklet is not included

There is a booklet that should be distributed with the recording but is not. This method useful for people who already have 1-2 years Arabic and want a vocab drill.