Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Yearning for the Yucatan? Going back to Baja? Now, intermediate-level Spanish speakers can take their fluency to the next level, with Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced on 8 compact discs. Providing more progressive instruction in structure and grammar, Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced emphasizes situational specifics, all set to a lively lesson plan of dedicated Spanish vocabulary. Not a phrase book, not a translation guide, Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced is the speedy, sophisticated… Product details and pricing info |
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- What are the Good Point and Bad Points of this course?
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"your site for free Spanish lessons and unbiased reviews of Learning-Spanish products." I am also a native Spanish instructor and the author of 2 learning-Spanish products:
1. Anna Rivera's 800 Plus Most Powerful Spanish Phrases
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Although this course has the word "Advanced" in its title. I would not consider it 100% for advanced students.
On the first CD you learn words such as and "el hijo" and "la hermana" and "el tio." These are definitely not the type of vocabulary words that an advanced student is looking to learn. These are vocabulary words for a beginner.
However, on the second CD the pace is picked up somewhat and more complicated vocabulary phrases are introduced. Some true and false quizes are presented in Spanish. These may be helpful quizes to improve listening comprehension.
One negative point of this course is that it does not cover colloquial or everyday conversational Spanish. I say that because the course teaches words such as "la madre" and "el padre," instead of "mama" and "papa." By the way, I intentionally omit accent marks from my reviews because they sometimes appear as strange looking characters in my Amazon reviews.
If you are a beginner student of Spanish approaching the intermediate level or if you are an intermediate level student, you may also find this course helpful. This course is so reasonably priced and you can also study with this course while on-the-go. On the other hand, if you are an advanced student you should ask yourself what are you expecting to achieve with this course before purchasing it.
Considering the price, you may still want to purchase it just for the sole purpose of adding it to your learning-Spanish library. Who knows? Perhaps, after using these CDs you will not agree with me and will have discovered that these CDs were beneficial for you even though you are clearly an advanced level student. Considering the price, you really don't have much to lose.
But if you are an advanced student and your primary objective is to improve your listening comprehension (and not learn additional grammar), and you are looking for something in the same price range . . . then my recommendation is to purchase Immersion Plus Spanish. Although Immersion Plus Spanish is far from a perfect Spanish course, I would recommend it over this one for the advanced student who is looking to improve her listening comprehension. The speakers in Immersion Plus Spanish speak at a more natural and realistic speed than the speakers in this course, Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced. And like this course, Immersion Plus Spanish, is a bargain for the price.
As this review suggests, I have mixed feeling about this course. One positive thing that I must add is that this course does have an interesting method of improving listening comprehension that you will not find in Immersion Plus Spanish. In addition to the true-or-false questions in Spanish, you will also hear dialogs completely in Spanish, and then you will be asked in Spanish to answer questions - in Spanish - about the dialog that you just heard. My only complaint is that there are only a handful of these type of exercises in this course. There should be more. - 2007-09-21, 36 of 38 people found this review helpful, Rated:
