Platiquemos FSI Spanish, Level 4 (Audio CD)

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Summary: OK But Not As Good as the Original FSI Progammatic Spanish
Review: I am sorry but I don't like the Platiquemos as much as the original FSI Programmatic Spanish. Some things are best left alone and I think FSI Programmatic Spanish is one of them. I also didn't like the Barrons FSI Spanish as much as the original FSI Programmatic Spanish.

I did the original FSI Programmatic Spanish quite a while ago and passed the cassettes on to a friend that wanted to learn Spanish. I am doing the FSI Programmatic Spanish once again now (as a review). I just bought the LearningSpanishLikeCrazy.com Spanish course since everyone else was bragging about it and saying that they were getting good results. LearningSpanishLikeCrazy.com gives you FSI Programmatic Spanish one and two as bonus gifts. No need to buy them at www.audioforum.com when you can get them as bonuses with Learning Spanish Like Crazy. LSLC has also taken care of the problem with the poor analog recording of the original FSI by remastering it and making the sound recording digital.

While I was reviewing with the FSI Programmatic Spanish, I realized that I learned a lot quicker and grasped the Spanish grammar with the original FSI Programmatic Spanish better than I am doing with Platiquemos Spanish. I also noticed that the speakers in FSI Programmatic Spanish spoke at a pace that was more typical of the speed that Latinos actually speak. The speakers in Platiquemos were speaking slower than Latinos really speak. I felt that this did not prepare me for realistic everyday conversations with Latinos.




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Summary: I am so impressed with this coarse "muy bueno"
Review: I could hardly beleive how rapidly I learned to speak and understand Spanish once I began the coarse. The examples are well designed, and the content is entertaining. I recommend this product as a first choice to the English speaker interested in aquiring la Lingua Espanol.
Buenos Dias.