Teach Yourself Irish Complete Course, CD package
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List Price: $27.95 $18.45 $ 9.50 ( 34% ) McGraw-Hill Diarmuid O Se ,Joseph Sheils
Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 491.6282421EAN: 9780071434485ISBN: 0071434488Label: McGraw-HillManufacturer: McGraw-HillNumber Of Items: 1Number Of Pages: 320Publication Date: 2004-07-01Publisher: McGraw-HillStudio: McGraw-Hill
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From Cantonese to Thai, Gaelic to Modern Persian, learning the languages of the world is attainable for any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and gradually promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, including:
Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises Step-by-step guide to pronunciation Practical vocabulary Regular and irregular verb tables Plenty of practice exercises and answers Bilingual glossary The new editions also feature:
Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout Self-assessment quizzes to test progress Website suggestions to take language study further Audio recordings on CD for easy access and review
Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: Most awful language book I've have ever come acrossComment: I have learnt more than a dozen languages by myself, including Hebrew and Norwegian, and I can assure you that this is the worst self-learning book I've ever come across. Although Gaelic is very difficult to pronounce and written in a way that makes French spelling look easy, you wouldn't believe how complicated the first dialogues are and how quickly the people on the recording read the words and sentences right from the start.
Customer Rating: Summary: Seriously LackingComment: This is definitely not a book/cd for the first timer. I was hoping for a few "good morning", "how are you", etc to help me become familiar with the language. Unfortunately, the CD goes almost straight to short conversations. I did read the reviews before placing my order and decided to take a chance. Wrong decision.
Customer Rating: Summary: Learning IrishComment: Irish is by no means an easy language to learn and I struggle with it. I couldn't do it at all without the audio portion of the course. I did not give 5 stars because I have nothing to compare it to.Customer Rating: Summary: teach yourself irishComment: very intense study. Hard to follow. you really are teaching yourself.
Customer Rating: Summary: One main problem.Comment: This book is lacking in numerous ways, but its major problem is how it gives vocabulary notes. Instead of trying to explain the grammar and listing each word separately, it gives entire phrases (sometimes even sentences) as individual vocabulary items. How are you then supposed to use individual words? I guess if you're aim is to learn "useful phrases" for the purposes of travel, this book would work for you, but for an active understanding of how to speak productively, you're going to have to look elsewhere.
