Product Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only.
This DVD will probably NOT be viewable in other countries.)
- Format: Color
- Rated: NR
- Studio: CEREBELLUM
- DVD Release Date: June 18, 2002
- ASIN: B00004UDS6
- Average Customer Review:
Based on 3 reviews.
All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:
6 of 6 people found the
following review helpful:
Jvenile, not advanced!, July 19, 2003
The title is misleading. This really is not advanced Spanish. They spend the
first quarter of the program reviewing basics (noun genders, adjective
agreements, etc.) so that's wasted. By the time we reach the end, we're just
learning about direct and indirect object pronouns. These are the things you
learn in an Intro II Spanish course at the local community college. (The proof
is in the syllabus of a course I took!)
Another gripe is the presentation. They use a kind of silly, juvenile format
with embarrassingly bad, scripted comedy. It's like something you'd see on
Saturday morning cartoons.
Last, of the six or so youngsters who deliver the course (they all seem to be
about 19 years old), only one or two of them has a good (i.e., native) Spanish
accent. The others all speak with that flat, nasal American sound that sounds so
bad in Spanish! And one of the presenters made a bad grammatical faux-pas when
he said, "No problema" which is a Bart Simpson-ism. It should be, "No hay
problema".
Apart from the bad accents I would have no qualms with this DVD if they'd
just labeled it correctly, for instance, "Spanish Reveiew for Kids".
1 of 2 people found the
following review helpful:
Advanced Spanish made child's play, February 12, 2003
What a fun way to learn spanish. I was really struggling with the verbs.
While Standard Deviants stuff is not the serious way to approach a subject, it's
much more effective in my book. It's refreshing compared to most of the other
junk out there. I would say that if you are looking for something traditional,
look elsewhere. But if you are looking for something different, look here.
1 of 2 people found the
following review helpful:
May not work on your DVD player..., January 22, 2003
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"zukinx" (Vancouver, WA United States) |
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I have a one year old Zenith 5 disc DVD player and it doesn't work for me.
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