VocabuLearn: Swahili, Level 1 (Original Staging Nonfiction)
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2.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
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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Customer Reviews
Is what it is...
Recorded at 32kbps, it takes up a scant 43 mb on your ipod/computer. It keeps it's promise of vocabulary. It comes as two separate files. The first is primarily nouns, adjectvies, adverbs. The second, 45 minute, file is all verbs. The difficulty with this audio book is that, some of the words have nothing to do with with living in East Africa. Such as "subway." There are not many of these though.
Consider also that you will know a lot of words, but there's a lot more to putting them together. For example to say, "He is walking." You would say, "Anatembea." "A" is "he/she," "na" is "present tense" and "kutembea" is "to walk." You will not learn any of this on this on this recording.
This would make an excellent ADDITION to anyone's studies of Kiswahili and that is why give it 4 stars. It is what it is.
Not helpful without accompanying book
No organization - the recording starts and ends with random words. You don't know what's coming next. I was surprised to find one of the first words on the recording is "the spinach." How is that useful? I planned to listen to the whole book flying over to Africa, but I stopped after about 10 minutes because it is just not useful. Don't buy it!
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