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130 of 140 people found the following review helpful: Best Deal anywhere 9/8/2005 Learning Spanish like crazy is the best investment I have ever made in my quest for fluency. I did not buy the CD course from Amazon, but rather, ordered it in downloadable MP3 form from their website for $97.00 (Sept 2005 price). For less than a hundred bucks, you get the Learning Spanish Like Crazy, Vol. 1 course, and extra bonus lessons: Los Dichos (common Spanish Sayings) Los Insultos - No vulgares (rather tame Spanish Insults) Los Insultos - Vulgares (Really nasty Spanish insults) 6 months email support for your questions about Spanish A once-a-week teleclass (I don't know how long you get this) AND, Best of all, You get remastered versions of the Foreign Service Institute's Spanish Level 3 and level 4 courses!! --The same courses that are commonly sold for $199.00 apiece! I know this may sound like an advertisement, but I do not work for the Learning Spanish Like Crazy people, I just was so happy to get the 2 FSI advanced courses along with the LSLC courses, that I wanted to get the word out. Even if you don't give a rat's CULO about the LSLC course, just getting the FSI-3 and FSI-4 courses for $97.00 is the best bargain on the planet. Maybe the other vendors of the FSI courses will have to lower their prices when word of this deal gets out. One caution, you probably do not want to order the download version unless you have a high speed connection; With DSL, it took me about 7 or 8 hours total time to download the files. (If you have a cable modem, I think it would be a fraction of that time. If you have dial-up, this is probably not a viable option for you unless you have an accomodating friend with high-speed. The other option on the company web-site is a huge pack of 50 CDs for $347 that has all the above, plus the FSI Level 1, FSI level 2, and the "FSI Fast Course Spanish" course that I can't find anyone else selling. Offhand, $347 may sound a bit steep, but you do get all of the courses on about 50 CDs in regular audio CD format, except for the FSI-3 and FSI-4, which you still have to download. (Again, all this info is as of Sept 2005). The Learning Spanish Like Crazy course itself is very good. I am at a high-intermediate level but I learned a lot about speaking in the way that people actually talk, as opposed to the stilted, formal language taught in schools and other courses, that would make you sound like the nerd-king of the gringos if you actually talked that way to native speakers. The course also stresses repeating the audio after the native speakers, in order to develop an authentic accent. I listen to them in my car whenever I am driving, repeating the drills, and probably looking like a psycho to other drivers who think I'm talking to myself. Thank You. Was this review helpful?
54 of 58 people found the following review helpful: My opinion about Learning Spanish Like Crazy 7/14/2005 I just finished the first level of this course. My Spanish speaking friends at work are amazed with how much Spanish I have learned. I have struggled with both Spanish and French since taking the languages in high School and college. Without mentioning any names, I have tried most of the other big name Spanish courses. I found this method not only to be the easiest method for learning Spanish but also the most fun. In my opinion the course's strongest point is that it actually helps you develop a near perfect accent, as one reviewer already mentioned. I know exactly what he means when he says that your accent will be so good that natives won't know if you're completely fluent in Spanish or not. I have also learned a lot of vocabulary words with Learning Spanish Like Crazy. But I did find that it was necessary to buy a couple of books to help me with increasing my vocabulary. The two that I recommend are Easy Spanish Phrase Book and 1001 Most Useful Spanish words. I bought both books at a used bookstore for about 50 cents a piece. You can however by them here Amazon for about $1 for each book. The two books are only about 50 pages, but they will really teach you the vocabulary that you need to communicate Latin Amerincans. I guess my only complaint is that the narrator of the course is not a native English speaker. So at sometimes I had to listen to the recording more than once to understand his English. But on the positive side since the narrator was a native Latino, he was able to do the narrative in Spanish more and more as the course progress into the later lessons. If he had been an American he would not have been able to do the narrative in Spanish or he would not have been able to do it with a true Latin American accent And since he was a native Latino he was able to explain a lot of the nuances about Latin American Spanish that only a native would have knowledge of. If you use Learning Spanish Like Crazy with Easy Spanish Phrase Book and 1001 Most Useful Spanish words, you will learn Spanish like crazy (for lack of a better term). Now somebody please tell them to please make a Learning French Like Crazy. Thank You. Was this review helpful?
29 of 32 people found the following review helpful: A Quick and Easy Method to Learn Latin American Spanish 7/4/2005 I have also done the major Spanish courses including Pimsleur Spanish and Rosetta Stone. Learning Spanish Like Crazy is a quich and easy method to learn Spanish. And it covers a great deal more vocabulary than Pimsleur. If I compare level 1 one of LSLC with Pimsluer Spanish it also seems that LSLC covers a lot more grammar concepts as well. Unfortunately, the people at LSLC have only finished one Level of the course. So until they have completed 3 or more levels, I cannot say which is the better of the two courses. One clear advantage that Pimsluer has it that the Pimsleur course is on its second or third revision. So they had time to find out what people did and did not like about the course and then re-record the course and get all the kinks out and make improvements. But a big plus about LSLC is that they use a learning method that helps an English speaker acquire an almost perfect Latin American accent. When people hear you speak, they will actually think that you know more Spanish than you actually do because your accent will be almost perfect. On the other hand, I am not sure if having people think you know more Spanish than you actually do is a plus or a negative. Even if you have completed all three levels of Pimsleur Spanish, I would still recommend LSLC because there is so much vocabulary and grammar that LSLC covers and Pimsleur doesn't, and vice versa. In fact, I wrote a review on Pimsleur Spanish One and compared it to some of the other leading Spanish courses and I mentioned that if you are really serious about learning how to speaking this wonderful language, then it is not a matter of "either ... or." You really need to study with all of the major Spanish courses including FSI Spanish. That's if you can put up with FSI's tedious teaching method. I don't think it makes sense to try to compare LSLC with Rosetta Stone Spanish. Rosetta Stone spanish is an indispensable complimentary course that can be used to supplement your learning with LSLC, Pimsluer and any other big league Spanish course. I actually bought LSLC on the web site before it was made available here at Amazon. So I got the FSI Spanish courses on CD along with the LSLC CDs and live weekly Spanish tele-classes taught by a native Colombian woman. But I had to pay more at the LSLC site for the LSLC CD course in order to get the FSI Spanish CD courses. But if you are not going to take advantage of the live tele-classes and the FSI courses then save yourself some money and buy LSLC here at Amazon. To sum it all up about this course, as they say on the LSLC site "you won't be disappointed." Thank You. Was this review helpful?
34 of 41 people found the following review helpful: Simply the Best - A Reviewer from London, England 6/22/2005 I treated myself to the download of this product from LSLC's website on Christmas Day 2004 after having worked my way through the major language learning programmes (including all 4 levels of Pimsleur - 1,2,3&Plus - I bought them all!) I don't have a natural language learning ability, but the elements of grammar that completely threw me before on the other Spanish courses have now become clear. Yes, I do have to work at it (daily), but at last, I believe that with sustained effort I can achieve fluency. This programme was written with English speakers in mind. They know when we English speakers are going to struggle with the material and, accordingly, they certainly go over it enough times for me to "get it" without being overly repitious and boring. The most important thing for me is that Learning Spanish Like Crazy has helped restore my confidence. I will be travelling to Guatemala very soon before finally taking up residence in my beloved Spain. My only hope is that LSLC will continue the good work and bring out more advanced courses. I for one will be renewing my subscription to LSLC through their website pronto. If you want to learn Spanish, I recommend you buy this programme, you won't be disappointed. Re-review 29 July 2006. I was simply blown-away by the product. However, I recommend you not to buy LSLC until all the various parts of LSLC have been completed. Patrick Jackson at LSLC has made very many promises about when Part 2 will be released - none of which so far have been honoured. Yes, I did like all the bonuses given with this product but it was the LSLC course that I wanted most. There cannot be an excuse for taking years before part 2 is released. Very, very disappointing indeed. Buy Pimsleur, it is complete. Thank You. Was this review helpful?
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