Product Description

Want to speak Spanish with confidence?

Don’t have much time?

Need the basics for a trip abroad?

Talk Spanish is the ideal short course for absolute beginners. Designed for adults learning at home or in a class, this popular course covers all the basic language you’ll need in everyday situations.

Its specially designed step-by-step approach assumes no prior knowledge of the language, and encourages you make genuine progress right from the start. Featuring interactive audio and a wealth of enjoyable activities, Talk Spanish will quickly develop both your speaking and listening skills, helping you make the most of your visit from the moment you arrive!

·        Master the basics with this tried and tested approach

·        Practise the language using interactive activities support every topic

·        Communicate with confidence - say what you want to say in no time!

128-page course book and two x 60-minute audio CDs

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #60322 in Books
• Published on: 2006-02-08
• Released on: 2006-02-09
• Number of discs: 2
• Original language: English, Spanish
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Customer Reviews

Talk Spanish (Shouldn't this be 'speak' Spanish?)
A simple, fairly low-budget Spanish course - it assumes no pre-knowledge of the language and explains even the most basic phrases and vocabulary piece by piece.
You can work through on a spoken word only basis and quickly learn various useful phrases, or refer to the grammar section and learn the 'why' as well as the 'how to'.
The accompanying cassettes are of excellent quality and very authentic, although they may be a bit daunting at first; Spanish is a rapid language! It is useful, however, to hear Spanish at the speed it is spoken rather than the speed at which we learn it and after listening a couple of times, the little tests and scenarios in the book become easier to follow. (The answers are at the back to check on your progress!)

I have dipped into several products of this ilk and this is by far the best!

Excellent method to teach tourist Spanish
I have used TALK SPANISH to teach Spanish for holidays and have found it extremely useful. It covers all the necessary travel elements a student needs, is well graded and has plenty of useful exercises. Grammar is well explained and the tapes are lively and easy to follow. They are ideal for self-learning.

The only snag is that the course has been designed with the audio-learner in mind. Therefore it has little text and the lay out is somewhat dull, lacking in pictures or colour. If the BBC were to create a pictorial version of this book, it would sell like hot cakes. At present, there are very few tourist Spanish courses on the market, and this is an excellent product.

I have learnt some Greek using the Greek version and have found it equally approachable.

From a teacher's perspective - not great
This is a surprisingly poor course by BBC standards. The audio tapes were unpopular with my students - too fast and confusingly constructed. The book does fulfil the role of providing basic survival phraes but will ultimately frustrate anyone who wants to understand how Spanish works in order to progress further. Its gramatical explanations lack clarity and their ordering is illogical. Other BBC courses are much better. The allied website is reasonable, but of course you can access that anyway without buying the book/tape combination!

Still you've got to admire their marketing - it and its other European language counterparts are now the mandatoryset texts at our teaching institution!