Speak in a Week! Italian Complete!: See, Hear, Say & Learn (Speak in a Week)
by Inc Penton Overseas
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Author: Inc Penton OverseasEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2005-09-30
ISBN: 1591255481
Number of pages: 760
Publisher: Penton Overseas
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Book Review: Wierd voice / wierd accent
Summary: 2 Stars
I have the Speak in a Week French, which I love.
So, I decided to buy the Italian. I'm not enjoying it at all. The voice of the woman speaking Italian is very high and very sort of pinched, almost like it has been slightly sped up. In addition, she mispronounces a lot of words. Like, "Dov'?... which means "Where is..." is pronounced "'DOH-veh" but she mispronounces it like, "'DOO-vay", like the French word for quilt cover "duvet". But then in the next chapter, she pronounces it correctly as "'DOH-veh" Why would she mispronounce it in one chapter and then pronounce it correctly in another? This makes me think that she is not actually Italian.
The purpose of these CDs is to go through it with the book and then have it playing so that you can get the sound of the language from a native speaker in your ear, but when it's mispronounced, it defeats the whole purpose!
In addition, many times the pronunciation they have written down phonetically is wrong so I have to look it up in my Italian book to see who's right: Her pronunciation or the book's pronunciation...
Example: Pg 49, the Italian sentence reads: Dov'? la scrivania?" (Where is the desk?) She speaks, "'DOO-vay [wrong] lah scree-vah-'NEE-ah [right], but the pronunciation in the book says, "dohv-EH [right] lah skree-'VAH-nyah" [wrong]. I had to get my Italian book out with IPA to decide who to follow; the woman's voice or the book, and they were both wrong.... oh my God...
What a waste of time!
Summary of Speak in a Week! Italian Complete!: See, Hear, Say & Learn (Speak in a Week)
In four 240-page wire-o bound books of eight sections apiece, you get a comprehensive overview of grammar, plus nearly 70 pages of vocabulary. The thirty-one colorful, illustrated lessons, a comprehensive review, and detailed glossaries provide all the basic tools to learn another language. Each page features the target language on one side and English on the reverse, with an illustration providing the visual clues and memory hooks to increase speed of comprehension, plus extra grammar tips, helpful hints, and cultural insights to enrich your learning experience. Audio CD provides native pronunciation of all material presented plus Mastery Exercises for comprehensive review.Italian Books
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