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Dimelo Tu!: A Complete Course, Revised Edition (with Audio CD) [With CD]
Prices for book: Dimelo Tu!: A Complete Course, Revised Edition (with Audio CD) [With CD]
Book ISBN: 9781413031607
Author(s): Rodriguez
Document type: Trade Cloth
Publisher: Unknown
Categories: Language | Foreign Language Study | Spanish | Psychology / General | Textbooks | Language Arts & Disciplines / General
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Reviews
Dimelo tu!
The book was very well priced and came promptly. It had a lot more markings than what was expressed. It made me wonder how well it was looked at before set to sell. However, it was still a great value. Thanks for the great service.
Wendy Js Sundt (Amazon.com)
Book was exactly what I needed.
The item I ordered was exactly the item I needed. The price was much better than the used book price at the school book store.
Dawn Dale (Amazon.com)
The worst textbook I've ever had to use
Executive summary: I have to agree with the reviewers who say this is a horrible book, at least for an introductory text. In the computer business they talk about programs being "user-friendly," and somebody then coined the term "user-hostile," which I feel applies to Dimelo Tu (4th edition). To be frank, it is the worst textbook I can remember ever having to deal with. It might be OK, however, if you have had Spanish in the past and need a refresher. On the positive side, this book (plus my current Spanish 101 class) has given me a greater sympathy for what it must feel like for the poor struggling English-learners, or people who have a learning disability, who are forced to sit in classes where they feel totally lost and are made to feel stupid and to feel that school is pointless (I do some volunteer work with kids like this).
Further details: Before I get into specific issues I have with the text, here's a little about my language studies background: over my lifetime I've had 3 years of high school & college French, and then in college, a couple of quarters of modern Arabic, a couple quarters of Classical Greek, a year of Japanese, about a year and a half of biblical Hebrew (in grad school), and then some adult ed classes in Hawaiian. I've gotten good grades in all of those, and so I think I have a knack for languages (I just haven't stuck with one long enough to get fluent). But now I live in California and I thought I should really learn Spanish, which doesn't seem like that difficult a language, especially having had French.
My biggest general complaint about this book is that they consistently (and deliberately--see my point #4 below) throw a lot of Spanish at you which you haven't been "introduced" to (i.e., with English translation). I think that may be OK for an intermediate-to-advanced book (you have to learn to use a Spanish-English dictionary someday), but it just causes frustration for the beginner, and turns them off to what could be (and ought to be) at least somewhat enjoyable.
For an example of what they do, here's the above paragraph the way they'd present it to a beginning English student (with "words" that they haven't taught you yet):
My biggest xlksoiujf about this book is that they woumjwly and uiojwkmfly throw a lot of Spanish at you iouujw you haven't been "jwmflksued" to (i.e., with Euxkjsl translation). I think that may be OK for an xkljlsk-to-s;lkjfwuu book (you have to mnloljf to use a Spanish-English dictionary somecmc), but it just causes frustration for the beginner, and quisxs them off to what could be (and yermd to be) at least somewhat nmjlkjsable.
Now if you're somebody that wouldn't be thrown by this, and who would enjoy the challenge (and the constant, and often fruitless, trips to the Spanish-English dictionary), or you don't mind the feeling of being confused or made to feel stupid, then you might get along OK with this book.
Here are some specific frustrating things I noted as I've begun to work with this text (I'm through Chapter 3 so far):
1) Starting with the title--it isn't translated anywhere that I could find, and so, as a total beginner at Spanish, I consulted the book's built-in Spanish-English dictionary, and "dimelo" isn't there. Right off the bat, I felt the book was being unfriendly. (About six weeks into my class, I've finally learned enough Spanish to have some idea what it means, and that's only because my instructor skips ahead.)
2) Preface: they list the various section headings they'll be using throughout the book, such as
notwarrenbuffett (Amazon.com)
finally, a book that takes the student seriously
I have read some negative reviews about this textbook, and I think they are unfair. The order in which the content is presented and the fact that Spanish is the main language used in this textbook are not reasons to give it a bad review. I have taught Spanish using this book for many years now, and the miracle happens every time: students acquire as much Spanish as they can during their first year of Spanish.
Despite these 3 or 4 bad reviews, this book is a bestseller, used in the most prestigious colleges and universities.
Marta Paredes (Amazon.com)
horrrible, horrible book
There are not enough words in English or Spanish to describe how badly this book is put together. I am working on my second degree and I have never come across a book like this. It is broken down into endless sections and none of them are labeled in English. This is supposed to be the book for entry level Spanish but 80 percent of it is in Spanish and you don't have a clue what to do with the exercises in the first chapters because the directions are all in Spanish and beginning learners DON'T KNOW SPANISH. There are icons beside some of the lessons that are supposed to mean something but many of them do not have a key to explain what they are. You are supposed to figure out what lesson plan goes with what tape and that is also all in Spanish. The lady that teaches me who has been teaching Spanish for years and even get thrown at times. I cannot believe I was forced to pay $80.00 for this mess.
Summerwind (Amazon.com)
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