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Complete Spanish Step-by-Step

By: Barbara Bregstein
Narrated by: Rachel Story
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Complete Spanish Step-by-Step is a top-selling Spanish book on all of Amazon! With more than 1,000 four- and five-star reviews, the reviews speak for themselves. Now, it’s your turn to learn Spanish with us! This audio course is designed to help you learn Spanish as quickly and as thoroughly as possible.

Note: Complete Spanish Step-by-Step includes Easy Spanish Step-by-Step as its first 15 chapters. The subsequent chapters, 16-30, provide a deeper dive into learning Spanish.

No one wants to spend effort and hours learning a language, and still not truly, authentically, be able to speak it. Well—no se preocupe (“don’t worry”)—with years of experience and thousands of success stories, we’ve got you covered! No matter your reason, once you’ve committed yourself to learning this beautiful language, you want to be sure you do it right. Right?

Here’s what you can expect from your Easy Spanish Step-by-Step course:

  • Be ready to listen and speak—a lot! This is the way that each and every one of us learned our first language, and the number one way that our brain actually learns and remembers information. You will be speaking Spanish out loud within your first few minutes with us.
  • Learn correct grammar and be able to apply it to your communication. This audio course is the product of a fusion of two methods: comprehensive grammatical understanding blended with authentic, child-like acquisition through listening and speaking.
  • Actively engage in your learning with dynamic practice activities! This course is not a podcast or a lecture to simply listen to. You are going to be interacting with us the entire time: responding to questions, filling in the missing word, giving your opinions, and more.
  • Tune your ‘Spanish ear’ to an authentic, native Spanish-speaker accent. Your new Spanish teacher, Rachel, is accompanied by Jorge, a native Spanish speaker. Adapt your listening skills to the “real” Spanish you will hear out in the community and across the world—not only the slow, clearly-enunciated Spanish you would hear in a classroom setting.
  • Make meaningful connections between newly introduced words and concepts and your own life, further increasing your brain’s ability to remember them thanks to the personal connection.
  • Develop your skills through a natural mix of language structure and fluid, conversational-style listening.
  • Listen to original stories and poems in Spanish and demonstrate understanding through interactive questions.
  • Receive consistent encouragement to recognize your growth, and to always take the course at your own pace.

Easy Spanish Step-by-Step is designed in such a way that each section builds upon the last to help your brain progressively create lasting and meaningful connections to each new word and grammar concept. Simply by listening and speaking out loud with us, you will naturally progress, step-by-step, toward Spanish communication and fluency.

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I LOVE this book but the skipping is really bad. I tried redownloading, changing the type of download to high quality, changing the download into parts. THE FIX: You have to 1. delete the book from your library 2. LOGOUT of your account 3. LOGIN and redownload the book.
I ordered the book so that I could have a physical copy to read along with and do the tests on my own. I consider this to be one of the most important books in my library and highly recommend it. Having moved to South America to a country that speaks very little English, people are truly impressed with my speaking ability. Someone told me the other day that I sound natural and not like I learned from a book or an app. While this has not been my only source for learning, it seems to be the best at putting all of the pieces together and answering most of my questions.

Amazing book and have the fix for the skipping

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The female performer is exquisitely wonderful! Speaks so clearly, friendly, supportively and correctly BOTH English and Spanish! I've completely fallen in love with her! The author's text is top-notch teaching. Explaining everything and encouraging the right amount of listener practice. It is very thorough and advances only after I master every step. The technical recording quality is perfect contrary to some surprising reviews. No mispronounced words. Well, ok, me personally, I just hate the Cuban guy. Badly recorded and equalized unprofessionally in my humble opinion. He pronounces so lazily and leaves out so many letters. Real street latin american, I doubt. Why he was chosen I wonder all the time. Fortunately I have to listen to him quite seldom. I so appreciate this audiobook.

Absolutely NO recording and listening problems!

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I really like the way this is organized and paced. Rachel has an easy and logical way of introducing vocabulary and grammar. The helper, Juan is sometimes hard to understand. He has a Cuban accent and I understand the need for different accents, but he's just hard to understand sometimes, like his speech is muddled. However, it doesn't detract too much from the overall learning experience. This would get 5 stars if it included a PDF to help lend clarity to vocabulary and pronunciation.

Well-paced learning

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The audio version of this book is perfect for individuals interested in learning Spanish on-the-go! I purchased the paperback copy of the workbook years ago but only completed about 80% of it before I got too busy. Now, not only has this audiobook been a more convenient learning resource but has also helped me break through some of the language plateaus I’ve dealt with over the past years. As far as the audio quality goes there was some skipping and muffled speech. Overall, any audio issues I came across were very minor in comparison to the amount of return I got from the lessons.

Drawbacks: I didn’t learn as much new vocabulary as I would have liked.
It’s something to be aware of although this is a solid grammar book at its core. The audiobook covers a lot of content so I recommend actively listening to it. As the grammar lessons increased in complexity, I found it useful to take notes or list out new grammar concepts and vocabulary in a flashcard app.

Highly Recommended for Spanish Learners with Busy Schedules!

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I was loving this series for about the first 5 hours. It's unique among my Spanish audiobooks in covering ALL of the grammar, and the exceptions to and variations on the grammar. For instance, it has a very useful section on irregular verbs which breaks them down into a small number of groups, each with its own pattern. It really is COMPLETE.

BUT. It is so SLOW, because the way it chooses to tell you the Spanish and the English version of a phrase is stupid.

There are only 2 good ways to sequence the Spanish and English versions of a phrase: Either speak the Spanish version and then the English, or the English and then the Spanish. What this series usually does is, Speak the Spanish version twice in a row, with one or two words omitted. Then speak the omitted Spanish word. Then speak the English version with the English equivalent of the omitted words inserted.

This is terrible because you're trying to understand a Spanish sentence with one or two missing words, while having no knowledge about what the missing words are, and most of the words in the sentence are unfamiliar. To make it worse, the speaker makes a pause for each missing word that is at least as long as the pause between repetitions of the sentence, AND you don't know in advance whether one or two words will be missing. So you can't tell whether a pause is because a word is missing, or because the speaker is about to repeat the sentence.

To make it worse, Spanish is spoken with no pauses between words in a sentence, with the last consonant of many words clipped off; acoustically, it's a steady stream of sound. The speakers make no attempt to clarify the word boundaries. I realize that it's important to hear sentences spoken as a native would speak them, but IMHO that should be done later, after learning the words and their meanings.

To make it worse, you'll have been told the meaning of a Spanish word spoken by the female speaker, and then expected to recognize it when spoken by the male speaker. But they speak slightly different dialects, so for instance the female speaker pronounces the letters B and V as 'V', while the male speaker pronounces both as 'B'. The female speaker enunciates the final consonant of each word; the male speaker often does not. There are so many differences in how they pronounce each word that the word you are supposed to recognize sometimes sounds, to an English speaker, like a completely different word when spoken by the male speaker.

To make it worse, most of the sentences are much too long for beginning Spanish speakers. They're 10 to 20 words long when they should be 3 to 8.

So in practice, when listening to this series, every time I listen to a phrase in Spanish and English, I have to listen to the whole long tedious sequence at least 3 times before I can even tell what words are being spoken.

To make it worse, the pauses for omitted words, and between repetitions, or between Spanish and English, are absurdly long. Like 4 times as long as they need to be.

To make it worse, they often begin a section with a complete story, 100 to 200 words long, containing ALL OF THE WORDS YOU HAVEN"T BEEN TOLD THE MEANINGS OF YET. I can't even pick out the words before I've heard them on their own, because, as I mentioned, Spanish speakers don't separate words acoustically. Those long passages are a complete waste of time.

So, while the material chosen to present is well-chosen and very thorough, the manner of presentation requires me to spend literally about 20 times as long as necessary listening to each sentence just to figure out where the sentence and word boundaries are, what words are being said, and which words of the speaker map to the same word spoken by the other speaker. I think this lesson series was developed very carefully, and then not tested on people who don't know Spanish.

A great concept, ruined by the implementation

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