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Title: Not what I expected
Review: I bought this as a gift for a friend (completely fluent in English but with a very hard to understand accent) based on so many positive reviews, but I hesitate to give it to him. First of all, you have to be a very advanced and highly educated English speaker to understand the level of vocabulary on the CD. Secondly, the voices are rather irritating, with distracting sibilant eses (sssssss). (I listened to the introduction and part of the first unit.) Ideally, a program would include a way to visualize your sound pattern on the computer compared to the sound of the native speaker, but this just suggests you record your voice and compare the sound-- it's very hard to hear the difference if these vowel sounds are foreign to you, that's why visualizing the sound pattern would help.
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