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Title: Poor Quality CDs for an overall Decent Textbook
Review: These CDs are used with the Ahlan wa Sahlan Textbook. The book is fine but the CDs are shoddy.The sound quality is poor - room noise, coughing, shuffling of feet - all clearly audible in the background. The track breaks on the CDs correspond to an entire chapter in the textbook. Because each chapter has 4-8 listening exercises, manually advancing to the exercise you want is a pain.The listening exercises on the CDs are not well timed - to follow along in the book, you MUST frequently pause the recording to keep up.Overall the CDs complement the textbook's solid content, but poor structure, sloppy production values and an expensive price tag make them feel like a rip-off. Unfortunately if you're using the textbook, the CDs are also essential.
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