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Title: Worst Foreign Language CD Ever
Review: I purchased the book/cd package. While the dialogs inside the book are decent, the audio CD was a total disappointment. I would have been better off listening to Irish on the radio because the beginners' CD doesn't bother to break down the language; it starts at about sixty miles per hour and doesn't get any better. I accomplished more with a Hippocrene phrase book that didn't have a CD. I've learned three foreign languages and for each of them, the student is taken through steps; we learn the pronunciation of the vowels, consonants, and blends, which the Hippocrene book did. Then the student is given simple phrases (eg "What time is it?") at a slow or moderate pace, and we continue to build on the given theme. This "Teach Yourself Irish" is definitely the worst language course that I've encountered because it does nothing right.
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