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Title: How Language programs compare
Review: I've used Pimsleur and Oasis Audio (AKA The Complete Idiot's Guide)and I find The Living Language program best for my style of learning. The others are based almost exclusively on aural learning, with extremely limited grammatical explanation, in most cases none at all. This replicates the way a child learns his first language, and may well work for some adults, but I need to know what a word "looks like" and I need to understand the logic behind a construction. Living Language combines written explanation and oral illustration very nicely. The advanced version, both French and Spanish, is very idiomatic and requires a good grasp of the material in the Beginner/Intermediate level. Because these programs contain both a book and CDs, they may be more expensive than some of the others, but they contain an awful lot of material. If you're new to the language, you could easily spend a year on the Beginner/Intermediate program.
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