Linguaphone Starter Course The Linguaphone Starter Course is ideal if you want to reach a standard where you will be able to deal with the basic essentials of life when abroad. Incorporating a range of oral and written exercises to help you practise your new language, spend just half an hour a day with your Linguaphone Starter Course, learning with their unique 'listen, understand, speak' method and you'll soon be chatting with the locals - sounding just like a local. Courses are available for English speakers to learn Danish, Finnish, Hebrew, Hindi, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian, Polish, Spanish Latin American, and Thai $469 Danish Finnish Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Japanese Korean Malay Norwegian Polish Spanish Latin American Thai
The Starter Course Course Structure Languages Available
The Linguaphone Course has been carefully researched, designed and produced to satisfy the needs both of complete beginners and of those who already know a little of the language and wish to carry on, brush up, or improve on what they have learnt. The emphasis throughout is on using the language for practical, day-to-day purposes; and the course therefore steadily develops the learner's competence principally in listening, understanding, and speaking, and also in reading and the beginnings of writing. All that you need for efficient and enjoyable learning is provided within the course. Some of its key features are these:
The success of Linguaphone is based on the simple Linguaphone method of Listen, Understand, Speak. This is the natural way to learn a new language.
Listen This is the essential first step of the Linguaphone Method. A key feature is that all recordings on your cassettes or CDs are entirely in the language you are learning, spoken by native speakers of that language. Although this may initially sound strange, it is recognized as the best and quickest way to learn a language. You are immediately introduced to the new language as it really is spoken. You will be surprised how quickly and naturally you become accustomed to the new rhythms and sounds.
Understand At the beginning you will not understand all the new language you hear on the recordings. Because of this, the case contains a bilingual handbook which gives you word by word and phrase by phrase translations and explanations of the language. The printed versions of the recordings can be found in your textbook and by following these you will develop your reading ability in your new language.
Speak With Linguaphone you are encouraged to start speaking from the very first lesson, first imitating the native speakers featured on the recordings, and then actually taking part in the conversations yourself. Lesson by lesson new topics, words, and phrases are introduced and with each step forward your conversational skills will develop.
There are forty lessons in the course, divided into four levels of ten lessons each. The last lesson in each level is a progress test. Material for each lesson is provided in the handbook, on audio cassette, and in the textbook.
Note: Deliveries will take from two to three weeks.
Linguaphone Starter Course $469 Danish Finnish Hebrew Hindi Icelandic Indonesian Irish Japanese Korean Malay Norwegian Polish Spanish Latin American Thai