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Behind the Wheel - Italian 1 (By Frobose) Review


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The Behind the Wheel series is designed to allow people to convert that 'dead time' sitting in traffic or driving long distances into productive language learning. Obviously, however, the series is not limited to your car; you can play them while cooking or transfer them to Mp3 to listen to while walking the dog or at the gym. Portable audio courses such as this are great for those who are pressed for time but would still love to learn a language. Furthermore, they focus on speaking and understanding; arguably the two most importance of any language.

Behind the Wheel Italian 1 takes you from a complete beginner to intermediate level while the second in the series helps you progress to upper-intermediate. Different themes such as shopping, traveling and 'l'amore' are covered while users are progressively exposed to increasingly complex grammar throughout the course. With Behind the Wheel, you not only learn plenty of useful vocab and phrases but also sentence structure which allows you to construct your own phrases and express yourself in varied and unpredictable situations.

We found the course to be both enjoyable and effective. Sometimes the lessons moved a little quickly and required repetition which, due to little variation of activities, did become a little tiresome. However, overall we were kept motivated throughout and we found the companion book useful for visualizing the grammatical rules which we had learnt from the CDs. The native speaker audio was great for practicing our accent, although we did find that the focus on speaking was quite a double edged sword; On the one hand, it's great for improving your conversational Italian, but on the other hand, those looking to use it in public (i.e. in the gym or on the subway) may get some funny looks! As with all audio courses, you will get out of Behind the Wheel Italian what you put in. We would recommend that you treat this as a real 1-on-1 lesson, repeating each time, making notes if possible and rewinding if necessary. Also, if you can combine this with other sources of Italian learning you will be well on your way to achieving an advanced level of Italian.

Although we did not experience any problems, a little research on the internet revealed that many users have received products missing CDs or with the wrong / mislabeled CDs. Furthermore, upon informing the publishers of this error in quality control, many users have reported shoddy customer service. Please bear this in mind before any purchase of Behind the Wheel Italian.

Overall, Behind the Wheel Italian is, in itself, a great and well priced audio course which will give you an excellent all round introduction to the Italian language as well as make a fantastic companion to other teach yourself Italian products.

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