Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course (Book + 2CD's) (Teach Yourself Language Complete Courses)

Author : Juan Kattan-Ibarra Edition : 3 Number of Pages : 400 Publisher : McGraw-Hill List Price : $23.95 Amazon Price : $12.86 Used Price : $13.79

Product Description

Complete language confidence without stepping into a classroom.

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With Teach Yourself Spanish Complete Course, you can learn the language from the comfort of your own home, at your own pace. This fully revised and updated course introduces you to practical themes, such as making travel arrangements, meeting someone new, shopping, and other every day activities. Includes two 75-minute audio CDs with listening and speaking exercises.

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Customer reviews

Great selfstudy book, great value for money! by .. J. Elmarasy (Netherlands)
Have recently purchased this book and am very satisfied. It is very complete, covering the basics with dialogues supported by audio recordings. It also includes grammar rules that pop up in each chapter throughout the dialogues. The way it is built up is very clear and intuitive to me. I am a beginner, and just started chapter 4 now. I have bought Puentes, and practiced with Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur. Pimsleur (audio) takes too long, Rosetta stone (visual, sort of like 'memory' game) misses the basic dialogues and grammar rules, Puentes is useless without a teacher. For all those much more expensive courses...I find this method superiour. And it costs under 20 US$! Will visit South America in a few months, and this book really gets me up to a certain level fast by selfstudy before starting my spanish course there. Highly recommended!!

Spanish Book by .. M. Hasse ()
This product came on time and has been very helpful in the study of Spanish. This book is used for those who need a "refresher" in the language or those who have never been exposed to it.

Teach Yourself Spanish by .. JennLee (Houston, TX)
I bought this book as a true beginner. I have never taken a spanish corse and really only know how to say hello and some numbers that I learned as a kid. I thought this book would help b/c it seemed simple and quick plus it had the CD's. Well, the CD's did not go along with the chapters. In the middle of a lesson it would start on new number on the CD. The biggest problem I had was that the book didn't even go along with the CD's. In the very first lession it is teaching you how to say bye. The lady on the CD is saying A, Adios.. etc, but in the book it's numbered and not even in the same order as the CD. Another thing that it goes too fast. While you are searching for where the book and CD meet, the lession is already over. Plus some of the phrases sound like they are all one word instead of them being slow for you to comprehend. I got frustrated and stopped after one chapter. I should have been able to read along with the CD, but it's like they aren't even related. Like they just smacked the same name on both and hoped they could pass it off. It was a complete waste of money!!

Delighted with purchase by .. P. Nicholls (uk)
Delighted with purchase of spanish book and cd's - helps a lot with my Spanish lessons.

good by .. Dustin Watson (MO, USA)
this is a good product, it is easy for eginners and giid enug to refresh your memory.

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Teach Yourself Visually Knitting (Teach Yourself Visually)

Author : Sharon Turner Number of Pages : 304 Publisher : Visual List Price : $24.99 Amazon Price : $13.87 Used Price : $13.81

Product Description

Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then get yourself some yarn and needles and get knitting! Teach Yourself VISUALLYKnitting shows you the basics--photo by photo and stitch by stitch. You begin with the essential knit and purl stitches and advance to bobbles, cables, lace, and fancy color work. With fun, innovative patterns from top knitting designer Sharon Turner, you'll be creating masterpieces in no time!

Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review
* Each skill or techniqueis defined and described
* Detailed color photos demonstrate each step
* Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
* Helpful tips provide additional guidance

Customer reviews

Visually? by .. Cheeke Maroo (Washington, DC)
Arg. The sparse images in this book are too far zoomed out to really SEE what the needles are doing. I ended up using YouTube for free and learned to knit, purl, bind off in minutes.

Also, are the chapters out of order or what??!?! Arg. Suddenly you jump into making patterns with techniques that are not explained anywhere in the book (or if they are I certainly didn't find them, and I looked. Index anyone? Hello? No definition of how to SLIP STITCH in the index?!?! And this is supposed to teach a beginner?!)

Before you buy this book, try YouTube. I can't believe I bought this crappy book.

Not really for a complete beginner by .. tachi1 (Miami, FL United States)
This book is excellent for someone who either already has limited experience knitting or who has a friend or teacher who can answer really basic (as in "stupid") questions. If you don't fit into either of these categories, there is no way you will "teach yourself visually knitting" just with this book.

There are too many gaps. For example, there is the assumption that you instinctively know which is the "right" side and which is the "wrong" side, among other basic bits of knowledge. This may or may not be important, but when the instructions say do this on the right side and that on the wrong side, you'd like to know before proceeding. Being told that the "wrong" side is the side you don't see when you're wearing it is not helpful because, right now, you're not wearing it. Being shown what the right side looks (or should look) like and what the wrong side looks like, would be. (When you are really beginning, the anatomy of a stitch is not exactly obvious. You're just following a sequence of instructions and not sure why or how it all fits in at the end).

I also didn't find the "mistakes" section as clear as I would have liked: what is a "dropped" stitch? How did it happen? What can I do to prevent it? At a critical point such as a mistake (where you're close to panicking that you've just blown the whole project!) a few more photographs in the sequence of steps would have made an already tense situation a little less tense.

Assuming that you are truly gifted and that you make it to the end of your project and now you now want to get the knitting off the needle and around your neck, you have to either make sense of the description (which is clear but intimidating) or get a magnifying glass to see exactly where the needles go in relation to the yarn in the small and distant illustration. (A macro lens for closeups would have been a nice touch throughout the book, but particularly here).

Having said this from a real beginners point of view, the book appears to be an excellent resource for somewhat more confident knitters or knitters who want to expand beyond the basics. It has a section that shows swatches created using many types of stitches that, I'm sure, will come in handy someday. There is a lot of good information that I couldn't find elsewhere (such as get ready to start a new ball of yarn when you're getting close to having 4 times the length of yarn as the width of your project.)

I gave it only 3 stars, not because it's a bad book--it's not--but because the content is not consistent with the implied level of the title and I find that misleading. This is not a book that gives you a great sense of security when you're starting out.

If you haven't ever picked up a knitting needle, I would suggest Nici McNally's DVD The Complete Beginner's Guide to Knitting (also available at Amazon). That one IS for complete beginners, you see what you have to do and what it should look like when you do it (close up and slowly), and it tells you what mistakes you're likely to make when you're starting and how to prevent or correct them. It doesn't cover too much ground but it does cover what you need to know NOW.

Great book by .. Matei Roxana Andreea (Romania)
I really like this book as it really helps with learning how to knit. Also it arrived very fast 2 weeks earlier than it should have. Considering I live half the world away ... it was preatty fast. Thank you Amazon!

A must have knitting resource by .. K. D. Wells (Northern CA)
After being frustrated with a little knitting booklet I purchased at a craft shop I ordered this book. I am so glad I did, Teach Yourself Visually Knitting has been instrumental in helping me learn to knit. The pictures are easy to see and the descriptions make sense. This book will remain as a main source in my knitting library and I recommend it to all beginning knitters. I've moved onto intermediate knitting projects now (in large part due to how well this book explains the stitches), but whenever I see a new stitch in a pattern I'm using I turn to this book first for explanation. Most of the time it will have the stitch and I'll be able to easily understand how to do it. I don't think I could have improved as much as I have in a little less than a year without this book.

Great Resource!! by .. Tammy (Georgia)
I just about threw my knitting needles out the window until I discovered this book. It's filled with very clear and concise instructions. The best part of this book is the clear, close-up pictures. It's not one of those knitting instruction books with the half sketched illustrations of hands with knitting needles. It actually shows you every step and also includes common problems and the solutions. I highly recommend this to be in any knitters library.

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Teach Yourself Swedish Complete Course Package(Book + 2CDs) (TY: Complete Courses)

Author : Vera Croghan Edition : 3 Number of Pages : 384 Publisher : McGraw-Hill List Price : $28.95 Amazon Price : $15.50 Used Price : $15.95

Product Description

From Cantonese to Thai, Gaelic to Modern Persian, learning the languages of the world is. attainable for any beginning student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Complete Language. Courses at their own pace or as a supplement to formal courses.

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All Teach Yourself Complete Language Courses include:

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• Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
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• Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and. exercises
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• Step-by-step guides to pronunciation
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• Practical vocabulary
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• Regular and irregular verb tables
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• A bilingual glossary
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• A clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
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• Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
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• Fully updated audio recordings on CD for. easy access and review
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Customer reviews

If you are already bilingual or an advanced language learner by .. Gina W ()
This book is excellent for people who already speak German or another similar second language. If you're new to learning languages, you might prefer something else. I really like this book and CD because it is fast paced and keeps me into it. It's challenging enough for me to have to think while doing the exercises, instead of mindlessly repeating things. I like the structure: the vocabulary words for each dialogue, and the clarified grammar points corresponding to each unit.

Good beginners book by .. Photonic (Virginia, USA)
I used this book and CD set as part of an independent study in Swedish. I had little to no experience with Swedish beforehand but I found it relatively straight-forward. However, due to my own negligence I suppose, I did not realize that this book is based on British English and not American English. As a result, a few of the pronunciations were a bit tricky, but really nothing to worry about.

Has anybody ever actually made a good start in learning Swedish from this book? by .. Christopher Culver ()
When I began graduate studies at Helsingfors Universitet, I was keen on learning some Swedish. I examined a number of different resources, including TEACH YOURSELF SWEDISH, the most widely available self-teaching textbook in the English-speaking world. Unfortunately, Vera Croghan's work must be one of the poorest volumes in the entire Teach Yourself series.

I had already learnt some basic Swedish for another textbook before opening TEACH YOURSELF SWEDISH for the first time, and so I was shocked by how Croghan chose to begin her course. Right from the first chapter the reader faces a deluge of highly colloquial and idiomatic language. There's no gentle start from the very basics; instead, it's like you are dumped right into a Swedish crowd. Total immersion is a good language-learning technique in a classroom environment where a trained teacher can skillfully direct the group's activities, but I imagine most home learners will swiftly give up. Worse yet, many of the colloquialisms are already obsolete, and the use of several words Croghan claims are everyday will result in laughter from your Swedish friends.

The exercises make too few demands of the reader, requiring him only to utter a few phrases. Sweden is not a country where you need survival language skills. If you try to use overly simple language on the street, people are just going to answer in English. So, the learner might as well work towards as rigorous a command of the language as possible. It is therefore a pity that Croghan doesn't include exercises that really challenge you and force you to start thinking in Swedish. Furthermore, as Swedish word order is so different from that of English, the reader should do long prose translations from English into Swedish to flex his syntactic muscles. But you won't get that here.

Now, even though the course is completely useless for the beginners that it is marketed to, TEACH YOURSELF SWEDISH does have some value for people with some amount of experience with the language already. The dialogues, especially as heard from the cassettes or CD, make one more comfortable with colloquial speech and popular expressions.

The book I eventually used to reach an intermediate level of Swedish is Gladis Hird's Swedish: An Elementary Grammar-Reader (Cambridge University Press, 1977). Hird's textbook is among the best for any language that I've ever encountered, and teaches one both everyday Swedish and the basics of the literary language. Even when it goes for quite a bit on the used market it's worth seeking out more than TEACH YOURSELF SWEDISH.

the darker the lingonberry... by .. Rob Burrito (York Pa)
this book as seen in other reviews moves really fast and would only be reccomended as a supplement to other (slower) courses. there is no spoken section that focuses on how to pronounce the 3 new swedish sounds and it seems heavy on phrase memorization rather than language understanding. the book & cds are not all bad, it does help the reader/listener pick up some vocab rather quickly and is good training for training your ear to begin understanding certain phrases that would be spoken to you in swedish. i purchased 5 courses and books on swedish and the best one by far is the free/public domain one Swedish: Basic Course from the Foriegn Service Institute/ U.S. Dept. of State. it seems i've been using everything i purchased as a supplement to that, and those being this book along with 201 Swedish Verbs, Essentials of Swedish Grammar, and An Essential Grammar, and Rossetta Stone.

poor beginner materials.. by .. marley (san francisco)
if you are an absolute beginner, find another product. the book is poorly laid out, difficult to navigate, and has few reinforcement excerises. the cds are great for learning pronunciation but they rarely speak slowly enough for you to repeat the sentences. two thumbs serioussssly down.

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Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day (5th Edition)

Author : Laura Lemay Edition : 5 Number of Pages : 816 Publisher : Sams List Price : $39.99 Amazon Price : $24.46 Used Price : $16.80

Product Description

Sams Teach Yourself Web Publishing with HTML and CSS in One Hour a Day is a new edition of the best-selling book that started the whole HTML/web publishing phenomenon. The entire book has been revised and refined to reflect current web publishing practices and technologies. It includes extensive coverage of Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which have become a staple in web development.

 

You'll have no problem learning from expert author Laura Lemay's clear and approachable writing style. Simple, step-by-step instructions with lots of practical, interesting examples of web pages will guide you as you master current web publishing technologies and practices.

Customer reviews

Not a bad book by .. DH (California's Central Valley)
I'm about 1/3 of the way through the book right now, and I am pleased with it so far. I'm pretty familiar with computers and the Internet already, but the authors include enough information for beginniers to get a good grasp on the terminology early on.

The book breaks down the material into 21 lessons, implying that each one should take one hour per day. A word of warning: you'll probably need more than an hour unless you're a really quick study. The early lessons are pretty basic and go by quickly, but by lessons 5 & 6 the terminology starts coming fast. The authors offer several suggestions for HTML editors to use while reading the book, and I highly recommend downloading one (I use the free HTML-Kit, and it works quite well).

I do have a few complaints. The authors seem to spend a lot of time covering "deprecated" HTML tags, which are considered outdated in favor of CSS. They say that it these tags are good ot know if you find them in older websites, but for someone like me who is new to HTML, including the old tags with the new is a bit confusing, and I frequently have to check the appendix to make sure that the tag I'm using is not obsolete. CSS has not been covered extensively yet (it looks like lesson 9 will do that), but it looks pretty different from HTML. If a new edition of this book is made, the authors need to ditch the outdated HTML and include the CSS right from the beginning.

My other complaint is that, for a book on HTML, the examples aren't that well edited. I just finished lesson 7 and was having a difficult time adding color to my pages until I realized that the author(s) had accidentally used a comma instead of a semicolon. That tiny mistake made a huge difference, and it's not the only tiny mistake they made.

Good beginner text for learning HTML and CSS by .. Rex A. Basham (Pittsburgh, PA USA)
I purchased this book for a college course I am taking titled "Web Design and Development". The instructor chose the the textbook but it is well written and has numerous examples of good web site and page design. Gets into some of the more advanced features of creating web pages using XHTML and CSS. I would recommend this book for a beginning web programmer or administrator.

This is great until lesson 9 by .. Bada Bing (Kentucky)
and then the bottom falls out. This book is fantastic as far as a beginner or review course for html and basic CSS. However . . . the chapter on CSS layouts and positioning (lesson 9) leaves ALOT to be desired. I became completely lost when I reached this chapter. I don't know which one of the authors handled this lesson but I'm hoping they'll fix it for future editions. They assume that the audience knows more than they should about class and IDs without ever providing adequate examples. The examples that are provided seem to skip steps. Still a good book but if you're new to CSS layouts and positioning like me, you're better off googling a CSS tutorial for beginners.

A thorough, comprehensive guide to HTML, CSS & more... by .. Paul E. Palubinski (Denver, CO USA)
This is one of the better written Web books I have read. Everything is well organized, with lots of relevant topics and useful examples. Even if you have prior experience with web design, it's not a bad idea to delve into these pages as a refresher and for guidelines on current HTML and XHTML standards.

The authors go the next step by introducing some of the more dynamic components of web design including client side Javascript and PHP for server-side scripts (along with a quick overview of ASP and JSP). These sections are quite brief for the most part (which should not come as a surprise in a book titled 'HTML and CSS'), but will help steer budding designers towards their next challenge.

I would certain recommend this book to anyone who is new to web design. It does much more than just teach you about HTML and CSS. The book progresses quickly, but not too quickly, and you will find yourself putting together your own interesting looking web pages in no time.

A good book - very accessable by .. Joseph B. Cohen (Brooklyn, NY United States)
This Laura Lemay person is associated with a lot of well received books. This one, different in substance from her others, while there is not much in great depth, there is quite a bit of good stuff here. What is here, is well presented, good examples, and more for the beginning and intermediate reader. Good intro to CSS, some Javascript and ajax. This is a good buy (here at Amazon, I paid ~$22) . Get'em while they're hot.

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Teach Yourself Visually Crocheting (Teach Yourself Visually)

Author : Kim P. Werker Number of Pages : 304 Publisher : Visual List Price : $24.99 Amazon Price : $13.87 Used Price : $13.70

Product Description

Do you learn faster by seeing and doing than by wading through tedious instructions? Then pick up some yarn and a hook and get crocheting! Teach Yourself VISUALLY Crocheting shows you the basics—photo by photo and stitch by stitch. You begin with the basic tools and stitches and progress through variations, more complex stitches like Tunisian crochet, and techniques for reading patterns. With designs ranging from a simple but practical baby rattle to a cozy, fluffy cardigan, you'll be creating masterpieces in no time.

Concise two-page lessons show you all the steps to a skill and are ideal for quick review

• Each skill or techniqueis defined and described
• Detailed color photos demonstrate each step
• Step-by-step instructions accompany each photo
• Helpful tips provide additional guidance

Customer reviews

Not as easy as you think by .. Deb (Wisconsin)
In Teach yourself visually crocheting. I feel they were showing people with some knowledge of crocheting anyway. If you are a novice like I am you need more angles shots of the stitches. Especially beginning and ending the rows.

A good refresher course or beginner book by .. Glenna Joy Edwards (Mineral Wells, TX United States)
I hadn't done any crocheting for years and chose this book for it's simplicity. I was not disappointed. I can skip around and review things I forgot without wading through it all. On the other hand, if you are a beginner, the details are excellent and you will want to 'wade' through the entire book. The pictures are invaluable.

User friendly for the crochet-illiterate by .. T. White ()
For years, I have loved crocheting blankets and scarves for family and friends. I tended to stay in the 'safe' patterns because I simply couldn't understand the crochet jargon and would get extremely frustrated everytime I looked at a picture and then saw the unreadable mess of instructions for it. This book breaks down all of the technical aspects and gives you patterns and instructions in PLAIN ENGLISH! It also answers a lot of basic questions that other pattern books neglect. I feel more confident now and I'm trying new patterns that I would have shied away from before. Buy this book for the foundational information and enjoy the added confidence and skill that you can get from it!

viaually crocheting by .. susie65 (Wisconsin)
this book is just great for the beginner or the more advanced crocheter. I use it all the time and have ordered it for other people. I give this book A+++. It has everything in it that you ever need to know.

Not as visual as it should be by .. A. Designer ()
Part of the reason I bought this book was to learn some new crochet stitches; the problem is, the book is not as visual as it promises to be. Some critical pictures are left out at crucial points that leave the crocheter with nothing but a description of how to complete a stitch or continue subsequent rows. I had hoped to avoid such things with this book. I have learned some new stitches, but I expected to be able to master all the stitches in this book with its visual training technique.

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