Teach Yourself Romanian (book only)
by: Dennis Deletant, Yvonne Alexandrescu
by: Dennis Deletant, Yvonne Alexandrescu
en 0071424733 9780071424738
•Publisher: McGraw-Hill
•Number Of Pages: 256
•Publication Date: 2003-07-30
•ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071424733
•ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071424738
Product Description:
Complete language courses that span the globe!
From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning language student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement in their formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and steadily promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, through:
•Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
•Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
•Step-by-step guides to pronunciation
•Practical vocabulary
•Regular and irregular verb tables
•Plenty of practice exercises and answers
•Bilingual glossary The new editions also feature:
•Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
•Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
•New recordings on CD for easy access and review
•Website suggestions to take language study further
Summary: Virtually worthless.
Rating: 1
This book reminded me why I failed so miserably to learn foreign languages in school: because they taught out of books like this one. You get a seemingly random onslaught of bits and pieces of the language, and there is no effort to deliver it to you in a way that enables you to learn. I suppose a good langauge teacher could make use of a text like this, but for self-study it is useless. The audio discs are even worse. They merely zip through a list of words at blinding speed without any context or pauses. It's the only way to be sure how to pronounce anything you find in the book and the effort of trying to start, stop, and sift through the audio material is not worth it. Lame, lame, lame!
I am more than halfway through the 30 lesson Pimsleur Romanian course, which actually works well, so far as it goes. I was hoping I could use this book to supplement near the end, then continue on after lesson 30, but after about 40 pages, it looks doubtful. If I had picked this "Teach Yourself" course first, instead of Pimsleur, I wouldn't have made it that far, and would still be sitting here thinking I was incapable of learning a new language. Bad language instruction is like a plague in the US, and this "Course" is more of the same.
So far, Pimsleur and the Eurotalk computer programs are the only materials I've found worth even a penny.
Summary: Superficial but sufficient for tourists
Rating: 3
I wanted to learn Romanian because I married a Romanian and his family speaks only Romanian. This book was not all that helpful for this kind of reference, learning to say "How much is a ticket" isn't something that is all that helpful. I wasn't very happy with the way the book was organized either.
You could tell that the book was probably written in Europe, perhaps in England. The english words sometimes didn't fit and seemed foreign (even though they were in English).
Overall I think this book is helpful for tourists in Romania, but that is probably all it is helpful for. I would look into another book if I wanted to truly learn Romanian.
Summary: Considering the range of Romanian books...
Rating: 3
It is a good book for people like me who desperately need material; however it's not great for learning Romanian thoroughly.
It's worth the money but it has a few obscure phrases and not enough that I would like to learn. It is a good book but not a 'one stop shop' for learning Romanian and other resources would be required
Summary: Good Romanina Book, Especially for a "Teach Yourself" Book
Rating: 4
When I decided to learn a little bit about Romanian, I had a hard time finding good resources. I was very apprenhensive about getting this book because I've used other books in the "Teach Yourself" series, and they are for the most part very mediocre. And most of them don't even teach the language in a logical order.
This book, however, does teach Romanian in a logical manner. (If you're wondering what I mean by logical order, here's why: I have "Teach Yourself Hindi," and it's extremely hard to learn the language because it teaches things at random.)
I would recommend using this book with "Romanian Dictionary & Phrasebook" by Mihai Miroiu. You should also practice your pronunciation with a native speaker.
Brandon Simpson
Summary: HOOKED AND COLLAPSED!!!
Rating: 3
Well, I started this self-learning course in Rumanian and I am hooked form the begining, but trapped and cannot go through at the 5th lesson, when it comes to speak about the Rumanian conjugation in Present Simple. There is no proper method for memorizing this four kind of verbs according to their ending and as the dialogues and the book is going through the estimated learning of the present to present you the other tenses, I am trapped asnd cannot pass that chapter. What should I do? I have reviewerd other chapters forward and I have observed that there is a good way for explaining the other tenses, but not the main one, the Present!
•Publisher: McGraw-Hill
•Number Of Pages: 256
•Publication Date: 2003-07-30
•ISBN-10 / ASIN: 0071424733
•ISBN-13 / EAN: 9780071424738
Product Description:
Complete language courses that span the globe!
From Danish to Spanish, Swahili to Brazilian Portuguese, the languages of the world are brought within the reach of any beginning language student. Learners can use the Teach Yourself Language Courses at their own pace or as a supplement in their formal courses. These complete courses are based on the very latest learning methods and designed to be enjoyable and user-friendly.
Prepared by experts in the language, each course begins with the basics and steadily promotes the student to a level of smooth and confident communication, through:
•Up-to-date, graded interactive dialogues
•Graded units of culture notes, grammar, and exercises
•Step-by-step guides to pronunciation
•Practical vocabulary
•Regular and irregular verb tables
•Plenty of practice exercises and answers
•Bilingual glossary The new editions also feature:
•Clear, uncluttered, and user-friendly layout
•Self-assessment quizzes to test progress
•New recordings on CD for easy access and review
•Website suggestions to take language study further
Summary: Virtually worthless.
Rating: 1
This book reminded me why I failed so miserably to learn foreign languages in school: because they taught out of books like this one. You get a seemingly random onslaught of bits and pieces of the language, and there is no effort to deliver it to you in a way that enables you to learn. I suppose a good langauge teacher could make use of a text like this, but for self-study it is useless. The audio discs are even worse. They merely zip through a list of words at blinding speed without any context or pauses. It's the only way to be sure how to pronounce anything you find in the book and the effort of trying to start, stop, and sift through the audio material is not worth it. Lame, lame, lame!
I am more than halfway through the 30 lesson Pimsleur Romanian course, which actually works well, so far as it goes. I was hoping I could use this book to supplement near the end, then continue on after lesson 30, but after about 40 pages, it looks doubtful. If I had picked this "Teach Yourself" course first, instead of Pimsleur, I wouldn't have made it that far, and would still be sitting here thinking I was incapable of learning a new language. Bad language instruction is like a plague in the US, and this "Course" is more of the same.
So far, Pimsleur and the Eurotalk computer programs are the only materials I've found worth even a penny.
Summary: Superficial but sufficient for tourists
Rating: 3
I wanted to learn Romanian because I married a Romanian and his family speaks only Romanian. This book was not all that helpful for this kind of reference, learning to say "How much is a ticket" isn't something that is all that helpful. I wasn't very happy with the way the book was organized either.
You could tell that the book was probably written in Europe, perhaps in England. The english words sometimes didn't fit and seemed foreign (even though they were in English).
Overall I think this book is helpful for tourists in Romania, but that is probably all it is helpful for. I would look into another book if I wanted to truly learn Romanian.
Summary: Considering the range of Romanian books...
Rating: 3
It is a good book for people like me who desperately need material; however it's not great for learning Romanian thoroughly.
It's worth the money but it has a few obscure phrases and not enough that I would like to learn. It is a good book but not a 'one stop shop' for learning Romanian and other resources would be required
Summary: Good Romanina Book, Especially for a "Teach Yourself" Book
Rating: 4
When I decided to learn a little bit about Romanian, I had a hard time finding good resources. I was very apprenhensive about getting this book because I've used other books in the "Teach Yourself" series, and they are for the most part very mediocre. And most of them don't even teach the language in a logical order.
This book, however, does teach Romanian in a logical manner. (If you're wondering what I mean by logical order, here's why: I have "Teach Yourself Hindi," and it's extremely hard to learn the language because it teaches things at random.)
I would recommend using this book with "Romanian Dictionary & Phrasebook" by Mihai Miroiu. You should also practice your pronunciation with a native speaker.
Brandon Simpson
Summary: HOOKED AND COLLAPSED!!!
Rating: 3
Well, I started this self-learning course in Rumanian and I am hooked form the begining, but trapped and cannot go through at the 5th lesson, when it comes to speak about the Rumanian conjugation in Present Simple. There is no proper method for memorizing this four kind of verbs according to their ending and as the dialogues and the book is going through the estimated learning of the present to present you the other tenses, I am trapped asnd cannot pass that chapter. What should I do? I have reviewerd other chapters forward and I have observed that there is a good way for explaining the other tenses, but not the main one, the Present!
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