Do you want to take your English learning to the next level? Fluent English is the ideal course for developing native-like fluency in English. It focuses on the English learning essentials–idiomatic expressions, verbs, practical vocabulary, and grammar usage in context–and builds listening comprehension as well as pronunciation and intonation skills. In this program you’ll find numerous opportunities to practice speaking English, as well as listening, writing, and reading English. You’ll also learn essential information about living and working in the United States. The course includes a 224-page textbook and three hours of recordings on three CDs. Fluent English also includes a flashcard CD-ROM that gives students the chance to learn and practice common English idiomatic expressions - a multi-media approach to practice that improves retention..
This is certainly not a good book to achieve fluency. What's the use of having just a whole bunch of new words which you can't even use because there is no recording to tell you how to pronounce them? The exercises are of not help either, they don't help you develop a more fluent dialog or build more complex ideas in English, they just give you a set of words and/or phrasal verbs that you learned earlier in the lesson and you have to fill the gaps. The only valuable sections are the #A (say it clearly) and the few dialogs in the book. If you want to win in Scrabble, you can't go wrong with this book; if you don't, then i guess it's a waste of time. *I left it in lesson 5, I had enough of it. The structure of the whole book is the same, so you are getting the same all through the book