Hear-Say: The Kids Way to Learn Spanish

Hear-Say: The Kids Way to Learn

by Donald S. Rivera

Includes 60-minute audio cassette and a 32-page full colour activity book.

32 pages, Audio CD

First published May 1, 1999

Reviews

[Ania · Rating 3 out of 5]

I liked it as it's simple enough for very basic vocabulary. However, it's nearly impossible to use the audio without the book (which is provided, it's just inconvenient is what I'm saying). Once you hear the "noise" something makes, you then hear the word in spanish. This works fine for basic animals, but when it comes to appliences, electronics etc. it becomes confusing and harder to tell things appart.

[Kelley · Rating 1 out of 5]

I picked the audiobook for this thinking it would be a good way to learn basic Spanish vocabulary. It was not. The audiobook plays a sound and then says the Spanish word. It is really hard to distinguish what the sounds are and with no English words to guide the listener, I spent a lot of time trying to guess the sound and not learning Spanish.

[Andrew · Rating 2 out of 5]

This book dives into a fairly moderate set of vocabulary. The audio plays sounds of an animal and then introduces the vocabulary term. This concept works fine for cats and dogs but it gets really confusing for other terms like electronics. Difficult to recommend to adults but kids might enjoy the variety of sounds.

[Claire Nolan · Rating 2 out of 5]

I listened to this as an audiobook, the hard book is really needed to go along with it as it only uses a sound and then says a Spanish word. The speaker is clear, the voice slow, helpful. However, it is a bit of a sensory overload to just leave it going. I had to turn it off frequently for that reason.

[thebookfox · Rating 2 out of 5]

I’m so confused... is this actually for children? I’m giving it 2 stars because I learnt plenty of new words but why are children being taught the word for flyswatter and heartbeat?

[Brooke Havens · Rating 3 out of 5]

I got this just to pass the time in a car ride with my kids. I expected some say and repeat words. What I didn't expect was a menagerie of sounds that you have to decipher in order to know what they are saying. There is no English word, only the sounds. We laughed and laughed at the crazy guesses and odd sounds. Imagine trying to figure out the sound for drink, eat, bathe, milk. Crazy thing is that we all learned something. Ask my kids what milk is in Spanish and they make sounds "phishh, phishhh, splat, mooo, phishh, phishhh, splat" 😂😂😂

[Cathy · Rating 2 out of 5]

The audio that is included is just a noise for about 10 seconds then the spanish word or saying that goes along with it. It starts out simple but when they go to different rooms in the house it becomes very hard to try and figure out the sound. Even with having some background in learning spanish, I really struggled trying to figure out what the noise was suppose to represent.