![]() "Easy French Reader", "Read and Think Spanish"). "German Demystified") or some of the graded readers (e.g. Otherwise, I'd much rather get the older edition with CDs (for a reasonable price) as a book's content is often the same regardless of the editions (especially true when the same author wrote different editions). On the other hand, the conversation books now get streamable recordings of the dialogues in addition to those simple speaking exercises. For the traditional grammar drill books, the audio recordings are simple exercises where you record yourself translating some sentence or filling in a blank on a flash card, and then compare it with the recorded answer. Conversation" for French, Italian, and Spanish). "Practice Makes Perfect Complete Italian Grammar", "Practice Makes Perfect Basic Spanish"), and even better, the books for conversation (i.e. I'm referring here to a few of the books on grammar (e.g. However, I concede that it's improved things a bit by now providing that streamable audio for some titles whose older editions never came with audio in the first place. In the past, McGraw-Hill issued CDs for the audio component of several readers and text-/workbooks but newer editions of such books are nowadays sold as "premium" partially by having free streamable audio via an app (or the clunky-ass website). It's serviceable once you get the hang of things. In turn, many "cards" are grouped into subfolders called "sets". ![]() Fortunately, dialogues are generally recorded in whole as one "audio card". Some dialogues are also broken down line by line with each line called an "audio card". ![]() If I want to scroll down the screen/list as shown on my laptop monitor, I need to hold down the left mouse button, and then move my mouse forward on the mousepad to scroll down the list.Ī lot of files (called "cards" by McGraw-Hill) are just flashcards of words from a book, and thus not that useful for many people while other files are interactive exercises or rudimentary audio exercises based on the printed content. The audio is also playable on a laptop or desktop but a bit of an irritant is that I need to pretend that I'm using a touchscreen. I'm an old geezer who's not interested in adding junk on my phone. no downloading) available through an app for Android or iOS to be used on Chrome or Safari. McGraw-Hill in comparison seems to have broken ranks and wants to reinforce our reliance on smartphones by presenting its audio supplements as streamable files (i.e. Lesser-known examples of such freely-downloadable audio come from Cornelsen for German adaptations/translations (the "Lextra" series) of the current generation of "Teach Yourself" language courses (at minimum the recordings of the dialogues in a "Lextra" course for a given language are nearly the same (if not the same) as those in the corresponding "Teach Yourself" course), and Darakwon for most of its textbooks and workbooks, all of which focus on Korean for foreigners. The ideal arrangement is what you get from Routledge or Tuttle which offer course audio as downloadable. It seems that publishers are warming to the idea of offering audio supplements of their textbooks, workbooks or graded readers on-line for free. ![]() The stuff that's available is dominated by supplements for FIGS (surprise, surprise), but there is stuff available for a few other books such as Read and Speak Arabic and Practice Makes Pefect Basic Japanese. As I've been reviewing my German using "Practice Makes Perfect German Vocabulary", I ended up poking around the publisher's website and figured out how to get access to the supplements (including streamed audio) for the newer edition of several of its language books.
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