Daggett

Asi es (with Audio CD)

Description

Grounded in the fundamentals of the Spanish language, AS? ES fosters communication without sacrificing accuracy. Its extensive cultural resources are designed to allow flexibility in presenting the rich heritage of the Spanish speaking world.

Reviews

Rating: 2 / 5
Date: 2009-01-16
Summary: "Okay book and audio cds, craptastic online support."

I would give this package--for it is a package, with the quia key, audio cds, and web content--one star if grading on online support alone, but the book is what you would expect from a language textbook--nothing great, nothing bad, nothing particularly unusual, and the idea is nice; that is, having an online portion to run concurrently with the offline portion.

The problem I have with Asi Es has to do with the Quia key for the online portion--I bought this package at a hefty price from my campus bookstore about a year and a couple weeks ago for Spanish I. The problem is they print the key on the ceram wrap, so when you tear it off when opening the package, it's easy to lose. Especially as was my case, where I got married and ended up moving out of my parent's house.

Now that I'm taking Spanish II (necessary to graduate as a writing major), my Quia key is lost to me, and there is no way to get it back lest I buy another one. Which I imagine is probably close to the full price of the book, this inhibits me from doing my work and getting a good grade in my spanish class, as I don't have another student loan sitting around to pay for this thing.

To exasperate matters, accounts must not survive a year of inactivity. As a person with a computer science minor and a taste for code, this is a fool-hardy programmatic notion on behalf of the designers, considering most of their books are probably sold to students. Or worse, perhaps it's an insidious, evil notion contrived to leach every possible penny from poor college students.

If you do decide to buy this book, hide the key in a piece of ceram wrap and staple it to the inside of your lip if you intend on taking another course--lest you suffer my travails.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2008-10-11
Summary: "Not beginner friendly"

Sorry to say, this book is not for a beginner. Very confusing layout and the following of chapters appear disorganized. I have researched many books online and in the brick/morters, and this book is near the bottom.
As well, I have friends/classmates who have agreed.

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Rating: 1 / 5
Date: 2008-07-25
Summary: "bought a book that i yet to see"

i bought a book from these people on the 21st of june. it is now the 25th of july 34days later and no book. i e-mailed them a few days ago and they have chose to ignore it. i will give it a little longer then i will go back to amazon and see if they will help me. m11jp sucks.

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Rating: 4 / 5
Date: 2006-01-13
Summary: "Great textbook, easy flow"

I took a community college class to learn Spanish and this book was very helpful. I only gave it 4 stars because there are a few exercises that seemed useless at the time and there is a running dialog (from a videotape?) that seemed less than helpful. Overall, I really enjoyed the flow of the book (starting with the basics and moving forward). Learning the grammar basics etc, was easy with this book.

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Rating: 5 / 5
Date: 2000-06-15
Summary: "Great Easy-to-Follow Text"

Asi Es is a textbook which introduces to the reader to the Spanish speaking world. Very easy to follow and exceeds my expectation beyond any other text.