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| Destinos Student Edition w/Listening comprehension Audio CD, 2nd Edition | 
| Authors: Bill Vanpatten, Martha Alford Marks, Richard V. Teschner, Martha Marks
Publisher: McGraw-Hill Humanities/Social Sciences/Languages
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 6195
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 2
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 560
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3.1
Dimensions (in): 10.3 x 8.3 x 1.7
ISBN: 0072525363
Dewey Decimal Number: 468.3421
EAN: 9780072525366
ASIN: 0072525363
Publication Date: December 31, 2001
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Product Description
This video-based text for Beginning Spanish underscores McGraw-Hill’s reputation for developing groundbreaking language materials. Based on 26 hours of an engaging video drama that takes viewers around the Spanish-speaking world, Destinos is an effective program that can be used successfully in Spanish classes, as a college course for distant learners, and by individuals studying on their own.
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 Why Should You Buy Destinos? January 11, 2008
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
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Destinos will teach you Spanish QUICKLY! August 30, 2007
10 out of 10 found this review helpful
I bought Second Edition of the Alternate Edition of Destinos for a Spanish 101 class at my local community college because I wanted to learn Spanish in person rather than online or on my own. I never studied any foreign language prior to this. I am also pursuing a Master's degree at Denver, but I wanted to pick up a language before I graduate. I think that this book is very effective in teaching and learning Spanish, but you really do need the cds that go with the book-- they come with it if you buy the book new. Don't try to do this without the cds because I think that you really need them. You also need to watch the episodes of the movies that go with each lesson. (More on that in a moment).
I also highly recommend the "Workbook/Study Guide I" if you are just starting out with Spanish. The book that you want is ISBN-978-0-07-249711-3. The "Workbook/Study Guide I" covers the first 26 lessons in the Destinos book. You have to get a second workbook for lessons 27-52. I don't know what the correct ISBN is for that, because I'm not there yet! At the community college, lessons 27 - 52 are the intermediate levels of Spanish, and they are taught over two semesters. The first 26 lessons are also taught over two semesters. I'm telling you this so you can gauge how deeply you can learn Spanish from Destinos. You can get two years of college level Spanish for beginners and intermediates in this book!
Another reviewer mentioned that you should buy the dvds with the Destinos episodes. You do NOT have to do this! Believe it or not, you can watch them for FREE online with Windows Media Player 11! Just go to http://www.learner.org/resources/series75.html# and register yourself for free, and then you can watch any and every episode of the movies-- and they don't spam you to death, either. Free is far better than paying a few hundred dollars for the complete set of episodes. Make sure your media player is updated so you can actually see the picture. The episodes are really interesting, not cheesy as you might expect.
A real strength of Destinos is that you are exposed through the episodes to rapid conversational Spanish in addition to "academic" Spanish. You don't have to actually study conversational Spanish, but you actually begin to understand a lot of it, and far sooner than you might think. You also get good listening comprehension skills, learn proper Spanish, and get a lot of cultural information about various Spanish speaking areas of the world. You hear Latin American Spanish as well as Spanish from other areas-- which can be different. Each lesson in Destinos builds on the previous lesson, so make sure you "get" the first lesson before you move on!
At first, it feels like you don't understand anything but stick with it and you will be amazed at how quickly you can learn-- and speak-- Spanish! From the very first episode you will understand much of the Spanish conversation. :-) I honestly think that I could have just bought this book and the study guide that goes with it and managed to learn everything myself--but it helps me to have a professor (and native speaker) listen to my words and correct my pronunciation and accent if necessary. Destinos makes learning Spanish easy and fun, and my professor said that you get a more comprehensive understanding of Spanish than if you just focus in on Latin American.
I can't recommend this book highly enough! The cost of Destinos and the study guide may initially seem high, but when you consider that you are getting the cds and that you are also learning two years worth of college level Spanish, it is a great value and well worth the money spent. I think it would also be well spent for anyone who wants to brush up or who wants to move from a beginning to intermediate level. As I said, I have no language experience, but Destinos makes it easy to learn-- you just have to spend the time to read it page by page if you are an absolute beginner, and do the activities on the disks and in the book and workbook, and watch the episodes. You will speak, understand, and be able to write Spanish in no time!
There is just one caveat if you buy "workbook/study guide I." The "Workbook/Study Guide I" also requires a 7 CD set that does NOT come with the workbook. I got mine from the college, which sold copies of the cds at a discounted price. I looked here on amazon to see which set set of cds you would need to buy for the workbook, and it as though there is a lot of confusion on that point. I don't want to make a wrong recommendation, so you will have to figure that out for yourself. In any case, I still highly recommend both Destinos and the "Workbook/Study Guide I."
Excellent Spanish Text March 23, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is an excellent text for studying Spanish. It doesn't tell where one can access the online video episodes. If I hadn't previously known, I would have been very upset. Otherwise it is an excellent text and the practise CDs that accompanied the text are very helpful.
 Destinos is fun! January 3, 2007
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have enjoyed learning Spanish with the Destinos program. The "soap opera" format makes it much more engaging and natural. I was surprised to find, however, that the grammatical instruction is presented more in the workbook than in the textbook, which is the opposite of programs I've used before. Usually the lessons are presented in the text book and the workbook is for practice exercises. Despite that little quirk, I definitely recommend the Destinos series for anyone who wants to learn Spanish.
Destinos Hard bound February 25, 2006
1 out of 9 found this review helpful
The book corresponds to the telecourse I am taking, wish it had more exercise though.
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