Learn English Through Stories: Volume 5

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"Why do I give a nice headline with 3 stars review. Reasons are listed below.Good part: This book covers many areas with a lot of examples to support the author's lessons. I have seen a couple instructional English pronunciation books in the last 20 years and this one goes beyond the basic lessons of listening and repeating. For instances, it describes in details how the mouth and the lips work together to produce the correct sound.Bad part: Multiple book formats won't help much. Why?Back in the old days, book like this would come with a FREE CDs for easy learning. The hard cover or the soft cover copies sold on Amazon here do not include audio lessons. What can a student learn from this book? Understand the concept and visual he/she pronounces correctly the examples in the book. However, it might not be true because he/she must hear the American says correctly in the CD lessons.Next, students who pick up the book without audio lessons decide to spend more money to purchase an audible copy to hear and read a long. This doesn't work well because the audible book copy doesn't go like old CDs with tracks such as track 11 or track 55. One audible copy chapter contains many exercises and makes it difficult to pause and listen a long with the lessons from the book.How about the audible version? it's educational book with many examples. Thus, students need to see the examples with all the vocabularies printed on hard copy to follow along. This is not a novel or self learning book where you can listen to it 10 times and learn everything.Similar to the hard cover and soft cover book without CD, the audible book should include a FREE download PDF file that lists all the exercises used in this book to help students learning along.It would be get if students could buy a soft cover book and an audible format copy to learn. Even in this case, it is still difficult to find exact audio lessons because the audible book uses a chapter that covers many examples.If you have some money, you can have a one to one lesson with the author on her homepage. Other students find it difficult to learn from a book w/o CD tracks or from audio book w/o free download pdf file.I hope the author or her publisher find a better way to sell this book. Or at least give 75% discount on the hard copy or the audio book if you already bought the book in different format. Or release a newer version with included CD tracks.Book is great but current;y I don't have a lot benefits from using it because I own audible version and can't afford to spend another $30 for a soft copy of the book."