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Learn German with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course
- German Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach
- By: Paul Noble
- Narrated by: Paul Noble
- Length: 12 hrs and 14 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1,063
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 868
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Story5 out of 5 stars 819
With Paul Noble’s simple, relaxed approach you will learn in a way that suits you – without having to memorise long lists of words you won’t use, scribbling notes as you listen, or feeling frustrated. Instead, Paul will introduce you to the basics of the German language and guide you through over 12 hours of everyday scenarios – from simple situations like asking for directions and eating out to talking about yourself and how to master the different tenses – that are practical, fun, and applicable. Just listen, interact, and learn wherever you are.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best Teacher I have found
- By Gold Fish Mama on 05-24-18
- Learn German with Paul Noble for Beginners – Complete Course
- German Made Easy with Your Personal Language Coach
- By: Paul Noble
- Narrated by: Paul Noble
Missing spelling for the hard of hearing
Reviewed: 01-19-23
The good: Paul Noble introduces one new word at a time in a logical way (for English speakers) and the native German speaker pronounces the word or phrase slowly and clearly and then again at a natural pace.
The bad and ugly: It is so frustrating to have to pause the video and look up the spelling of the new word.
If only they would start with teaching the alphabet and then for each new word the native speaker would say it once slowly, then spell it out, then say it again. Just spelling it out *ONCE* would be perfect. For those who need to 'see' the word to pronounce it, for example hard of hearing people, having it spelled out (just the first time!) makes a world of difference. What beginner could guess the spelling of a word like 'mochte' (with umlaut) or 'sehen'??! Hard of hearing at high frequencies will miss the t at the end of 'dort' until they see it once. Because of this huge flaw I can't use this audiobook to learn German comfortably while driving or cooking or cleaning or walking... and I curse the author out every time I can't distinguish the sounds in the new word and I have to stop to look up the spelling.
Spelling new words ONCE would add only a few seconds (some fluff could easily be cut if necessary) and the return on investment would be huge.
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Night's Child
- A Murdoch Mystery, Book 5
- By: Maureen Jennings
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 8 hrs and 29 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 74
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 64
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 65
After thirteen-year-old Agnes Fisher faints at school, her teacher, the young and still idealistic Amy Slade, is shocked to discover in the girl’s desk two stereoscopic photographs. One is of a dead baby in its cradle, and on the back Agnes has scrawled a terrible message. Worse, the other photograph is of Agnes in a pose captioned “What Mr. Newly Wed Really Wants.”
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4 out of 5 stars
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The Murdoch Series from 1895 Toronto.
- By Kathleen on 08-27-12
- Night's Child
- A Murdoch Mystery, Book 5
- By: Maureen Jennings
- Narrated by: David Marantz
A fun listen
Reviewed: 03-19-21
A gripping story, and along the way, Murdoch's love life heats up, but it's complicated...
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Poor Tom Is Cold
- By: Maureen Jennings
- Narrated by: David Marantz
- Length: 9 hrs and 30 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 93
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 77
In this, his third adventure, the lovable detective William Murdoch becomes involved with the apparent suicide of Constable Oliver Wicken, a man who was the sole support of his mother and invalid sister. But further investigation by Detective Murdoch takes him far afield, and he begins to suspect that the Eakin family, whose house adjoins the one where Wicken died, is more involved with the case than they admit. Here, once again, Maureen Jennings brings the period vividly to life.
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4 out of 5 stars
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With a good editor, this would have been 5 stars!
- By M. A. Jones on 01-20-17
- Poor Tom Is Cold
- By: Maureen Jennings
- Narrated by: David Marantz
Excellent story, good performance
Reviewed: 03-08-21
Wish the book was narrated by several people men and women voices. But pretty quickly you get into the story which is excellent. And then you get used to the (male) narrater's different falsettos and accents used for the various characters.
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Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 8 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 71,209
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 61,673
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 61,308
How did Fidel Castro fool the CIA for a generation? Why did Neville Chamberlain think he could trust Adolf Hitler? Why are campus sexual assaults on the rise? Do television sitcoms teach us something about the way we relate to each other that isn't true? While tackling these questions, Malcolm Gladwell was not solely writing a book for the page. He was also producing for the ear. In the audiobook version of Talking to Strangers, you’ll hear the voices of people he interviewed - scientists, criminologists, military psychologists.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Enjoyable listen with some facts incorrect
- By Jim on 09-11-19
- Talking to Strangers
- What We Should Know About the People We Don't Know
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
I learned so much
Reviewed: 08-28-20
The format, the performance, the content.. All superb! Helps a lot to understand why we make mistakes of trust, and not beat yourself up so much when, in hindsight, you trusted by mistake. Seems we are hard-wired with a very high threshold for detecting lies..
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David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
- Length: 7 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 24,481
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 21,129
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21,064
Explore the power of the underdog in Malcolm Gladwell's dazzling examination of success, motivation, and the role of adversity in shaping our lives, from the best-selling author of The Bomber Mafia. Three thousand years ago on a battlefield in ancient Palestine, a shepherd boy felled a mighty warrior with nothing more than a stone and a sling, and ever since then the names of David and Goliath have stood for battles between underdogs and giants. David's victory was improbable and miraculous. He shouldn't have won. Or should he have?
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5 out of 5 stars
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The Art of (Unconventional) War
- By Cynthia on 10-04-13
- David and Goliath
- Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
- By: Malcolm Gladwell
- Narrated by: Malcolm Gladwell
Superb in every way
Reviewed: 08-07-20
Content is fascinating and narration powerful and clear. I derived inspiration from this book for my own public and private struggles.
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