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Rating  - Nice Read!
I originally purchased Piensa as a supplement reading material for my husband who is taking Spanish. It seems to be a little difficult to find reading materials in Spanish for adults, and this magazine is really fun to read. It has a monthly recipe (which I liked!) and vocabulary words on each side for the article with which one is reading. It is a super concept, and am very glad we found it on Amazon!
Rating  - Great for vocabulary building, great product for improving my Spanish, no complaints!
I first bought the book "Read and Think Spanish" made by the same publishers. I loved it and passed it along to my friend who is now enjoying it in her weekly Spanish conversation class. I have been receiving the Magazine/CD for four months now. I really love it! I was a little worried because some of the reviews on here are negative but I don't have a single complaint. The articles are very interesting and diverse. Some articles do contain idioms or phrases that you would not read in a regular paper but that is a good thing! In some of the articles you are learning Spanish the way people talk (in the interviews) and also from different countries - so some of the articles have diverse vocabulary... again a good thing! The words are translated next to the article from Spanish to English.. which you can use or ignore, depending upon your Spanish level. I have taken Spanish for two years on and off and this magazine is great for my skill level My husband has taken Spanish for one quarter at a community learning center and he also enjoys it. He does have a harder time with some of the words but he can certainly listen to the Audio CD to improve his listening skills.
I highly recommend this product! But agree with another reviewer - you must get the Audio CD to really make this work.
The customer service with the company ([...]) is GREAT. I told them I wanted to order by mail and they sent my first issue right away plus a free gift before my check even arrived to them! Keep in mind, if you order through Amazon you are ordering through a third party which might be why some of these reviews had bad service. If you contact the company directly they offer great handouts on how to use the publication, free gifts (at certain times of year I think?) and other Spanish learning advice. Buena Suerte!
Rating  - very poor writing, very disappointing
The articles in this magazine are simply not well-written--and the writing is all there is to the magazine. They are not written by journalists or even good amateur writers, just some people who happen to know Spanish. Can you imagine if you created an English magazine in a Spanish-speaking country and just asked some random English-speaking friends to submit all the articles each month? This is what you would get. They apparently do not realize how heavily they rely on idioms and how rambling and extraneous much of the prose is. People who recommended it highly apparently don't know any better and/or are desperate for something in Spanish--there doesn't seem to be any competition for this sort of publication, which is strange given how popular Spanish is.
Finding real writers and a real editor is the only thing that can save this operation. The idea for the magazine is great though and the market is there--anybody else want to try (please)?
Rating  - Helpful, but could use more variety
Good additional tool alongside a textbook and other more formal methods, but lacks a little variety in the range of speakers. Only two voices are regularly heard, which limits improvement in comprehension. Other voices and accents would be very helpful.
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