Macedonian Audio Supplement: To accompany Macedonian: A Course for Beginning and Intermediate Students, Third Edition Audio CD – CD, February 15, 2012

Excellent to accompany text. It helps a great deal in getting the accent down. A must with the textbook.

This cd allows you to hear the examples of Macedonian that are marked in the book it supplements. The actual recording is not of high quality, and the tracks seem to run into each other, but not bad enough to outweigh the help it provides as a supplement to the the book it was designed to accompany. The quality of the audio sounds like a recording someone did with a tape recorder in their own home. If not used with the book it would be worthless though unless you already know Macedonian, there is no English translation of the tracks, just a person reading the examples of Macedonian from the book. The book, by the way must be purchased separately. It is extremely helpful in spite of it's faults when used how it was design to be used, hence the four stars.

For someone who's trying to learn Macedonian by themselves in a non-classroom setting, this is quite inadequate. Ideally, you'd have the amount of audio drills that something like an FSI or DLI course would have, but it's only two CDs, so I wasn't expecting the ideal. However, this didn't even meet my low expectations. These CDs contain only a few dialogues and a handful of exercises, in audio CD format--if they had used mp3s, a lot more material could have been included. Most egregiously, the vocabulary lists aren't even included, so you can't learn correct pronunciation of the vast majority of the core vocabulary in the book. But, if you're trying to learn on your own, I guess you're stuck with this. It's better than nothing.

I dont like that the entire text is written in kirilica and not latinica. I will probably return it.

hard to understand and follow

The audio does not follow the order of the book so the user has to jump all over the place to follow it

I can definitely recommend the course as I mentioned in the review for the book. It is excellent!The tracks are listed in the booklet with the according lessons and excercises and in the book marked with a music note. I marked them in the book as 'CD x track xy' myself because I find it easier that way.