Hunter Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Tell me about Apologia's MP3's. I'm reading and listening to SOTW a chapter a day, mostly to get my pronunciations right, but the review is certainly useful. I've been wanting to do the same thing for science. Would the Apologia MP3's and textbooks be similar? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 We've used both the A & P and Birds Mp3. If you can get over the kind of pedantic flavor in a few places, they are worth listening too. They'll have Mp3's of all of the eled by next fall. To me, they are worth it because it's another subject I can count while I'm at work and they are'nt spending the entire day reading (meaning they can draw or do legos or whatever while listening). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 I've only seen the botany book. I owned it for a couple hours only. A student saw it and wanted it and I let her take it. She was manic while doing the rose dissection, and going on and on about the rose "screaming" while being cut into. I don't know, I just somehow never looked at these books again. :lol: The mp3's and there being a complete set of both books and audio by fall, makes these books suddenly very attractive to me. My basic and content spoken vocabulary is not up to my reading and writing abilities, and access to audio content is one of my primary goals this year. Thank you so much for mentioning these books in another thread and for giving further information here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 If I were to buy a set next month, do you recommend A&P or Birds? This is just for my own self-education with a priority on pronunciation improvement of basic science words. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laughing lioness Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Probably A & P because you'll get more bio, but I honestly didn't listen to them myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hunter Posted April 16, 2014 Author Share Posted April 16, 2014 I'm surprised no else if using/talking about these mp3's. :confused1: Maybe because so few of them are out yet? Maybe if all the mp3's are out in the fall, it will be different. It's just too EASY to hand a child a book and CD and leave them to listen and read along. Okay, it'll cost $50.00 a set, but I see people spending more than that on a lot of other things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RootAnn Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I can't see myself ever buying the audios for the elementary Apologia books. When I read them aloud to the kids, I skip all of the God-Made-Us content and that means that I'm skipping at least a third of some pages. I heavily edit the other content because we can handle only so much Amazing! Exciting! information with exclamation points! While we are huge audiobook fans, we don't do SOTW audio either. I could see the advantage to having the older Apologia textbooks on mp3, but the writing style of the elementary series is annoying. Unless the reader edits as s/he goes? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubix Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Oh, I am excited for these! We are mid-way through swimming creatures and did flying last year. I'm looking forward to getting the mp3's for another book this fall! Less reading for me :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rubix Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 Hunter, the Birds book doe have a beginning chapter on basic scientific classifications, binomial nomenclature, flight, instinct and extinction. The rest of the book is specific content related to birds, bats, flying reptiles, and flying insects. I haven't used the A&P book Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
llifeon18wheels Posted April 16, 2014 Share Posted April 16, 2014 I just checked their site and it says they the MP3's are "out of stock" but the CD's are available. That's odd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I just checked their site and it says they the MP3's are "out of stock" but the CD's are available. That's odd. They are MP3 CDs, not downloads. So they really could be out of stock. ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeterbug Posted April 17, 2014 Share Posted April 17, 2014 I would love to purchase a download of Zoo 2, but it's not available last I checked. A&P is in iTunes and Audible, but not Zoo 2. I emailed them about it, they said they were thinking about making it available based on customer demand. Um, sorry, but it should be a no-brainer. In this day and age to not offer it as a download is not a wise move. And why do one book but not the others? I'd be a bit more understanding if they weren't offering any of them that way. Hopefully when they finish all of the audios they will be offering them ALL as downloads. They have them for their religion series, for heaven's sake. :D I'm in Australia, I don't want to pay int'l shipping for something I'll be uploading to iTunes as soon as it gets here. :) Also frustrated that there doesn't seem to be a geology/earth science book in the works anymore. No mention on Jeannie's website, and on her fb page she says they haven't asked her to write one yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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