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I train my dog in voice and hand commands, that is what I have do with all my dogs I have had.
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Not to keep on at it, but as Rott-Wiley said, if you think that clicker training means you don't use voice and hand commands, you don't understand clicker training. The finished behaviour is exactly the same as behaviours trained any other way, and you can add any cue you want to that behaviour, same as any other training method, it's the method of getting to the finished behaviour that's different. You only use the clicker until the behaviour is learned and put on cue, then you phase it out.
There's nothing wrong with training the way you have been, and I'm certainly not trying to convince you to use clicker training (just trying to ensure that anyone else reading this doesn't misunderstand clicker training), but it sounds like your "clicker trainer" didn't really know what she was doing and I'm not sure what books you read that made you think that you can't clicker train for obedience (better tell DNeff that, she's put a CDX and a host of other titles on her dog, and she clicker trains - in fact, better tell ME that too, since I'm working toward competition and I clicker train).
Anyway, it does sound like you should repeat basic, and just try to work to a higher level (or ask the trainer if s/he can give you some extra work to do). Good luck. :)