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Summary: I was very disappointed with this one.
Review: Don't buy this product expecting to fully learn the Spanish language. It will teach you a few words and phrases but that's it. It contains nothing about grammar or how to pronounce the letters and one cannot fully understand a language without first learning that. I feel that this CD-ROM was a complete waste of money and I would not recommend it to anyone who wants to truly learn the Spanish language.
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Summary: Cheap Price, Cheap Product
Review: I bought this software expecting alot more than it delivered, on the box it says that it has more features than other more expensive Spanish software. Don't be fooled, this is basically rote learning. I learned a lot of words in Spanish but not how to speak the language or learn grammar etc. The price is low, but it was a waste of money. You are better off spending more on Learn To Speak Spanish like I did and actually learn the language.
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Summary: Great Value / Great Product
Review: I bought this software title because my brother had purchased 2 of the titles contained in this package from a catalog. He bought the World Talk! and Oscar Lake and he spent over $... dollars for each one! He still suggested I do the same, and then I found this title that conained the 2 I was looking for, plus 2 more! I thought the software was of good quality, easy to follow and made the learning process fun. I disagree with the above comment, you do learn to *speak* Spanish, you just need to immerse yourself in the language.
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Summary: Not Useful
Review: I have an employee who only speaks Spanish and I bought this hoping to pick up enough words to communicate on the most basic level. What sold (suckerd?) me into buying the set was the Webster's Talking Dictionary. My misunderstanding was that I could type in an English word, get the Spanish equivalent and an audio rendition of its correct pronunciation. Not so. All I could get it to do was pronounce the English word, which I wasn't interested in hearing, with a list of letters arranged into Spanish words that I had no idea how to pronounce intelligibly. Of the other three CDs in the set, the Spanish World Talk and the Who Is Oscar Lake CDs could not find my already installed Quick Time and since I didn't want to also install their version, they would not run on my (brand new) computer. The first CD, Talk Now! Spanish, was kinda interesting - it shows pictures of objects and lists phrases that are "spoken" set up in a game format. But there weren't very many of any of them. The program is cheap but I'm still going to try to return it to the store for a refund.What I'd really like (perhaps for my Palm) is software that I could speak into, have it converted to text, translated to Spanish and then output to audio - both ways. English to Spanish and Spanish to English. Seems fairly servicable communication could take place that way. Such is probably already available somewhere.
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Summary: Stunned at its distribution.
Review: I have this software as well as several other language learning titles from the same company. They were everywhere, bookstores, Costco, Amazon, you name it. Somewhere in my mind I associated that great distribution with quality and bought the whole lot together when I found them on sale. Firstly, the software is poorly written and causes a lot of problems with new computers and newer versions of Windows. The audio and visual programs are strangely poor considering there are so many inexpensive options out there. The content is also very thin but that fact is well hidden by confusing interfaces. Navigating this software is not easy. Once you do get it down, however, there's no reward - minimal vocabulary, incomprehensible dialogues without adequate translation/explanation, no overview of cultural idioms (which explains why the dictionairy is useless). The problmes go on. I feel pretty stupid for having purchased it.
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Summary: Stunned at its distribution.
Review: I have this software as well as several other language learning titles from the same company. They were everywhere, bookstores, Costco, Amazon, you name it. Somewhere in my mind I associated that great distribution with quality and bought the whole lot together when I found them on sale. Firstly, the software is poorly written and causes a lot of problems with new computers and newer versions of Windows. The audio and visual programs are strangely poor considering there are so many inexpensive options out there. The content is also very thin but that fact is well hidden by confusing interfaces. Navigating this software is not easy. Once you do get it down, however, there's no reward - minimal vocabulary, incomprehensible dialogues without adequate translation/explanation, no overview of cultural idioms (which explains why the dictionairy is useless). The problmes go on. I feel pretty stupid for having purchased it.
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Summary: Disappointing
Review: I was extremely disappointed with this product. The first disc teaches only a few nouns. It contains almost no verbs, adverbs, pronouns, adjectives, etc. The second disc is nothing but dialouge that is all in Spanish with no English translations. The people talk way too fast for a beginner, and there's no way to slow the speed of the dialouge. I complained to the company about this and they basically told me that I was wrong for not liking their product. Also, the five language dictionary isn't very good either. I typed in an English word and it gave about fifty different Spanish words for that one word. So I absolutely do not recommend purchasing this CD-ROM.
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Summary: Don't Bother With This One
Review: I wouldn't reccomend this CD-ROM to anyone. It teaches a few words and has some cool games, but it won't teach anyone to understand the Spanish language. The first CD is pretty good. It teaches a few words and is easy to understand. But the second CD goes right into the language and is difficult to understand. The third CD is a five language dictionary and the fourth one is an interactive game. The CD-ROM contains nothing about Spanish grammar or constructing setences. Don't waste your money on this one.
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Summary: Worthless!
Review: Instant Immersion Spanish is the most worthless CD-ROM that I've ever had the misfortune to spend money on. The first CD teaches only a few words of Spanish. There's nothing about grammar, conjugating verbs or anything like that. Then the second CD goes right into the language and has people speaking words that the first CD didn't bother to teach and there are no English translations to let you know what the people are saying. I guess this CD-ROM would be okay if you already know the Spanish language fairly well and just want to get in some practice. But don't buy this product expecting to learn to speak Spanish. It won't teach you very much.
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Summary: Not Useful
Review: Skip this one. Cool games. Not that great. There are some 4 CD sets that rock! Really go thru the basics and then progress into the harder stuff. This set is kinda like a game, it's alright. Not worth the cash. I was on a quest to own every Spanish CD made... this one I could have skipped and been just fine. Not a bad product itself... there's just many choices and many better choices then this one.
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