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Summary: My 4-year old sings the numbers in Spanish!
Review: We purchased this for my then 3-year old to go with his new computer. The software installed easily on his Windows XP computer, and we were up and running in 2 minutes.The interface is the inside of a treehouse, where users can click on different items to go to games/activities that help them learn the names of items in Spanish. There is an option to keep all dialog in English, or in Spanish. The interface is intuitive, and we let our son navigate on his own for the first 30 minutes or so. Then, we let him give us a tour of what he has discovered. For some reason, he gravitates towards the activites that have catchy tunes involved. For example, he can now count from 1 to 10 in Spanish, but he will sing them, just like the song on the application. He does the same for the days of the week, too. His two most favorite games involve learning the colors and learning the names of clothing and apparel items. The varying levels of difficulty work together to limit frustration, yet the activities are kept challenging. We believe this is a fine application, because our son has definitely learned things, yet he thinks it is all fun and games. 4 months after purchase, he still enjoys the game, and even his mother and I have found ourselves humming all the catchy tunes.
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Summary: My 4-year old sings the numbers in Spanish!
Review: We purchased this for my then 3-year old to go with his new computer. The software installed easily on his Windows XP computer, and we were up and running in 2 minutes. The interface is the inside of a treehouse, where users can click on different items to go to games/activities that help them learn the names of items in Spanish. There is an option to keep all dialog in English, or in Spanish. The interface is intuitive, and we let our son navigate on his own for the first 30 minutes or so. Then, we let him give us a tour of what he has discovered. For some reason, he gravitates towards the activites that have catchy tunes involved. For example, he can now count from 1 to 10 in Spanish, but he will sing them, just like the song on the application. He does the same for the days of the week, too. His two most favorite games involve learning the colors and learning the names of clothing and apparel items. The varying levels of difficulty work together to limit frustration, yet the activities are kept challenging. We believe this is a fine application, because our son has definitely learned things, yet he thinks it is all fun and games. 4 months after purchase, he still enjoys the game, and even his mother and I have found ourselves humming all the catchy tunes.
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Summary: poor sound
Review: We've been very pleased with the original JumpStart products. My 4 year old has a fascination with learning Spanish so we purchased this program. We both find the words extremely difficult to understand. It's like the sound is being muffled somehow. Our hardware is top rate so it is definitely a problem in the software's sound quality. The format is good, you just can't understand what they're saying clearly enough to repeat the words.
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