Complete Spanish

Rating:
Summary: Absolutely useless
Review: I can't say too much about this product as I couldn't figure out how to use their lesson plans! No instructions, just a bunch of CD roms. The packaging looks glitzy, but inside it was junk. I will be returning this product to the manufacturer.

Rating:
Summary: Not a "Learning Suite"
Review: I purchased this based on its promise of providing a full learning suite of interconnected tools. In fact it's merely a set of six CD-ROM's that are not interrelated at all.Learning a language is tough enough but this software makes it even tougher. I returned mine.

Rating:
Summary: Not a "Learning Suite"
Review: I purchased this based on its promise of providing a full learning suite of interconnected tools. In fact it's merely a set of six CD-ROM's that are not interrelated at all.Learning a language is tough enough but this software makes it even tougher. I returned mine.

Rating:
Summary: Poor product
Review: The product is very poor, and not at all user friendly. The outer packaging promise you the world, but in reality, this product has nothing which is customizable. The lessons are not at all structured, and this is a drawback of the product. The conversation part of the program starts with difficult words that are used in common conversation. To a beginner this is all very intimidating. I returned the product to the manufacturer.

Rating:
Summary: Well designed and executed product
Review: ____I am fortunate that everyone else returned their products. The publisher included a ... rebate with mine. But enough of small matters. ____This package includes a few hundred dollars worth of excellent Transparent Language products. The (actually five CDs of software, one is for listening as in your car) allow you to practice pronunciation with immediate playback adjacent to a native speakers' pronunciation and with graphic representation of your voicing. You can choose word or sentence learning modes. You receive a special grammar training CD. The comprehensive talking dictionary translates both to and from Spanish. Every part of the software covers every possible ramification of the needs of a learner. ____In addition you receive a group of thirteen other alphabets with pronunciations and usage examples. Here you are given the opportunity to learn all of the respective grammar rules as well as the vocabulary included in a capitol city of each language tour summary. Again you are able to record your pronunciations for comparison as previously described. ____Finally a business correspondence CD offers letter writing aid. ____This package does include instructions for step by step learning but there are no orderly lesson units specified. You are free to learn at your own pace and in any way in which you are comfortable. Your only requirement is that you regularly devote time to this pursuance. ____As with anything new you will have to spend some time becoming familiar with exactly what you have available to you in this package. You will have to spend time trying its offerings to get used to them. But I feel that the designers of this product were of exceptional intelligence and have provided the most highly developed learning tool for language that our species has thus far made available for computer interaction. ____Salut, ________Jim

Rating:
Summary: Well designed and executed product
Review: ____I am fortunate that everyone else returned their products. The publisher included a ... rebate with mine. But enough of small matters. ____This package includes a few hundred dollars worth of excellent Transparent Language products. The (actually five CDs of software, one is for listening as in your car) allow you to practice pronunciation with immediate playback adjacent to a native speakers' pronunciation and with graphic representation of your voicing. You can choose word or sentence learning modes. You receive a special grammar training CD. The comprehensive talking dictionary translates both to and from Spanish. Every part of the software covers every possible ramification of the needs of a learner. ____In addition you receive a group of thirteen other alphabets with pronunciations and usage examples. Here you are given the opportunity to learn all of the respective grammar rules as well as the vocabulary included in a capitol city of each language tour summary. Again you are able to record your pronunciations for comparison as previously described. ____Finally a business correspondence CD offers letter writing aid. ____This package does include instructions for step by step learning but there are no orderly lesson units specified. You are free to learn at your own pace and in any way in which you are comfortable. Your only requirement is that you regularly devote time to this pursuance. ____As with anything new you will have to spend some time becoming familiar with exactly what you have available to you in this package. You will have to spend time trying its offerings to get used to them. But I feel that the designers of this product were of exceptional intelligence and have provided the most highly developed learning tool for language that our species has thus far made available for computer interaction. ____Salut, ________Jim