Educator's Choice Language Excelerator Grades K-6

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Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B00008WQ21
• Item model number: CS-336d
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 19, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,418 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Now Kindergartners through Sixth-graders can launch proficiency in 5 languages into orbit with Quixel's French Adventure, Quixel's Spanish Adventure, Quixel's German Adventure, and Quixel's Italian Adventure - the high-flying 4 CD-ROM suite that allows for easy vocabulary building in English, too! With each disc devoted to a specific language, the fun is as comprehensive as the learning. After a wayward meteor grounds Quixel's spaceship on Earth, our Martian robot pal needs help to complete the plans for rebuilding the spacecraft. Young hands will delight in clicking on the full-color Town Areas to access the interactive games, lessons, and activities that build multilingual knowledge, and inch them closer to successful blast-off.

Teachers agree: learning is easy when you're having fun. That's the spark behind Language Excelerator, the 4-disc set of premium software titles combining amusement and education in one motivationally interactive package. Stuffed with more than 40 activities on 16 vocabulary-building topics, these four Quixel's Language Adventure CD-ROMs deliver endless hours of exciting learning fun, ensuring the acquisition and retention of French, Spanish, German, Italian, and English language fundamentals - all in one stimulating suite for young hands and minds.

Why Educator's Choice? Educator's Choice has been the biggest selling education software line in years. Since its release in 2001, it has sold several million copies. The reason is simple: Each box set is a suite of high quality easy-to-use software, and each title was produced or written by a professional educator. Use what the schools use!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

43 of 57 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Beware!, March 4, 2004

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nlm "nlm" (VT) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Educator's Choice Language Excelerator Grades K-6 (CD-ROM)

I thought this would be good for my students until I tried it out myself. First I tried the Italian. When I discovered that they translated "potato chips" as "microchips", I was surprised. In telling time, they expressed the correct feminine plural but displayed the incorrect masculine singular "il due" for 2:00. Now for the French...I learned that "potato chips" were "eclats" as in "paint chips". Wrong chips both times folks - and good luck in a restaurant! I stopped there. It's a shame they never got a native speaker to check it before releasing this as an educational item. They did get native speakers to read aloud the vocab lists however. That's the one-star part.

3.0 out of 5 stars It's ok - some modules would crash the program, October 6, 2010

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Haley Carter "styla3" (Muncie, IN USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Educator's Choice Language Excelerator Grades K-6 (CD-ROM)

I liked the idea that there were multiple languages to expose my child to. I thought that some of the games were a little difficult and some were very easy. My daughter did get bored easily and some of the modules would crash the program when we would click to open them.

8 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A good value for the money, May 25, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Educator's Choice Language Excelerator Grades K-6 (CD-ROM)

My daughter enjoyed this program. She learned a lot of different words. The animations are clever and she enjoyed completing the spaceship to get Quixel home.
This is a good program to build a foreign language vocabulary.