Instant Immersion Spanish Pro 7 CD Platinum

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Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 9.5 x 11.5 x 2 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005UWH9
• Date first available at Amazon.com: December 21, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 1.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,434 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Start speaking, reading, and writing Spanish today. Whether your study is for business, travel, or school, Instant Immersion Spanish Pro's teaching methods and technology combine to create a language experience that delivers results. This seven-CD set features four Tell Me More language learning CD-ROMs, a Spanish vocabulary builder, Spanish Plus with 22 interactive lessons, and an audio CD that lets you practice your conversational skills anytime, anywhere.

Tell Me More's four-CD-ROM suite offers beginning, intermediate, and advanced lessons, and forms the core of this comprehensive Spanish language series. You'll be guided through lessons complete with video clips and animations on vocabulary, grammar, phonetics, conversations, conjugation, cultural traditions, and more. Interactive speech recognition even corrects pronunciation and intonation. And because everyone learns at his or her own pace, lessons can be personalized.

The Spanish Vocabulary Builder combines visual and memory learning to maximize retention. Use the recording feature to practice vocabulary and compare your speech to that of a native speaker's. Spanish Plus covers speaking, reading, writing, and listening, helping you grow more comfortable with Spanish over its 22 interactive lessons. Explore tenses, culture, directions, and more. In no time, you'll be able to communicate effectively. An added audio CD rounds out the collection, so you can practice anywhere, even en route to your Spanish-speaking destination.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

26 of 27 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Disorganized and poorly designed... Try something else!, March 27, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant Immersion Spanish Pro 7 CD Platinum (CD-ROM)

I grew up in Miami and my wife is from South America. We speak english, but I have certainly learned some basic spanish over the years. Some other reviewers had said that you cannot be a complete novice and use this Spanish product, but I figured I would have the basic spanish necessary given my background. Let me just say, it's difficult to get much out of this product even with some understanding of spanish basics. This is not just due to the "immersion" teaching method, but more due to the products disorganized content, poor user interface, and general lack of structure.

My chief complaints with this product are as follows:

1) The product description says "You'll be guided through lessons...", which is completely inaccurate! --- There are no "lessons", just groups of activities based on skill level. And there is no "guiding" strucutre to it all. You simply jump into a skil level, pick an activity, and go. And the activities simply "test" rather than "teach". For example, you are thrown into conversational segments on the very first lesson where you must pick theright answer (out of three possible ones) in response to a question posed to you in spanish. At no point is there a "lesson" to teach you what you are supposed to know.

2) The user interface is really bad. --- The designers of this interactive product decided to use a "movie set" metaphor for the navigation. And trust me, the result is just as disorganized as a movie set. Every button is a graphical object with no text label (although if you hold your mouse over an object long enough it the text label will appear). If there were only a few buttons, and if the graphics wer super intuitive, this would be fine. But there are way too many buttons at once and the graphics dont make the button's purpose obvious. The whole movie set and movie scene thing is way too forced and ends up making the navigation difficult and cryptic.

3) My third complaint is much smaller, but still relevant... The accent of speakers in this product use the spanish language accent from SPAIN. --- While I understand this is a convention among some teachers / teaching products, the truth is that barely anyone speaks spanish with the Spanish accent in the US. The "th" sound in place of "s", as well as some muting of certain sylables) is extremely annoying if you are used to hearing spanish from any of the south/latin american countries. Anyway, just be farwarned.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars The organization was very diificult to follow and confusing, April 13, 2002

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Lisa A. Nowaczyk "Mommy to be" (Schererville, IN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion Spanish Pro 7 CD Platinum (CD-ROM)

I wouldn't recommend this program, especially to a beginner. I've had 4 years of spanish a couple years ago and I wanted to improve my vocabulary and grammar and found it very difficult to do with this program. I also felt that someone coming in with no knowledge of spanish would be very frustrated and confused by this program. It gives menu choices of different things you can learn, grammar, vocabulary etc, but it doesn't tell you where it's best to start from. Also, if someone doesn't understand terms like "Subjunctive" and "Indicitive Gerrund" this would be even harder to understand. I'd definately recommend not to buy this program. I returned mine and now I am looking for a new program to try. good luck!

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Not a beginner's software, March 6, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant Immersion Spanish Pro 7 CD Platinum (CD-ROM)

I think that this system is excellant for people who have basic knowledge of the Spanish language. The pronunciation and dialogue lessons are very valuable. It is helpful to be able to "have a conversation" with the software to understand and practice the flow of a Spanish conversation.
But I think that it is misleading to say that this is for beginers. There is VERY little lessons about basic vocabulary and word definitions. And the grammar lessons are very few. This will help with conversation and pronunciation only.