Customer Reviews

Instant Immersion Spanish v2.0

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I am very disappointed with this language program. This CD gives you very little chance to practice phrases and vocabulary (as opposed to most language programs that have you listen and repeat over and over). Plus, the exact pronunciations are difficult to hear making it impossible to develop any confidence in your speaking abilities. With so many language programs available, I would never recommend this one.

This audio immerses you too fast. Each CD adds words and conjugations in no particular order. It's very confusing to someone who has no background in Spanish. The words are very hard to understand without seeing the spellings. I can't even understand the words I do know in Spanish. S and F sound too much the same. They should only do this if they include video. Sound is not enough for a beginner.

Had I reade the reviews prior to purchasing Instant Immersion Spanish I would have saved time and money.

As far as pure audio sets go this one is excellent. Most language CD's/tapes ask you to parrot their material, expecting you to figure out the grammer rules some other time. This does both, so you can build sentences beyond the practice phrases. The spanish is "high" Spanish. It is articulate and given at three speeds- slow, medium, then conversational.

The item was shipped quicker than it was expected, which was great. I like this audio series so that I can learn in my car. It takes a longer to learn that way, but I don't have time to sit in front of a computer. I've tried some other audio lessons, but I like Instant Immersion best. They really need a lesson between the beginner and the advanced series though.

I have listened to all 8 CD's about 5 times and while you do learn the basics the company should have provided a well thought out work book, it would have made this course so much easier to get through. The main female instructor, whose first language is English, is easy to understand and presents the lessons well. She is a definite plus. One of the courses weak points though are the conversations between various speakers at the end of each lesson. I found myself constantly searching my spanish/english dictionary to try to find the word or phrase they were using. I had to listen to one particular conversation(two women going to the museum and restaurant)literally about 40 times before I figured out all the words they were using, many of which were not covered at all in the lessons!! One of the women in this conversation was a native spanish speaker who talked way too fast and didn't annunciate her words. It's like why did they pick her for a beginners course? Also for the first half of the course they spell out new words being used, in the second half they don't, which is, like this course overall, a bit frustrating.