Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced

by TOPICS Entertainment

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006ILUV
• Item model number: CS-209d
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,865 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Designed for advanced students, this engaging two-CD-ROM set builds vocabulary, increases comprehension, and develops fluency. Explore the Spanish language with Asterix, Obelix, and Idefix--Europe's favorite band of Vikings--in Asterix: Learn Spanish. The set is filled with 20 hours of lessons, tutorials, speech recording, and challenging quizzes, and students will find themselves immersed in an authentic Spanish language-learning environment. Plus, should the comic exploits of Europe's zaniest band of Vikings leave you guessing, help from the Professor is just a click away.

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27 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars ok - but not alone, August 18, 2004

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Jess - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced (CD-ROM)

I used this just to buff up on my Spanish after spending the summer in Brazil learning Portuguese to get my head back into Spanish before going to study in Spain. It was fine for that, but don't think you can learn Spanish from this. If you are just going on vacation or something, it might be useful to help you learn a few phrases, but not much else. Language learning is not something with many short cuts. Basically, you need to sit down, learn the grammar, watch movies, talk to native speakers and preferably go to the country or a country where the language is spoken. This can be a useful tool, if you use it in the right context, but alone, it's almost useless. Also, a word of warning - this is European Spanish, which was useful to me, but might not be what you want if you will be traveling in the Americas. It's not quite as bad as the Portuguese cd, since continental Portuguese is more or less a different language than Brazilian, but this may no be the product for you if you don't want to learn the Spanish of Spain.

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good tool to improve Spanish for intermediate students, December 12, 2004

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Sherri A. Gaffke - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced (CD-ROM)

I have an undergraduate degree in Spanish and consider my Spanish level to be advanced intermediate. It is difficult to find Spanish tools that are fun and engaging that are not catered to a Spanish beginner. This tool is great for that group of people who have had at least one year of college Spanish, have learned basic verb congugations and are looking for a CD-Rom that will teach them more vocabulary words, idiomatic expressions, and words that aren't covered in general Spanish classes (for example animal sounds- woof, woof is guau, guau). It is important to note that Obelix is a comic from Spain so the idiomatic expressions and some vocabulary is more commonly used in Spain and less in Central or South America. This CD-Rom follows the comic cartoon of Obelix and his adventures. Each page shows one frame of the comic, you hear the words spoken in Spanish, and you have the option to view the words in Spanish or English, and a "professor" gives the translation of idiomatic expressions and explains some harder to understand words. This system is great because after learning some words you can replay the CD-Rom without English translations or even viewing the Spanish translation and see if you can understand what is occurring just by hearing the comics. The comic format also makes learning new vocabulary much more fun and enjoyable than memorizing lists of words. You can replay the audio of the comic as many times as you like. Once you have a firm foundation of the history you can play games that reinforce your learning such as multiple choice questions that require you to understand the options by only hearing them. I am giving Asterix 4 stars instead of 5 because I would liked more direction on which idiomatic expressions and vocabulary words are used only in Spain and which are also used in Central and South America.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Irritating even if you know Spanish OK, January 19, 2008

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Budding Linguist (Hawaii, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced (CD-ROM)

I bought this as an advanced level to try and maintain my Spanish and possibly improve it. To do the activities, you have to spend your time trying to remember which one is Asterix, which one is Obelisk, or whatever, and the non-spanish and non-english names of all the other characters. This is more frustrating than it sounds, when it asks you "de que color fue la camisa de Asterix?" I bought this to learn Spanish, not to play memory games about what color they colored in Asterix's shirt two cartoon panes ago. In other words, the ability to progress isn't based on Spanish knowledge, but trivia of the Asterix cartoon, which isn't even funny or entertaining. Not worth the money.