KidSpeak Spanish

by Transparent Language

Product Features

• Spanish language learning software for kids of all agesWindows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac!
• Teaches over 700 words and expressions
• Enjoyable animation, activities, and interactive games, puzzles, and songs
• Award-winning software designed and developed by leading educators
• Includes 12 printable activities and projects to reinforce learning. Windows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000063J7S
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,725 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Review

KidSpeak Spanish is a fun, user-friendly program that will help children and parents practice their Spanish through a range of games, songs, and puzzles.

The CD-ROM is an immersion program, so all the instructions are in Spanish. For this reason, younger children who are not so confident with the basics of the language may need adult support. More confident children will quickly pick up what they are expected to do and will be able to work independently through the games. There is also a very useful help option which explains the choice of games in English.

The program includes five modules, each containing a range of games and a song to consolidate the vocabulary that has been introduced. Most of the games can be played at three different levels of difficulty. The games include activities such as identifying fruit, colouring fruit appropriately, pairs games with pictures and words, identifying animals, ordering pictures, setting given times on clocks, and putting objects into a backpack. A wide range of vocabulary is consolidated, such as numbers, the alphabet, animals, objects, times, colours, fruits and vegetables, the weather, transport, and leisure activities. A set of online activities, which can be printed out, will also help to review what children have learned.

KidSpeak Spanish would be a very useful buy for children ages 5 to 12 who are learning Spanish at school or for a parent who wants to introduce their child to a new language. --Amanda York

Product Description

Windows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac! Each KidSpeak language includes 12 printable activities and projects to reinforce the language learning. KidSpeak was designed and developed by leading educators to take advantage of the intuitive language learning abilities of grade school children. KidSpeak's innovative award-winning approach has no drills, tests or anything unpleasant. Children simply look forward to "playing" with their animated friends every day, while you know they are "learning". Awards * New York Festival's Interactive Multimedia Competition for the Best Educational/Instructional Programs produced for use in Schools * K-12 Educational CD-ROM award at the 4th Annual International Digital Media Awards "The designers have achieved their aim of making the program fun, challenging, absorbing and entertaining" - The Age, November 1997 It really works! Your child will build a solid foreign language foundation using the successful immersion approach preferred by educators. Each language is hosted by a fun cartoon "friend" and his or her playful pet who use only the language being taught. Your child simply points and clicks. With KidSpeak, your child will automatically learn correct pronunciation, alphabet and word recognition, simple sentence structure, plural and singular forms, numbers, simple addition and subtraction, how to tell time, and much more. The Sooner A Child Starts Learning A New Language The Better. Here's Why: As a parent, if you want your child to take advantage of the language-learning "window of opportunity", you must take an active role. There is no better tool than your computer and KidSpeak to start your child on a second language. With KidSpeak, your child can interact with authentic foreign language sounds, words and phrases, games, puzzles, and songs. If you can place a disc in your computer's CD-ROM drive, that's all you need to know to get your child off and running in another language. Windows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

95 of 109 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars KidSpeak Spanish, August 22, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: KidSpeak Spanish (CD-ROM)

I had bought Jump Start Spanish and loved it for my 4, 7 and 8 year old and wanted to get another more advanced Spanish software so I bought KidSpeak Spanish. I was so disappointed with it because the narator speaks castillian spanish (the way they speak spanish in Spain). No where on the box nor in the description of the software did it say it was going to be castillian. Castillian spanish is not the common spanish that is used in USA -- buyers beware!...

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Low quality, no educational value, June 15, 2009

By 

Denise Macaulay "Neecie" (Texas, somewhere) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: KidSpeak Spanish (CD-ROM)

This program was written by an Australian company and merely redistributed by Transparent Language. I supose they must not have had their own product for the 12 and under age group. However, I think they have done a lot of damage to their reputation by putting their name on this product.

The program looks like it was written over ten years ago for Windows 98 with 256 color graphics. It is very cartoony. It reminds me of the very first Putt Putt game--but not as well done.

The graphics are so bad that some of the objects in the pictures are unidentifiable. There is a retangular object they have amoung the school supplies which I could never figure out what it was supposed to be. In other pictures there is more than one object in the picture and there is no way of knowing what the vocabulary word is refering to. For example, they have a picture of a bug in a jar. You don't know if the word identifying the picture refers to a bug in a jar, just the bug, or just the jar. This especially problematic in the body parts section. In one picture they show a parrot head which is identified as pico. "Pico" means beak. However, there isn't an arrow pointing to the beak, so the child could just as easily think it means parrot since they identify a couple of other species of birds in the previous section. Same problem when they show a picture of a foot but are refering to the toes, a horse leg when they are just refering to the hooves, etc. Oh, and since this is an "immersion" program there aren't any English translations to clarify things.

I took two years of Spanish in college and although my Spanish is very rusty, I still know a lot of vocabulary words. Even so, I found this program very confusing and the quality was less than of free, online games. This program is not worth $10, much less $40. Save your money.

[It is interesting to note that not one of the 5 star reveiwers have reviewed any other products. Their reveiws read more like product descriptions or advertisements than reviews written by people talking about a product their children liked. I'm not saying that these reviews were written by Transparent Language employees. I just find it strange that you would get such nonpersonal, glowing reviews for such a low quality product.]

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Language Learning for Children, July 8, 2003

By 

Brad Northwood (Newark, NJ USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: KidSpeak Spanish (CD-ROM)

Kidspeak Spanish is the perfect way to enterain while educating your child. Exposure to a second language is nothing but good and the younger it happens the easier it becomes to learn. In this program there are so many fun games and activities for your child to enjoy. It will teach them some basics like the alphabet, telling time, names of the days and months, simple phrases and sentences, ect. My children really enjoy this and use it all the time. I would recomend this to anyone child it is simply a great product.