Spanish Software
Rosetta Stone Spanish (Spain) Levels I & II Personal Edition
Price: $299.99.
Learn a new language with the award-winning method used by the U.S. StateDepartment to train diplomats. Proven effective by NASA astronauts, Peace Corps volunteers, and millions of students worldwide, the Rosetta Stone Language Library teaches new languages faster and easier than ever before.
Rosetta Stone Spanish Personal Edition Level 1 (Latin America)
Price: $177.99.
The Rosetta Stone Level I program offers a comprehensive course of study forbeginning learners, leading to intermediate proficiency. The program contains over 3,500 real-life images and phrases in 92 lessons and more than 250 hours of mastery instruction in listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. There are reviews, exercises, and tests for every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. (Ages 6 and older)
KidSpeak 6-in-1
Price: $29.99.
KidSpeak Spanish French German Italian Japanese Hebrew is a double CD-ROM featuring six comprehensive language programs. It is fun and easy to use and will help multilingual children practice a choice of different languages through a range of games, songs, and puzzles.
Instant Immersion Spanish Platinum
Price: $179.99.
Long considered the gold standard in self-paced language tutoring, Instant Immersion brand has proven invaluable to millions of people worldwide desiring to learn a new language. Now, the global leader in language instruction melds improved flexibility and utility with lustrously polished content to create Instant Immersion Spanish Platinum, the unparalleled language system combining hands-on computer-based teaching with the portability of audio lessons on compact discs. Tell Me More three CD-ROM-set comprises 750 hours of instruction at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels, heightening your Spanish proficiency through tutorial technologies including the use of 3D animation and the Spoken Error Tracking System (S.E.T.S.) providing detection and correction of pronunciation errors.
Learn Mexican Spanish
Price: $69.99.
Easy Translator 3
Price: $44.99.
Have fun and be more productive in any language. EasyTranslator 3 provides more ways to access translations on your desktop, even allowing you to incorporate translations into Microsoft Windows applications. Use the EasyTranslator Agent, Toolbar, or NotePad for text and Web translations. Or, use one of the included plug-ins to get instant translations in Microsoft Word 97, Corel WordPerfect, and EudoraPro e-mail. EasyTranslator breaks down complex sentence structures, identifies parts of speech, resolves ambiguities, and synthesizes the information into the components and structures of the new language, translating virtually any text.
Instant Immersion Spanish Pro 7 CD Platinum
Price: $34.99.
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.
Complete Spanish
Price: $74.99.
Complete Spanish Learning Suite includes six powerful tools for the most in-depth language learning experience available from a software package today. Those tools offer users an incredible variety of ways to increase language abilities in areas such as listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar, and comprehension.
Rosetta Stone Spanish Explorer
Price: $19.99.
It is a credit to Fairfield Language Technologies that its Spanish Explorer is one of the best examples of language-learning software--period. If you are used to the old-fashioned but lamentably persistent grammar-translation method of learning languages, Spanish Explorer may surprise you because it involves no overt instruction in grammar or lists of vocabulary with English translations. Instead, it relies on very clever contextualization of Spanish words and structures with photographs so that you never realize you're learning grammar. We literally found ourselves speaking and understanding quite a bit of basic Spanish in about an hour.
Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced
Price: $19.99.
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.
Learn Spanish Your Way
Price: $59.99.
Twenty-seven lessons cover Spanish grammar and vocabulary for a wide range of topics. Language basics and travel info are both provided, nice for students of Spanish and travelers getting ready for a visit to another country. Students will find conversation practice for situations like eating out,visiting someone's home and going to the workplace. While lots of language practice can be found, this massive five-CD package is tricky to figure out in numerous respects. Both testers and reviewers struggled to find appropriate content in the confusing design and were put off by the excessive amount of reading required. Novice users were lost by the difficult lessons and relatively complex conversations, and more advanced students had trouble figuring out how to play the games.
Elementary Advantage 2004
Price: $39.99.
Develop critical skills in 10 core subject areas: Covers Earth Science, Beginning Typing, Reading, Social Studies, Writing, Critical Thinking Basic Math, Fractions, Spelling, Beginning Spanish. Make learning fun and stimulating with engaging interactive tutors. The comprehensive set of tools in Elementary Advantage is guaranteed to help you succeed in school!
A+ Spanish
Price $14.99.
A+ Spanish combines lesson-based learning with Transparent Language's flexible language-learning technology. The structured nature of the lessons lets you build your languageskills progressively, while a range of multimedia games and tools facilitates conversational skills and strengthens vocabulary. Each lesson begins in English and is introduced by a video tutor. After completing 15 easy-to-understand lessons, students of A+ Spanish will be able to converse in Spanish at an intermediate level with full command of a range of vocabulary.
LEARNING COMPANY Learn To Speak Spanish Version 8 (Windows)
Price: 12.88.
Build your fluency in Spanish using this feature-rich five-CD collection. Learn to Speak Spanish's 100 lessons and adjustable study plan expand your Spanish vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation. Choose from a variety of instructional features, including cultural video clips and a talking dictionary. Learn to Speak's voice recording, playback tools, and speech recognition technologylet you practice your Spanish, develop your ear, and hone your pronunciation. A conversational CD completes the collection, adding a final polish to your newly acquired abilities.
Easy CD Creator 4 Deluxe Spanish Edition
Price: $69.99.
Easy CD Creator Deluxe goes way beyond the software that came with your CD recorder, and all earlier deluxe editions. Now you can create music, photo, video, and data CDs. Access music on the Internet, fine-tune your music tracks, and edit and enhance photos and videos with a pro's touch. Save and share data with confidence. Use CD Guide, a new animated character, to take you through the steps of creating your CDs.
High School Advantage 2004
Price: $39.99.
Develop critical skills in 10 core subject areas: Biology, Algebra, Physics, Geometry, Chemistry, U.S. History, Spanish, Writing, Trigonometry, World History. Make learning fun and stimulating with engaging interactive tutors. The comprehensive tools in High School Advantage are guaranteed to help you succeed in school!
National Geographic Spanish
Price: $19.99.
National Geographic Spanish is a comprehensive language-learning title that lets you learn about Spanish culture and take your lessons on the road. Study the nuts and bolts of Spanish grammar and build your vocabulary with 100 interactive lessons and 3,500 vocabulary words. Choose from 170 audio clips and 10 native speakers for practicing pronunciation and conversational skills. Record your voice to check your pronunciation against this program's speech-recognition meter. Best of all, you'll receive special access to a travel and cultural online guide (requires Internet access) created by the savvy travelers at National Geographic, plus thousands of regional maps, tips, and much more. National Geographic Spanish also adds a Spanish phrase book and translation software for your Palm OS device, letting you take your learning tools with you.