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Instant Immersion Spanish Platinum

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Instant Immersion Spanish Platinum
 
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Product Description
Instant Immersion Spanish Platinum, the unparalleled language system combining hands-on computer-based teaching with the portability of audio lessons on compact discs. The Tell Me More content 3 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. Stay motivated when you're away from the computer with the Instant Immersion Spanish audio book 8 compact disc set.

Product Details
  • Spanish language learning system with portable audio lessons
  • 3-CD-ROM set with 750 hours of instruction and cultural activities
  • 8,000 word audio glossary; 3,600 exercises; 6 workshops
  • 3D animation; S.E.T.S. for correction of pronunciation errors
  • Beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels

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Customer Reviews
A remarkable bargain!
 
Review Date: August 6, 2007
Reviewer: D. Stancil, Bristol, VA
This software is very highly rated in comparision with similar products, and I have found it to be interesting and effective in helping me learn Spanish. I'm still pretty early in the process, and there is MUCH more to learn (learning all the software can teach me will take a year or more, I'm sure), but the exercises are clear and interesting, and online help is very useful.
Very Helpful
 
Review Date: May 2, 2007
Reviewer: Michael J. Cuneo, Baltimore, MD USA
The software is great and my Spanish is improving by leaps and bounds (says my Colombian boyfriend). I transferred the audio CD content to my mp3 player and I'm using it to learn and practice to and from work and at lunch. Very good product for the price range.
Spanish Instant Immersion
 
Review Date: October 13, 2009
Reviewer: Susan Herring, Dothan, AL
This is a great way to learn Spanish on your own and at your own pace. The CDs give you exercises as well as downloads for your ipod so that you can learn "on the go". Better than most of the programs I have checked into but much less costly than Rosetta Stone but quite comparable.
Worthwhile, especially if you find it a bargain price
 
Review Date: May 25, 2008
Reviewer: Thomas M. Kara, Douglas County, Missouri
Since I bought this for considerably less than $129, I am quite happy with this product, although it's not perfect. I would have given it 5 stars but for a few things: the designers of the CD ROM software could have made it easier for beginners by not "hiding" function buttons, which suddenly appear when the cursor is put in their neighborhood. These icon buttons suddenly show up, and it took me quite awhile to discover that I could return to "home" without exiting the program and restarting it (the 'home' button is in the lower left, barely visible unless you put the cursor near it). Once you find and understand all these functions, however, it becomes much easier to use. Also, the program has had a tendency to occasionally crash (I'm using XP on a 64bit AMD processor, 80GB hard drive and 512MB SDRAM) and you'll have to start over. This seems to happen in certain parts of the program more than others, and so far has been only a minor annoyance. Another thing to realize is that each CD ROM has lots of lessons. By hiding the home button, I didn't realize for a time that having gotten through all the activities of the first lesson, there were still many other lessons left on that disc (seems obvious now, but....) And finally, there's quite a bit of spoken (and very funny) "cartoon" material hidden away in the "grammar explanation" section containing lots of spoken material (connoted by a smiley face icon next to the sections that contain this feature) that you might not even realize is there - so definitely explore every section of each lesson before deciding it's not of interest - you may be surprised at what's hidden away. In fact, now that I've spent a couple days using the first CD ROM, I realize there's really a lot of material to go through. In addition, you get 8 audio CDs which contain the basics of grammar, useful expressions etc, which are spoken by a bilingual woman at a much slower rate than the material on the CD ROMS. The CD ROMS use several native speakers who speak rapidly for the most part. This may be disconcerting at first, especially when you're trying to repeat what they've said, but the software allows you to isolate both sentences and words in a sentence, repeat them over and over, and also has a high tech speech evaluation program if you're computer is equipped with a microphone. This allows you to check your speech by a visible phonogram and computer evaluation. So overall, this is a sophisticated product. I think once you get past the nuts and bolts of finding out how to operate it, you'll be glad you bought it. If I were to make any recommendations about the method employed, I would say that adding substitution drills of the kind used in Foreign Service Institute courses (where a model sentence is introduced, followed by the student being given a prompt to change one aspect of it, such as "I met her at the bank" - "near the stadium - "I met her near the stadium" etc - would have made for a truly 5 star product. Substitution drills take the student beyond repetition and require more active involvement in juggling sentence components and aid in fluency, and also allow for old material to be constantly repeated in new contexts. Overall though, this course is quite impressive.
Good value at $28.98
 
Review Date: May 24, 2007
Reviewer: Dwight, USA
One session in a non credit earning course is about $30 so this cd set as introduction to a new language is good value. The design feels more European than American. A microphone is needed for practicing pronunciation. I don't have one yet so I am only going through the drills.
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