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Learn Spanish Now! 10.0 with Audio for your iPod or MP3 Player | 
 enlarge | Brand: Transparent Language, Inc.
Category: CE
List Price: $69.95
Buy New: $69.94
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Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 59303
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows Xp
ESRB: Kids to Adults
Media: CD-ROM
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: 8210
Model: Learn Spanish Now
UPC: 744573051808
EAN: 0744573051808
ASIN: B000TFNBDY
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Over 15,000 Words Hundreds of Useful Phrases Full Motion "Big Picture" Video | | • | Full Native Speaker Pronunciation SlowSound to Hear Every Nuance Advanced Pronunciation Practice | | • | Record, Playback and Compare Alphabet Reference & Grammar Tutorial Conversation Practice | | • | Integrated BYKI Vocabulary Software MP3 Audio for iPods or other players | | • | Personal BYKI list creation (with sound) from 15,000 words Interactive Games Video Unscramble |
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| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Learn From Exciting Content and Interactive Activities - Learn Spanish Now! is a revolutionary language-learning tool based on the proven Transparent Method of learning how to use a language in context through rich multimedia activities. Learn Spanish Now! unites industry-leading tools with authentic, native multimedia content to make learning fast, fun, and effective. Big Video Screen - Just select one of the interesting articles or stories and click to explore the Spanish language. View Spanish language videos complete with the sites and sounds of real people speaking and interacting in Spanish. Or jump directly into exciting interactive games, pronunciation-improving practice or invigorating conversations. Determine your own learning pace by deciding when you need translation-and when you don't. All the tools you need to quickly master a language are instantly available in Learn Spanish Now! Interactive Conversational Practice - Practice your lines using the prompts and the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay the whole conversation with the lines you've recorded. It's a terrific way to get valuable real-world experience using your new language. In no time, you'll be conditioned to respond correctly without thinking about it, just like you do in English. Before You Know It - The revolutionary software that teaches you words and phrases so you know them cold - with Perfect Recall - is now integrated right into Learn Spanish Now! You get: * Quick launch of BYKI from within Learn Spanish Now! * Companion BYKI lists to use with immersion content * Dozens of bonus lists from BYKI Deluxe * The ability to create custom BYKI lists (complete with native speaker sound) from any of the 15,000 words in Learn Language Now! MP3 Learning on Your iPod or Other Player - Learn language Now! comes with dozens of BYKI Pod Audio MP3 files. Now you can practice your language wherever you take your MP3 player.
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| Customer Reviews:
No clear guidance or order of study January 6, 2007
Jaroslaw Aniszewski (Texas)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
I have a older version 7 of French by Transparent Language and have to admit that they made progress but still are behinde "Talk to me" series. I never used any Rosetta stone programs but Learn Spanish now looks pale comparing to Talk to me.
It is very disorganised in its structure. It seems like authors tried to create too many pathways through it and it lost its structure.
Talk to me follows a much more structured path that immerses the learner in the language. It starts with theme dialog with variation, then the vocabulary and pronounciation are litterally hammered in through a series of fun exercises inculding crosswords, word searches, pronounciation training of single sounds, words and lastly whole sentences from the theme dialog. Lesson ends with a text that adds new vocabulary and promotes understanding concepts even if one does not understand every word. It is possible to stop at any point and check the meaning. Verbs are fully conjugated at your fingertips in Talk to Me while this is totally lacking in Learn Spanish Now. I would consider it the biggest shortcoming of Learn Spanish Now.
I had hard time to figure out what level of learning Learn Spanish Now is designed to aim at. It is way too hard for a beginner but too easy for intermediate student. It could serve as a review but it is not a lot of fun to work with.
Questionable advantage of Learn Spanish now is ability to downlaod flash cards on an iPod but the vocabulary is limitted and program is hard to use. Talk to me allows you to downlaod the whole content of a chosen lesson and create a CD or voice file on a player. (very simple)
Summarising - They made a progress from version 7 but it will take them probably few more versions to get it right.
It would made a superb tool if they created easier guided path to start for the beginner, built up a bigger theme oriented vocabulary and texts based on it, added better grammar explanations and conjugate all the verbs in the text.
For now if somebody does not want to spend megabucks on a Rosetta stone, I would strongly recommend Instant Immersion Talk to Me. I got mine for half price of Learn Spanish now at C O s T co and it came with a phrasebook, 4 audio CDs and Collins dictionary CDrom. The dictionary is excellent and allows you to built up your vocabulary and phraseology in addition to what is offered in Talk to Me.
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