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Instant Immersion Spanish Levels 1,2 & 3
Studio : Topics Entertainment
by Topics Entertainment
Brand : TOPICS Entertainment
Model : 81018
Platform : Windows Vista, Mac OS X Intel, Windows 7, Windows XP
Release Date : 2009-06-16
Publisher : Topics Entertainment
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
EAN : 0781735521168
UPC : 781735521168
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 139 reviews)
List Price : $49.99
Our Price : $29.54
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A complete language learning system
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Great for travel, business or school
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For all levels and learning styles
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Fun and easy to use
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The quickest way to learn ¿ guaranteed
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Product Description |
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Instant Immersion uses natural image association techniques to help you learn as easily as you learned your first language. With Instant Immersion, you will have more fun, save money and reach your goals faster ¿ guaranteed! Whether you¿re learning a new language for school, work or your next vacation, Instant Immersion¿s fun and effective exercises, interactive activities and challenging quizzes will help you achieve language fluency in less time than other language systems. You will think, read and speak your new language with ease. Spanish Levels 1, 2 & 3 includes six language learning CD-ROMS and three bonus discs: an interactive DVD, audio for an iPod or MP3 player and the Who is Oscar Lake? game. |
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Instant Immersion Spanish - Easy to Understand |
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I bought Immersion Spanish a few weeks ago, and when I uploaded the first cd to my computer, It was just that-instant. It has a male spanish speaker and a female spanish speaker, who pronounced the words each in different ways to give a clear understanding of how to pronunce the words. It has a clock like list of lessons: Firstwords, Food, Colors, Phrases, Countries, Shopping, Time, Numbers and Body on Cd 1 - you click on the topic you want to practice. After you practice, you can click on a word practice session or an Easy or Hard Game Session. It has a Speaking Practice - where you can speak and listen to how you pronounce the words. It also has a dictionary you can print. When I'm done with Level 1, I will progress to Levels, 2 and 3 of the other cds. I think it's easy and to the point. Great. |
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Halfway decent |
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Can't beat the product for the price. Only complaint is they don't tell you if this is a South American Spanish course. There is nothing in the sales literature or the instructions. I gambled on the course because of the price. Street Spanish perhaps needs to be learned elsewhere. |
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A good value...nice that it works with Windows AND Mac! |
I found Instant Immersion to be ok -- I mean, it's no Rosetta Stone, but of course Rosetta Stone costs HUNDREDS of dollars -- so this is a GREAT value for what you get. I find that it's probably most helpful as a supplement for a beginning Spanish class, if it's been a couple of years since your last class and your basic Spanish is rusty (like me), or if you just want to learn a few conversational phrases for a trip or to be able to communicate on a very basic level. WAY more interesting than just having a book or a cassette. I would hardly call it "immersion," however, unless they sent several Spanish-speaking people to your house along with the program! (Which they don't.) ;-)
By the way, it's nice that it works on both PC and Mac...I don't see that a lot with software (especially when it's fairly inexpensive). |
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trouble with disc 2 |
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I started with disc 1, which reviewed vocabulary. I really enjoyed playing the easy and advanced games at the end of the program. However, I had major problems with disc 2. After returning the product to the store and getting the SAME program ( I thought it was my computer), I opened disc 2 on another computer. Although I could open the program... I had trouble exiting the program and saving my scores. Disc 2 contains vocabulary to memorize but without the easy and advanced games at the end. I found disc 2 to be very boring. Although disc 1 was fun and easy to use.... I DO NOT recommend buying this product. |
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Rosetta stone is better, neither will make you instantly fluent |
There are a whole bunch of comparisons between this product and Rosetta Stone already, but I'll throw my two cents in. I've got both and found this product cheap, in every sense of that word. Rosetta stone was definitely the better product of the two, and was more what I'd call "immersion."
Instant Immersion is not immersion, it's mostly memorization (more so than Rosetta Stone). This is not a product you could really learn the language from. I'd say it's best use is for a student in a low level Spanish class to get a little more practice.
Also some of the speakers seem to have trouble pronouncing words and gain a really weird lisp. for instance "azul" becomes "athththul" or "azúcar" becomes "ah-ffffu-cah".
overall: this product works okay as practice if you are taking or have taken some other Spanish class. you almost certainly will not learn Spanish from it, at least alone. then again it would be hard to learn it solely from Rosetta stone, so at least this is cheaper.
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