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Each graduated lesson works like this: First, you learn a new word by seeing a picture of, say, a dog. You then read the Spanish word for "dog" and hear it spoken: perro. After learning a whole set of words this way, you move into self-quizzing mode, where you see just a picture of a boy and have to choose the right word, either from spoken or written cues. This emphasis on listening comprehension is fantastic and is one of the components that sets the software apart, but there are also reading and writing exercises.
So how do they cover grammar? Eventually, for instance, you'll see perro under a picture of one dog and perros under a picture of two dogs. If you are a grammar guru, you might be able to figure out that certain singular nouns end in o; plural nouns end in os. However, the beauty is you don't have to be a grammar guru at all because the software doesn't expect you to state rules like that; it expects you only to associate a picture of more than one dog with perros instead of perro. Eventually, you get into longer phrases that cover verbs, adjectives, and prepositional phrases. It's amazingly effortless, especially so for children as young as 6.
Caveats: The CD-ROM includes both Mac OS and Windows versions. Your installation will include the first-level lessons of a couple dozen other languages for free, too, so you have to know that the Spanish word for "Spanish" is Español in order to select it from the list. Also, remember that software is no replacement for Spanish-speaking people, so take what you learn and use it in the world! --Erik Macki
| PLATFORM: | Windows 95, Windows Me, Windows 2000, Macintosh, Windows XP, Windows NT |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Fairfield Language Technologies |
| TYPE: | Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple, Computer software (programs), Education (Educational), Reference, Foreign Languages (Language), Learn learning, Spanish Espanol, Portuguese |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 794678000294 |
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Customer Reviews of Rosetta Stone Spanish Explorer (Latin America)
Terrific introduction to Spanish I bought this program for my 7-year-old neice and opened it up to "try it out". Well, I enjoyed it so much that I kept it myself and had to buy my neice another copy. The use of photographs and the spoken word make it easy and enjoyable to learn. Some people may be intimidated by the thought of a "total immersion" approach to language learning. But this program is not intimidating at all. It is engaging and fun. It feels like you are playing a game (and learning at the same time). It has inspired me to enroll in a local Spanish class. I also plan to purchase the entire Rosetta Stone Spanish series. (This program covers lessons 1-22 only.) You won't regret buying this program for your child (or yourself)!
Terrific Introduction to Spanish
I bought this program for my 7-year-old neice and opened it up to "try it out". Well, I enjoyed it so much that I kept it myself and had to buy my neice another copy. The use of photographs and the spoken word make it easy and enjoyable to learn. Some people may be intimidated by the thought of a "total immersion" approach to language learning. But this program is not intimidating at all. It is engaging and fun. It feels like you are playing a game (and learning at the same time). It has inspired me to enroll in a local Spanish class. I also plan to purchase the entire Rosetta Stone Spanish series. (This program covers lessons 1-22 only.) You won't regret buying this program for your child (or yourself)!
Rosetta Stone Spanish Explorer
The Rosetta Stone Explorers are intuitive and fantastic! They give 22 lessons of the 92 lessons in Level 1. Explorers are just that: EXPLORERS. This program allows you a trial run of the full program, only the printed script from the full program is missing. The Explorer materials take you to the level of about 3 months of High School language classes. The Level 1 is approximately equal to 2 years of High School or 1 year of University, and level 2 adds 2 more years or High School or 1 more year of University language. This is a real bargain compared to tuition!
I've done the Indonesian Explorer, I have given Spanish to a 62-year-old friend, Japanese to a 9-year-old whose grandfather speaks Japanese, and Portuguese to a 10-year-old whose father speaks Portuguese. My Level 1 Indonesian should be here in a couple of days, my older friend is picking up on Spanish much more rapidly than he did with Pimsleur, and the kid's parents report that they are "hogging the computer" to play their "game". If they stick with it over the Summer break, the parents have the option of ordering the full program at a discount exceeding the Explorer purchase price when they buy Level 1 or Levels 1 & 2.
The only down-side is: Fairfield Language Technologies has discountinued the Explorer (and the PowerPac and the Traveler) series. There will be no more after what is avialable now is sold - unless popular demand changes their minds.