Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced

Manufacturer:	Topics Entertainment
Release date:	16 August, 2002

Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced

Average rating: Stars

Good tool to improve Spanish for intermediate students

I have an undergraduate degree in Spanish and consider my Spanish level to be advanced intermediate. It is difficult to find Spanish tools that are fun and engaging that are not catered to a Spanish beginner. This tool is great for that group of people who have had at least one year of college Spanish, have learned basic verb congugations and are looking for a CD-Rom that will teach them more vocabulary words, idiomatic expressions, and words that aren't covered in general Spanish classes (for example animal sounds- woof, woof is guau, guau). It is important to note that Obelix is a comic from Spain so the idiomatic expressions and some vocabulary is more commonly used in Spain and less in Central or South America. This CD-Rom follows the comic cartoon of Obelix and his adventures. Each page shows one frame of the comic, you hear the words spoken in Spanish, and you have the option to view the words in Spanish or English, and a "professor" gives the translation of idiomatic expressions and explains some harder to understand words. This system is great because after learning some words you can replay the CD-Rom without English translations or even viewing the Spanish translation and see if you can understand what is occurring just by hearing the comics. The comic format also makes learning new vocabulary much more fun and enjoyable than memorizing lists of words. You can replay the audio of the comic as many times as you like. Once you have a firm foundation of the history you can play games that reinforce your learning such as multiple choice questions that require you to understand the options by only hearing them. I am giving Asterix 4 stars instead of 5 because I would liked more direction on which idiomatic expressions and vocabulary words are used only in Spain and which are also used in Central and South America.

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Note To Previous Reviewer: As the title says, this is "Instant Immersion Spanish **ADVANCED**", not Basic or Beginning. If you are looking to learn Spanish, don't buy a product inappropriate for your level and complain about it being over your head.

Topics Entertainment - Instant Immersion Spanish Advanced

Horrible

I bought this program thinking that it would help me get a basic understanding of vocabulary and putting together sentneces. The first cd is "ok", just gives you a lot of vocab. I went on to cd 2 and it instantly started throwing out full questions in spanish with words I have never heard before. Not sure how this program expected me to be able to answer the questions with them never teaching the filler words?! I tried all the cd's looking for the one that taught me the sentence structures, verb conjugations, etc. Not there! Worst thing I have ever bought and got very frustrated with it. Definitley a return item!!!