Two Spanish Language Software Titles Worth Checking Out
There are a lot of companies making foreign language learning software. How ever not every one of these titles is worth buying, or even trying.
The fact is to learn a second language like Spanish well you need to use a good piece of Spanish language software, and it’s been proven that certain learn Spanish software titles teach their students more the others.
In this article I want to introduce you to the two top Spanish language software titles I believe are available.
The criteria I used for ranking and rating these products was: Form(s) of instruction (i.e. Video audio, games), speech recognition, how advanced the program goes, and lesson plan quality.
It might be difficult to imagine but some of the learn Spanish software available doesn’t even really have a method to the order of their lessons or what their teaching you. Rest assured if you choose either of the follow Spanish learning software titles you will become conversational in Spanish and in a short period of time.
Visual Link Spanish
Visual Link is one of the new comers to the foreign language software market, how ever they made a big splash when they showed up. The creator of this software was a former Spanish instructor at the college/university level and he was tired of his students not learning to become conversational in Spanish even after weeks of class room instruction.
Why is Visual Link Spanish different? Well in comparison to a lot of other Spanish language software it doesn’t focus on vocabulary. Instead it teaches you important phrases that you would use in every day situations, then teaches you how to modify that phrase for different situations.
This is best explained with an example:
Let’s say that you learn how to say: Where is the bathroom in Spanish.
The root of the phrase: Where is the … Can be applied to other situations you run into on a daily basis such as:
- Where is the bank
- Where is the Kitchen
- Where is the Air Port
- Where is the Grocery Store
By learning how to say Where is the…
you can learn to ask many questions in Spanish.
This is the premise behind Visual Link Spanish. Of course the lessons (of which there are over 200) get more difficult and deal with many different situations, but this is the basic concept. You can see a sample lesson here on the Visual Link Spanish website.
You can read more about how Visual Links lessons work, as well as a screen shot here in our detailed Visual Link Spanish review.
The price point on Visual Link is $199 and comes with a 6 month money back guarantee.
Tell Me More Spanish
The other Spanish language software which I was impressed with after doing my research was Tell me More Spanish.
Tell me More is a bit more technical then Visual Link in that it uses Speech Recognition technology to help you perfect your pronunciation of difficult Spanish words. As far as I can tell Tell Me more is the only learn Spanish software to offer such a feature.
Tell Me More Spanish focuses on conversational Spanish as well, and has a very unique form of learning. You have two options to learn with Tell me More. You can either follow the straight forward lessons plan, doing one lesson at a time. OR you can opt to pick and choose lessons at will.
You can ask the software to frequently test you on your skills, and the Spanish language software will recommend particular lessons you should do to improve the areas where you need help.
Tell Me More Spanish is a very intelligent piece of software that each person will get a different experience with.
The price point on Tell Me More Spanish is $299 and it comes with a 90 day money back guarantee.