Spanish Courses
This excellent Spanish learning program offers everything at a surprisingly low price! Rocket Spanish includes 31 lessons, over 500 pages of exercises and activities, step by step instructions, an interactive audio course and amazing games and software.
This is ideal for beginners through to advanced and covers reading, writing, speaking and listening.One of the great things about this Product is that you have the option of downloading all the information instantly, at a much lower cost and you can even download a free 6 day Spanish lesson so you can try it for free to see if it is right for you.
Rocket Spanish also offers a 100% money back guarantee with less than a 1% return rate. Overall this is an excellent system that excels above all the other Spanish learning programs we have seen.
The Good
• Learn from Beginner through to Advanced Spanish
• Learn Spanish at your own pace (in as little as three months)
• Learn how to use correct Spanish grammar & punctuation
• Learn Spanish by playing Games
• Speak Spanish with Fluent Spanish Speakers
• Take the MP3 Audio tracks with you in your MP3 Player or on CD
• Only $100.00
• Money Back Guarantee if for any reason you’re unhappy!
The Bad
• Rocket Spanish cannot teach you Spanish in your sleep
Rosetta Stone Offers beginner, intermediate and advanced levels of Spanish Learning or a combined package of all levels for a reduced price.
These CD-ROM packages are more expensive than Rocket Spanish, but provide in-depth & comprehensive lessons that include listening, reading, speaking, writing, tests & tutorials. Each spanish lesson provides exercises and tests so you are able to keep track of your progress and there is 250-300 hours worth of spanish lessons for each level. This is a good product for anyone wanting to learn Spanish; however it has quite a few drawbacks.
First and foremost, even into the third level- the material is not very challenging. Second, even though the directions, the text and audio are given in Spanish, and all of the voice narratives are in Spanish, the student is never really “immersed” in Spanish.
The Spanish dialouge is always in sets of maximum three sentences even at the most advanced levels which does not simulate true conversation and does not immerse you in Spanish quite as much as some other programs.
The Good
• Teaches spanish using all major learning methods listening, reading, speaking, writing
• Helps you keep track of your progress
The Bad
• Material doesnt challenge you very well
• Spanish lessons are never more than three sentences deep
Learn Spanish Like Crazy is an audio based teaching course for beginners to an intermediate level.
It uses an auditory learning method that may not be suitable for everyone. There is the standard “Learn Spanish Like Crazy” course which consists of 30 lessons on 15 audio CDs which can be instantly downloaded.
They pride themselves on teaching “real Latin-American Spanish” and only use Latin-American speakers for all of their dialogs. A platinum package is also offered which consists of 48 CDs, however it is a lot more expensive and tends to overlap with the information already offered in the standard course. They also offer unlimited access to their archive of lessons and monthly Spanish seminars.
Over all Learn Spanish Like Crazy is a good Spanish learning program for beginners and those who excel in audio learning.
The Good
• Good for those who learn well audibly
• “Los Dichos” - Common sayings of Spanish speakers
• “Los Insultos” Spanish insults
•Unlimited access to archive of lessons
•Monthly Spanish tele-seminars
The Bad
• Not good for those who have a hard time learning audibly
• only offers beginner and intermediate levels
• more expensive than other programs