Instant Immersion Spanish Review – How It Works

from Topics Entertainment

Instant Immersion Spanish language software teaches the basic Spanish phrases. You will learn Spanish words by repeating what you see or hear in various ways. There is little explanation of the structure of the language or grammar. This program uses natural image association techniques and employs multiple tools such as image-word match, quizzes, games, voice recording and audio.

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Pros+	Cons -
A little bit of everything: vocabulary, expressions, pronunciation. Variety of tools that covers different learning methods: word-image match, audio, dialogues, games, and quizzes. Speech is slow and easy for beginners to understand. Good for building vocabulary with Spanish flash card style picture-word match. Translations in English. Useful phrases for tourists. Good for learning Spanish audio CD, which covers also grammar and verb conjugation, although it is a standalone feature, not integrated in the course. Inexpensive for the number of features you get.	Lacks explanation on Spanish sentences structure and grammar. It teaches mostly words and phrases. There is no guidance to put your own sentence together. If you need to go “outside of the box”, you won’t be able to do so. You will learn only limited number of Spanish verb conjugations. Confusing to navigate. We can question the choice why some words are included in the vocabulary, for example igloo, hippopotamus and orchestra director. Needs more useful words for conversation. A little chaotic – lacks consistency in learning progression through the program. Some users found this program slightly confusing for absolute beginners. It is better for those with some previous knowledge of Spanish. Lacks proper customer support. No additional online resources, user forums or online testing. No demos.

Instant Immersion Spanish – The Bottom Line

The low price reflects the quality of the product. Instant Immersion Spanish is decent product if you want to learn words, memorize phrases and check your pronunciation. However, you will not get a total immersion Spanish, as stated at the product name. It is a Spanish vocabulary and phrase based program. You will learn how to ask directions or order the food, but there are few tools to help you construct full sentences and really learn the Spanish language. To learn Spanish grammar, sentence structure and complete verb conjugation you need to look for another program.

For those tight on the budget and looking for some beginner Spanish or for brush up for your travel, this product is good enough.

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Instant Immersion Spanish Levels 1,2 & 3 – What You Get

Learn basic Spanish survival phrases
Three levels build Spanish vocabulary and learn pronunciation with voice recording feature

First level: start with picture – word association and word match with English, also word placing in the sentence
Second level: dialogues, voice recording and play back
Third level: similar to the second, more advanced dialogues

6 CD-ROMs
Interactive DVD
Audio CD, can use for iPod, MPO3 player
CD-ROM with Who is Oscar Lake? game

The Company

TOPICS Entertainment is the largest privately held multimedia publisher in the United States with sales of more than 30 million units. Among variety of software products it sells the language learning software for 7 languages.

System Requirements

Windows PC: Microsoft Windows XP/Vista/7, Pentium IV 500 MHz or higher, 512 MB RAM, 1024×768 color display, Sound Card, CD-ROM drive, Microphone (recommended), iTunes 7 or higher (recommended)
Macintosh: Mac OS X 10.3.9 or higher, 512 MB RAM, 1024×768 color display, Sound Card, CD-ROM drive, Microphone (recommended), iTunes 7 or higher (recommended)

Instant Immersion Spanish Customer Comments

A Very Good Deal for the Money
This little program is a very good place to start learning Spanish. ….. a very good deal for the money.~ Actual user comments from amazon.com, December 2009
Good product
.. It [Instant immersions] does most of the the basics, such as listening, repeating, reading, etc. It does not have the “bells and whistles” some of the more expensive ones have. ~ Actual user comments from amazon.com, November 2009
I think for the price this is an excellent lesson plan for beginners like me who only need a casual knowledge of the language. ~Actual user comments from amazon.com, October 2009
Adequate for refreshing language, but not for beginners
I think this product is adequate for “refreshing” yourself if your high school or college Spanish is a bit rusty, but I don’t think it is designed in a way to be well-suited for learning the language from scratch. ~Actual user comments from amazon.com, October 2008

Waste of money
If you want to learn straight vocabulary, then this is your product. However, if you wish to learn how to SPEAK Spanish, then don’t waste your time or money. It doesn’t teach you how to construct sentences. ~ Actual user comments from amazon.com, July 2009
Don’t buy, go to library & borrow first 2 disks only
[Instant Immersion] did not teach any grammar & had no structured lessons in how to form sentences. ..it is not depth enough to learn the basics. ..for a tourist trying to just get by for a few weeks this might be useful.~Actual user comments from amazon.com, November 2009
About as useless as your high school class
..this program does not feel like a comprehensive or organized teaching system.~Actual user comments from amazon.com, November 2009
No free lunch in the world…
For fun, yes, it’s a cheap starter learning software. For serious learners trying ….don’t bother with this one–a waste of time and money.~Actual user comments from amazon.com, October 2009
Clunky interface, confusing
..the user interface to be pretty clunky. It has a distinct “Fischer Price” ….~Actual user comments from amazon.com, October 2009

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Older Instant Immersion Spanish versions

→ Instant Immersion Spanish Deluxe v3.0
→ Instant Immersion Spanish Platinum
→ Instant Immersion Spanish Pro 7 CD Platinum