Rosetta Stone Latin America
Walter S. Mossberg in his September 7, 2005 Wallstreet Journal article wrote, "I found that learning Spanish was easiest for me when I worked through the audio and photo exercises. These helped me to pick up phrases and to intuitively grasp how verbs worked, just by listening to a phrase and then choosing which of four photos matched it."
Created by Fairfield Language Technologies in 1992, Rosetta Stone has been adopted by West Point, NASA and over 10,000 schools, according to the company.
Rosetta Stone Spanish comes at three levels. Level one has 200 hours of instruction in 92 lessons. Level two has over 250 hours of study material, 118 lessons and 4,500 real-life images & phrases. Level three has 102 lessons with video.
Obviously this is not downloadable and you need to wait for your CD to arrive and the price is on the high side. Volume one sells for $195.00, volume 2 sells for $225.00 and volume three sells for $245.00.
Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 1 helps you build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. This program helps you shift your learning paradigm and takes you back to the way you learned your first language. Did you have a translator or a dictionary around to check up on things? Of course not. You naturally learned that this sweet thing you can bite on is called an "apple" or that things that you ride on to see your favorite uncle is called a "car."
This is how Rosetta Stone Language programs work. With hearing the native speakers pronounce what you see on the screen, you will begin to associate the sounds and images. Simple isn't it. But the adult mind may want to fight it so, you just have to relax and be a child again, have fun. Rosetta Stone's "Dynamic Immersion" method reinforces your natural language-learning skills.