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**EDITOR'S PICK**
Rocket Spanish
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"How To Get By In Spanish
With Just 138 Words."
Synergy Spanish
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Learning Spanish Like Crazy
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Learning Spanish Like Crazy 2
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| Editor's Comments |
Best course, excellent value. Suitable for new beginners right up to intermediate learners. Complete, fun & effective. Full review
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Good choice if your goal is to speak basic Spanish in the shortest possible time. Full review
| Good option for beginners who want fun, conversational audio lessons
| Only recommended for intermediate learners who enjoyed the "Like Crazy" level 1 course
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| Level |
Beginner & Intermediate |
Beginner |
Beginner |
Intermediate |
| Description |
Rocket Spanish is a comprehensive language course that includes interactive audio lessons, grammar lessons, hundreds of exercises, and MegaSpanish learning software.
It's one of the most popular Spanish courses on the Internet. It's been used by thousands of students and has earned a positive reputation as a fun and effective course.
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Synergy Spanish is a unique course that works off the principle that you can learn 138 basic words then use those words to form 88,000 phrases and sentences. Students work through 68 structured audio lessons with the aid of a guidebook.
Full review
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Learning Spanish Like Crazy is a fun, easy audio course for beginners. There is no boring text book and there are no grammar exercises to do. It teaches practical Latin American Spanish like you hear in the US, Mexico and throughout South America.
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Learning Spanish Like Crazy - Nivel Dos, the second level of this popular audio series, is designed for intermediate users. Like the level one course, it teaches real Latin American Spanish using audio lessons. |
| Details |
• 31 audio lessons of conversational Spanish, each 15 to 25 minutes long, plus transcripts
• 210 pages of illustrated grammar lessons with over 400 exercises and 180 minutes of audio tracks
• 160 pages of advanced grammar lessons
• MegaVocab software game with over 1000 words and 20 topics
• MegaAudio software game with over 1000 audio tracks
• Learning guide
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• 68 audio lessons, each about 10 minutes long
• Step by step action guide |
• 30 audio lessons, about 16 hours in total
• Bonus: Spanish sayings and insults (vulgar and non-vulgar) |
• 40 audio lessons, about 20 hours in total, plus downloadable transcripts
• Bonus DVD with over one hour of video content
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| Pros/Cons |
Tons of high quality instructional material. Positive feedback from users. Includes learning software. Excellent value. Lacks speech recognition capability found in more expensive software. |
Easy, structured system for people who want to learn basic conversational Spanish. No software component. Not suitable for intermediate or advanced students. |
Fun, easy audio-based format for people who hate written grammar exercises. Lacks exercises and resource materials. |
Fun, easy audio-based format for people who hate written grammar exercises. Lacks exercises and resource materials. |
| Help/ Support |
Support via email and online forum |
90-day email support |
Support via email |
Support via email |
| Download/
Shipping |
Instant download with option to order 20 CD pack |
Instant download with option to order 14 CD pack |
Instant download with option to order CDs |
Instant download with option to order CDs |
| Guarantee |
60 days |
56 days |
8 weeks |
8 weeks |
| Free Trial? |
Free 6-day mini-course |
Free "test drive" |
Two free lessons and transcripts |
No |
| Best Price |
$99.95 |
$59.95 |
$99.95 |
$99 |
| Official Site |
Go to
Rocket Spanish Official Site |
Go to Synergy Spanish Official Site |
Go to Learning Spanish Like Crazy Official Site |
Go to Learning Spanish Like Crazy 2 Official Site |
