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**EDITOR'S PICK**
Learning Spanish Like Crazy
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Transparent Spanish Premium Edition
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Rocket Spanish
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"How To Get By In Spanish
With Just 138 Words."
Synergy Spanish
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| Editor's Comments |
Consistently receives best feedback from our students. Makes learning Spanish easy and fun. |
Popular course used in thousands of schools and universities. |
Suitable for new beginners right up to intermediate learners. Lots of course material. Full review
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Good choice if your goal is to speak basic Spanish in the shortest possible time. Full review
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| Level |
Beginner to intermediate |
Beginner to intermediate |
Beginner to intermediate |
Beginner |
| Description |
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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Transparent Spanish Premium Edition is a serious, well-structured course that you do on your computer. PC and Mac compatible. |
Rocket Spanish is a comprehensive language course that includes interactive audio lessons, grammar lessons, hundreds of exercises, and MegaSpanish learning software.
Over the years it has earned a positive reputation as a fun and effective course.
Full review |
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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| Details |
• 30 audio lessons, about 16 hours in total
• Bonus: Spanish sayings and insults (vulgar and non-vulgar) |
• An intuitive “book interface” format
• Lessons covering over 15,000 Spanish words and phrases
• Full-motion immersion video
• Native speaker audio
• Interactive conversation practice with play-back
• MP3 audio for iPods and other players
• Interactive games
• Online proficiency tests
• Personal progress tracking
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• 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 |
| Pros/Cons |
Very positive feedback from users. Fun, easy, effective. Lacks speech recognition capability found in more expensive software. |
Excellent language software and the course is widely used in schools and colleges throughout North America. Not all Tranparent products are Mac compatible. |
Lots of course material, well-presented, includes access to online forum. It's a long course and not all of our students seem to complete it. |
Easy, structured system for people who want to learn basic conversational Spanish. No software component. Not suitable for intermediate or advanced students. |
| Help/ Support |
Support via email |
Support via email |
Support via email and online forum |
90-day email support |
| Download/
Shipping |
Instant download with option to order CDs |
Instant download with option to order CDs |
Instant download with option to order 20 CD pack |
Instant download with option to order 14 CD pack |
| Guarantee |
8 weeks |
6 months |
60 days |
56 days |
| Free Trial? |
No |
No |
Free mini-course |
Free "test drive" |
| Best Price |
$99.95 |
$89.95 |
$99.95 |
$59.95 |
| Official Site |
Go to Learning Spanish Like Crazy Official Site |
Go to Transparent Languages Official Site |
Go to
Rocket Spanish Official Site |
Go to Synergy Spanish Official Site |
