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- The world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners
- Essential words and phrases for absolute beginners
- Ideal for young learners, families, students and people going abroad
- Completely intuitive - simple interface means that learning is as easy as pointing and clicking
- Speech recording - allows you to compare your voice with native speakers
- Quiz yourself! Test what you've learnt, earn points and monitor your progress
- Nine topics: first words, food, colours, phrases, the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries
- Intelligent Software - remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
- Automatic Localisation - Choose the language you learn from (more than 100 available)
- iPod integration - listen to Talk Now! on your iPod for complete learning on the move!
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You'll find you can't drag yourself away - in short, you can't stop yourself learning.'
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The Talk Now! Range is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. Talk Now! caters for all types of beginner: young learners from the age of 4, families, students and people going abroad with no knowledge of the language. It is simple to use, with no installation required – the program runs straight from the CD, and is compatible with the latest versions of Mac and Windows.
Eurotalk software is completely intuitive – the simple interface means that learning is as easy as pointing and clicking. Speech recording allows you to record your voice and compare it with native speakers. Quiz yourself with 2 levels of difficulty to test what you've learnt – earn points and monitor your progress, then take on the memory man and get the maximum possible 1800 points to receive the gold award! Learn at your computer – or alternatively, print out pages of the printable picture dictionary, or you can learn on the move using the iPod application.
Above all, EuroTalk discs are designed to be fun. Research in the early 1990s at the University of California revealed that memory is greatly improved when accompanied by fun and laughter. Our quizzes, games and stories provide this and you will be amazed how much you remember after a surprisingly short time devoted to a disc.
What people have said
'You'll find you can't drag yourself away – in short, you can't stop yourself learning.' PC Magazine
'Addictive' The Times
'The most entertaining CD-ROM language packages come from the publisher EuroTalk' South China Post
'Buying EuroTalk has helped me so much - the vocabulary I had learned in just 30 minutes was extraordinary! I look forward to learning more with EuroTalk software.' Robin Cross - 16th May 2008
'This is an excitingly different language learning series. Talk Now! uses games and quizzes as a basis for making the learning process fun and relaxing. There's no better way to teach and old dog new tricks and this fun element of the programme means that your fears are forgotten as you absorb words and phrases without even realising you are learning them.' PC Answers
PC Magazine'You'll find you can't drag yourself away – in short, you can't stop yourself learning.'
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71 of 74 people found the following review helpful
This CD does state that it is for beginners & is targetted at an older market. However, it only teaches basic vocab & seemingly few, random sentences without helping you use them in context. I don't think that it is neccesarily worth the money for such a basic product in my opinion. This is the first CD-ROM I have purchased that has not inspired me to further learning. Seemingly this should truly be directed at those people who want to learn a few phrases or words to show they are trying when they visit Spanish speaking countries. It is not a useful beginning tool for actually wanting to learn more about this language. Saying that the CD is very easy to follow without the need to read the instructions.
8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
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My wife & I found this program fun for the first 3 hours or so. Then it got very frustrating. The software won't let you progress to the second set of lessons until you complete every exercise in the first set with a *perfect* score. And a lot of the exercises have very short timelimits to complete them - even when we knew the answers, we just couldn't click fast enough. We spent quite a few more frustrating hours trying & trying & trying again, but never did manage to get through everything in the allotted times.
The order of learning was also very questionable. For example, is it really necessary to memorise the Spanish names of all the flags of the countries of the world, before being even able to count to 100? Personally, I think counting to 100 is a far more valuable skill than memorising flags, but this program demands you learn the flags instead.
I emailed Eurotalk tech support, but received no reply. Zero stars for their support.
In summary, a program with great potential that never makes it across the finish line. Some fun concepts, a nice layout, but ultimately held back by an insanely rigid framework that stalls learning instead of enabling it.
The order of learning was also very questionable. For example, is it really necessary to memorise the Spanish names of all the flags of the countries of the world, before being even able to count to 100? Personally, I think counting to 100 is a far more valuable skill than memorising flags, but this program demands you learn the flags instead.
I emailed Eurotalk tech support, but received no reply. Zero stars for their support.
In summary, a program with great potential that never makes it across the finish line. Some fun concepts, a nice layout, but ultimately held back by an insanely rigid framework that stalls learning instead of enabling it.
66 of 71 people found the following review helpful
This is a really good way to learn some basics in the language. I had no previous knowledge of Spanish. Ideal for me (age 55) and I can see it is good for children too. It has a number of "games" to improve your knowledge and score. Having help languages (other than English) is a bonus for learners from other countries. Listening to the words and phrases from a male and female "speaker" is great idea too. We have bought the World Talk CD - but we really need an intermediate level...
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Helps learning basic vocabulary
I bought this for my 11 year old, who has to learn Spanish at school - and languages are not his strength.
The game teaches basic vocabulary in a series of areas. Read more
The game teaches basic vocabulary in a series of areas. Read more
Published 20 months ago by A John
Well done EuroTslk
I have been visiting one of my best friends every year in Spain for about 10 years now, she is English but speaks fluent Spanish and lives in an area full of ex pats so I have been... Read more
Published 21 months ago by Language Learner
May be ok as a supplement to an actual class...
I got this less than a week ago (full price from a reputable language-specialist bookshop) and returned it today. Read more
Published on 12 Aug 2009 by A. Grant
Great for someone easily bored
I bought this CD Rom because I was going to a small Spanish village for Christmas, staying with a Spanish family and very few people in that village speak English. Read more
Published on 4 Feb 2008 by C. Creagh
talk spanish
i have just brought this talk spanish cd rom,i have found it fun to use with easy or hard games to play, i have never tried anything like this before, but it is great for any age... Read more
Published on 15 May 2004
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