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Summary: A good value...nice that it works with Windows AND Mac!
Comment: I found Instant Immersion to be ok -- I mean, it's no Rosetta Stone, but of course Rosetta Stone costs HUNDREDS of dollars -- so this is a GREAT value for what you get. I find that it's probably most helpful as a supplement for a beginning Spanish class, if it's been a couple of years since your last class and your basic Spanish is rusty (like me), or if you just want to learn a few conversational phrases for a trip or to be able to communicate on a very basic level. WAY more interesting than just having a book or a cassette. I would hardly call it "immersion," however, unless they sent several Spanish-speaking people to your house along with the program! (Which they don't.) ;-)
By the way, it's nice that it works on both PC and Mac...I don't see that a lot with software (especially when it's fairly inexpensive).
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Summary: trouble with disc 2
Comment: I started with disc 1, which reviewed vocabulary. I really enjoyed playing the easy and advanced games at the end of the program. However, I had major problems with disc 2. After returning the product to the store and getting the SAME program ( I thought it was my computer), I opened disc 2 on another computer. Although I could open the program... I had trouble exiting the program and saving my scores. Disc 2 contains vocabulary to memorize but without the easy and advanced games at the end. I found disc 2 to be very boring. Although disc 1 was fun and easy to use.... I DO NOT recommend buying this product.
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Summary: Rosetta stone is better, neither will make you instantly fluent
Comment: There are a whole bunch of comparisons between this product and Rosetta Stone already, but I'll throw my two cents in. I've got both and found this product cheap, in every sense of that word. Rosetta stone was definitely the better product of the two, and was more what I'd call "immersion."
Instant Immersion is not immersion, it's mostly memorization (more so than Rosetta Stone). This is not a product you could really learn the language from. I'd say it's best use is for a student in a low level Spanish class to get a little more practice.
Also some of the speakers seem to have trouble pronouncing words and gain a really weird lisp. for instance "azul" becomes "athththul" or "azúcar" becomes "ah-ffffu-cah".
overall: this product works okay as practice if you are taking or have taken some other Spanish class. you almost certainly will not learn Spanish from it, at least alone. then again it would be hard to learn it solely from Rosetta stone, so at least this is cheaper.
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Summary: SPIT, BREATHING, SWALLOWING
Comment: IN THIS AUDIO, YOU CAN HEAR THE LADY SWALLOW, BREATH AND EVEN HEAR THE SPIT IN HER MOUTH. IT IS DISGUSTING ON ALL LEVELS. IM SURPRISED THEY COULD NOT DELETE THESE SOUNDS WHEN DOING THE FINAL EDITITING. ALL I CAN HEAR IS HER TAKING DEEP BREATHS AND SWALLOWING VERY THICK SPIT. EITHER THE LADY IS DEHYDRATED OR IS DIABETIC! EW...
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Summary: Rough around the edges
Comment: I picked this product as a less expensive alternative to the allegedly more robust language software offered by Rosetta Stone. Since I had studied Spanish years ago, I thought this package might help me restore my former skill with the vocabulary, which always seemed to be my weak point. Admittedly, I failed to remember that since this is a CD-ROM, it runs from the DVD, and I wasn't expecting the program to run as slowly as it did. But my bigger problem was the interface, the lack of instructions (even rudimentary ones), and the blurred accents of the native voices that I was supposed to mimic.
It's possible that this product might be appealing to small children, since it uses cartoonish characters. For me, after several hours of frustration, I decided I would have to try another approach.
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