Language CD-ROM

[HonkyTonk]

Ah, and don't forget one of Portugal's finest exports...Mateus Rose. Love it!

[Bueller]

Hey, I think I've had a bottle of that! :-)

[Underwriter]

Bueller,

Which CD ROM company do you recommend to learn Spanish? Rosetta Stone? I need to learn and would rather do it on my schedule instead of taking a class....

thanks

[TheBatmanDude]

Dude, you gotta get a ....pimsleur! Get all dozen discs and you will learn Spanish...that's how I did it. In my car, in my living room on my stereo, I went thru them again and again. Now I can have a conversation with a chica.

[Bueller]

I agree with Batman here. After starting this thread by talking up a $10 CD-ROM program, I finally gave in and bought the French Pimsleur I program for about $150. You just can't beat Pimsleur's methodology. I now realize that I would have been chasing my tail with the $10 program because of the way that French pronunciation changes according to sentence structure. I recommend Pimsleur over Rosetta Stone because you can do it while driving, exercising etc. instead of having to sit down at the computer and devote extra time to it.

[Ciza29]

I have really liked pimsleur. I have heard good things about platiquemos taking you further then pimsleur. Has anyone tried platiquemos?

[Airto]

Originally Posted by Ciza29

I have really liked pimsleur. I have heard good things about platiquemos taking you further then pimsleur. Has anyone tried platiquemos?

Ciza,

I guess this thread can come back to life at least momentarily. I have heard of Platiquemos and I have traded emails with Don Casteel the guy who put is all together. It's basically a revamped version of the course that was used by the Foreign Service Institute and Don Casteel retired from the foreign service. It is a very intensive program that takes a lot of time to finish but very expensive if you get all the bonded material and CD's. It is offered in different formats. I have 1 DVD with the whole program including the music and the slang.

I found something I liked better at Fluenz.com, they have a different philosophy when it comes to language learning that is more to the point with me.

[Ciza29]

Airto,
Does Fluenz.com take you as far and as thorough as platiquemos?

My biggest problem is still understanding what others are saying.

[Airto]

Originally Posted by Ciza29

Airto,
Does Fluenz.com take you as far and as thorough as platiquemos?

My biggest problem is still understanding what others are saying.

Ciza,

I didn't go through the whole Platiquemos program, I got bored in level one. I don't believe the two can be compared because they are very different. Platiquemos still has the old feeling to it and Fluenz is 21 century. I would say that Platiquemos appears more thorough (in the amount of information) but Fluenz will get you understanding and speaking faster. If you go to Fluenz.com there is a demo available of one of their workouts under Spanish. You can download it and try it out.

[John Wayne]

I think dedication is what it takes, plus watching the old 3 stooges in Spanish on the TV....