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Spanish for beginners cdrom: samples
Samples from lessons and games:
Sample 11
Speaking game, recording your answer. Here you have a few seconds to record the English words on the screen. The buttons below the task allow you to go to the instructions, repeat the game and hide the English words.
Sample 12
Speaking game. Listen to your answer and the native speaker's as many times as you want. When you're ready to record the next word or words, click on the grey button. There are 12 rounds in every speaking game. Once you finish the game, the box on the top left gets ticked automatically so you know you've done it.
Sample 13
Learning to greet people in Spanish. In this new vocabulary lesson you get 10 very useful greetings which you'll practice over and over in other lessons and games.
Sample 14
Reading game. Here you practice reading and translating. You can also hear the Spanish words by clicking on them. Like on every game, you can see your good points on the right and the bad ones on the left throughout the game. Like always, you can go to the instructions or repeat the game at any point.
Sample 15
Listening game. Here you have to decide if the words you hear in Spanish match the English words on the screen. You can listen to the Spanish words as many times as you want. Like with every game, when you repeat it you get a different set of words on your screen, so you can practice plenty of words with just one game.
Sample 16
Writing game. In this type of game you type in the Spanish words you hear, and then you get to compare your answer with the correct one, plus you get feedback on your mistakes. See sample 24 for picture of feedback.
Sample 17
Discovering how to ask people their names. Notice the buttons on the bottom bar on all screens throughout the cdrom: launch the login, general help, tour, talking dictionary, pronunciation guide, index, personal notepad and exit, as well as go to the previous or next lesson or game.
Sample 18
Getting your final score. When you finish a game, you get your final score on the screen. On the left you get the number of wrong answers and on the right the number of right answers. The total is always 12. While you play a game, you always get the current score on the screen - you can see it on many samples on this page.
Sample 19
Another vocabulary lesson. Notice that every screen throughout the cdrom tells you which stage and chapter you're on, as well as the name of the chapter. The green tick on the top left box indicates that you've done this lesson. You can untick the box at any point.
Sample 20
Learning about clothes and shoes. In this vocabulary lesson you learn 12 words that'll make your next trip to the local Spanish market even more enjoyable.
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