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Spanish for beginners cdrom: samples
About our cdrom samples:
- These 105 screen shots from our interactive multimedia Spanish for beginners cdrom are only a small sample from the 1000s of screens on the cdrom
- To see a bigger image of the screen shots, click on their pictures
- Our cdrom contains a total of 99 Spanish lessons. Each lesson is followed by two games which are always based on what you've learned on that lesson, but they also review words from previous lessons
- There are two types of lessons: those where you learn new vocabulary (generally 12 words or 10 numbers), and those where you learn to build up sentences and ask questions
- You can record yourself in every lesson using the tape recorder
- To help you review, every twelve lessons there are three review games instead of a new lesson
- Our cdrom also has a Story, Talking Dictionary, Pronunciation Guide, Index, Help and Tour sections, Instructions and a personal Notepad. Click to here to find see more samples.
Samples from lessons and games:
Sample 1
Learning the first twelve Spanish words. In the first part of every vocabulary lesson, you see and hear the new words one after another. You can pause the action and listen to each word as many times as you want. To make sure you know what to do, you're asked whether you want to go to the instructions at the beginning of lessons and games.
Sample 2
Learning the first ten numbers. In the second part of every vocabulary lesson, all the new words appear on one screen and you can click on them to hear the Spanish. You can also launch the tape recorder and record yourself at any time, and as often as you want. Once you've learned the new vocabulary, you get to play two games, like the ones below.
Sample 3
Recording the numbers. In this game you get to practise the numbers you've learned. Throughout the cdrom, there are plenty of games of this sort where you record not just the words learned in the last lesson, but the ones you've learned so far.
Sample 4
Typing in the numbers you hear. This game allows you to get familiar with writing numbers down. This type of game comes up throughout the cdrom, and the amount of numbers you play with increases as you learn more and more of them.
Sample 5
Discovering the alphabet. Here you can listen to the whole alphabet automatically, or you can click on the letters to hear them in whichever order you like. You can also launch the tape recorder and record yourself at any point.
Sample 6
First of two games with the alphabet. In this game you have to click on the letter you hear in Spanish. You play against the clock, that way you can check whether you've learned the alphabet well.
Sample 7
Catching game. This is the second of two games with the alphabet. Whenever you hear a letter, you move the wizard to touch it, it disappears and you get a good point. To avoid getting bad points, make sure you don't touch the letters that aren't said!
Sample 8
Memory game. This is a great game for exercising your memory in Spanish. First you see three pictures on the screen and hear the Spanish words for all of them. Then the pictures disappear and you see only three question marks where the pictures were. You hear the words for one of the pictures and have to click on it - quickly, because you're playing against the clock.
Sample 9
Discovering 'el' and 'la' (masculine and feminine forms for 'the'). In this lessons we give you examples of when to use 'el' and 'la'. There'll be plenty of options to practise them later on in games, as well as more lessons, to make sure you get them right.
Sample 10
Learning 12 animals. Another one of the more than 50 vocabulary lessons on this cdrom. Notice the buttons on the top bars on this type of screen: hide the English, Spanish and/or picture; launch the Help for this lesson, go to the instructions, launch the tape recorder, change the volume and mark lesson as done.
Spanish set phrase
Apearse del burro
English literal translation
To get off the donkey
English equivalent
To back down
