| | |  | Health & Beauty | Home » » KidSpeak Spanish for Windows Only | | | | | | | Description: | | Windows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac! Each KidSpeak language includes 12 printable activities and projects to reinforce the language learning. KidSpeak was designed and developed by leading educators to take advantage of the intuitive language learning abilities of grade school children. KidSpeak's innovative award-winning approach has no drills, tests or anything unpleasant. Children simply look forward to "playing" with their animated friends every day, while you know they are "learning". Awards * New York Festival's Interactive Multimedia Competition for the Best Educational/Instructional Programs produced for use in Schools * K-12 Educational CD-ROM award at the 4th Annual International Digital Media Awards "The designers have achieved their aim of making the program fun, challenging, absorbing and entertaining" - The Age, November 1997 It really works! Your child will build a solid foreign language foundation using the successful immersion approach preferred by educators. Each language is hosted by a fun cartoon "friend" and his or her playful pet who use only the language being taught. Your child simply points and clicks. With KidSpeak, your child will automatically learn correct pronunciation, alphabet and word recognition, simple sentence structure, plural and singular forms, numbers, simple addition and subtraction, how to tell time, and much more. The Sooner A Child Starts Learning A New Language The Better. Here's Why: As a parent, if you want your child to take advantage of the language-learning "window of opportunity", you must take an active role. There is no better tool than your computer and KidSpeak to start your child on a second language. With KidSpeak, your child can interact with authentic foreign language sounds, words and phrases, games, puzzles, and songs. If you can place a disc in your computer's CD-ROM drive, that's all you need to know to get your child off and running in another language. Windows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac! | | | Features: | |
• Spanish language learning software for kids of all agesWindows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac!
• Teaches over 700 words and expressions
• Enjoyable animation, activities, and interactive games, puzzles, and songs
• Award-winning software designed and developed by leading educators
• Includes 12 printable activities and projects to reinforce learning. Windows ONLY, Will NOT Work with Mac!
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Package Length:
| 9.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 7.88 inches | | Package Height:
| 2.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 1.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 8 reviews |
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| Mac / Windows | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
 Low quality, no educational valueJun 15, 2009
This program was written by an Australian company and merely redistributed by Transparent Language. I supose they must not have had their own product for the 12 and under age group. However, I think they have done a lot of damage to their reputation by putting their name on this product.
The program looks like it was written over ten years ago for Windows 98 with 256 color graphics. It is very cartoony. It reminds me of the very first Putt Putt game--but not as well done.
The graphics are so bad that some of the objects in the pictures are unidentifiable. There is a retangular object they have amoung the school supplies which I could never figure out what it was supposed to be. In other pictures there is more than one object in the picture and there is no way of knowing what the vocabulary word is refering to. For example, they have a picture of a bug in a jar. You don't know if the word identifying the picture refers to a bug in a jar, just the bug, or just the jar. This especially problematic in the body parts section. In one picture they show a parrot head which is identified as pico. "Pico" means beak. However, there isn't an arrow pointing to the beak, so the child could just as easily think it means parrot since they identify a couple of other species of birds in the previous section. Same problem when they show a picture of a foot but are refering to the toes, a horse leg when they are just refering to the hooves, etc. Oh, and since this is an "immersion" program there aren't any English translations to clarify things.
I took two years of Spanish in college and although my Spanish is very rusty, I still know a lot of vocabulary words. Even so, I found this program very confusing and the quality was less than of free, online games. This program is not worth $10, much less $40. Save your money.
[It is interesting to note that not one of the 5 star reveiwers have reviewed any other products. Their reveiws read more like product descriptions or advertisements than reviews written by people talking about a product their children liked. I'm not saying that these reviews were written by Transparent Language employees. I just find it strange that you would get such nonpersonal, glowing reviews for such a low quality product.]
1 of 2 found the following review helpful:
"very bad"Mar 25, 2009
This software is really bad.
Not even a single star.
Waste of money.
Rubbish!
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Not enough "wow!"Apr 14, 2007
I was somewhat disappointed in the types of games and graphics this software had, especially considering that for the same price I can get a packet of four CD's of games with much snazzier graphics, animation, and interaction (of course, they're not teaching a second language). My kids loved it when they got it and played with it non-stop for about a week, and they haven't touched it since. They're back to the games with more animation.
8 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Language Learning for ChildrenJul 09, 2003
Kidspeak Spanish is the perfect way to enterain while educating your child. Exposure to a second language is nothing but good and the younger it happens the easier it becomes to learn. In this program there are so many fun games and activities for your child to enjoy. It will teach them some basics like the alphabet, telling time, names of the days and months, simple phrases and sentences, ect. My children really enjoy this and use it all the time. I would recomend this to anyone child it is simply a great product.
My son and daughter love thisJun 12, 2003
My son and daughter can't get enough of this. Even when they aren't using it they run around the house saying words in Spanish. There are so many games and activities with good animation that keep them entertained for hours. All these games taught my kids how to greet, tell time, animals, understand simple sentences, and more all in Spanish. In the end, this product is all it says it is, a fun and very good language education software for kids.
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