Berlitz have been in the language teaching business for a very long time and they deliver a good solid Spanish learning software program here. While it does deliver content that covers beginners through intermediate and up to advanced, some new learners find the beginning level too difficult and the upper levels too simplified. There are many different activities that are included in the program which focus on vocabulary and conversation skills.
Strengths of the program are the word recognition activities and the speech recognition software. Perceived weaknesses of the software are that there is no progress tracking included to monitor your performance with the taught language and that navigating the software is overly complex at times.
Many users would like to see a more user friendly interface. Following on from audio and video files there are a number of activities that practice the language points in the lesson. It does not have progress tracking included, but it does offer speech recognition software to improve your Spanish pronunciation. Teaching tools that are included with the package are audio and video files, speech recognition and word recognition activities, cultural lessons and dictionary, glossary and word root search.
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Combining language learning and cultural understanding, we provide the closest experience you can get to actually living and working in a new country. Become a fluent speaker in your new language faster. Spend less time on study, and more time on what matters to you most. Learn online, in-person, from an instructor or on your own with self-study. However, the course is certainly geared towards either those who already know a little of the language regardless of how it is marketing itself, you would have a very difficult time being a beginner on this course or those who are taking it solely for the purpose of going on holiday.
The detail in the individual lessons is either far too much or far too little, and the package as a whole is very definitely geared up towards more tourist customers. To genuinely learn Spanish in a way that is of practical and personal use, then this is not the foreign language package to choose. There are far better courses out there that give you a much more comprehensive grasp of a language, and this is certainly more of a supplementary course than a primary source for language-learning.
The one in my city is desperate for new teachers and told me they would love to have me. I was then asked to attend training for 2 weeks, AKA skip my university courses for 2 weeks. I was told they would reserve me a place immediately. A month later I get a call from Berlitz again out of the blue after not hearing from them since.
I should have known after the first issue that something was wrong. I went to training, missed 2 weeks of classes, and paid my own travel and food costs. Luckily, my hotel costs were covered.
I was exhausted from traveling there and being expected to sit 8 hours a day in their training classes. There is a reason why my mates in training kept telling me Berlitz has a bad reputation in all of their cities.
And now I understand why. I am never going near anything associated with Berlitz again. Best value for the money — great price at Costco. It is much better than that which is described in these coments.
Best part are the flashcards. No need now to keep the disk in the computer now. You can watch tv while playing the games on your laptop. The program is not a formal education. Appears to be a useful program for a six week vacation to Italy.
Actually, I expected a product that would really provide me with a very prearranged set of lessons which would assist me in understanding French. So far, I have discovered an extremely slackly set of tools as well as incoherent exercises. While you can probably learn French using this package, you would really need to exert some effort in figuring out the most excellent method to apply the tools.
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