Teach Me Spanish is an older language learning system and as such it is not filled with state of the art technology. What it does have is simple and effective teaching methods that have withstood the test of time. This short Teach Me Spanish review will touch on some of the advantages and disadvantage of this language learning software.
The Teach Me Spanish program was built around the concept that there are only two basic skills you need to acquire to achieve fluency in any language. The first is a varied vocabulary of about 2000 words that cover the full range of human life. The other is a good understanding of the grammatical structure of the language. This system does an excellent job of teaching these two things.
Because of its simplicity and direct approach, this Teach Me Spanish review believes this system is very easy to use. It automatically adapts itself to your learning speed and includes a story with each lesson. You follow the story and add the appropriate words in the correct tenses to fill in the blanks.
There are a series of tests given at the end of each lesson. They are designed to determine how well you are retaining the vocabulary being taught. They do not only test you active vocabulary, that is the words you can understand and use in conversation, but also your passive vocabulary. Passive vocabulary are the words that you can understand when you read or hear them, but you cannot use them in conversation.
In the interest of giving all necessary information, it is important for this Teach Me Spanish review to mention this systems drawbacks. One is that there are no video or interactive conversational aspects of to this software. Many people find it easier to learn and more fun to learn a language when these things are present. The speech recognition program included in this system is not terribly accurate. You must dictate the words very carefully and correctly in order for the program to recognize them. This can be difficult to do when you are first learning to speak a language.