Spanish , from Syracuse Language, which began shipping today, offers hours of fun language learning, for children ages 6-10, with five levels of immersion games featuring wacky monster pals. Spanish requires no reading or keyboarding to learn 400 Spanish words and phrases. Included in the software is a Spanish sing-along cassette with 8 songs that reinforce such themes as colors, numbers, and shapes.
Children can also sing along, karaoke-style, with the instrumental track.
Research shows that by starting young, many children can master perfect pronunciation of a second language. Spanish is a great way for kids to get started in a new language. Spanish, an educator-designed program, uses a learning method developed by Syracuse Language called Interactive Language Immersion. Spanish presents 37 colorful learning activities at five levels that teach such skills as speaking, listening comprehension, pronunciation and vocabulary, as well as the alphabet, numbers, common expressions and gender agreement of nouns and articles. A gaggle of monster pals create fun, intuitive interfaces, showing children what to do as they learn Spanish words for the face and body, food, animals, sports, clothing, opposites, time, days of the week, seasons, occupations and much more.