This vocabulary building program provides teachers with an interesting tool for stimulating student interest in a foreign language. It provides beginning language learners with an introduction to Spanish, French, German, Japanese or English, and is also great revision for continuing students. Users can learn hundreds of words and phrases in each language while playing multimedia versions of twenty-seven familiar games such as Memory, Jigsaw Puzzles, Bingo, Simon Says and Concentration. The games are designed to be self-correcting so that students learn from all responses, correct and incorrect. Instructions are clear, direct and easy to follow, and the graphics are excellent, being bright, lively and appealing to students.
Topics are child-centered, but fun even for adult beginners.
Native speakers are used and sound and pronunciation are clear, precise and well paced. Overall, this is an excellent language disk, sure to motivate beginning students from Year 3 to Year 9. It is a particularly useful resource for those schools where more than one language is offered. Colour Macintosh, 4MB RAM, mouse, microphone. This excellent package can be used to support the French syllabus, especially in Years Nine and Eleven.