With any touch of the keyboard, a child gets results. Orr is also impressed with Kaplan's new language products. Spanish for the Real World and French for the Real World are a whole different type of language software. You are dropped into a road rally. No English is spoken.
Students find themselves instantaneously using the language.
There's no dry vocabulary drill. Instead, they use their language skills to accomplish a real and very doable task. This one has hooked my daughter on practicing her French voluntarily. Dorling Kindersley has come up with a number of winners. And Orr couldn't help but recommend a few DK products too new to make the list.