Learn to speak Spanish software is actually a virtual ‘private teacher’ that can effectively help us on learning a second language. Researches show that Spanish is expected to become the first language of 50% of the US population within the next fifty years. Learn about the latest Spanish teaching solutions and how they are about to change the way we learn new languages.
Getting some basics
Learn to speak Spanish software is designed to teach individuals the Spanish language in a motivating and fun way. When we examine the main reasons for the increasing popularity of these language learning solutions, we can immediately identify the use of interactive multimedia that makes Spanish learning easier and fun.
Many of these language learning technology solutions use fast and effective learning techniques such as: easy interactive lessons, animation, and audio-based pronunciation practice.
Main benefits
What is in it for us?
- Designed to be easy for both children and adults.
- Uses ‘motivating’ interactive multimedia.
- Effectively practices on pronouncing Spanish words and sentences correctly.
If we search a little more, we could easily find other advantages provided by these software solutions, simply because many important countries use Spanish as their main language.
Among European languages Spanish is considered quite easy and thanks to technology, learning process is simplified, so any of us could easily learn how to speak it quit fast.
Conclusion
Learn to speak Spanish software isn’t just about learning a new language, but learning about it’s culture. Spanish learning technology is quite complex, but fortunately latest developments in this field make it accessible to anyone who wishes to learn this beautiful language.
By: Jason W.
Archive for September, 2009
When in Rome, Why not Let the Romans Teach You?
September 27th, 2009In Huangshan (??) southern Anhui province in Eastern China, Fu Shou-Bing logs on to the computer in the public library near his village. Since discovering ECpod.com(http://www.ECpod.com), the retired High School Chemistry teacher has been logging on almost every day to the English-Chinese teaching website. Sometimes he cycles the 25 miles home, cooks himself a simple lunch of rice and stir-fried vegetables with salted fish, often returning once again to the library and his new hobby in the evening.
ECpod.com boasts an educational website that teaches members conversational English or Chinese (no “this is an apple” stuff here) via video clips contributed by other members. After a vetting and often transcribing process by language tutors commissioned by the site, the clips are available free of charge in YouTube fashion. The twist? Members film each other in everyday activities, hoping other members will learn not just their native tongue, but also cultural innuendos lost in textbooks and more conventional means of language learning.
“One member filmed himself cooking in his kitchen. We got a few emails asking what condiments he used,” says a bemused Warwick Hau, one of the site’s more public faces. One emailer even wanted to know if she could achieve the same Chinese stir-fry using ingredients from her regular CR Vanguard (????) supermarket. “We often forget our every day activities may not be as mundane to people on the other side of the world,” Hau adds. Another such clip is “loaches” – a Chinese mother of 3 filmed her children and their friends playing with a bucket of loaches – slippery eel-like fish the children were picking up and gently squeezing between their fingers.
Lately the members have also begun to make cross-border friends and contacts. The ECpal function works much the same way sites like Facebook.com and MySpace.com work – members can invite each other to view their clips and make friends. And it has its fair share of juvenile humor as well. “Farting Competition” features two teenagers and graphic sound effects. Within several days, the clip was one of the most popular videos that week, likely due to mass-forwarding by the participants’ schoolmates.
For other members keen to learn more than the fact juvenile humor is similar everywhere, there are many home videos featuring unlikely little nuggets of wisdom. “The last thing I learned from the site is why you never find green caps for sale in China”, says Adam Schiedler one of the English language contributors to the site. Green caps signify cuckolded husbands, particularly shameful in China as they are a huge loss of face. Adam vows not to buy any green headgear for his newfound friends.
The subject matter of the videos often speaks volumes about its contributors. Members choose their own content and film the clip wherever they please, some of their efforts drawing attention to rural surroundings and the quaint insides of little homes otherwise not seen unless you backpack your way thru the tiny dirt roads and villages along the Chinese countryside.
Idyllic countrysides and cooking lessons aside however, ECpod marries the latest video sharing technology with the old school way of teaching a language – from the native speakers on the street. It’s a modern, more convenient alternative to spending 6 months in China. And why not let the Chinese teach you?
By: Susan Lee
How to Buy a Language Software
September 26th, 2009tudy different language in a bit of time? Want to speak it like it is your native tongue? Try any language software available on the market today. They do not prepare you to become a native speaker but rather to speak like a native speaker.
It is a fact that one of the easiest ways you can learn another language is by learning it on the computer with language software that lets you learn interactively and at your own pace. Not all language software are created alike, but the best ones on the market have a tracking feature that lets you monitor your progress.
With a self-paced language software, learning becomes a great experience and an entertaining one, unlike in a classroom type environment where you have to manage your pace to keep up with your classmates at the same time.
IN FAVOR OF THE SOFTWARE
Learning a new language may be tedious and hard, especially if it is an entirely different language (think American trying to learn Chinese). Really, the best way to get up to speed in the learning is to immerse yourself in the language – travel to that country or make friends with native speakers – but it can take up a lot of your money or time, or both.
Language software programs are the best language immersion programs to be developed in this very technologically advanced era. With these programs, you learn the language the manner you did when you were a child – through graphics. They don’t bombard you with English translations of words. A picture is displayed and below it you’ll see how that picture is called in a different language. Other languages can be easily taught whether that language is French, German, English, Chinese, Korean, and the like.
Language software an used nowadays not only in schools but also in companies where they teach their employees to learn a new language by giving them computerized language software rather than paying for a language tutor to teach them, which is costly and time-consuming. (And you know that many companies do not have time on their hands.)
Another benefit you can have with language immersion software is that you can follow the accent and the sound you hear so that you will be talking like you are a native speaker of the country. Speaking another language thus becomes as easy as one, two, three. Language immersion software programs feature native speakers pronouncing words and phrases. So what you hear is a pure accent, not the accent that comes as a result of learning another language apart from English.
Adapting this language software in a classroom-based instruction will need more equipment, like a sound system for individual microphones and a video projector. Reviewing the software requirements is necessary before purchasing the software. Choose a software that is suitable for the students or children, where they can learn at their own phase and not pressured by others. Try learning another language with a language immersion software. You’ll be talking another language in no time.
By: Charles White
