Teaching Tools:  

Tell Me More has an excellent speech recognition system to help you improve your accent and Spanish speaking ability. In fact, Tell Me More has one of the best speech recognition packages of any of the products we reviewed. Tell Me More software evaluated our tester's pronunciation and automatically detected and corrected all errors. The program even includes 3D animation to illustrate the movements of the lips and mouth to help you pronounce each word correctly. This is especially useful for seeing how unfamiliar sounds are created.

Tell Me More also has quite a few different word recognition activities, though they aren't all useful. Crossword puzzles and Word Find activities seemed a little confusing and frustrating at the beginner level, though they might be helpful for people learning at intermediate and advanced levels. Tell Me More also has a hangman-like game where you guess the letters in a word. This could prove  frustrating at a beginning level when you still have little idea how to spell Spanish words.

Tell Me More Spanish offers students an unsurpassed cultural learning experience, including geography. Fun activities in their map section help you learn the names and locations of rivers, cities, and capitals. When you start the Tell Me More Spanish curriculum, you don’t just learn the language. Along the way, you learn short lessons about the history of the language, the history of the peoples who speak it and some of the culturally significant things you’ll find in Spanish-speaking countries. This is just another reason why Tell Me More Spanish is so great. The program is concerned with educating you about all aspects of Spanish instead of just getting you to repeat sounds and memorize vocabulary. 

One of the best teaching tools that Tell Me More offers is actually accessible through an online membership that comes with the program. The online account gives you access to testing and evaluation services that help you gauge just how well you are doing. With these testing services, you can get immediate feedback about all the things you have learned. While most people aren’t usually excited about taking tests, we encourage people to use this feature because it really helps you understand where you are in the learning process and identify weaknesses.

This online membership is actually a gift that keeps on giving because it provides you with additional content and lessons. Every week you can log on and find a new 30 minute lesson. This includes video, vocabulary and grammar exercises.

Tell Me More’s greatest weakness when it comes to teaching tools may be the grammar lessons. While the rest of the curriculum is very interactive and hands-on, learning grammar hearkens back to learning Spanish out of books in school. The grammar lessons largely consist of text with some accompanying pictures and audio tracks. It certainly isn’t worthless, but it doesn’t seem to fit with the rest of the program that is so focused on interaction.

Word Tools:  

Tell Me More has great word tools that can help you translate or look up words in English or Spanish. This may not be useful at the beginning because you aren't yet familiar with any words, but it can be useful later on. Some of these tools can be hard to find though.

Help/Support:  

There are various methods of getting support from Tell Me More. The user manual that comes with the software is fairly useful and the tutorial on the Tell Me More website is also very helpful. We highly recommend using it because, as we mentioned before, some of the menus and buttons aren’t exactly clearly labeled. Using the tutorial will help you navigate the program easily from the start. 

Auralog provides email and phone support options for technical problems, but when we used the email support, we found the support technicians gave replies that were neither helpful nor timely. The manual also says there is a FAQ available on the website, but we were unable to find it.

Overall, Tell Me More Premium is the best option available for learning and retaining the Spanish language. This product takes the available technology and crafts a curriculum around it that makes it possible to learn and practice all aspects of the Spanish language. 

The wide range of features and adjustable learning paths make this program useful for any learning style and any learning level. There are few other programs that allow you to customize your curriculum like Tell Me More does. 

While there are some issues with the interface design that makes Tell Me More difficult to navigate at first, everything else about the program is exceptional. Learning Spanish could hardly be easier.