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Tell Me More Spanish is an outstanding solution to help you learn Spanish. The software is well designed, easy to use and offers the most extensive set of features of any learn Spanish software available. It includes powerful speech recognition technology that allows the computer to recognize what you say, assess your pronunciation and correct your mistakes. This software’s comprehensive feature set has helped it earn the TopTenREVIEWS Gold Award.

Tell Me More uses more than just speech recognition software to help you learn Spanish. Tell Me More manages to provide a comprehensive curriculum for your learning needs. You can practice vocabulary, take grammar lessons and even practice your conversational skills. Covering all the aspects of learning, speaking and understanding a language is the goal for anyone learning a new language, and Auralog has made an application that can do it all.

Tell Me More is specifically designed to grow with you as you learn Spanish. We reviewed the beginner Spanish application, which has the first two learning levels, but Auralog also sells Performance editions that include 5 and 10 levels of learning. These higher levels will take you through the intermediate and advanced Spanish learning experience. No matter what your current level of Spanish-speaking ability, Tell Me More is an adaptable, fun solution.

Features:
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The best way to begin to learn Spanish is in Guided Mode. You can select lesson paths then view your progress. This mode includes a diary where you can set realistic goals concerning study time and habits. This is helpful because setting and tracking realistic goals will help you remain committed to learn Spanish. Each time you log on, you can track how closely your progress matches your goals. No other language software offers this level of goal-setting features.

Next, you have Free-to-Roam Mode. In this mode you can choose from a list of different workshops, including lessons, oral or written practice, vocabulary, grammar and cultural studies. Within each of these workshops, you can customize your learning experience and progress at your own pace.

Dynamic Mode, the final type, offers a truly intelligent way of managing your learning. The software analyzes your progress as you work, then adjusts the next activities in your course according to your results in each exercise. Dynamic mode also allows you to build a personal profile that includes your own learn Spanish preferences and your progress in those areas.

If you are a serious student of Spanish, Tell Me More is a superior package worth the cost. The learn Spanish software offers more learning and tracking options than the other applications on the market today.

Fundamentals:
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This software covers all of the core curriculum areas to learn Spanish thoroughly. Learning words, grammar, pronunciation and conversation skills are handled through individual exercises that focus on specific tasks. The content is organized by difficulty, but the software also helps you to get a basic understanding of everything you need to have rudimentary communication early on in your learning experience, just in case you don’t have a lot of time to study before you need to speak Spanish.

Ease of Use:
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Tell Me More rose to the top because of its large selection of features and functions. However, this plethora of options hurts its performance in the Ease of Use category. It's difficult to even find all the amazing learn Spanish features because they are buried in different menus. However, in the latest update of Tell Me More, buttons and other user friendly features were added for a cleaner and easier to use interface. With a little work you can find all of the amazing features and the true learning will begin.

Teaching Tools:
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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 learn Spanish 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 application 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 who want to learn Spanish at intermediate or advanced level.

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 Spanish. 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 learn Spanish application 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 learn Spanish software. 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.

Word Tools:
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Tell Me More has great learn Spanish 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 are not yet familiar with any words, but it can be useful later on. Once you have a basic understanding of Spanish it is very important to know why words have a certain ending or why a sentence seems backwards.

Help & Support:
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There are various methods of getting support from Tell Me More. The user manual that comes with the learn Spanish software is fairly useful and the tutorial on the Tell Me More website is also very helpful.

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.

Summary:

Overall, Tell Me More Spanish 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 Spanish.

The wide range of features and adjustable learning paths make this software useful for any learning style and any learning level. There are few other applications 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 Spanish difficult to navigate at first, everything else about the software is exceptional. Your goal to learn Spanish could hardly be easier.

 
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Tell Me More Spanish

Pros
Tell Me More Spanish has the most advanced set of features.

Cons
Finding all the features is difficult because there are so many.

The Verdict

Whether you are a beginner or an advanced user, Tell Me More Spanish is great for anyone wanting to learn Spanish.