Firstly, the software is poorly written and causes a lot of problems with new computers and newer versions of Windows. The audio and visual programs are strangely poor considering there are so many inexpensive options out there.

The content is also very thin but that fact is well hidden by confusing interfaces. Navigating this software is not easy. Once you do get it down, however, there's no reward - minimal vocabulary, incomprehensible dialogues without adequate translation/explanation, no overview of cultural idioms (which explains why the dictionairy is useless). The problmes go on.

I feel pretty stupid for having purchased it.

"Unbiased opinion - this package is a tease", The software seems ok to give you a bite of spanish but I'm disappointed to say I wanted alot more. I've already mastered the audio cd's in 2.5 weeks and I need more and hoped for alot more. Does anyone recommend something that will teach spanish well on audio for the money ?

"Needs to update software", You cannot listen to these CD roms with your headset on your PC. Your can listen to this program on your PC speakers. I emailed the company and they could not help me. They told me they always use this program with their PC speakers. You mean within this company no one has ever tried to listen this program with headphones on their PC.
I purchased this set to use at work on my computer.
This program still can be ran on windows 3.11. Windows 3.11 was kicked out the door by windows 95. This company needs to update their software.

"Not Useful", I have an employee who only speaks Spanish and I bought this hoping to pick up enough words to communicate on the most basic level. What sold (suckerd?) me into buying the set was the Webster's Talking Dictionary. My misunderstanding was that I could type in an English word, get the Spanish equivalent and an audio rendition of its correct pronunciation. Not so. All I got it to do was pronounce the English word, which I wasn't interested in hearing, with a group of letters arranged into Spanish words that I had no idea how to pronounce intelligibly. Two of the other three CDs in the set, the Spanish World Talk and the Who Is Oscar Lake CDs could not find my already installed Quick Time and since I didn't want to also install their version, they would not run on my (brand new) computer. The first CD, Talk Now! Spanish, was kinda interesting - it shows pictures of objects and lists phrases that are "spoken" set up in a game format. But there weren't very many of any of them. The program is cheap but I'm still going to try to return it to the store for a refund.

What I'd really like (perhaps for my Palm) is software that I could speak into, have it converted to text, translated to Spanish and then output to audio - both ways. English to Spanish and Spanish to English. Seems fairly servicable communication could take place that way. Such is probably already available somewhere.

"Disappointing", I was extremely disappointed with this product. The first disc teaches only a few nouns. It contains almost no verbs, adverbs, pronouns, adjectives, etc. The second disc is nothing but dialouge that is all in Spanish with no English translations. The people talk way too fast for a beginner, and there's no way to slow the speed of the dialouge. I complained to the company about this and they basically told me that I was wrong for not liking their product. Also, the five language dictionary isn't very good either. I typed in an English word and it gave about fifty different Spanish words for that one word. So I absolutely do not recommend purchasing this CD-ROM.