Pros:
The program is designed in a game format in which the user completes lessons and quizzes to gain points. The speakers are clear and easy to understand. The quizzes are really fun too. The instructor on the screen says a word or phrase and you have to click on the matching picture. I had a little trouble at this when I first started but I soon caught on. There is also a memory game that the user can play to review everything covered so far. That game, I found, was the most helpful way of retaining the information I have learned.

Cons:

There really is no introduction. You just pop in the cd and BOOM, you begin. The navigation is a little annoying because not everything is labeled so you end up having to click on the help button to have everything spelled out for you. Other than that, I really can't find anything wrong with the program. Like I said, I highly reccomend it :)

"a decent set for the price", This 2 CD-ROM set is not a bad deal for the price. The first disc teaches some nouns and has some fun games. The second is nothing but games. The main problem with this set is that the second disc is all in Spanish and the first disc does not teach enough to prepare one for the second disc. The first disc teaches nouns only and no verbs, adjectives, etc. Since it is fairly cheap, it is worth buying to go along with something else but just don't buy this expecting to learn a whole lot from it alone.

"Worst Spanish software", You cannot learn to speak sentences in spanish from this software, it only teaches some words, but does not teach you how to speak in sentences or how to conjugate verbs, and the dictionary is useless because it only speaks the english translation which we already know, and not the spanish!!! I don't recommend that anyone buy this. It was a waste of my money.

"Nothing like what I thought it would be", This product, oddly enough, is better suited for someone that speaks Spanish and wants to learn English. The talking dictionary is especially poor. Don't make the same mistake I did in thinking that the dictionary would 'read' (meaning speak) words written in English in Spanish, e.g. it doesn't speak spanish. What the dictionary does is allows you to highlight words written in English which it will then 'speak' the english pronunciation and give you lists of spanish words that may be appropriate.