Instant Immersion
Price:
1 level costs $29.95, 3 levels cost $44.95
Summary
Instant Immersion offers programs in over 120 languages, narrated by native speakers. It claims to help you build your vocabulary, converse with ease, and perfect your pronunciation. It has interactive activities on the computer, interactive games you can play with your family on a DVD, and MP3 files for your car. Their topics include food, shopping, restaurants, animals, numbers, etc. In other words, Instant Immersion will probably not help you if you are looking to have immediately applicable conversations A common trend in many reviews is the lack of structure in these courses. While other courses build on what you have previously learned and help you learn vocabulary relevant to your everyday life, Instant Immersion seems to provide a large amount of information without transitions or a clear learning path. There is a lot of content, but this doesn’t necessarily mean you will learn a lot. Instant Immersion may have been a good investment several years ago, but now there are many other options for affordable, quality language learning.
I don’t agree. I’m 73 and have been self studying languages since age 11. I do like the setup of Instant Immersion courses. They impress me more than Pimsleur which for myself moves too slowly. Other audio course I’m impressed with is from Living Language namely All Audio Step 1 and 2. They discuss grammatical features and verbs as well. One more audio course impresses me namely Learn In Your Car by Penton Overseas…offering 3 levels. Also by Penton is Verbs 101. Sadly these last two companies are out of business. As a polyglot myself I enjoy speaking about and recommending courses both audio and audio/book I consider notable.