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Rocket Spanish have two educational games to help you learn Spanish. They are :
MegaVocab
MegaAudio.

This post will talk about MegaAudio.

MegaAudio is similar in structure to the MegaVocab game. You can select from 20 topics that range from fairly specific topics like colors to more practical topics like tourism. Once you have selected a topic you go to a new screen.

The screen has 6 pictures with the English word underneath each picture. A word or phrase is spoken in Spanish and you have to guess which picture the spoken word represents. There is an audio replay button that can be pressed if you didn’t catch the word the first time or need to hear it again. When you pick a picture, the game gives you the Spanish equivalent word and says if the guess was correct or not.

You are asked 20 questioned and given a score of the number answered correctly at the end of the questions. This gives you an idea of how you are doing and whether you can move to another topic or redo the current topic.

I think MegaAudio is effective in teaching comprehension and pronunciation provided you take it seriously. In reality, the pictures and English words are of no use to you unless you have some inkling of the word you are hearing. So you won’t learn new words based on the pictures however you will learn how to pronounce the words. If you repeat the words after the speaker and try to mimic their pronunciation you will develop, with a bit of effort, a decent Spanish accent.

For more details of the Rocket Spanish course and details of a free 6 day course visit the Rocket Spanish website.