[Trainer-talk] students in spanish class

[Dean Martineau]

No, Pimsleur is not as "modern" as Rosetta Stone, but it really doesn't matter; the student can use it, and cannot use Rosetta Stone. The college is going to have to educate according to the student, not according to the methodology. In the end, the important thing is that the student can do the necessary reading, writing, speaking and reading in Spanish, whether or not he uses the same techniques to get there as everybody else. He does need to learn to produce the inverted exclamation mark and inverted question mark. Again, this is easy if he is using JAWS and still not difficult if using some other screen reader with Word. Another good source of materials is Learning chlly if somebody has a membership. They have all sorts of textbooks, possibly including the student's own text, in pretty good audio format. 

Dean

On Nov 17, 2012, at 2:44 PM, "Brett Boyer" <bboyer202 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi thanks for the tips. The reason I was interested in Rosetta Stone is
> because it has interactive software which includes speaking in to, typing,
> and listening to audio all in the same software package. Does pimsleur have
> the same thing and is it accessible? I know there are plenty of audio
> instructional material out there but the idea was to have him do something
> in the language lab at his college. They haven't worked much with blind
> students and are somewhat difficult finding a solution.
> Thanks again and will definitely look in to the podcasts and I'll read up on
> Pimsleur.
> bb
> 
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