The Simplest French Learning Software Bilingual Audiobooks

Online, April 19, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Antofagasta, Chile, April 2010. A French teacher, Gabrielle Guichard, currently in post at the Institute of Arts and Languages in Chile, has come with an idea as simple as smart to help her students to learn French, and to help herself to learn Spanish. To the classical bilingual book she adds two voices and removes the book: she gets a bilingual audiobook.

She was struggling to learn Spanish, since she had accepted a post in a country she did not speak the language. She asked her students to tell her what their most frustrating experiences were, with regards to learning languages. She analysed the answers and compared them with her own difficulties.

They all faced the same obstacles:
- they did not have enough time to study and therefore looked for a method that could fit their busy schedules,
- they wanted to enjoy the learning process instead of being bored to death by fake conversations forged only to illustrate a grammar point and silly dialogues that were no more than disguised lists vocabulary.

What could be available at any time, handsfree, interesting, and, to ease learning, that would mimic closely the way people learn their mother tongue? The simplest language learning software met all the requirements.
Once she had thought of it, she wondered how it came that no one had ever thought of it earlier. It was as simple as that: she devised to add a translation to an audiobook.
She imagined, delighted in advance, that instead of having to leaf through a dictionary every other sentence, she had no more to do than to listen to the translation. No time wasted, no trouble to pick the right meaning, no risk of misunderstanding. If the pronunciation of a word was puzzling, she had only to hit the "Replay" touch.

Bilingual audiobooks are newcomers in the language learning software field, therefore, few are available yet. Nevertheless some titles are ready to make learning easy.