5 stars (Wonderful) - Great purchase and I highly recommend it. The CDs are easy to understand and the notebook is clear and simple. Not to much talking; just to the point. 1 stars (For a college grad from an English speaking school) - Totally useless for anyone but a well educated native English speaker with an accent they want to change. No Tesol grad can get anything from this material. The book reads like a post grad textbook. A truly tough read even for me, a college grad and professional and a part time English teacher. This material is completely inaccessable to my wife who is learning english as a second tongue. Waste of our money. 4 stars (great book) - that was really nice trainnig methods once it not only teaches you word repetition but also works on the functional aspects of phonation - great for a Brazilian guy that had a hard time to learn how to "untie" his tongue to speak. ... Lingual Arts :: United States :: Spoken English :: Pronunciation :: English language :: Dialects :: American English :: Accent reduction :: Speech :: Phonetics & Phonics :: Language :: F :: The American Accent Guide- Second Edition- A Complete and Comprehensive Course on the Pronunciation
4 stars (Quite good.) - This CDrom is quite good and I would have given it 5 stars if my toddler had been thrilled with it... which he wasn't. He was mildly interested. Perhaps at almost 3 years of age he is too young. On the other hand, as a teacher I was very impressed with this CDrom. It is very thorough and I have no doubt that if a child were to proceed through the games, winning stars for each level, their skills would be dramatically improved. It seemed entertaining to me, but I'm 43 - not the suggested 4 - 8 years old. 5 stars (Great product loads of fun!) - I bought this for my two boys ages 4 and 6. They can't sit still but do for this phonics software. They love the learning games and don't realize they are really learning. I purchased this to help them with their speech, one is severly delayed and the other not so much. The words and pronounciation are very very clear and easily understood. Simple directions and easy to follow. Starts off easy but gets harder for my older child. Best of all they are learning to read and practicing speech. Also has sight words game great for school age children and early readers. 5 stars (Very nice software, my son loves it) - For money, this 2 cds set software is really a nice deal. I had hard time to talk about phonics with my son who is 5 years old. He won't pay attention to learn the sound of letters. This software really caught his attention, he sits there for hours and practice. Those games are very cute and helpful. After two days play, he already made a lot of progress. It takes off some pressures from me. We love it! ... Topics Entertainment :: Secondary Education (High School) :: Reference :: Education (Educational) :: Mac Macintosh Machintosh Apple :: Kids (Children) :: Computer software (programs) :: :: Educator-s Choice Phonics Excelerator (Jewel Case)