Medical Spanish - Virtual Conversations(R) Language Program

Virtual Conversations® programs are the only multimedia foreign language programs that immerse you in realistic, give-and-take conversations with native speakers. This experience will rapidly increase your confidence in speaking a foreign language. You will learn vocabulary quickly and naturally, and improve your listening, comprehension and reading skills at the same time. Medical Spanish includes a tutor, a Hispanic physician, who helps you learn to pronounce the questions and phrases you will use to interview a patient. The instructor allows you to see the English translations of the Spanish words and phrases, record and replay your pronunciation of the words and phrases, instantly compare your pronunciation to the tutor's, and have the system evaluate your pronunciation. All of these are powerful educational features that help you train your ear and speak accent-free Spanish. The Virtual Conversations® language method is unique in the field of foreign language training. You are immersed in a problem-solving exercise that requires you to speak directly, face-to-face with native speakers in their language. Scientific experiments proved that students using the Virtual Conversations® language method quickly spoke with confidence. Your patient is a 78-year-old woman with a history of heart trouble. Your objective is to get to know her and learn her medical history. The program dynamically prompts you with questions in Spanish to help you get the information you need to make sound clinical decisions about her health care. If you immerse yourself in the experience, you will feel that you have actually met the patient and know her medical condition, all in Spanish. The interview can last for over an hour and may be conducted, in whole or in part, again and again. Virtual Conversations® logic assures that the flow of every interview you have with the patient will be different. You can practice interviewing in Spanish as often as you like.