Includes: Complete Learn How to Speak, Read & Write Spanish course, with over 414 activities and exercises, 12 hours of interesting and interactive audio lessons, and educational software games.

Overview: Rocket Spanish offers the most bang for your buck with a much lower price tag than other systems. With its wide variety of learning techniques, Rocket Spanish makes it virtually Impossible to become bored with learning. Interactive, useful content, and instant access make this our TOP pick.

Highlights: This system has proven itself the best for beginners as it uses a variety of tools and techniques to reach all different types of learners. Teaches Spanish step by step using interactive audio lessons taking you from a beginning to an advanced level. The conversation portion of the course allows you to effectively practice conversing with native speakers. Even intermediate users found their Spanish greatly improved, thanks to the unique and highly interactive format of the program.

The company claims that the course is designed so that you can learn your fundamentals in less than 3 months. The course is designed for practicality in terms of what vocabulary you need for many kinds of likely situations.

The entire system is downloadable for instant access and easy use. With 31 in-depth lessons, Rocket Spanish takes the user through every step needed to become proficient in Spanish in the shortest time possible.

Guarantees: They honor their 60-day 100% money-back guarantee, standing behind their product all the way. Great content at a great cost. Very impressive.

Includes: Available in beginner, intermediate and advanced levels, or combined with a discount for purchasing the entire program together.

Overview: The complete package encompasses over 300 Spanish lessons, delivered in written instruction, video and images paired with phrases. Volumes 1-3 together come at a substantial discount.

Highlights: More expensive than some other options, Rosetta Stone is also more in-depth and comprehensive. Students can track their progress to stay motivated and measure their results throughout the course. Rosetta Stone contains such a wide variety of activities and learning tools that the student can pick and choose which to apply and avoid feeling bogged down in information, but some may find this level of information too time consuming and a bit over-whelming.

The Milestone feature lets you try out your new language knowledge in real-life situations while the New ADAPTIVE RECALL™ feature tracks your progress, and allows you to revisit areas of development. The program also differentiates between Latin American Spanish and Spanish spoken in Spain. The entire system was easy to install and navigate through.

Guarantees: The most expensive software we tested, but you can save yourself some cash by purchasing all three levels together. Rosetta Stone offers a six-month, unconditional money-back guarantee on all of their products so you can try it out risk-free.

Includes: 30 Spanish lessons on 15 audio CDs.

Overview: Learning Spanish Like Crazy, with its exclusively audio format, is the solution for beginners who don't have time to sit through lessons and complete written exercises.

Highlights: Tailored to beginning and intermediate Spanish speakers, Learning Spanish Like Crazy is an audio system great for listening in the car or in the evenings as you go about your other business. The appeal of this audio-based program for many users is that there is a lot of repetition with regard to constant instructions said and repeated in Spanish. Some users find that the commands become second nature after listening to the narrator say them over and over in each lesson.

It also includes some great bonuses such as access to monthly teleseminars to hear conversational Spanish in action, as well as the comical "Los Insultos" guide to vulgar Spanish insults (for adult users). Visual learners or those wishing to improve their reading or writing skills must be aware that, as an audio system, LSLC focuses on conversational Spanish.

Guarantees: While Learning Spanish Like Crazy does offer a second level course called the Platinum Package (with 48 CDs), it is much more expensive and tends to go over a lot of the content already covered in the first course.