Rosetta Stone English Level 1 & 2 Personal Edition

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Rosetta Stone English Level 1 & 2 Personal Edition

Title: Rosetta Stone English Level 1 & 2 Personal Edition

Author: Fairfield

Format: Software

List Price: ~~$359.00~~

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Rosetta Stone English Level 1 & 2 Personal Edition

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Where To Buy This Item

Platform: Mac OS, Windows
Media: CD-ROM

System requirements

PC:

Windows 95/98/Me/XP or NT 4.0/2000
Pentium 166 MHz or faster processor
32 MB RAM
35 MB hard disk space
4x CD-ROM drive
16-bit color display
16-bit Windows compatible sound card
Speech Recognition feature requires microphone

MAC:

OS 8.1 or higher
PowerPC 120 Mhz processor
32 MB RAM
35 MB hard disk space
4x CD-ROM drive
16-bit color display
Speech Recognition feature requires PlainTalk compatible microphone

Features:

Award-winning program selected by the U.S. State Department, the Peace Corps and NASA
Over 8000 real-life color pictures and phrases spoken by native speakers
Curriculum with 12 activities in each of 210 lessons
Develops all key language skills: Listening Comprehension, Reading, Speaking and Writing
Previews, tests and automated tutorials that "learn" where you need extra help

ASIN: B000077DD1
Item model number: 223-12
Average Customer Review: Based on 1 review.

Product Description
Amazon.com Product Description
Learn a new language with the award-winning method used by the U.S. State Department to train diplomats. Proven effective by NASA astronauts, Peace Corps volunteers, and millions of students worldwide, the Rosetta Stone Language Library teaches new languages faster and easier than ever before.

We all learn our childhood language by associating new words and phrases with the world around us. The Rosetta Stone method replicates this process by presenting vivid, real-life images to convey the meaning of each new phrase. Instead of translating, memorizing, and studying rules of grammar, you actually learn to think in the new language. Vocabulary and grammar are integrated systematically, leading to everyday proficiency.

This comprehensive program provides up to 550 hours of mastery instruction in listening comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists or drills. Previews, exercises, and tests accompany every lesson, and there are automated tutorials throughout the program. Graphical speech recognition displays your voiceprint and compares it with the native speaker to help improve your pronunciation. (Ages 6 and older)

All Customer Reviews
Average Customer Review:

10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Rosetta sends you on the way, January 2, 2004

Reviewer:

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A software user

I found the Rosetta Stone Method effective to get me on the way to learn the language I needed: Russian. It was the very key break-thru element in my attempts to learn it. I would never had have success without it.

It distinguishes itself very favorably from any other computer-based language training, in that it really sends one on the way, and keeps one there thru the first, always troublesome steps.

However be informed, that it is not self-sufficient. You need a grammar, a dictionary, a good understanding of language structures (i.e. the grammatics of your own or another indogerman language), and more material. I took a lot of text and audio (internet radio) from the internet. I used also other audio/textbook courses to get more volume and substance. Even Mickey Mouse and some pre-school children books in the target language have been helpful. This mix made it sufficient, with Rosetta as the key driving element.

Rosetta Stone does not tell you about these, but the implicit assumption is that of accompanying a teached course. Like the NASA astronauts had, evidently. They were not on their own.