Rosetta Stone V3: Italian, Level 1
from: Rosetta Stone
Binding: CD-ROM Brand: Rosetta Stone EAN: 0794678206474 Format: CD-ROM Label: Rosetta Stone Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone Publisher: Rosetta Stone Release Date: August 28, 2007 Sales Rank: 2744 Studio: Rosetta Stone
Features:
Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
In no time you will speak without a script, Rosetta Stone's Contextual Formation™ makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
With Rosetta Stone Milestone activities you quickly gain confidence to engage in real-life conversations
Track your progress to reinforce your strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ Language feature
Doesn't work with Vista
Worst program on the planet. Spent $600.00 for level 1,2,3 two hours to download and install. Not working. Call support talk to 3 different people and 2 hours more....still not working. Don't buy this program it doesn't work and the tec people can't help. Sure wish I had kept my money.
You would think a program costing this much would have it together. VERY UNHAPPY.
Great Program
I bought to learn for a trip. I have done 2 lesson plans and am retaining everything thus far. I love the way the program works.
Phenomenal language learning software
I am an American native speaker, was a Spanish major in college, lived in Madrid for about a year and a half and am (well, WAS) fluent in Spanish. I love Italy and have faked my way through Italian trips with my spanish for years. And then my husband ordered Rosetta Stone. It's wonderful! I'd heard about it for years, but had no idea that this system was so intuitively exciting. It's more fun than playing Freecell, or other addictive games on the computer!
The system (an immersion approach, with picture recognition and hearing native speakers) is so natural, I couldn't believe it. I've done about half the first level and I find myself out on a walk and making up fun-sounding little italian phrases and sentences in my head. ... Read More
Excellent software to learn the language
This was my big Christmas gift this year and I noticed that the rating of it is only 2 stars, primarily because it does not allow the user to copy it and install it in a variety of PCs or to share with friends. Fair enough... but what about the program as a way to learn the language?
1) The most important element for me is that the immersion method is a fun way to learn; instead of being given translations of words or phrases, you "discover" the language, just like a baby discovers language.
2) This game like approach, of looking at alternatives and guessing and slowly building up your skills, keeps me coming back for more, which I think is an important step towards making progress and learning the language.
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a software note
Rosetta Stone V3: Italian, Level 1 is sold as licensed software. Users will NOT be able to load it onto more than one computer. This aspect of the product is not clear from the blurbing on the Rosetta Stone website. It is a "single-user" product.
Don't think that you can share this with friends, or that it is appropriate for a lending collection.
