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Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion
Studio : Rosetta Stone
by Rosetta Stone
Brand : Rosetta Stone
Model : 20988
Platform : Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Release Date : 2008-06-16
Publisher : Rosetta Stone
Availability : Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Color : yellow
EAN : 9781603916738
UPC : 794678209888
Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 170 reviews)
List Price : $539.00
Our Price : $423.99
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Rosetta Stone teaches you a new language naturally, by getting you to think, live and breathe the language
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Innovative solutions get you speaking new words, right from the start
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Rosetta Stone moves forward only when you're ready--you drive the pace, you set the schedule
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With Rosetta Stone, you'll discover a foundation of key vocabulary that you'll use to build into a whole new language
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Audio Companion lets you take the Rosetta Stone experience anywhere: in the car, at the gym, or on-the-go
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Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Levels 1, 2&3 you connect with the world around you. With level one you begin learning fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence and enter the intermediate level where you will be able to talk about your environment; give and get directions, tell time, dine out with self-reliance, shop and enjoy basic social interactions. Taking what you’ve learned in Levels 1 and 2, we help you reach an advanced level of competence. This competence allows you to connect with the world around you. You will learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life; your work, current events and much more. Now Rosetta Stone with Audio Companion allows the learner to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go! What is Audio Companion? Audio Companion CDs are activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and practice what they’ve been learning on the computer, turning travel time into productive language learning time. Audio Companion lets the student access the power of Rosetta Stone lessons whenever and wherever they want, they can play the CD’s on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 player. It empowers the student and helps reinforce the lessons in any busy lifestyle! |
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Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone. The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life. Learn Naturally
Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability. Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it. Engage Interactively
Get feedback to move forward. You learn best by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your progress. Speak Confidently
Start speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll speak. You'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll create new sentences on your own, using words you've learned. Have Fun
Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So you'll keep using it, and you'll learn more! That's language-learning success.
That's Rosetta Stone. No translation or memorization required. The most effective way to learn a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words with images. That's the ultimate language lab, but most language-learning programs completely ignore this. Think about all of the ways you've tried to learn a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software that uses your native language as a base for your next one. What do they all have in common? Translation and memorization. 
Instead of taking a "direct flight" from your brain to your new language, translation and memorization connects you to your old language. You always have to "fly" from your brain, to your native tongue ... and then translate what you've memorized to communicate. That might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to change tenses? You're going to make a lot of "connecting flights." That's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail. Enter Dynamic Immersion.
This method encourages you to think like a baby. You'll pair words with vivid, real-life images and make connections between things you know and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words together into phrases that you create. Innovative technology.
Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software that works with you to develop your skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that you're speaking correctly and accurately. Best of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident. Communicate and connect with the world: Level 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Level 1, 2 & 3 Set will take you on a journey from the basics to a whole new level of sophistication. You'll build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. You'll quickly gain the confidence to engage in social interactions. Say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange travel, order food, go shopping and more! From there, you'll share your ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about your life, your interests and more. You'll discover a voice. In a new language. Audio Companion
With Audio Companion, you'll enhance the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Each Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your travel time into productive language-learning time. Inside the box, you'll find: - Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Levels 1, 2 & 3 (Windows/Mac)
- Headset microphone
- User's guide
- Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player
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Going full throttle to learning Spanish... |
First, I must clarify that I am currently in the midst of using this program. I am just now finishing up Level 2 out of 3.
Second, I also own Rosetta Stone v2 - German level 1. By throwing myself into German culture--listening to music, looking up translations, reading a book here and there, having a friend speak fluent German--I still know more German than Spanish. It's the language I'm most passionate about because that's where my distant family is from. Working in retail, is it practical in Arizona? No.
So I have begun going full throttle with learning to speak fluent Spanish. I can't imagine the enthusiasm I will have when I can easily answer questions from a Spanish speaking customer. Finishing level 2, do I feel at all comfortable dealing with spanish guests? No. Beyond saying "¿Necesitas Ayuda?" and telling them to hold on one moment while I get a native who works at the store--I'm helpless. I focus on this program, and I understand almost every term taught to me; anything I don't understand, I find a translation and review the lesson.
Three can't inform me much more, especially considering the fact that level 2 contained Shopping/Retail situations.
I am not disappointed with Rosetta Stone, however. I don't have the confidence to easily speak, but I feel that day is approaching. It won't begin with the end of finishing level three, however. Immersing yourself into everything Spanish is a must. Combine this was some vocabulary cards (or use open source mnemosyne), read a book, youtube some spanish shows, find some children's spanish books, etc. Learning a language seems less about taking steps up, but rather filling your "pond" of knowledge. Rosetta Stone contributes quite a bit of water, but it alone cannot come close to filling the pond.
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So far, so good |
I have so far gotten about a quarter into level one, so it might be a little early to make a review, but here it goes:
The individual assignments are 5 to 30 minutes long. I am missing a pause button to use if the phone rings in the middle of one of the assignments (there is one between screens, but not if the program expects a response from you).
There are so far lots of repetitions which is good when you are trying to learn a new vocabulary. So far I have not come across word additions that I have not been able to understand, so the system with avoiding translations seems to work fairly well, too. Best of all is the feedback on pronunciations, where the screen tells you which word in a sentence is wrong, and you can click the built in recording to hear it again, so you can improve.
The audio companion does provide additional repetitions, but here you lack the feed-back which is a great part of the program part.
Cheers
NJL |
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Rosetta Stone is Working for Me |
I loaded this on both my computers and found out the program has to be authorized, much like the Adobe software, but it went without a hitch. You're allowed to put it on two computers.
I've got a good friend who lives down the street, who's from Mexico and she just loves it that I want to learn her language, so not only do I get to use the excursus on my computer, but I get to practice with a real live speaker of Spanish, which, when you think about it, isn't all that hard to find in America. So first I work through the lessons, learning the basic vocabulary for things, verbs and numbers, then I practice them with my friend. Then I repeat the lesson. I don't use the microphone. I don't know why, just don't like the headphones and that thing in front of my face, I guess.
Anyway, my impression of the program is that it's probably the best way to learn a foreign language. I'm picking up Spanish faster than I ever would have dreamed. I think Rosetta Stone is a very good way, maybe the best way, to learn a foreign language and if you can add a native speaker into the mix and if you use the audio companion (I loaded it onto my iPod) and if you listen to a radio station in your target language (we have Spanish radio stations here) then you'll be speaking in no time at all. |
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Roseta Stone |
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We Installed the product on our PC and started using it right away and had no problems with the operation. |
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inflexible, inadequate, and overpriced |
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I have owned this product for over 2 years and am going through it for the second time. I give it 2 stars because, although it is somewhat educational, there are a number of good reasons not to buy this product, which have all been stated many times over in other reviews. In fact, the only reason to buy RS is if you must learn spanish and are convinced there is no other way. Here are some better alternatives to learning spanish: take a college class, buy some of the excellent spanish instructional books available on amazon, watch spanish movies/tv with subtitles, and/or Fluenz. The RS approach is so narrow and inflexible, you'll be looking for other resources anyway. Frankly, if you are intelligent enough to learn from RS alone, you don't need it. |
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