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Rosetta Stone Version 3: German Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion

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Publisher: Rosetta Stone
Catalog: Software
Release date: 2008-06-16
Media: CD-ROM
Format: CD-ROM
Model: 20585
Ean: 0794678205859
Upc: 794678205859

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Key features:

Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through proficiency-based listening and reading activities, proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
Contextual Formation makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
Milestone activities quickly give you confidence to engage in real-life conversations; Adaptive Recall reinforces language so it sticks with you
Audio Companion allows you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go
Build a foundation and navigate your surroundings: learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers

Compatible with:

Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP

Mac OS X

Professional Review:

Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to start learning a language. It's built around our award-winning Rosetta Stone curriculum, which has been adopted by organizations around the world including the U.S. Army, NASA, major corporations such as Deutsche Telecom, IKEA, Royal Dutch Shell, and over 10,000 schools worldwide--and is available in 31 languages spoken by over 90% of the world's population.

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!

The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn a New Language

Proceed at Your Own Pace
Rosetta Stone is considerate of your time. Anytime, anywhere, you can learn a new language with Rosetta Stone. You learn comfortably without feeling pressured or overwhelmed. Rosetta Stone provides guidance to make your language learning effective, fast, and enjoyable with a process that is intuitive, interactive, and visually engaging. At the end of each lesson, you are given the opportunity to test your new skills. And, since Rosetta Stone automatically records your progress, you can easily pick up where you left off, when other priorities arise.

Make Language Learning Intuitive with Dynamic Immersion
Rosetta Stone uses rich visual imagery to help you learn. You will be presented with sets of images to match correctly with a spoken or written phrase in the new language. You will advance to the next set of prompts once you've successfully matched words and images and pronounced the words correctly. With Dynamic Immersion, you learn by directly associating your new language with images--nothing is lost in translation.

Fun, Easy, and Immediate Reinforcement
Interactive exercises create a learning environment that is engaging and game-like--it's fun!

How It Works

As children, we gradually learned our first language through a process of associating mental images with words or phrases, accompanied by complete immersion in our environment. This approach was simple because it was natural and allowed the brain to adapt to increasing complexity.

Rosetta Stone recreated this natural way of learning by developing a method that uses a computer to mimic the environment in which we learned our first language. We call this Dynamic Immersion. A simple, intuitive interface and advanced technology confirms learning at every step of the process by prompting you to make connections between images you already understand and the new language. You receive immediate feedback, which helps you to reinforce learning. This systematic structure builds from simple nouns and verbs to more complex concepts and phrases very quickly, helping you achieve your language-learning goals faster than you ever thought possible.

Level 1, 2 & 3--Connect With the World

Connect with the world around you. Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Quickly gain the confidence to enjoy social interactions such as greetings and introductions, travel, dining out, giving and getting directions, shopping and other recreational activities. Learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life, your work, your interests, current events, and much more.

Features & Benefits

Faster and More Effective
Rosetta Stone will teach you as fast as you can learn! Leveraging your natural language-learning ability, Version 3 immerses you immediately in the new language, providing just the right context to prompt you to speak, pronounce, read and write in the very first lesson! Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count. Our Dynamic Immersion method is so fast and so effective, it's used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.

Convenient
You pick the time, the place and the pace! We are ready when you are because there are no class schedules or missed lessons to make up. From your desk or your dining room, your valuable time can be turned into productive language learning that fits your lifestyle.

Enjoyable
When something is fun, it captures your attention...and holds it! The interactivity in Version 3 instantly engages you. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone different from any other product out there--never tedious or boring. Rosetta Stone provides a captivating, game-like experience.

Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE feature lets you try out your new language knowledge in real-life situations.

Track Your Progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL feature tracks your progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.

New Speech Recognition Technology
State-of-the-art new speech recognition technology helps you learn to speak your new language even faster. And our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your voice to that of native speakers, helping you perfect your pronunciation.

Life-like Context
Our New CONTEXTUAL FORMATION feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give you exactly the context you need to produce new language--all on your own!

Level 1, 2 & 3 Set Includes:

The Basics
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, numbers, questions, colors, clothing.

Friends and Family
Ages, family relations, household items, introductions, landmarks, states, descriptions.

Work and School
Times of day, greetings, calendar terms, body parts, speaking, personal hygiene.

Shopping
Buying, selling and shopping; entertainment and sports; merchandise, speed and weight, comparing and contrasting.

Travel
Destinations, transportation, directions, locations, telling time, distance, cost, weather.

Past and Future
Tenses, letter writing, school subjects, signs, workplace terms, polite requests.

Friends and Social Life
Months of the year, arrivals and departures, social interaction, celebrations, meal courses, quality terms, apologies.

Dining and Vacation
Future tense; terms for art, architecture and music; emotions, places of worship, travel and lodging.

Home and Health
Terms for home, garden and backyard activities; household items and appliances; terms for strength and physical activity.

Life and World
Emotions, continents, life milestones, oceans, botanical terms, terms for animals.

Places and Events
Opinion and judgments, currency exchange and transactions; measurements, household repair tools, culinary terms.

Talking About the World
Nationalities, governmental leaders, political terms, media terms, business terms, religious terms. Doing things!

Audio Companion allows you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go.

Audio Companion--Taking Rosetta Stone to the Next Level

Introducing Audio Companion from Rosetta Stone, the newest enhancement to the world's #1 language-learning software! It's a great addition to the Rosetta Stone experience, allowing you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go!

What is Audio Companion?
Audio Companion CD-ROMs enhance language learning anytime, anyplace. You can learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce them with Audio Companion. Play the CDs on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 Player and go!

Enhance the Rosetta Stone Learning Experience
Audio Companion activities correspond to Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. You can listen to Audio Companion and practice what you've been learning, turning travel time into productive language learning time.

Extend Study Time
Now, you don't have to stop learning when you leave your computer. Audio Companion lets you access lessons whenever and wherever you want. It empowers you, and works within your busy lifestyle!

Build Vocabulary and Pronounce Words and Phrases
Audio Companion features distinct words and shorter phrases to make them easier to hear and repeat. Build good enunciation habits by hearing native speakers pronounce them first.

Speak and Converse
The speaking portion of Audio Companion lets you listen to questions and answers, repeating them to use later. To help them build your conversation skills, first you'll listen to a conversation and then repeat phrases individually.

User Reviews:

Written on September 12, 2008
Summary: brilliant product for a ghastly price
There is a reason that Rosetta Stone is considered the premium of language software. They have put together a brilliant program. There is no translation at all in R.S. software. They make every effort to mimic how you learned your native language... by intuition and deductive reasoning. The user is presnted with photos of people, actions and situations while they hear a corresponding word or sentance. After several episodes of "matching," the user gets to respond verbally and must be able to sound enough like a native speaker to move on in the program. The audio companion is a nice addition as it allows you to practice your speech in the car or anywhere you have a CD or mp3 player.

My only beef is that by now, the hard part of the R&D this program should be long finished. The cost put out to devleop R.S. should have been recouped by now. In my view, the $550 MSRP is just a bit outrageous. The makers of Rosetta Stone know that they have the corner on the market and can charge this much. Its like buying food at professional sporting event... they have a captive audience and they take advantage of it.

BUT aside from picking up and moving to a foreign country this is your best chance at learning a new language.

Written on September 11, 2008
Summary: Well designed and systematic
I have been hard at work with the Rosetta Stone (RS) German level 1 material for the past weeks. Previously I had tried the Berlitz German course on CD 5 years ago and had given up after the 4th lesson due to personal laziness and loss of interest. But I've always wanted to pick it back up. I am really enjoying this. The approach forces me to concentrate more because it is highly interactive. As a result, I feel that I am retaining more. I certainly prefer it to the traditional approach like the Berlitz material I once used. I have decided to be very careful in getting the pronunciation and subtle inflections correct- so I have repeated the lessons a few times and listened to the CD in my car drive home from work. Constant repetition and practice has certainly worked for me. When I finish level 1, I'm going try my stuff out on my German friend and see how it goes!

All in all, although very expensive, it is a great product, very well designed and thought out (one gets the feeling this is carefully put together in a very logical manner), and I will endeavor to edit this review by appending periodic updates to my progress every feel months or so.

Written on September 11, 2008
Summary: Awesome! Super fast learning
Dive into German. Everyone is raving about total immersion into German for good reason. After just a couple of weeks, I can correspond with my German penpal in German rather than making her write in English. OK, my German is not perfect, but I'm proud of my progress.

Another big thing is that unlike a classroom you can learn at your own pace when you have time. Sometimes I have 5 minutes and sometimes an hour. It's always fun. The lessons are engaging and fun and will work for most age groups. The headset and microphone brings the language to life. If I ever go to Germany, I will be prepared.

Written on September 8, 2008
Summary: Improved my German
Although German was my first language, I only really spoke it as a child. Rosetta Stone helped me improve my vocabulary and facility with the language. While my pronunciation was authentic enough, my vocabulary and ability to form intelligent sentences in German was seriously lacking and not on par with that of adult requirements. Spending time with this comprehensive program has been of great help to me with my very basic German and allowed me to build upon that foundation. This type of self-study program requires not only motivation but sincere dedication. Rosetta Stone Version 3: German Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion

Written on September 7, 2008
Summary: Rosetta Stone Makes a Game of Learning German
The three levels come on separate program CD's and each include three CD audio companion disks - for use away from the computer. That's a total of 12 disks. Also included in the box is a microphone/headset.

The first program installed easily on my laptop, running the XP operating system. The headphone jacks plugged directly into the laptop and everything worked the first time. I even tried another brand of microphone/headphone that used a USB connection, and that worked just as well on both my laptop and my desktop using XP. However, if you are using Vista, or have installed a sound card upgrade, you should first be sure your microphone input is available and working properly before you make this purchase. But the program will also run in a No Voice Input Mode and still teach the language. Voice input just gives you the opportunity to say words or phrases and get immediate analysis and feedback on pronunciation.

Several people can be named and use the program lessons in turn - or at the same time on separate computers. You cannot make copies of the three program CD's, but you can load them on any number of computers from the original program CD's. The audio disks can be copied to MP3 format or any other as many times as you wish.

Lessons start something like this: On the screen appears two photographs and two possible answers to click on in response to each. You get immediate feedback that you either made the right choice or the wrong one. Then other questions involve four choices for four German words and phrases and you click on the correct picture for each. When you complete each lesson you are given your score. If you get 85% or better you start the next lesson. If you got less than 85% you are offered the opportunity to repeat the lesson. You can repeat each lesson any time you want by going to the home page. Each lesson builds on what you have learned from the previous lessen(s) so you don't have to get 100% each time.

English is never used in the lessens - only German. The lessons consist of core lessons, pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, listening, writing, reading, speaking, and review. This is not exactly how German children learn, but it certainly is an improvement over just listening to German words and phrases with the English translation, and then trying to memorize and speak German only as fast as you can remember the translation from English - or whatever is your native language. You learn to think in German similarly to how German children learn.

The audio disks consist of listening and repeating words and phrases learned from the lessons. Except that an English speaking announcer tells you to either just listen, or to listen and repeat. This helps both pronunciation, memory, and the feeling of being submerged in the study. I play my audio disks through headphones while I workout at the gym. Nobody seems to notice that I'm repeating German words and phrases as I exercise.

When you complete all the lessons of a unit, you go on to a Milestone. There you practice using what you have learned and participate in conversations, form your own questions, etc. After completing each Milestone you can start the next level - until you finish the third level Milestone.

The program is, to me, both challenging and fun - like a computer game. Progress is clear as you advance and grow in thinking, reading, writing, and speaking in German. Don't get me wrong. It is learning with increasing levels of difficulties. The goal is a certain level of fluency that you would not get by just memorizing stock words and phrases.

I believe it will take me more than six months to feel comfortable conversing in German as a not too smart native. Reading German will be only a little easier. So what? I'm exercising my brain and growing in knowledge at my own pace. Nobody can laugh at me if I'm slower than the average student. I'm 70 years old. My German friends, young and old, appreciate that I'm building stronger bonds with them.

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