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Rosetta Stone Version 3: Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion
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| List Price: | $549.00 |
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Product Description
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!
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #22 in Software
- Brand: Rosetta Stone
- Model: 20988
- Released on: 2008-06-16
- Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X, Windows Vista
- Format: CD-ROM
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
Editorial Reviews
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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.
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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.
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Customer Reviews
Rosetta Stone review
Great leaning instrument. If you have HP computers you will need technical support to get the program running. The technical support was excellent and much faster than any other company I have needed support from for a program. Time spent to get it running on my HP was about one hour total. No glitches since then after about 50 hours of learning.
I'm impressed
I decided, with some trepidation at the age of 62, to learn Spanish so that I can make a bigger contribution in education programs at the Monterey Bay Aquarium where I volunteer. Many offerings are in both English and Spanish. The ability to communicate and connect with parents and chaperones who speak only Spanish would be especially meaningful to me. I am very impressed with what I have accomplished in a few short weeks and look forward to completing the course. Just as they say in the ads, I am convinced that anyone motivated to learn Spanish could do so with this product.
I recommend that interested shoppers look for discounts. I could have saved $50 if I had been more attentive to a special offer in Scientific American Magazine.
Added Comments on Purchasing Such Products as Rosetta Stone
In response to many good reviews here, both pro and con, and to my own experience of purchasing Rosetta Stone (Latin American) Spanish, 1,2 & 3 with the Audio Companion through Amazon,... I would like to alert potential purchasers to two mistakes I made... 1) I failed to find out if the (used) version I purchased (for nearly $400.00) for Mac was for the current level of Mac software (OS X). IT WAS NOT! And, 2) I failed to research the available information (even if just from Amazon) about the REPUTATION OF THE SELLER (no need to name it here). I have not been able to get adequate assistance so far. (After finding that the two "help" email addresses included with my order were both extinct, I went through Amazon to get assistance. They got the seller to respond from a third email address, but as yet no reciprocity, and feel out of -for me- a substantial investment). I admit to being one who is vastly intimidated when trying to go back and reconnect -digitally, especially- with a seller. So MY SECOND POINT, then, is to DEFINITELY DO YOUR RESEARCH ON THE SELLER as well as the product.
I must admit to one other example of poor judgement on my part. Upon, subsequent to my purchase, rereading all reviews, I realize I did not read adequately the negative reviews of the product itself, especially those related to the customer opinions about "poor software design", which, in hindsight, I would consider now quite helpful.
