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

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

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    From: Rosetta Stone
    Category: Software

    List Price: $419.00
    Buy New: $369.99
    You Save: $49.01 (12%)



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    Rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars 3 reviews
    Sales Rank: 348

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X, Windows 2000, Windows Vista
    Media: CD-ROM
    Edition: Level 1 & 2
    Operating System: Windows XP
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
    Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.4 x 3

    Model: 21695
    UPC: 794678216954
    EAN: 0794678216954
    ASIN: B001AFD97U

    Release Date: June 16, 2008
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    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
      • Connect with the world around you, build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, and quickly gain the confidence to enjoy social interactions

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      • Webster's New World Italian Dictionary: Italian/English, English/Italian

    Editorial Reviews:

    Amazon.com
    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--Build A Foundation and Navigate Your Surroundings

    Build a foundation and navigate your surroundings. Learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence to talk about your environment: giving and getting directions, telling time, dining out, shopping, enjoying basic social interactions 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 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.

    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.




    Customer Reviews:

    5 out of 5 stars Phenomenal language learning software   January 5, 2009
    Martha Grace Reese (St. Louis, MO USA)


    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. The teaching system is logical, gradual, progressive, challenging, exciting, quickly paced, never boring, and plain fun. I love the tapes for the car. My husband and I are both using it and we both love it.

    There are several negative reviews for the Rosetta Stone software (here and on the level 1&2 software), none of which I find substantial. The first here complains, in essence, that you can't steal the software and give it away to your friends! That's fine with me. It's licensed for one computer, but you can have lots of users using that one machine. If you're honest and respect intellectual property rights, that won't be an issue for you.

    A second negative review asserts that there isn't much material for level one. First, if you want to buy more levels at the same time, you can get levels 2 & 3 for a reduced price. If you're pretty clear that you want to learn Italian, you might want to start with at least 2 levels. (Amazon has the other packaging options, too.) Second, I suppose you could zoom through all the lessons in level 1 in a couple of weeks, but it's possible that the person who went through the lessons very quickly is skimming over all sorts of built in layers. The software adjusts for increased subtlety in pronunciation & layered appropriation of grammatical structure. Review is critical to the learning process - learning language is like learning to play an instrument. The practice layers available on the software are impressive. This software is constructed as if it were written by Bach! There's a LOT here, even if you just buy the first level and not one of the packaged versions.

    The final critique is that the set-up is difficult for MAC users. I have a two iMACS (and am a 25 year PC user who just switched, so I'm completely PC oriented) and have just installed it on one of my machines. The installation was easy, flawless and the software works beautifully. The person who complained had a very sophisticated system and had trouble with some of his intricate settings. I am an Apple neophyte and trust me, for those of us with plug-and-play systems, this is a plug-and-play program. MAC users - don't worry!

    Final word: Get the software and start having fun. It's truly amazing stuff.



    5 out of 5 stars Worth the Expense   December 22, 2008
    S. Lewis (San Francisco, CA USA)
    2 out of 2 found this review helpful

    Rosetta Stone has a great tool for learning a language. It's easy and fun. There's also an Audio Companion disk that you can listen to when you are away from your computer. It's a nice refresher for the things you just learned. I was hesitant to purchase this because of the price, but I think it's worth it. Hearing the words is so much better than just learning by sight from a book.


    1 out of 5 stars WARNING!   December 9, 2008
    W. E. Henderson (Denver, CO)
    5 out of 8 found this review helpful

    BEWARE! If you buy this product you can never resell it. Never return it. Never upgrade it. You better love it. Because you're stuck with it. I purchased version 2 a year ago and wanted to upgrade to 3 so I thought I'd sell my version 2. Rosetta Stone cancelled my eBay auction and threatened LEGAL action for attempting to resell an original legitimate in the box version of their product. They will only let you return it for 6 months and ONLY if you bought it directly from them (sorry Amazon) and there are NO upgrades. Basically, I'm out $500. Though I would never ever consider buying another Rosetta Stone product, where the customer is always wrong. BEWARE of this company.

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