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    Instant Immersion American Sign Language Deluxe

    Instant Immersion American Sign Language Deluxe

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    From: Topics Entertainment
    Category: Software

    List Price: $49.99
    Buy New: $14.42
    You Save: $35.57 (71%)



    New (14) Used (4) from $14.42

    Rating: 3.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
    Sales Rank: 3975

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platform: Mac Os X
    Media: CD-ROM
    Autographed: No
    Memorabilia: No
    Number Of Items: 1
    Operating System: Mac OS X
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.5
    Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.3 x 1.4
    Legal Disclaimer: Warranty does not cover misuse of product.

    MPN: CS-516d
    Model: CS-516D
    UPC: 781735805169
    EAN: 0781735805169
    ASIN: B0006DRZMC

    Release Date: September 30, 2004
    Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

    Features:
      • American Sign Language 8 CD-ROM software suite
      • Hand positions for thousands of ASL words and phrases
      • History of America's third most common language
      • Authoritative content developed in tandem with experienced ASL instructors
      • Full-motion signing instruction for a wide array of real-life situations

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      • The American Sign Language Phrase Book
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      • American Sign Language: Learning System 2 DVD Set
      • The Complete Idiot's Guide to Conversational Sign Language Illustrated (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
      • Random House Webster's American Sign Language Dictionary

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    Product Description

    Your complete ASL tutor, from the history to handpositions!



    From the history of American Sign Language to handpositions for thousands of ASL words and phrases, Instant Immersion AmericanSign Language Deluxe is the ultimate way to let your fingers do the talking,literally!

    As the third most commonly used language in the United States, American Sign Language is the fastest growing form of communication. Used by both the deaf and hearing community, ASL is a thorough and eloquent system of signing. Instant Immersion American Sign Language is the quick and easy way many beginners learn how to sign. Based on the same tried and proven techniques that allow people to quickly pick-up a spoken language, the key to success with signing is to immerse yourself. For years, we have known that an immersion environment is the absolute, fastest way to learn a new language. The Instant Immersion method provides this atmosphere and allows you to put your lessons to use immediately.

    Each disc in this 8 CD-ROM software suite is packed with authoritativecontent developed in tandem with experienced ASL instructors, and featuresfull-motion signing instruction with reinforcing written descriptions,challenging quizzes and games, vocabulary synonym lists, and complete phrasesarranged by category for a wide array of real-life situations.


    • Reference Guide (1 CD)
    • Grammar & Fingerspelling (1 CD)
    • ASL Dictionary (2 CDs)
    • ASL Phrase Guide (4 CDs)




    Learn to sign words and phrases on dozens ofconversati


    Customer Reviews:

    3 out of 5 stars No support for OSX 10.5 Leopard   January 19, 2008
    Rubin Abdi (San Francisco, CA USA)
    2 out of 3 found this review helpful

    I couldn't find any relatively new information about this product running off of a Mac. Hopefully this'll be helpful to others. My machine is a Santa Rosa Intel 15" Macbook Pro running OSX 10.5 Leopard with 2 GB of memory.

    First off I'd like to point out that this is pretty much the same exact copy of Topic Entertainment's American Sign Language Deluxe as the other listings on Amazon. All of the copies are both Windows and Mac format, all on the same discs.

    After copying the application to my local drive and running it, I would get a series of repeating errors, that would eventually lead to the application crashing. I sent in an email to Topic Entertainment's support group. Their response was that their title was only written with the intent of it only running on the system requirements printed on the box which is OSX 10.1 on a G4, and there were no plans to release an update for Leopard. They offered to return my copy for a refund if I wished.

    Not wanting to take no as an answer, I fired up Windows XP SP2 through VMware Fusion and attempted to install the software. Worked like a charm, videos are just as crisp as I'd expect them running natively on the Mac and disc swapping works correctly. There was an error during the installation about my copy of Quicktime being newer then the version required and asked me to first uninstall it before restarting the ASL Deluxe installation, I clicked ok and the installation continued on as normal.

    I should also note that I've gone through and created ISO disc images of all eight discs through Windows and am storing them locally on my drive so I don't have to lug around all of the discs at once. This works fine, VMware Fusion mounts ISO images without a problem.

    The software its self is a little clunky. The first disc offers some written words about ASL. What you're buying is on the rest of the discs, a vast video library of others showing you words or phrases. I haven't played with it much past that, there are some games I haven't touched.

    I'll update this review when I've had more of a chance to play with the software, but for now I wanted to throw up the issues I had installing under 10.5.


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