Chinese Level 1 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version] | ![Chinese Level 1 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/5195XJRJTEL._SL160_.jpg)
 enlarge | From: Fairfield Language Technologies
Category: Software
List Price: $209.00
Buy Used: $126.00
You Save: $83.00 (40%)
Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 4736
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Windows Nt, Windows 98
Media: CD-ROM
Number Of Items: 1
Operating System: Windows NT
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.7
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.2 x 2.1
MPN: 031-00
Model: 031-00
UPC: 794678006982
EAN: 0794678006982
ASIN: B00004YUGQ
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | This powerful tool uses advanced multimedia tools to immerse you completely in Chinese, as you experience the language just as a native-speaker would | | • | You'll enjoy 12 special activities with 92 lessons each -- all of them fun and interesting, and sure to teach you more about the language | | • | Key skills in listening comprehension, reading, speaking and writing are developed as you get a taste of Chinese culture | | • | Previews, tests and automated tutorials help you when you're stumped, so that your Chinese speaking skills never cease to grow! |
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Amazon.com Product Description
Learn a new language with the award-winning method used by the U.S. State Department to train diplomats. Proven effective by NASA astronauts, Peace Corps volunteers, and millions of students worldwide, the Rosetta Stone Language Library teaches new languages faster and easier than ever before. We all learn our childhood language by associating new words and phrases with the world around us. The Rosetta Stone method replicates this process by presenting vivid, real-life images to convey the meaning of each new phrase. Instead of translating, memorizing, and studying rules of grammar, you actually learn to think in the new language. Vocabulary and grammar are integrated systematically, leading to everyday proficiency. The Rosetta Stone Level I program offers a comprehensive course of study for beginning learners, leading to intermediate proficiency. The program contains over 3,500 real-life images and phrases in 92 lessons and more than 250 hours of mastery instruction in listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. There are reviews, exercises, and tests for every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. (Ages 6 and older)
Product Description
With the Rosetta Stone Chinese Personal Edition Level 1, you have the same new language-instruction techniques at your disposal that the U.S. State Dept, the Peace Corps and NASA use!
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
 LEARNING CHINESE September 12, 2007
Deborah B. Robinson (CARSON CITY, NV USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
THE ROSETTA STONE METHOD OF LEARNING CHINESE IS SO MUCH BETTER THAN OTHER LANGUAGE COURSES DUE TO THE FACT IT TEACHES YOU TO THINK IN THE LANGUATE -- BEATS THE HECK OUT OF REPEATING THE WORDS TIME AND TIME AGAIN.
 doesn't run on 64 bit OS June 15, 2007
Jess Evans
I can't tell you how effective it is. I can tell you that it does not run on XP 64 or Vista.
Rosseta Stone Level 1 Chinese May 13, 2007
Hidemasa Yamaguchi
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Rosseta Stone's method of learning a foreign language is the way quite diffrent from other methods taught .
As RS explains it, the method is similar to a baby just hearing his /her parent's utterance in the development of language skill.
Indeed, I was surprised to know that only picture and utterance corresponding to it came up on my computer screen when I inserted RS CD in my CD-ROM.
I think basically language learning should be like one RS recommends.
But if you use your dictionary to reinforce your comprehension of picture and utterance , your language skill will be better honed up. Those who use RS method for language skill are adult individuals and combination of RS with dictonary use, I think, would enhance the learning process.
H.Yamaguchi
 Rosetta Stone-Mandarin January 9, 2007
M. McKinney (Texas)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
This product lives up to its hype! Mandarin, to the English speaker, is so very, very foreign. Before you realize it, Rosetta Stone really does teach you the language in a very simple, go at your own pace way. Rosetta Stone shows pictures of a girl, boy, woman, man, dog, cat, etc. and an accompaning sentence below. Before you realize it, the student learns which word(s) mean what and this continues through the lesson into more and more complex situations. Highly recommend the product! Xei, xei!
 very limited, not to be used alone December 14, 2006
T. Hollister (Albuquerque, NM USA)
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
Having successfully learned a few other languages in the classroom, abroad, and through traditional self-study, I was intrigued by what I read about the Rosetta Stone method. I'd already had an introduction to Chinese by starting the "Teach Yourself" series, and picking up some tips from a couple of Chinese friends, so had a few grammatical concepts under my belt before starting Rosetta Stone (RS). But I still found it difficult to figure out what a particular lesson was trying to teach me in RS, and what individual phrases were supposed to mean. Referring to the version of another language I know well helped me to understand the Chinese, but this is time-consuming and could be remedied by some kind of online help.
Initially I enjoyed the challenge of this course, but after a while it becomes fatiguing. I feel like a pigeon earning a pellet for each correct mouse-click in a psychological experiment. Sometimes I choose the correct matching phrase because I know it's supposed to be the longest phrase in the group (for example), not because I know what it means. RS could be useful if you have access to a very patient tutor, but home alone I find I have too many questions about what is being said to make decent progress. I don't believe what they advertise, that this is the "fastest" method for learning a language. It could make a useful supplement to some other course. And if you want to learn how to write Chinese characters, you'll have to go elsewhere.
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