Rosetta Stone Version 3: Italian Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion | 
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Rating:  6 reviews
Sales Rank: 187
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 2.9
Model: 21685
UPC: 794678216855
EAN: 0794678216855
ASIN: B001AFD8XK
Release Date: June 16, 2008
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| • | 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 |
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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.
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An amazing language program August 28, 2008
ellen (Atlanta, Georgia USA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The Rosetta Stone language programs I consider the 'Cadillac' of all the foreign language tutors.
They are easy to get into, learn at a good rate, and most of all remember what you've learned.
One of my friends has a gentleman friend who is Italian - they met in Italy, where he lives. She has learned Italian, and after meeting this young man, I thought about learning the language so we can all communicate.
I have learned a little Italian in my musical experience, but wanted to be able to hold my own in a conversation.
Rosetta Stone doesn't fail to get you comfortable in the process of learning another language.
The clarity of their product hands down makes it one of the most excellent to learn another language.
Fun 'dynamic immersion' approach August 28, 2008
Doc Dave (New York City)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
As someone commented, it is difficult to review a language course based on anything less than years of experience in working with the product. Therefore this review should be taken with that as a caveat. Since this full Italian set roughly corresponds to 3 years of Italian language classes, depending on your prior aptitude, I can largely only comment on the user interface and general learning approach at this time.
The Rosetta Stone approach is based on problem solving. There is no translation in English to "cheat". The user is presented with a series of pictures, and native Italian speakers say words that must be matched correctly. In time, the interactivity builds into conversations to where the speech recognition engine tests and corrects your pronunciation. I found that the intuitive learning process works especially well with the Italian language which has some cognate words for a native English speaker and has no special alphabets or scripts to learn.
Does it work? Only time will tell. But, the Rosetta Stone does have a great reputation, and I did find the software extremely fun to use, and the puzzles challenging. And having fun is perhaps the best part in learning a new language.
Learning is Almost Magical August 28, 2008
" Groovin' guy "
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Having been born and raised in Italy, I still get out of touch with the language if I'm not actively using it for long periods of time. The Rosetta Stone makes this "brushing up" on Italian fun and very easy.
Learning Italian or even freshening up after not speaking, reading or writing for a long period is fast, effective and as fun as playing a game but, you are also learning the language at the same time!
The speakers are speaking without a dialect which I was apprehensive about. They speak proper Italian without any pronunciation relating to so many dialects.
Calling it "Dynamic Immersion" with four dynamic strategies, which are: intuition, interactivity, instruction and images.
All aspects of learning the language is by simple activities. Beginning with the nouns, verbs and other basics. You learn as you did as a child. It very engaging and almost magical.
Pronunciation, through speech analysis and recognition. Using repetition and correction until the pronunciation of words and phrases are perfected. There is an advanced speech analysis graph that you can compare your speech to the "native speaker", which is terrific for novices. The speech recognition software is an outstanding feature.
Under each level there are many "units" to practice and learn. There are 3 levels altogether to work through. After completing the course work there are 3 levels of audio companion (4 cd's each level) to help you practice what you have learned in Rosetta Stone version 3 software.
For me using the more advanced lessons was very beneficial. I'm certain to continue using it.
Through The Rosetta Stone, learning a new language is not a heavy task. Anyone can and will learn just by following the program.
This program is great for people like me who are already experienced with Italian, but need refreshing from time to time and for people first learning the language
Learning naturally rather than by translation August 28, 2008
S.E. Poza (Rimersburg, PA)
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
The basic Rosetta Stone method teaches you through pairing pictures with words and phrases. Teaching this way is done to discourage learning a foreign language by translating from the learner's native language. This method not only simulates the way we learned our own language as children, but it also prevents the student from speaking slowly because he or she is first crafting the sentence or words in his or her native tongue then translating to the foreign language.
Each level contains 4 lessons based on a theme (basics, shopping, greetings, etc.) with 4 units in each lesson. The first unit is always the shortest because each subsequent lesson contains a review of preceding lessons. So, while you may feel overwhelmed at first during the "core" portion of the unit, you will practice enough to master the content by the end of the lesson. The reviews are well-placed and very good at reinforcing your memory of the material, but for quick learners, they can be skipped.
Each user can customize the lesson content to include whatever type of practice he or she wants. For instance, you can do pronunciation practice or choose not to use the headset (included with the software) and do any speaking out loud. That means you can study anywhere any time by customizing the study session based on how much privacy you have.
This method is enjoyable and you can set goals easily and experience measurable progress. Because of the way the lessons and units are broken up, it's easy to remain motivated despite not having an actual teacher pushing you. That being said, the software is no substitute for a lesson or real world practice. It is, however, an excellent way to be grounded in a lot of basics such that you are ready for basic communication in a foreign country.
There are a few down sides to the software though depending on your learning style. Some people want more of an explanation of the grammatical patterns. You are expected to grasp the concept being practiced through patterns and pictures. If you can't grasp it for some reason, you'll need to consult an outside source for an explanation. Also, all of the Rosetta Stone language series use the same pictures so you will not see culture-specific photos. This doesn't bother me, but some people may find it distracting. Finally, I have found that sometimes the photo used doesn't match the phrase properly in a few rare cases. For instance, the phrase you practice might be "they're holding a book", but the picture is of someone with a newspaper.
As a final side note, I use Rosetta Stone on a 3-year old Mac Mini and, while it generally runs fine, sometimes there are errors which require me to quit the program and re-load. If you repair permissions, this happens less frequently. Also, screen loads can sometimes be a bit lazy. If your machine is as slow and anemic as mine, you may want to keep this in mind before making a purchase.
Another fantastic Rosetta Stone Set! August 27, 2008
Kristi in Rochester (Rochester, NY United States)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful
Rosetta Stone has another winner with Rosetta Stone Version 3: Italian Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion!
I continue to be amazed at the creative variety of teaching used in the Rosetta Stone packages - seeing, speaking, hearing. There are even audio CD's to use in your car or on your iPod.. The package includes a special USB headphone/microphone for practicing, and even a keyboard overlay so that you can learn to type in Italian.
I'm very impressed with the quality of all of the components in this set, and of the design of the materials (this isn't some cheap cassette and booklet). The whole package is really handsome, and the methods used to teach Italian are really well-designed.
If you put in the effort, there's no doubt this method works. I found myself picking up a new language more easily than I thought.
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