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

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

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    From: Rosetta Stone
    Category: Software

    List Price: $549.00
    Buy New: $474.99
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    Rating: 1.0 out of 5 stars 1 reviews
    Sales Rank: 1244

    Format: Cd-rom
    Platforms: Windows Vista, Mac Os X, Windows Xp, Windows 2000
    Media: CD-ROM
    Edition: Level 1, 2 &3
    Operating System: Mac OS X
    Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
    Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 2.8

    Model: 20185
    UPC: 794678201851
    EAN: 0794678201851
    ASIN: B001AFEATQ

    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
      • 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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      • Rosetta Stone Version 3: French Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion

    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 & 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.




    Customer Reviews:

    1 out of 5 stars A language instructor gives this program a D- and wants a refund.   November 21, 2008
    Diane B. GOODPASTURE (Nashville, TN)
    7 out of 7 found this review helpful

    I am an ESL/ELL and Spanish teacher with two graduate degrees and I've been studying Chinese for almost a decade now. I have an older version of Chinese level 2 and Spanish level 3. I have some complaints about both of them, but I'd have to an exponent to my complaints about this Arabic version! I am still stuck in unit 1

    A word about "dynamic immersion": ROSETTA STONE'S BRAND OF IMMERSION IS LIKE BEING DROPPED IN THE OCEAN WHILE TIED TO A CONCRETE SLAB! The brain of a two-year-old is VERY different from that of a 22-year-old! A toddler's brain expands faster than at any other stage of development. Plus a two-year-old is not "immersed" with out a life preserver and a two-year-old in a healthy environment has a myriad of stimuli that no computer could duplicate. This program provides no scaffolding/life-preserver. By the way, most toddlers are NOT very articulate, nor do they have the same communication needs as adults. One of the advantages of being an over-the-hill hardwired adult is that most, after a decent high school or college education, have acquired the academic skill sets for learning a foreign language. It is not realistic to expect an adult to develop the accent and colloquial fluidity of a native speaker, but it is very possible to become fluent in reading and listening. In other words, the "toddler" method isn't appropriate for adult

    THERE ARE NO INSTRUCTIONS FOR THIS PROGRAM! At times it was very difficult to figure out what the learner was supposed to do. Rosetta Stone should realize that toddlers need instructions.

    There are bugs/glitches, or just poor planning, in the software. The speaking part is rigged. There were several times when I very badly mispronounced the answer and the program graded it as correct, and others where it beeped wrong before I even spoke or continued to beep incorrect when I got it correct. There is also a very predictable answer pattern for some of the exercises: ABAB and ABBA.

    There are no translations or even transliterations. One complaint I have had about Chinese language learning programs is that they pander to the American easy path of instant gratification and treat the characters as an unnecessary burden transliterating everything. The Rosetta Stone Arabic goes to the opposite extreme by bombarding the nascent learner with random bunches of Arabic letters and no explanation of how they function. There also doesn't appear to be any rhyme or reason as to how they set it up. The Arabic alphabet has more letters than English, each letter has four forms, some of which connect and some don't, the vowels are very different, and there are a half-a-dozen sounds that do not exist in the English language. In other words, I'll say the likelihood of someone mastering the Arabic script with this program is slim, unless he/she is doing a ten-year+ prison sentence, alone in a cell with only Rosetta Stone company.

    Gradual steps? There are places where this program takes leaps and bounds. There are places where, with no transliteration or prompts, the learner is expected to formulate complex questions based a few models. I can't explain what they are because I don't understand the Arabic and there are no translations. Remember, I'm still stuck in unit one, and expected to be able to spell out, on a microscopic keyboard, Arabic words from memory.

    To my knowledge there is NO WAY TO CONTROL THE SPEED OF THE SPEAKER.

    NO WAY TO ENLARGE TEXT: For women it starts in the late 30s, for men in the mid 40s, but eventually we all need bifocals. Reading just becomes more difficult. IN PLACES THE ROSETTA STONE ARABIC FONT IS ABSOLUTELY TREACHEROUS! I would have trouble reading it in English, but to the untrained eye Arabic looks like squiggly lines and dots. In one of the tables the print was actually gray instead of black! I FINALLY DECIDED IT WASN'T WORTH GETTING A SPLITTING HEADACHE TRYING TO READ IT!

    THE CONTENT IS SO BUSY AS TO BE DISTRACTING: It's like a warped version of Gardner's Multiple Intelligences, all it needs to be complete is some obnoxious music. They try to accommodate every aspect of language learning, but with a paucity of content. It's like a multi-tasking overkill. There is also no discernible common denominator, hence no mnemonic device, as colors, animals, food, etc. are lumped together. The photos are not always clear as some of the people look androgynous and sometimes it's difficult to tell what they are doing.

    NO REGIONAL NOTES OR CULTURAL CONSIDERATIONS: There are several different types of Arabic and I've been told the Egyptian dialect is the most easily understood. I have no idea which region this dialect is from. Moreover, there doesn't appear to be any cultural sensitivity, i.e. Islam is very much engrained in the language, but this appear to have been secularized.

    MY ADVICE TO ARABIC LEARNERS: Even for academic nerds language is social. Get involved in your local Arabic community. Offer to exchange English for Arabic lessons. Use this program as a complement, not a primary source. This program might actually have some merit with an Arabic speaker to walk the learner through it. This strategy worked well for me with Chinese. I use my Rosetta Stone Chinese as a drill.

    SOME FEEDBACK FOR ROSETTA STONE: A) Have a modicum of consideration for learners over 40: MAKE THE TEXT BIG ENOUGH TO READ! B) Get organized! Add more content and mnemonic devices. C) Go back to the drilling method as a mainstay. Somewhere, amid the political correct and paradigm shift to extremes, rote learning and drilling got a bad rap. I have found the computer to be very effective in this respect due to speed and audio-visual stimuli. D) LOWER THE PRICE!


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