Rosetta Stone V3: French, Level 1 From:Rosetta Stone
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Rosetta Stone
EAN: 0794678322358
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Rosetta Stone
Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
Packaged Height: 210 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 980 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 115 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 810 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows Vista
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Rosetta Stone
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Rosetta Stone
Feature:
- Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
- You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
- In no time you will speak without a script, Rosetta Stone's Contextual Formation™ makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
- With Rosetta Stone Milestone activities you quickly gain confidence to engage in real-life conversations
- Track your progress to reinforce your strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ Language feature
Product Description:
French Level 1 allows you to build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more.
Customer Reviews:
11 of 11 customers found the following review helpful:
 The Best Software Tool For Building Spoken Fluency, 2008-04-18
Rosetta Stone products are expensive, far more expensive than most of the language learning tools you'll find on Amazon or in a bookstore. But Rosetta Stone is well worth the price.
Without a true immersion experience (visiting a foreign nation or cloistering yourself at a very expensive university program like Middlebury's where you must pledge to speak only the language you're trying to learn) it can be quite difficult to build speaking skills. Reading skills develop, but speaking, and listening, tend to lag pretty far behind.
Rosetta Stone's French isn't as useful as a summer in Paris, but it's the next best thing. The lessons are exceptionally well-designed for a software immersion program and it's possible to begin to build real fluency if you stick with it and practice frequently.
Some folks may find the program more useful if they supplement the lessons with a good textbook to garner an understanding of the grammatical concepts introduced by the software. This is particularly true if you find you are more a "book learner" than a "visual learner."
If you need a two week cram session before visiting France for a week, go with Pimsleur's beginning CD course. It's more geared to travel survival French (and it's far cheaper). If you are more serious about learning French, and you want to invest some pretty serious time, Rosetta's products are well worth the cost.
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