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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
If it looks too good to be true.....,
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This review is from: Berlitz Passport to 31 Languages (CD-ROM)
I wanted some software to provide exposure to a variety of foreign languages. This does provide that, but it's all very minimalist. Also, the program did not work as it should have. Transliteration was only available for "certain" languages; it was absent for some of the one's for which it is completely necessary. The audio examples were spoken too quickly for me to decipher them in some cases, and as transliteration was not available, I could not try to phonetically decipher the words. If you want exposure to something that uses basically the same alphabet as Englist (i.e. French, Spanish, Italian, German,etc.)it will do OK, but more thorough programs are readily available for these languages. If you want to learn more exotic stuff like Arabic, Russian, Swahili, Japanese, Cantonese (which is what I wanted and is harder to find), those languages are offered in this software, but it doesn't do much good without the transliteration feature working on all of them. Additionally, when I tried to get tech support, I was informed that the company does not produce this version anymore, so tech support for it is no longer available. Bottom line, for me, it was a Passport to Not a Whole Lot.
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Berlitz Passport to 31 Languages by The Learning Company (Windows 2000 / 95 / 98)
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