EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Malayalam

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Product Features

• The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
• Extensive basic vocabulary, from first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body and numbers, to telling time, shopping and countries
• Each of the target languages for Talk Now! has help available in an additional 102 languages ? simply choose the flag of your native country in the beginning of the program & EuroTalk?s Talk Now! Program will provide instruction in your native language
• Each topic contains listening practice, an easy game, a hard game, a printable dictionary as well as the opportunity to record your voice and hear how you sound in comparison to the two native speakers who tutor the user throughout the Talk Now! course
• Each question that is answered correctly increases the user's score - get an answer wrong and points will be lost. There are 1800 points in total to gain from the disc. A full score earns the user a 'Gold Award'

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00117UVUU
• Item model number: 51552
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,537 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three million people to date. Designed for newcomers to the language, Talk Now! is the perfect method to access a wealth of comprehensive fundamental vocabulary and accurate pronunciation in one user-friendly plan packed with useful words, a picture dictionary, and quizzes. Anyone over 10 years of age will find the program indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills.

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Malayalam, September 15, 2008

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lue333 "lue333" (Michigan, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Malayalam (CD-ROM)

I ordered this DVD with interactive lessons, and i-pod download... and I really like it. It has 6 or 7 categories.,,, 1st words, colors, body parts, phrases, countries, telling time, more words, etc . Then there are like 4-5 things you can do. 1st they say the word and you repeat. Then there's easy game (they say a few things, then hide and say and you find them., like memory) and hard game,,, they say only in malayalam... and another game.. then there's a voice recorder where the easy version, they say, you repeat... and hard version.. you say show me 4, 8, or 10 things and in so much time you say the names.... and it records you on both, and you can play it back and on both they say it 1st so you can compare how you sound. Also, for everything, there's a man and a woman speaker, so you hear 2 pronunciations. and sometimes (I know it is with hindi) the female word seems to end in "A:" and the male in "uh"... anyway... you do all the parts and your score grows toward a goal of like 1800.

Also, there's a printable "picture dictionary" on each section, And on that, the malayalam typeface is also on it, so you learn the written form, And for visual learners, ther pictures trigger words.

Then, there's i-pod integration. On your ipod it says the english word on your screen while they say the malayalam word (phrase), It's by far the best learning tool I've got so far, I only wish it would go on with more words/phrases after I have this mastered.

I really like it and the only bad part is that for malayalam they only have the one beginner product, where for hindi, ie, they have 5 products.., 3 levels and learning tools.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not worth it, February 3, 2011

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Hari Damodaran - See all my reviews

This review is from: EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Malayalam (CD-ROM)

I bought this software with prior ability in understanding basic Malayalam and in forming simple sentences.

The teaching methods are interesting (games, etc.)

But I found the instruction itself extremely limited - you learn a few words, but don't learn much about how to make NEW sentences. The basis of instruction is the wholesale repeating of words/sentences. You're never told what the individual words in a given sentence even mean -- you're only told that the phrase for "Please speak a little more slowly," for example, is "Korchakudi patheyka samsarikyuka" (I probably didn't reproduce the Malayalam accurately.) It's only from prior exposure to the language that I know that korchakudi means "a little more," patheyka means slowly, samsarikyu means speak -- the software will never tell you this. But someone who already understands the meaning of the individual words in the above sentence will feel disappointed by the software, because he/she will end up not learning many new words.

Disclosure: In all fairness, the cover DOES indicate that this software consists of "Essential words and phrases for absolute beginners."

They do include some helpful words for beginners: help, please, thank you, Where is X?, etc.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars great condition. arrived quickly, August 4, 2009

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meresj - See all my reviews

This review is from: EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Malayalam (CD-ROM)

very pleased! the c-rom has worked great except on my computer... something doesn't match with compatibility. but the cd-rom easily loaded on a different lap top. thanks! hope to work with you again.