EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Tamil

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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

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: 1843523582
• Item model number: 51589
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 4, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 2.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,095 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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Talk Now! - Very useful product., June 30, 2009

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Agnus Eller - See all my reviews

This is a great product. It's interactive with fun games and over 270 words you can put on your ipod so you can study anywhere. It teaches you a lot of words related to food, colors, shopping, traveling, emergencies, and other basic things.

As to the other review that the words are just 'English spoken with an Indian accent,' its true that some of the words are like that but its words for objects like 'credit card' and 'telephone' that didn't always exist in the language.

My only complaint is that the complete sentences they teach you aren't broken down in to their different parts so that you can construct new ones easily on your own, but rather you just memorize how that sentence sounds.

Obviously knowing someone who actually speaks the language would be a big help in learning, but if you don't have one this is probably the next best thing. I also bought a book to try to learn from and this is so much more helpful.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculously Bad, March 9, 2009

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Katherine E. Barrett "vishalivarga" (Bristol, NY) - See all my reviews
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Half of the words they "translate"
are just english words with
a heavy Indian accent.

How do you say 'hello' in Tamil?
According to Eurotalk: You simply say "hello"
like Apu and you have mastered Tamil!
A total waste of time and money

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not so useful, August 17, 2010

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VI - See all my reviews

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

it is not really colloquial tamil.. my friend who is a tamilian told me that people rarely use most of the words in there.. also, the other words (which are supposedly colloquial) are english words spoken with a heavy indian accent... i wouldnt recommend this to people trying to quickly learn basic tamil...