Customer Reviews

Instant Immersion French Pro 7 CD Platinum

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1 star:		(6)

 

 

The box says you can "Quickly start speaking, reading, and writing French." Well, though it does have tutorials on quickly picking up the language, it has nothing to show a beginner how to pronunciate the letters and accents.

The first program, Tell Me More, is all French with no English translation. This is four of the 7 CD's that only helps someone review French that already knows it. Example, it'll show you a picture of a boy and a soccer ball, then have some French text and prounce the text in French. You don't know if they're saying "Boy with Ball", "Boy Playing Soccer", "Boy Playing" or what. Does no good for a beginner.

The French Plus CD is a different product and like the Tell Me More is more of a review for those who already know French.

The French Vocabulary Builder is basically a dictionary that pronounces certain words, but again, no syntax on how French is setup... so still no go for a beginner.

And the final CD is an audio CD, which again, isn't for the beginner.

To top it off, the package came with one sheet for instructions that basically says, Put in the install CD and follow the instructions. 7 CD's with a fancy package.

Save your money and choose another package. This is definately not worth it for beginners. The person that rated this 5 stars must work for the company.

This didn't help me at all. You have to already speek french to get anything out of it. It doesn't teach you how to speak french, just how to pronounce french words. I wish I could get my money back.

This program includes 7 discs...True...but....NONE of the 7 discs teaches ANYTHING about basics. No introduction to basic grammar and form, not even introduction to the alphabet. The first 4 discs called Tell Me More are a big waste of time if you do not know the slightest bit about the french language. Also, it took some time to get the Tell Me More programs loaded and working on my system, which crashed my system more than me having to work and use it. All in all it is not worth the money...it will not teach you ANYTHING. This goes for the other Immersion Language Pro language versions, because all of them include this Tell Me More programs.

Poor vocabulary, poor grammar, poor translations, poor software.

Topics Entertainment's Instant Immersion French Pro 7-CD set is all packaging. The 7 CDs are broken into 4 parts:

1) CD-1 Installation disk
CD-2,3,4 Tell Me More series. Completey useless for a beginner. There are supposed to be three different levels here beginner, intermediate, advanced, WRONG, ALL Advanced. Every disc contains lengthy french dialogue with no starting point for vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, or pronuncitaion. This is aimed at someone already familiar with french.

2) CD-5 Vocabulary Builder. Everything about this is for children and on the Eurotalk website you will see this is targeted at 3-10 year olds. It has a miniscule vocabulary and the words and sentences it does contain are downright useless, "The duck is under a desk". It also does not even contain english translations of the french words, just pictures. It is left to the user to infer what the picture means!

3) CD-6 French Plus (A Rosetta Stone application) I found this disc to be the least help of them all. It has pictures with words on top of them that can disappear and you are supposed to pick the word spoken but you get no english translation. It is all a mess just like that last sentence.

4) CD-7 Audio Disc. I only listened to the first track and thought this would be perfect for those who like to repeat long sentences from memory. However, the converstation on the track was relevant for those traveling to France (encounter with a passport agent) unlike the other discs which are not relevant to anything really.

This software is just a pretty box, no useful content or lesson plan.

If you are looking for an introduction to French do not buy this software.

Navigating through this software is very difficult and confusing. It is almost as if you have to be able to speak french already to be able to use this software with any degree of success.

The othe discs that come with this software are just as useless as the rest. I am very disappointed and I wish I had just saved my money and bought Learn French Now! 9.0 which is infinitely better.

OK. This series is definitely not for beginners. I am very skeptical of any program that hypes the "total immersion" approach and this "instant immersion" takes that to the nth degree. Adults just aren't wired that way. Nor do they have nothing else to do for four or five years except learn a language - - which is what infants do.

A lot of time went into putting this series together and it would be a lot more successful if it were sold as a review course in conversational French for intermediate to advanced students. There is very little software available in that area and this package offers a relatively large volume of mid-level practice at a reasonable price.

After reading some of the reviews on this page, I figured that out and was not disappointed.

As an intermediate French speaker and someone who has lived in Paris, this is a wonderful way to keep up with and enhance my French language skills. I do appreciate, however, that beginners may not feel the same way, as this may be more appropriate for someone who already has a base knowledge of the language. I love using this program - I never run out of fun new lessons, it seems.

I loved this program. I had taken French thirty years ago for a semester and a couple of adult education courses before starting. The CDs have learning tools for comprehension, vocabulary, present and past tense, speaking and dictation. It uses a video to begin the lesson with both spoken and written dialogue. One can follow along with the written until familiar. The lessons build on the video. There are different games to improve skills and exercises that require one to repeat words, rearrange sentences, fill in blanks, match words for meaning, and answer questions. The variety kept me interested. There are tools to assess how well one is doing. I would highly recommend it for someone with some basic vocabulary and verbs.

Everyone rating this product so low because it's "hard" needs to read the box more carefully before buying.
Title: Instant Immersion.
What do you expect? Immersion is universally accepted as the fastest way to learn a language, however, it's not for everybody. It takes a certain amount of intelligence and patience to handle immersion learning. If you don't learn well this way, simply don't buy the software. I found it hard in the beginning but as I progressed it started to click and I understood more and more of it. Once you finish the 7 cds you'll have a rock hard foundation in the language.

This is the worst french learning application i've seen. I thought before buying it that 7 cd's will teach me french from a beginning to an advanced level. But this is not the case.

I've tried some other programs obtaining better results and they fit into just 1 CD.