Instant Immersion French ( Windows/Macintosh )

by TOPICS Entertainment

Product Features

• 5-disk French-language learning suite with Talk Now! beginning lessons
• World Talk offers intermediate activities and a recording section
• Talk To Me 3.0 with advanced speech recognition technology
• Interactive Picture Dictionary includes memory-enhancing tools
• Fun and challenging interactive mystery game, Who is Oscar Lake?

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000ALFAF
• Item model number: cs-197s
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 10, 2003
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,365 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #67 in Software > Education & Reference > Writing & Literature
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

Millions of people worldwide have discovered the value of Instant Immersion, the most effective program available for learning to speak a foreign language quickly. The new and improved Instant Immersion French suite combines brand-new features and speech recognition technology with an authentic learning environment--the best way to master a foreign language. Based on the highly effective Euromethod (an intuitive approach that surrounds you with native speakers and a new culture) this five CD-ROM suite immerses you in the learning process with cultural videos, entertaining games, and interactive lessons with native speakers.

You'll quickly move from beginner level to that of intermediate with the first two discs from Eurotalk, publisher of language-learning software in Europe. Talk Now and World Talk will have you speaking French faster than any other language-learning software on the market, with fun, easy-to-follow instructions. Talk To Me builds on the Eurotalk discs by introducing more progressive dialogue skills. Including advanced speech recognition technology, Talk To Me allows you to converse with the software, which corrects your pronunciation and intonation of individual words and phrases. For building vocabulary, the Interactive Picture Dictionary provides thousands of essential terms along with detailed images, illustrations, and video clips designed to increase retention. You can even translate words from English to French, German, Italian, and Spanish. Rounding out your immersion experience, Who is Oscar Lake?, a fun and challenging interactive mystery game, tests your new skills.

Features:

• Talk Now! is designed for beginners who want to start learning a new language as soon as possible. As handy for business as it is for pleasure, Talk Now! introduces the essential vocabulary needed to successfully communicate in French.
• World Talk builds on the fundamentals of Talk Now, taking you to the next linguistic level with more intermediate activities, added dictation, and a recording section--topics covered include the calendar, building sentences, asking directions, and using numbers. With the unique recording feature, you can compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers. By mimicking the actors, you'll reap the rewards of language learning the fast Eurotalk way!
• Talk To Me 3.0 ties together the fundamentals covered in Talk Now and World Talk with lessons on pronunciation and dialogue. Using advanced speech recognition technology, Talk To Me 3.0 allows you to converse with the software--the next best thing to hiring a personal tutor. This feature evaluates and corrects your intonation, stress, and rhythm of individual words and phrases (ensuring that you develop correct pronunciation skills). Create a personalized program by choosing activities that target your problem subjects. Plus, you can easily set your own learning pace by adjusting the difficulty level of the exercises.
• Interactive Picture Dictionary allows you to easily explore over 2,000 words in French, Spanish, German, and Italian. Using highly effective picture association techniques, the Interactive Picture Dictionary includes high-quality images, illustrations, video clips, and other memory-enhancing tools that make retaining vocabulary simple. Native French speakers introduce the words and phrases, ensuring you receive the most authentic translation available. With interactive games, worksheets, and a printable dictionary, you will quickly memorize key terms used in daily conversation.
  Includes:
  • Photographs/video clips for every word
  • Categories include: clothes and accessories, conversation, food and drink, medical, travel, and transportation
  • Extensive search feature
  • Interactive games
• Who is Oscar Lake? is the first language-learning program of its kind anywhere. You won't find repetitive drills or endless vocabulary lists here. Instead, Oscar Lake plunges you directly into a foreign city where you must solve a puzzling mystery in a new language. With Oscar Lake, you learn by hearing, seeing, and doing. And because you interact directly with all the characters you meet, you control the pace of the story, the speed of learning, and even the outcome of the game. But be careful! With its multiple endings, Who is Oscar Lake? can make you the hero who recovers the stolen diamond, or the convict who ends up taking the rap!
  Includes:
  • Speech recognition feature--you can even record your own voice
  • Learn 12,000 words
  • Point and click on any object to learn its meaning
  • Special activities module for language basics
  • Instant translations

Product Description

Instant Immersion French lets you hear and practice authentic everyday speech. It's the perfect way to prepare for a business trip or vacation to a French-speaking country -- or for meeting with a foreign visitor. The immersive Euro Method is an easy and simple way to learn to speak a second language -- based on the same techniques that allow a 4-year-olds to speak a language long before they can read or write.