Instant Immersion French v1.0 [Old Version]

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Product Features

• PC Compatible; Pentium II 200 MHz or higher; Windows 98 or higher, including XP
• 90 MB HD, 16 MB RAM; 800 x 600, High color display; 4X CD-ROM Drive or faster; Speaker, Mouse
• Microphone, Printer and Internet Access are all optional
• Topics

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IKEX
• Item model number: CS-197d
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 1.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #19,774 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Instant Immersion French delivers an authentic French learning environment to your desktop. Based on the Euromethod--an approach that immerses students in a country's language and culture--this language-learning suite includes five CD-ROM titles: Talk Now!, World Talk, Talk to Me, Interactive Picture Dictionary, and Who Is Oscar Lake? Native French speakers introduce words and phrases. Lessons can be customized. Explore more than 2,000 words in French, Spanish, German, and Italian with the interactive picture dictionary's video clips and other memory enhancing tools. Advanced speech recognition technology--the next best thing to a conversation partner--actually lets you converse with the software and even corrects words and phrases. Instant Immersion's Who Is Oscar Lake? title rounds out this comprehensive suite. In the ultimate test of your new skills, you'll have to solve a puzzling mystery... in French. With Instant Immersion, you learn by hearing, seeing, and doing.

Product Description

MANUFACTURER WARRANTY: 90

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Ridiculous waste of time, energy and money, February 11, 2006

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K. Corbray (Washington, United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion French v1.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Like someone else said, I'd give it zero stars if I could. I took four years of high school French and I bought this program with the misplaced hope of being able to brush up on my pronunciation, conversation and vocab.

However, the second I popped the CD in, I knew I'd made a mistake. The whole thing is set up in a really useless way with ambitious expectations.

Throughout, you are only taught limited vocabulary, then, in the dictation section, are asked to understand a horrible computer simulated voice speaking French to you.

The "interactive games" are something a five year old would be bored with and, honestly, I got so irritated at the lack of advancement that I threw the whole thing away.

Even as someone with a relatively extensive background in the language, I found this to be a difficult program to use because of it's confusing set-up. Plus, you don't really have the chance to advance your skills since everytime you use the program, it's the same material...just in a different order.

Avoid this program if you really want to learn the language and spend an extra $20-$30 on something that works.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Did not learn much, June 18, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant Immersion French v1.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Instant Immersion French is poor when it comes to teaching you French. I was just unable to learn from this program unlike some other programs which have helped me. Beware this product, I would consider a different company's product over this one. I have also tried French Now by Transparent Language and found that it taught me French quite well.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Really should be zero stars, November 5, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant Immersion French v1.0 [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

This product is really a disappointment. There are no menus and no lessons one, two, etc. On CD 1 you learn some basic words and then on CD 2 there is nothing but French. The other CDs are not much more help. I bought this program to learn French and now I'm considering not wasting my time, trashing it and starting again.