Instant Immersion Italian (5 CD-ROM Set)

by TOPICS Entertainment

Product Features

• Includes 5 CD-ROM titles: Talk Now, World Talk, Talk to Me, Interactive Picture Dictionary, and Who Is Oscar Lake
• Advanced speech recognition technology lets you converse with the software and even corrects words and phrases.
• Based on the Euromethod, an approach that immerses students in a country's language and culture.
• Native Italian speakers introduce words and phrases. Lessons can be customized.
• PC Compatible; Pentium II 200 MHz or higher Windows 98 or higher. 90 MB HD 16 MB RAM 800x600, High color display 4x CD-ROM drive or faster, speaker, mouse.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006IKF1
• Item model number: CS-201d
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 9, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,095 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #2 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Italian
  • #32 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Universal Translator
  • #81 in Software > Language & Travel
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Instant Immersion Italian delivers an authentic Italian 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 Italian 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 Italian. With Instant Immersion, you learn by hearing, seeing, and doing.

Product Description

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Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Great product!, July 10, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Instant Immersion Italian (5 CD-ROM Set) (CD-ROM)

I read the other reviews for this title & couldn't help noticing something. This product is also available in numerous other languages which are also sold on Amazon.com I found it odd how the same exact product (but for another language) could receive 4 &
5 stars - while this one recieved only 1. Strange indeed - so, I had to check it out. The product is excellent, and it does what it says - it get's you "speaking" the language. My daughter actually had one of the CD-ROM's contained in this box set - "Who is Oscar Lake" and I'm not kidding when I tell you it cost $$! Imagine my surprise when I opned up the package and saw this title inside. How anyone could anyone knock a software title that cost them $$ - but has a value of $$$, is beyond me. Combined in this set are over 3,000 words & phrases - if learning these can't get you speaking a new language, I don't know what can. After looking at other programs I strongly believe that for the money - there isn't a better program around.

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Hard to actually learn the language, May 27, 2004

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Theodoric (California, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Immersion Italian (5 CD-ROM Set) (CD-ROM)

The first CD teaches vocabulary. After having fun with this, I popped in the second CD. I found that the second CD is all in Italian and that the vocabulary words I learned from the first CD were not nearly enough for me to understand the full Italian sentences spoken on the second CD. There is nothing here -- on any of the CDs -- to really teach Italian sentences.

It's a struggle to learn anything but vocabulary from this. Caveat emptor.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not practical for actually speaking Italian, January 29, 2005

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Still Learning - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Immersion Italian (5 CD-ROM Set) (CD-ROM)

I received this item as a gift to prepare for my vacation in Italy. This CD is good for a young child who just wants to learn very, very basic words and phrases. You learn a handful of phrases you might need but that is about it. And the other customer was correct, the 2nd CD in Talk Now is completely italian and contains words and complete sentences that were never even introduced in the first CD. If you want to have your 7 yr old child impress his/her grandparents by knowing how to count in Italian or know how to say colors in Italian, this is great. However if you want to learn to actually somewhat converse in Italian, skip this CD.