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- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / XP, Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger, Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Develop your command of the language. From the simple to the complex, gain the confidence to share your ideas and opinions in your new language. Develop the conversational skills to plan adventures, care for your health and move abroad. Talk about government, work, movies, family, and more. Includes everything you need to learn at home and on the go.
What Will I Learn
This level will help you:
- Build your vocabulary and language abilities
- Read, write, speak and understand your new language
- Speak without a script
- Retain what you've learned
- Practice unscripted conversations in your new language
- Negotiate complex situations with confidence and accuracy
Sample topics include:
- The basics, such as age and family relations
- Questions, greetings, introductions
- Telling time, calendar terms, the weather
- Directions, locations, dining out
- Emotions, opinions, ideas
- Political, media, business terms
- Arranging home repairs
- Planning to move abroad
- Discussing the arts and tourism
- Careers and conducting interviews
- Problem-solving and commercial transactions
What Do I Get?
Interactive Software
Our award-wining version, complete with proprietary speech recognition technology.
Audio Companion
For your CD or MP3 player so you can review while on the go.
Headset with Microphone
For use with our state-of- the-art speech-recognition software.
Live Online Lessons 
Practice sessions led by native speaking tutors.
Games & Community
Language-enhancing games move you towards real-world proficiency.
Mobile Companion
Learning application for your iPhone or iPod Touch device.
Our Method
Recreate the natural way you learned your first language and reveal skills that you already have using Dynamic Immersion. This award-winning method has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world.
Learn Naturally: Discover how to speak, read, write, and understand--all without translating or memorizing. Our award-winning solution recreates how you learned your first language, unlocking your natural abilities.
Speak Confidently: Perfect your pronunciation with speech-recognition technology. Gain the confidence in your new voice as you practice with other learners in our exclusive online community and participate in online sessions coached by native tutors.
Immerse Yourself: Be surrounded by your new language. From core lessons to online sessions, Rosetta Stone gets you engaged and interacting with others.
Stay Motivated: Experience accomplishment with each moment of achievement; with dedicated success agents you will never lose sight of your language-learning goals.
Your Natural Ability. Awakened.
Natural Discovery
Learning your first language is as natural as smiling. Effortless. Rewarding. Every step in Rosetta Stone feels like that. Clear, compelling images appear precisely, in juxtaposition, conveying meaning. Intuitively, you just know what it means.
- Our puzzle-like environments--a systematic presentation of sounds, images, and text--help learners absorb meaning intuitively.
Rosetta Stone's award-winning software, where you will interact by speaking, clicking, selecting phrases and writing.
Speech Activation
Rosetta Stone's proprietary speech-recognition technology provides immediate and ongoing feedback.
Build your confidence and polish your pronunciation skills with state-of-the-art speech-recognition technologies and success-filled dialogues.
- Our software provides immediate and ongoing assessments of your speech through Actionable Feedback, which helps you pronounce syllables, words and sentences correctly and easily.
- Based on a collection of literally millions of speech samples, our proprietary speech-recognition algorithms and speech models were engineered with a singular purpose--to help you communicate with accuracy, confidence and ease.
Native Socialization
Language-learning games will keep you motivated along the way.
Practice with native speakers in our live interactive sessions and our online community. Every conversation gives you the confidence to communicate in your new language.
- For many, traditional language-learning fails because it lacks real conversation. With Rosetta Stone you'll play games and chat with native speakers and other learners in our online language community.
- Hundreds of native-speaking tutors trained in the Rosetta Stone method are ready to help reinforce the language you're learning through live, online conversations. From Day One you'll be speaking your new language with confidence and ease.
Product Description
Develop your command of the language. From the simple to the complex, gain the confidence to share your ideas and opinions. Develop conversational skills to plan adventures, care for your health, and move abroad. Talk about government, work, movies, and citizenship. Discuss family and traditions, and celebrate success.
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76 of 80 people found the following review helpful
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I've completed the full German course, 1-5 and have had a very good experience with it. English is a Germanic language, which means many of the words underlying English and German are the same or quite similar. Vocabulary should come fairly easily to students and the program gets one to an intermediate level of communication. The audio companion cd discs (20 of them) do a great job of drumming in vocabulary drills or refresh words and concepts learned in earlier lessons. The studio lessons allow for a genuine small classroom experience with teachers who know which words the student is and is not familiar with.
There are deficiencies in the Rosetta Stone system. As 100% of the program is in German, one needs to pick up a dictionary to translate properly some of the words in the course. Also if one forgets a word there is no glossary allowing one to go back to the section the word was introduced.
The underlying premiss that adults can learn a language like a child has limits. Do you know a foreigner who learned English as an adult who speaks like a native? The last flaw is a significant one. German has a complex grammatical system and there is no way that one can pick that up by just listening to it. Hitting a german grammar book outside the course is a major help in this regard.
I have family in the German part of Switzerland and they can understand me. My fluency level is enough to get by at the conversational level in most situations. Think of Rosetta Stone 1-5 like a couple of years of college level study. One will be far from fluent but at the same time, one can get almost any idea across and have a solid foundation to build on.
There are deficiencies in the Rosetta Stone system. As 100% of the program is in German, one needs to pick up a dictionary to translate properly some of the words in the course. Also if one forgets a word there is no glossary allowing one to go back to the section the word was introduced.
The underlying premiss that adults can learn a language like a child has limits. Do you know a foreigner who learned English as an adult who speaks like a native? The last flaw is a significant one. German has a complex grammatical system and there is no way that one can pick that up by just listening to it. Hitting a german grammar book outside the course is a major help in this regard.
I have family in the German part of Switzerland and they can understand me. My fluency level is enough to get by at the conversational level in most situations. Think of Rosetta Stone 1-5 like a couple of years of college level study. One will be far from fluent but at the same time, one can get almost any idea across and have a solid foundation to build on.
68 of 77 people found the following review helpful
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I have the most advanced (and expensive) RosettaStone German package. The concept is good, and when it works, it really works. The problem is the speech-recognition software is not sophisticated enough for its ambitions, and that stops you in your tracks. The headset works. The sound settings are correct. The headset just has a hard time recognizing speech, so it won't let you in. That's that! It's not that the entry test is complicated or foreign. One need only say "1,2,3,4,5" in English in a normal tone of voice to gain entry. Simple enough, especially if one is a native English-speaker like me. Sometimes it works. Sometimes it doesn't. One spends hours repeating the numbers, checking the voice and sound settings, listening to other recordings to see if the headset and mike are working, booting and re-booting the computer, plugging the headset in and out, uploading and re-uploading RosettaStone. (The headset must be plugged in before uploading RosettaStone). If you call for technical help, you are put on hold for a long time and then they make you go through what you just did yourself. Sooner or later, it will work, so Technical Support thinks it has fixed it. But then it happens again. Today it took me an hour to get on. Inasmuch as the advanced package costs $600+, I suggest one wait until the technology is perfected.
25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
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I got the Rosetta Stone in German as a refresher for my trip to Austria. I took german for 7 years and already have good pronunciation and this thing tells me I'm saying it wrong constantly. I have even had my boyfriend and others listen to me as I'm saying it and they say I am pronouncing it exactly as Rosetta Stone tells me to but it never accepts it. Then, when I mess up and say it wrong, it accepts it. I have come to the point of totally skipping the pronunciation part. The vocab is good and I have re-learned a lot of what I forgot but I would rather just buy a german book and go through the vocab than mess with this software. Overpriced for the glitches it has.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Absolutely love it
Simple, great product, that we are learning very fast. Using 2 users on the same computer with no issues. Some other users have mentioned having issues with the voice input. Read more
Published 19 days ago by K. Hydock
GERMAN
I would not buy this product. It assumes you already know how to speak Dutch. If I didn't have several books to look up different pronounciations i would be lost.
Published 2 months ago by obie
Octoberfest or Bust
The German Rosetta Stone is going to allow me and my wife the ability to communicate in the native language for my ancestry's homeland and we will be able to enjoy Octoberfest that... Read more
Published 2 months ago by Mark Rudolph
return policy
I returned this item unopened less than 24 hours after receiving it (for reasons not related to the product). They tried to charge > $200 as a restocking fee. Read more
Published 2 months ago by kwm
Good Product - Difficult Customer Service
I bought Version 3 with Home School Reports more than a year ago. It warked well, except for a Macintosh keyboard bug, disallowig use of the shift key or capslock. Read more
Published 3 months ago by DaveElvig
Easy return process
Rosetta Stone is based on repetition. You basically repeat a select number of phrases until you become adept at using them. Read more
Published 3 months ago by traveler
A glaring error and a pricing issue
One reason why I did not buy the French version is because of the following issue with this German version. I am already quite fluent in German. Read more
Published 3 months ago by Irreverent
Not perfect, but a great alternative to taking in-person courses
For beginners, this is a great introduction to language learning. I wouldn't say that the accompanying images were exactly crucial in aiding my comprehension and memorization of... Read more
Published 4 months ago by Tamara D.
Rosetta Stone Deutsch
Product is awesome, it is really easy to set up and use. the tech support staff is also extremely helpful.
Published 4 months ago by BStellar
Great Product but way overpriced
This is a fantastic product but the price has got to go lower. Volume pricing is the only way you guys will make the millions that this product should be valued at. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Robert H Burke Jr.
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