Rosetta Stone Homeschool Greek Level Level 1-3 Set including Audio Companion

by Rosetta Stone

Product Features

• Rosetta Stone Homeschool teaches your student a new language naturally, the same way they mastered their first language.
• Innovative solutions get them speaking new words, right from the start.
• Rosetta Stone Homeschool moves forward only when your student is ready--you set the schedule and your student drives the pace.
• Parent Administrative Tools allow you to formulate lesson plans, manage your student's progress and track their success.
• Audio Companion CDs let them reinforce the Rosetta Stone experience anytime, anywhere.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: 1607179393
• Item model number: 61296
• Date first available at Amazon.com: July 23, 2009
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,680 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Rosetta Stone Homeschool features a foreign language curriculum specifically designed to provide homeschool students with a rich, fully interactive and engaging language-learning experience, while giving parents the tools and resources needed to manage student progress without extensive planning or supervision. Rosetta Stone Homeschool is self-paced and designed to make it easy for parents to offer language learning even if they don't speak the language their students are studying. Students are instantly captivated by Rosetta Stone so they stay engaged. Plus, with positive reinforcement and quick results, their language-learning confidence soars!

The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits their life.

Learn Naturally
Your student will learn their next language the same way they learned their first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers them to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. They already have this ability; Rosetta Stone Homeschool simply unlocks it.

Engage Interactively
Get feedback and move forward. We learn best by doing and your student will apply what they have learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to their individual needs and skills because the program is driven by their progress.

Speak Confidently
Your student will start speaking from the very first lesson. They'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon they'll create new sentences on their own, using words they've learned.

Have Fun
Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity your student will feel success. They will want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So they'll continue using it and they'll continue to learn!

That's language-learning success.
That's Rosetta Stone Homeschool.

No translation or memorization required.

Rosetta Stone Homeschool uses rich visual imagery to help students learn and think in a new language. This association of language with images is an integral part of the Dynamic Immersion method. Students learn in context and make a direct connection between words and their meanings.

Building on the knowledge your student gains and their intuitive grasp of the meaning of each picture, they make a choice. There's absolutely no translation or memorization to hold them back, so they start making progress immediately.

The moment they complete a task, your learner receives instant feedback. They will speak a word and our unique speech recognition technology automatically rates their pronunciation. They connect an image with a phrase and immediately learn if their choice was correct. They complete a set of exercises and instantly know how well they did. With Rosetta Stone Homeschool, your student always knows where they stand and you can easily track their level of success through the Parent Administrative Tools' Progress Reports.

Enter Dynamic Immersion.
Dynamic Immersion is a continuous process. The Rosetta Stone curriculum is carefully sequenced, gradually incorporating new words, phrases and more complex grammar as it reinforces learned language. Language comprehension grows naturally.

Innovative technology.
Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of our curriculum to develop skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep your students engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that they're speaking correctly and accurately.

Communicate and connect with the world: Level 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Level 1, 2 & 3 Set will take your students on a journey from the basics to a whole new level of advanced communication. Your students will build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, quickly gaining the confidence to engage in social interactions. They'll learn to say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange travel, order food, go shopping and more! From there, they will share ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about their life, their interests and more. They will discover a voice in a new language.

In addition, Parent Administrative Tools help parents plan lessons as well as monitor and report on student progress.

Sample topics include:

• Basic conversational skills
• Greetings and introductions
• Colors, adjectives and numbers
• Prepositions, definite and indefinite articles
• Singular and plural nouns
• Family relations, the 5 senses, time of day
• Compare and contrast
• First and second person pronouns and possessive pronouns
• Directions, transportation and telling time
• Past and future tenses, adverbs and informal imperatives
• School subjects, months of the year and social dialogues
• Emotions
• Sequencing with First/ Then/ Finally
• Ordinal numbers
• Spatial relationships
• Household items, physical activity and animals
• Present subjunctive and present perfect
• What happened? What is wrong? "If ... then" sequences
• Portions, weights and measurements
• Correct/ incorrect, remember/ forget, no one/ everyone, nothing/ everything
• Continents, life milestones and compass directions

Audio Companion
Audio Companion CDs reinforce language learning anytime, anyplace. Students will acquire new skills on the computer and then reinforce them with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a CD player or download to an MP3 player.

Inside the box, you'll find:

• Version 3 Homeschool Edition CD-ROM software for Levels 1, 2 & 3 (Windows/Mac)
• Headset with microphone
• User's guide
• Parents guide
• Supplemental Education Material CD
• Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to an MP3 player

Product Description

Rosetta Stone Homeschool features a foreign language curriculum specifically designed to provide homeschool students with a rich, fully interactive and engaging language-learning experience, while giving parents the tools and resources needed to manage student progress without extensive planning or supervision. Rosetta Stone Homeschool is self-paced and designed to make it easy for parents to offer language learning even if they don't speak the language their students are studying. Students are instantly captivated by Rosetta Stone so they stay engaged. Plus, with positive reinforcement and quick results, their language-learning confidence soars!

Customer Reviews

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Pretty Good So Far, September 15, 2011

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This review is from: Rosetta Stone Homeschool Greek Level Level 1-3 Set including Audio Companion (CD-ROM)

This is the third time I've tried to do language training with Rosetta Stone over the last 7 or 8 years. Some time in 2003, I bought a level-1 Asian languages course (Korean, Japanese, Chinese) and was very unimpressed. After several weeks of focusing on Korean, I had learned how to recognize phrases like "the horse is white" and "the boy has a red ball" and similar things equally useful (or not mostly). I actually taught myself the Korean alphabet prior to starting with the Rosetta stone software, so it wasn't that difficult to start recognizing the words (the Korean alphabet is phonetic like the Roman alphabet and MUCH easier to learn than kanji characters used in Japanese or Chinese) but I wasn't building any vocabulary I could use in the local Korean restaurant, so to say.

And given the limited utility of what I was learning, I burned out on it pretty quickly.

Fast forward about 5 years and a friend of mine whose wife is Dutch told me he had used Rosetta Stone for Dutch. He said he had had decent success, but clarified the first month or so seemed fairly pointless (like my experience) and after sticking with it for several months or so, doing at least 30 minutes a day, it started to click and make sense...understanding the language AND the overall approach Rosetta Stone was using.

Based on his feedback, I decided to give Rosetta Stone for Greek a try, but I wasn't quite ready to buy it. I got a hold of an "unofficial" test copy of version 2, loaded it up, and gave it a shot. It was definitely better than the Korean I had tried years earlier, but again, there didn't seem to be any rhyme or reason why I was being taught the phrases or vocabulary I was learning. I admit I only tried it for about a week.

Finally about 2 months ago I thought what the heck, and I splurged on the newest version 3 with all the levels (levels 1-3) of Rosetta Stone for Greek. I thought blowing that much money would help inspire me to actually use it, and so far it has. I could read Greek decently (albeit VERY slowly) before I started this, but I also had a VERY limited vocabulary, probably around 40-50 words, and a very limited knowledge of some of the grammar (some of the personal pronouns and some basic conjugation).

Well, I've been at it for a little more than a month (minus a few blocks of 1 or 2 days skipped here and there), and I have to say I'm impressed. There is still a degree of "why the heck am I learning this now" regarding vocabulary, but less so than before. If you think about how babies tend to prioritize their beginning speech frequently around desires (food, environment, comfort) and social interaction (with "ma-ma" or "da-da") it starts to make a little more sense. As I'm only a month into this, I'm hoping it will all start to tie together a bit more as I progress. My first impression is I'm doing well learning the vocabulary given pictures and multiple choice questions, but it's not as easy to start plugging that vocabulary into usable sentences, other than very basic ones. BUT, that's usually how babies learn (lots of listening and then burbling out some basic sentences that gradually increase in complexity) so maybe I'm on the right track. I'll try to give an update when I advance to level 2.

I've used several other language software products and for languages I've studied at least a bit (in courses or on my own) I still prefer "Learn French Now!" (or whatever language) by Transparent Language (especially considering the price), but as they didn't have a fully developed version for Greek, this is what I settled for. See my review of "Learn German Now" here on Amazon for a better description of how that software works.

Still, this is a LOT of money to invest for language learning. Two suggestions I'd make: 1) if you've real incentive to learn the language (like you've just moved to Russia on a 3-year job contract and can't even start to talk to the abundant models walking around because none of them speak English) then consider this over a basic phrase book more aimed at tourists and specific situations. 2) If you really just want to learn some "restaurant-level" language skills ("Bonsoir garcon! Une table pour moi!") then a basic phrases book approach would make more sense.

Lastly, some libraries have copies of Rosetta Stone you can check out to get a feel for using it before you sink the bucks into your own copy.

Again, I'll let you know how it's going in several months.