- Platform: Windows Vista / 2000 / XP, Mac OS X
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone.
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The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life.
Learn Naturally
Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability. Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it.
Engage Interactively
Get feedback to move forward. You learn best by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your progress.
Speak Confidently
Start speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll speak. You'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll create new sentences on your own, using words you've learned.
Have Fun
Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So you'll keep using it, and you'll learn more!
That's language-learning success.
That's Rosetta Stone.
No translation or memorization required.
The most effective way to learn a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words with images. That's the ultimate language lab, but most language-learning programs completely ignore this.Think about all of the ways you've tried to learn a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software that uses your native language as a base for your next one. What do they all have in common? Translation and memorization.
Instead of taking a "direct flight" from your brain to your new language, translation and memorization connects you to your old language. You always have to "fly" from your brain, to your native tongue ... and then translate what you've memorized to communicate.
That might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to change tenses? You're going to make a lot of "connecting flights." That's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail.
Enter Dynamic Immersion.
This method encourages you to think like a baby. You'll pair words with vivid, real-life images and make connections between things you know and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words together into phrases that you create.
Innovative technology.
Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software that works with you to develop your skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that you're speaking correctly and accurately. Best of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident.
Discover the building blocks and begin your exploration: Levels 1 & 2.
You'll learn a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and language and gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills. You'll move forward and learn to give and get directions, involve yourself in basic social interactions, dine out, use transportation, tell time and more.
Audio Companion
With Audio Companion, you'll enhance the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Each Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your travel time into productive language-learning time.
Inside the box, you'll find:
- Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Levels 1 & 2 (Windows/Mac)
- Headset microphone
- User's guide
- Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player
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Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone Portugese Levels 1&2 with Audio Companion you build a foundation and navigate your surroundings. Begin learning fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence and enter the intermediate level where you will be able to talk about your environment; give and get directions, tell time, dine out with self-reliance, shop, enjoy basic social interactions and much more. Now Rosetta Stone with Audio Companion allows the learner to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go! What is Audio Companion? Audio Companion CDs are activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and practice what they’ve been learning on the computer, turning travel time into productive language learning time. Audio Companion lets the student access the power of Rosetta Stone lessons whenever and wherever they want, they can play the CD’s on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 player. It empowers the student and helps reinforce the lessons in any busy lifestyle!
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Probably the best way to learn a different language,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: Portuguese (Brazilian) Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I bought this for my husband as he wants to learn a little bit of my native language before we have kids, just so we can teach them and he is not so much out of the loop! The system is great, probably the best way to learn another language. You do need to use it a little each day and try to apply yourself for it to really work. I have read reviews saying it does not work because it does not translate. My husband is learning faster because he has to figure out the pictures on his own, without the program giving him the answer. This really does work. I have been completely impressed by his progress and more importantly because he enjoys doing it.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Decent product but terrible customer service,
By Perpetual Student (Raleigh, NC USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: Portuguese (Brazilian) Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I found this product to be a good way to get started with basic speaking. It will teach you enough that you'll be able to get around a city using only a phrasebook. Don't expect to be able to conjugate or make complex sentences, however. It's great for getting started in a new, unfamiliar language and speeds up the learning process. Just be patient and do the lessons fairly regularly.The customer service, on the other hand, is the worst I have ever encountered. If you are lucky, your software will install correctly and you'll never have to deal with them. If, however, you are unfortunate enough to have your computer break or your software malfunctions, you will then encounter an experience that is sure to leave you feeling insulted, cheated, and without necessarily having them solve your problem. They were rude and insulting from the first moment I began to speak to them. In the end, I had to solve the problem myself in a quite complicated manner because of strange rules they have regarding the license keys. It involving removing a hard drive and wiring it to another computer as well as reinstalling the program multiple times, all of which the customer service reps were totally unable or unwilling to help me with. I also recommend speaking slowly because some of the reps don't speak English very well. Also be aware that if you buy the software from a third party other than an "approve seller", Rosetta stone will consider that pirated software even if it is a legitimate sale. (Note that this is a side issue and not related to their rudeness or inadequacy at doing their jobs in customer care.)
3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
good home use tool,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: Portuguese (Brazilian) Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
very useful for pronuciation and phrases, not so strong when it comes to vocabulary, grammar and verb conjugation. highly recommend for the self taught student of the language
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