Rosetta Stone V2: Chinese, Level 1 & 2 [OLD VERSION]

by Rosetta Stone

Product Features

• Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
• You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech comparison tool
• Find the words you need when you need them Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts
• With Rosetta Stone Milestone activities you quickly gain confidence to engage in real-life conversations in a foreign language.
• Track your progress to reinforce your new foreign language strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ language feature.

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 10.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000P85CSC
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 7, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,332 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Why is Rosetta Stone the world's No. 1 language-learning software? Because it works.

Escape the endless tedium of translation, memorization, and grammar drills. Get the language you want, the skills you need, and the success you deserve by learning a new language naturally--the same way you learned your first language.

	The complete immersion environment puts your native language-learning skills to work, eliminating your dependence on tedious translation and rote memorization.

	Images		Intuition
	In Rosetta Stone you learn the meaning of new language from clear, real-life images. In this activity you learn a few basic nouns.		You advance using language you've learned and clues from new images. That's your intuition at work. Now that you know these nouns, you can easily grasp the meaning of the new verb...
	Interactivity		Instruction
	Throughout Rosetta Stone, you constantly interact with the program to confirm your intuition. ...and then check what you've learned.		From beginning to end you build systematically toward your language-learning goals, for the most effective and enjoyable instruction anywhere. Pattern your speech after a native speaker. Our speech comparison feature shows you exactly how you're doing.

You learned your first language without translation.
You learned your first language easily and naturally by connecting words to objects and events around you. With Rosetta Stone, learn a new language the same way: using native speakers and thousands of real-life images to help you think in the new language from the very beginning. Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language, without translation as a crutch, is crucial.

Rosetta Stone's exclusive Dynamic Immersion method reinforces your natural language-learning skills with award-winning instructional technology.

The timeless immersion method, along with research-based techniques and new technologies, make Rosetta Stone the clear solution to your language-learning needs.

What will you be able to do?

Understand everyday language.
Through Rosetta Stone's proficiency-based listening and reading activities, you'll soon be able to understand everyday language.

Pronounce words correctly.
After practicing with Rosetta Stone’s proprietary speech comparison tool, the correct pronunciation of words will come easily.

Find the words you need when you need them.
Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts.

Spell and write accurately.
Language-specific keyboards and drag-and-drop tiles perfect your writing skills.

Learn to communicate.
You'll quickly combine words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogues.

Retain what you learn.
Regular reinforcement of new words and phrases in new contexts ensures the language sticks with you in the real world.

Product Description

With Chinese Level 1&2 you engage the world around you, drawing on basic content and structures from level 1 and the blocks of everyday language from level 2. Learn to speak and write clearly and correctly, gaining the confidence to go where you want and

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Very good way to learn a language, October 22, 2007

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K. Roe - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Chinese, Level 1 & 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

First, Chinese is a very difficult language no matter where you start. I'm not sure I'd recommend this for a complete beginner like a child. We prefer Betterchinese.com for learners who want to start the language in the same way children learn to speak a native language. Nonetheless, our family enjoys foreign languages. Once we learn basic greetings, colors, numbers, etc. from a child's language source, we then use Rosetta Stone products to progress further. We've used Rosetta Stone for Chinese & Spanish. After Rosetta's Spanish I & II which took our 7 year old about a year to complete, she can converse with native Spanish speakers on a lower level basis. The Chinese language is much more difficult. It took us about 15 tries to accomplish just lesson 1. I'm predicting we'll finish level 1 in about 18 to 24 months. But we can now greet a native Chinese speaker and impress them with knowing how to count, colors, food, and many nouns. We can't speak to them in just Chinese, however.

38 of 42 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rosetta Stone - Chinese, September 28, 2007

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Michael A. Palumbo (Ogden Utah) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Chinese, Level 1 & 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

The lessons take a lot of concentration because the native Chinese speakers speak at a normal speed, but constant repetition of each lesson is allowed, which makes it easier to imitate what you hear. It's necessary to study the lessons on a daily basis to gain familiarity with the speaking tones, and it also requires a certain amount of guesswork since new objects are introduced without a preliminary explanation of what they are.

47 of 53 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Poor Support, October 11, 2007

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A. Metcalf (San Diego, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Chinese, Level 1 & 2 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I wish I could review how well the software taught a foreign language, but I had nothing but trouble getting it to work. I bought the homeschool edition so my kids could learn Chinese at home. First the data disk is copy protected, so you can't run the program without the disk in the drive, and you can't make a backup copy which might be fine for video games, but is just insulting for business software and a big risk when you are trusting kids with the disks. I spent quite a while trying to set the software up on the network using the guide from their website and e-mail technical support before their technical support finally said that it wouldn't work for this version. The application from a previous version wouldn't run the new data disks, and the new application wouldn't run the old data disks. The website said to request updated data disks, but when I called technical support I was told that they had just upgraded to a new version of the application and had stoped all support for older versions, including this one. This seems to be a pattern for Rosetta, as they regularly issue new versions of both the application and data which are incompatible with older versions and each other.

Also, they won't provide any technical support unless you buy directly from them.