Rosetta Stone V2: Dutch, Level 1 & 2

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
• Rosetta Stone teaches you to spell and write accurately Language-specific keyboards and drag and drop tiles perfect your writing skills
• Learn to communicate by quickly combining words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogue

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B000TFHZNG
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 26, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 3.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,104 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

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 Dutch 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 c

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Learning Dutch 101, December 14, 2007

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Mark E. Gormley "Markghero" (Markghero) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Dutch, Level 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

So my wife is Dutch and I have been using this here and there as I am moving in a few months. I get home from work I spend about 20 minutes every other day, but I have to say so far this product is helping me a lot. I get to surprise my wife here and there with what I have learned and she is helping me with the pronunciation as it is not quite right. I would recommend this for anyone who is just starting out. The hardest part is the fact that the Dutch have created a variety of words that only work in Dutch. You can not translate these words....

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rosetta Stone, February 27, 2008

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Serena Del Toro (Florida) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Dutch, Level 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

I ordered Rosetta Stone to learn Dutch because my fiance is Dutch and I want to be able to talk to his family. Rosetta Stone is very easy to use, and the way they present the material is great because you really remember it. It's not by memorization, but by association.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Buy before it goes out of print!, May 16, 2009

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Flightdoc (States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Dutch, Level 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

Before considering this product, ignore Rosetta Stone's advertising. Despite their claim, this is NOT a fast method to learn the language. However, it does have some merits, particularly version 2 (avoid version 3, which is completely worthless, see below!). You will learn a fair amount of vocabulary and some basic grammar. However, the progress is extremely slow. Most of the sentences are fairly basic, mechanical contructs that lack much in the way of abstract ideas or idiomatic, everday speech. By the end of level 2, however, I found the lessons quite challenging and rather useful. The last unit of level 2 finally contains some good representations of everyday speech.

The biggest complaint, however, lies with way Rosetta Stone uses a one-size-fits-all method to teach all languages. Because there is very little difference in content between their different language programs, you see very little idiomatic, everyday speech. It is also impossible in this method to highlight the pecularities of the particular language. For Dutch, there are no explanations given for the language's frequent use of modal particulates, adverbial pronouns, seperable verbs, or the unique rules of word order, all of which are unfamiliar concepts to English speakers. If you purchase this product, you will need to supplement your learning with a dictionary, a grammar textbook, and a verb conjugation reference.

So, I recommend this product with a qualification. Because there are so few good "Dutch as a second language" resources available in the US, any half-decent product is welcome. If you apply a consistent, concerted effort with this product, you will gain a basic foundation of Dutch... but fluent, you will not be.

Finally, because Rosetta Stone has released an updated version 3 of this product, I recommend you purchase version 2 before it becomes unavailable. Version 3, to be blunt, is absolutely worthless and a complete waste of time and money. It multiplies all the flaws of the previous versions and has few very few of the benefits.