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- Media: CD-ROM
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Rosetta Stone teaches Farsi through a step-by-step sequence of carefully structured lessons, called Dynamic Immersion. New words become associated with familiar objects, actions, and ideas. Words build to phrases and sentences in a systematic progression.
Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language--without translation as a crutch--is crucial if you want to communicate. Grammar drills and rote memorization never develop this skill. Dynamic Immersion helps you think in the new language and quickly develops the language skills and structures you need for everyday communication.
Level 1 Includes:
- 3,500+ real-life images and phrases in 92 lessons
- An average of 200 hours of instruction, depending on your learning style
- A balanced curriculum including listening comprehension, speaking, reading, and writing
- Speech recognition for accent perfection
- Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills
- Previews, exercises, and tests for every lesson with automated tutorials
- People and talking
- Directions: "How do I get to..."
- Affirmative and negative verb forms
- Food, eating, and drinking
- Family relationships
- Direct objects
- Telling time
- Numbers to 100
- Objects of prepositions
- Clothing and dress
- Vehicles, furniture, clothing, and instruments
- Shapes, colors, and locations
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When you're choosing a language-learning program, the only important question is whether it works. That's why we developed Dynamic Immersion™, our award-winning method for teaching new languages the same way you learned your native language. Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language-without translation as a crutch-is crucial if you want to communicate. Grammar drills and rote memorization never develop this skill. Dynamic Immersion helps you think in the new language and quickly develops the language skills and structures you need to for everyday communication.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rosetta Stone Farsi,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Farsi Level 1 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Great value, wonderful experience. My first exposure to Rosetta stone and I'm very impressed. Worked extremely well for me in all respects, it is thoroughly intuitive and easy to use, self-paced. Non-Arabic speakers should take a couple of days to master the alphabet first. I used it on a trip with great effect. But the library visual images are often quite inappropriate to the culture of Iran (e.g. swimming costumes)!
Just one complaint. At this price, Rosetta Stone really should find a way to allow users to make a legitimate backup, or at least rapid replacement for damaged CDs. The language CD is used intensively and often in travel conditions, and I am extremely nervous with only the original. If the CD becomes unusable, and can't be replaced free, I wont use Rosetta Stone ever again.
9 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Not a self-contained program.,
This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Farsi Level 1 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
Despite all of Rosetta Stone's claims that it's the fastest way to learn a language, I don't think this program is the way to learn a language. This is the only Rosetta Stone program I've tried, and I've worked four of the seven lessons (unless memory fails), and I don't think I've learned very much at all.
The thing about Rosetta Stone is that it doesn't teach grammar, you simply learn to associate words with pictures. Many times now I've seen the picture for children jumping into a swimming pool or off a table and, while I always get that right in the exercises, I don't remember the sentence without some prompting. And face it, that's very limited knowledge. Rosetta Stone may help to strengthen vocabulary skills and even comprehension, but it isn't a good course for learning a language. Use this course in combination with a program which teaches grammar -- explaining what all those little Farsi particles actually do -- and which explains the writing system (this one does not), a program like Teach Yourself, but don't expect excellent results from Rosetta Stone alone.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of time,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Farsi Level 1 [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I bought the Rosetta Stone to learn Farsi and didn't find it useful. Before buying this I used the Pimsleur CDs which were very helpful for conversational Farsi. It even helped me aquire the accent. The Rosetta Stone makes you guess at everything. It will show you pictures and then say the word in Farsi and you're supposed to guess which picture it talks about. The frustrating part is that there could be several things in the picture, example: ball, boy, tree--and it doesn't tell you which one is the actual word that you heard. I've taken private lessons and now have a great foundation to try this again. I find it a huge waste of time and money though.
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