Rosetta Stone V2: Greek, 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: B000TFE3CW
• Date first available at Amazon.com: August 26, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,291 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #10 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Greek

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 Greek 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

7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars useful, but with limitations and a bit pricey, August 7, 2008

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j (UK) - See all my reviews

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

This can be quite useful to get the first feeling about the language as well as a surprisingly good tool for building up a basic vocabulary. However, it isn't a self-sufficient material for language learning - almost certainly you will need additional textbook(s) and/or teacher.

One, often noted, shortcoming of Rosetta Stone materials is complete lack of cultural context (the same set of pictures is reused for quite a number of languages). Still, the things are probably not as bad as they might be, since anhyway the main thing you will learn from this is vocabulary and not the skills at casual conversations (although the overrepresentations of some words, which probably are hardly used elsewhere but american english (e.g. "cowboy"), is a bit annoying). And apart from just having little use, such borrowed nouns usually also tend to be indeclinable in Greek!

A more important limitation, probably, is organization/ordering of pictures - beeing the same for a number of languages it is hardly the best for demonstrating the most important grammatical features of a particular language (such as tenses, declinations etc).

The bottom line - if you can get your hands on it, I would recommend at least to have a try. The official price tag, however, seems to be far too inflated for what these materials really contains - will not recommended buying without trying first and seeing, whether this really suits you.

9 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Well worth it!, November 29, 2007

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pete (Nor Cal) - See all my reviews

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

The Rosetta stone is well worth the money! I was very skeptical about this product. However, once I loaded it in the computer I was off to a running start. It is so much easier to retain the information with words, sounds, and pictures with an interactive format.
I highly recommend this product to anyone trying to learn on their own, or to supplement currant foreign language classes (like I am doing). I surprise my Greek teacher with extra words and phrases in each class.
If you want to learn a foreign language quickly, BUY THIS PRODUCT!

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I can't believe it is so good!, February 8, 2008

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Gloria Zannis "Greek speaking Wanna be" (Coral Gables, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V2: Greek, Level 1 & 2 (CD-ROM)

This is a very clever and very easy way to learn Greek. I can't believe the vocabulary I have learned since using it only 3 weeks. I am commited to this product and wish when I was younger there was somethng like this on the market.

It is actually fun doing the exercises and my Greek born husband is so proud of me!