Rosetta Stone V3: German Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION]

by Rosetta Stone

Product Features

• Rosetta Stone teaches you a new language naturally, by getting you to think, live and breathe the language
• Innovative solutions get you speaking new words, right from the start
• Rosetta Stone moves forward only when you're ready--you drive the pace, you set the schedule
• With Rosetta Stone, you'll discover a foundation of key vocabulary that you'll use to build into a whole new language
• Audio Companion lets you take the Rosetta Stone experience anywhere: in the car, at the gym, or on-the-go

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001AFD3NU
• Item model number: 20595
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 9, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,246 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #24 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > German

Product Description

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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.

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

Product Description

Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone German 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!

Customer Reviews

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars rosetta stone, March 25, 2009

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Georgia Gittings-Hart (Miami Beach) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: German Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I have had the rosetta stone now for a few weeks, before getting it I knew barely maybe, 4 words in German. After 2 weeks I felt like I knew so many words, and was even thinking German words as i slept.
Strange but true.
You learn so much, so quick and it is effortless. I am absolutely going to get another language in rosetta stone after this one. Even my kids are learning German with me and my youngest is 6 years old. Super easy, progressively getting harder, if you want to learn a language quickly I would strongly encourage you to use the RS it is a bit pricey but you will definitely finish the course and once you do; it is money well spent because the whole family can learn at their own pace, via separate identities . When i work out i listen to the audio companion which i downloaded into my Ipod, and take with me wherever i go. I really love it..................

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars awesome, April 23, 2009

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Jennifer L. Fleming "Jen" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: German Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

Easy to use. targets language learning through visual, auditory, verbal, and written means. learn at your own pace. wonderful! worth the cost.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rosetta Stone is great!, August 25, 2010

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John (Worton, MD) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: German Level 1-2 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)

I've bought RosettaStone German in advance of a trip to Germany this fall -- just to gain a little familiarity with the language. I've been at it for about 3 weeks now and have gotten about 3/4 of the way through Level 1.

RosettaStone's audio-lingual technique is the only way to learn to speak a language. I've acquired several (French, Nepali, Italian, some Spanish, plus Latin as a non-spoken language) over the years. While this is my first attempt with RosettaStone, I know that the constant repetition, image to word technique is the most effective way to learn. I keep the Audio Companion, a set of CDs that reinforce the lessons, in the car and listen to them regularly.

In comparison with English and with Romance languages like French and Italian, German has a relatively complex grammar. I've found it a help to make flash cards (photo on one side, German indefinite article, noun and plural on the other) to keep the genders straight. For that I've found the site [...] pretty helpful.

I know I won't be fluent when we arrive in Berlin, but I'll have the confidence to use whatever I've acquired and not feel like a total stranger. But I'm not sure what I'll do when we get to Prague . . . .