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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.
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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.
Communicate and connect with the world: Level 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Level 1, 2 & 3 Set will take you on a journey from the basics to a whole new level of sophistication. You'll build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. You'll quickly gain the confidence to engage in social interactions. Say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange travel, order food, go shopping and more! From there, you'll share your ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about your life, your interests and more. You'll discover a voice. In a new language.
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 & 3 (Windows/Mac)
- Headset microphone
- User's guide
- Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player
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Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone Farsi Level 1 with Audio Companion includes everything you need to begin learning a new language—from grammar and vocabulary to basic sentence structure. It’s the foundation upon which your language-learning journey begins. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping 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 provide activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and reinforce what they’ve been learning on the computer, turning almost anytime into productive language practice time. Audio Companion lets the learner access the power of Rosetta Stone whenever and wherever they want. Play the CDs in the car, or download them to a MP3 player and take it with you anywhere. Audio Companion truly empowers the learner and extends the total learning time – even with a busy lifestyle
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25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Well-designed, engaging program but not a total solution.,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: Hindi Level 1-3 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I've made it through the first three sections of Level One and I'm enjoying it a lot. Rosetta Stone is very easy and intuitive to get into - you simply match phrases with pictures and, by using the visual associations you've already made, learn new material. No language other than Hindi is used anywhere in the interactive lessons.
You should definitely learn the Devanagari script before you start, because RS does not use transliteration. While it does explicitly teach you certain Devanagari characters along the way, the pace is extremely slow. I feel you'll be able to make associations between characters and the spoken sounds in RS much more quickly if you already have some familiarity with the script (I recommend Rupert Snell's book). The program is visually appealing, with lots of quality photography and audio - it seems like there are at least two different male and two different female native speakers on the audio, which gives you a broad variety of pronunciation references. It clearly took a lot of effort and money to create this product. However, if you're not careful it's easy to coast along on the beautiful surface of the program, and not learn as much as you really can from it. For example, in order to teach you colors, the program relies on your prior knowledge of other vocabulary, so it might show you four pictures of objects and give you a sentence such as "the apple is red". It's really easy to click on the picture of the apple because you know the word for "apple", and completely ignore the new word "red" that they're trying to teach you. Even if I'm not doing a "speaking" section, where my voice is being recorded and analyzed, I still like to repeat all sentences and really study the text. The default pacing of this program is too fast, I think - it always wants to move you relentlessly forward, but it's important to pause once in a while and really look closely at what's on the screen. For instance, sometimes you'll be given four pictures, and hear audio of a sentence (but no text) and have to choose a picture. Only after you've finished the screen does the text of each sentence fade up next to its picture - and it stays up only several seconds before the screen fades out and the next one comes up. I find myself scrambling to hit "pause" so I can really read the words and see how they're spelled. For me personally, the intuitive approach is a great way to be introduced to new material, but in order to really learn the structure of the language, especially grammar, I've been looking at other, more traditional sources, such as Snell's "Teach Yourself Hindi", that lay out the rules rather than have you guess them. I also find that once I've gotten through a section, it's almost impossible to refer back to a specific screen to refresh my memory, because sections are named very vaguely, and individual screens are only numbered. For instance, if you wanted to revisit the screen where they first introduce the words for the rooms of a house, it would be a frustrating exercise in trial and error. For this reason alone it's a good idea to have a Hindi-English dictionary and a grammar book or more traditional course on hand as well as RS. Although it's hard to do your own review of specific words or rules, the program does automatically take you through review screens of previously completed sections, based on how many days have passed since you first completed them, which is a useful feature. Overally I think this is a great product, especially for visual and intuitive learners. Rosetta Stone is unique in its approach, and it's a much more engaging and "entertaining' way to learn than many others out there, but most Hindi students will need other resources as well to really learn the language.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Rosetta Stone Hindi,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: Hindi Level 1-3 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
This is my first foreign language at 49 years. It took me several weeks to get the hang of it, but now it is speeding up. It is an intuitive program. and the associative pictures really do help to integrate your memory. It is easier than just the audio programs I have purchased over the years and never retained the knowledge. My favorite feature is the voice activated recording that graphs your voice against the correct pronouciation. It is so cool and instructive.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent Program,
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone V3: Hindi Level 1-3 Set with Audio Companion [OLD VERSION] (CD-ROM)
I am a language teacher and this is a much better way to learn a language than others that I have seen. I learned Spanish in the traditional manner (memorization) in about 2 years. However, I am making headway in Hindi much faster than I did in Spanish even with learning a new alphabet.
The software has no problems running on my 2.5 year old system. Make sure that your system complies with the specifications laid out. The supplied USB headset is very good; much better than a typical headset. I have been using it for about 2 months and the software has never had any hang-ups on my system.
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