Rosetta Stone V3: Chinese (Mandarin)  Level 2 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: 1.4 pounds
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B001AFDBNW
• Item model number: 20225
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 9, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #12,259 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.com

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.

Explore your environment and move forward: Level 2
With Level 2, you'll take all of the skills you've learned in Level 1 and see how they allow you to communicate and connect with the language. You'll give and get directions while learning about using transportation. In addition, Level 2 invites you into basic social interactions, where you'll dine out, 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 Level 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 Chinese Level 2 with Audio Companion is for intermediate-level language learners. The software lets you interact and engage. By the time you complete this level, you’ll be able to talk about your environment, give and get directions, tell the time, dine out and 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

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Watch out, horrible anti-piracy measures, January 13, 2009

By 

krism "krism" (Glendale, CA) - See all my reviews

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

If you install this more than once, you have to call Rosetta Stone support and ask them to let you reinstall it. Even on the same computer. If your hard drives crashes and you need to reinstall - gotta call Rosetta Stone. If you replace your computer with a new one - you got it, gotta call Rosetta Stone. If the software randomly deactivates itself - you've gotta call Rosetta Stone.

Worse: after a certain number of "activation resets," Rosetta Stone will STOP RESETTING IT. They'll accuse you of trying to pirate it and say they won't reset it anymore. So your 360$ program is now a coaster. I am currently pursuing this in small claims court.

If you ACTUALLY pirate it, you never have to call support, never have to activate or anything - it just works. Excellent anti-piracy protection there, RS - you're only pissing off people who make the mistake of giving you money.

1 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This is amazing!, January 26, 2009

By 

jorjugan's wife - See all my reviews

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

If you are interested in learning a new language fast and easy, Rosetta Stone is hands down the best program out there. My husband and I have completed Level One and are part way through Level Two. We are able to carry on basic conversations with our friend in China and read most of the letters he sends us. He was very impressed with the accuracy of our tones as a lot of software out there doesn't do a very good job with it.

As for the other reviewer having problems with the program, we have never had any trouble. Never a need to reinstall or call Rosetta Stone.