Rosetta Stone Version 3: Dutch Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion

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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: 2 pounds
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.
• ASIN: B001GBG5VK
• Item model number: 22185
• Date first available at Amazon.com: September 18, 2008
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,535 in Software (See Bestsellers 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.

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

Product Description

Everything you need to learn Dutch is here. Rosetta Stone Dutch Levels 1 & 2 with Audio Companion builds a foundation and helps you navigate your surroundings. Begin learning fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. You will soon gain the confidence to talk about your environment; give and get directions, tell time, dine out, go shopping, enjoy basic social interactions and much more. Audio Companion lets you practice your new language anywhere: in the car, at the gym or on the go. These CDs provide activities that correspond to the CD-ROM software lessons. Listen to Audio Companion and reinforce what you've been learning on the computer. Access the power of Rosetta Stone whenever and wherever you want. Play the CDs in the car, or download them to a MP3 player and take it with you anywhere. Audio Companion truly empowers you and extends the total learning time - even with a busy lifestyle.

Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista or Mac OSX 10.4 or 10.5 1 GHz or faster processor speed 512 MB RAM available 600 MB free hard drive space per level 800 x 600 display resolution Internet or phone connection Speech recognition feature requires microphone 16X CD-ROM drive This is a Universal Binary (Mac)

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Dutch for College , December 18, 2008

By	Glenn Benninger "Hoop Addict" (Bloomington, IN USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

I bought this for my two daughters in college taking Dutch for foriegn language. They both use it extensively as it is very well done and uses a microphone to listen for your pronunciation, which is almost like a tutor giving you pointers. $500 for a piece of software is pretty tall, but they have improved so much so quickly I say it is well worth it if you need to learn the language. The headset microphone connector broke within a week, but Rosetta tech support sent another out without delay. The kids almost fight over who gets to use it.

5.0 out of 5 stars Worth the cost, November 4, 2009

By	C. Maryhew (Seattle, WA USA) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

About two months ago I realized I'd have to move to the Netherlands soon, so I got the 1, 2, and 3 level Dutch set. The price is high compared to other software, but it is much more sophisticated than anything else I've seen.

First of all, when learning Dutch, NO English is used. This can be a little annoying when getting to more abstract concepts, but I've always been able to figure it out after staring at the photos and seeing how they're similar or different. My wrong assumptions got corrected pretty quickly after seeing one or two additional photos illustrating a dutch word or sentence. If really stumped, there's always the option of a dutch dictionary or free online translation website.

I really like the method of matching photos with Dutch phrases. It seems to work pretty well for nouns at least, and I feel confident in my ability to name most things I learned in level 1 (haven't gotten to 2 and 3 yet). I found the writing exercises to be the most useful in learning sentence structure and spelling. Even though I hear what to write, it makes me break it down word by word, which seems to help it stick.

I usually don't use the headphones because I don't like headphones. I'm hoping I can get a microphone and get normal audio through my PC speakers at the same time. The speaking lessons seem to work fairly well, though occasionally the word that I should repeat is not registered correctly. For example, Spanish 2 once asked me to say the word "auto" in a phrase, but would not recognize it until I said "otto" like an American. It happens pretty rarely but is VERY annoying when it does. My Dutch fiance also pointed out that the voices in the software are speaking with a "snobby" accent not used by normal Dutch people. But that's typical for all language software unfortunately.

One thing that I found weird at first was that the software seemed to be doing a very lax job of "testing" me when matching pictures, etc, because the answers were fairly obvious. But even when it's asking me to respond correctly, it's really trying to teach, not test. The repetition and increased demands on me using the same concepts are really just a way to get those concepts/vocabulary better set in my understanding. The software doesn't test at all, in my opinion, but that makes sense for a tool that is designed to teach self-motivated students.

I felt uncomfortable with the grammar at first, and some of the irregularities in the language, but after completing the first level, I've gotten the feel for a lot of the grammatical rules covered so far, and I'm starting to get a grip on others. I'm pretty confident that the 2nd and 3rd levels will help me nail down those tricky bits.

Overall I think Rosetta Stone is as good at teaching a language as any software could be, and can't substantially be improved. I doubt I'll be fluent when done with the 3 levels (maybe someone would in a language with 6 levels), but I'm pretty sure I'll be ready to handle a lot of normal interactions Dutch - I won't feel totally cut off when I'm over there :-)