Instant Immersion 33 Languages

by TOPICS Entertainment

Product Features

• Join your live-action CD-ROM show hosts as they guide you through the fun & easy lessons on each disc
• Each CD is dedicated to its own language -- you'll engage in a huge number of real conversation in every language
• Learn to speak any language you want -- the toughest part of using this learning tool is deciding where to start!

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 1.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009ADF3
• Item model number: CS-353s
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 19, 2006
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #7,086 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #38 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > German
  • #44 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > French
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

From the Manufacturer

With the step-by-step instruction in 33 native tongues making up Instant Immersion 33 Languages, your only dilemma is deciding which language you want to speak first! Join your live-action CD-ROM hosts as they guide you effortlessly through the 33 Talk Now! discs, each devoted to its own language. Follow along at your own pace to the animated Word Practice and Speaking Practice warm-ups, building vocabulary in subjects from Salutations to Shopping. Then, exercise your newfound linguistic skills with a variety of games and activities including "The Dealer" and his fast-paced drills at increasing difficulty levels. Pick any dialect from Instant Immersion 33 Languages, then get ready to talk now!

Choose any dialect in the world, and you're virtually assured of finding it among Instant Immersion 33 Languages, the revolution in foreign language learning. Ideal for travel or scholarly pursuits, each of the 33 CD-ROMs is devoted to one global language, exploring essential vocabulary and phrases in subjects ranging from Food to First Words; Colors to Countries. And with the effective user-friendly immersion of EuroTalk's Talk Now! method, comprehending and conversing anywhere on the globe is as simple as perusing an atlas. From the Creole spoken in Haiti, to the Cantonese dialect of Hong Kong, Instant Immersion 33 Languages uses a uniquely engaging blend of intuitive features that translates to multilingual proficiency.

Software includes: Arabic, Bengali, Brazilian (Portuguese), Chinese (Cantonese), Dutch, English, Farsi (Persian), Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Norwegian, Polish, Punjabi, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Thai, Tibetan, Ukrainian, Vietnamese, Zulu

Product Description

Topics Entertainment Instant Immersion 33 Languages With the step-by-step instruction in 33 native tongues making up Instant Immersion 33 Languages your only dilemma is deciding which language you want to speak first! Windows Mac & XP PC

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

77 of 77 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Okay for the price, December 13, 2003

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magellan (Santa Clara, CA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion 33 Languages (CD-ROM)

I was hoping this set would contain the first CD or at least part of the first CD in the two-CD Instant Immersion programs, which would have been a great deal, and would have truly given you a good start in all these languages. However, this set only has very basic material for each language, and in fact is more like having a basic CD vocabulary and phrasebook for each language rather than a real mini-course or introduction, which for me is only marginally useful.

The vocabulary sections are divided up into 8 sections: first words, colors, food, numbers, shopping, countries, time, body. The ninth section is for phrases, and one advantage is that they are pronounced individually for you, which you can do for the individual words, too. There are two categories of games, easy and hard, and the program tracks your progress.

If you like to collect lots of phrase books with basic vocabulary, this might be fine for you, as you can at least learn some words and phrases that might be useful, but for me the major shortcoming is there is nothing on the grammar. I would rather invest the money in the 2-CD version of the half dozen languages I'm interested in, and then pay the extra for the 5 and 8 CD advanced Instant Immersion software when I'm ready to progress to the next stage of learning.

Still, for a reasonable price you get 33 languages, including all the main European ones plus things like Swahili, Korean, Finnish, Hindi, Tibetan, Vietnamese, and so on. So if you like to play around with exotic languages this might be the set for you, but you'll need to supplement it with a real language learning course if you're serious about really going anywhere with your studies.

I need to mention one drawback to the CD's, however. I have reasonably fast, 16x read and 48x write speed CD, and the program still runs fairly slowly, although I have a half gig of RAM and a 2.6 GHz system. It's mostly noticeable when using the pronunciation capability, but it spends a lot of time just seeking when you're jumping between sections. It's tolerable on my CD player, but if you have an older, slower one, be advised it's going to be slow.

One solution would be to get Tenebril software's Virtual Drive Manager program which will copy it to your hard disk so you can run it from there. I've tested it on about a dozen programs and it works on most of them. So it's not a sure thing but the program isn't that expensive and it does work for many things. Tenebril can be found on the web, where I bought it. I don't know if their software is carried by most computer stores or not.

60 of 60 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars It's not worth for REALLY learning the Language, March 26, 2005

A Kid's Review

This review is from: Instant Immersion 33 Languages (CD-ROM)

My dad got this for me because i like to learn languages. It was misleading for me what is says on the package "each disc a complete course". It is useful for you if you want to learn basic things like phrases for traveling but NOT if you REALLY want to learn the language. If want to learn basic travel things this WILL be for you. But if you want to REALLY Learn the language you better get the Instant Immersion Laguage course devoted to one language.

From Paul

Florida

36 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Instant maybe. Immersion questionable., April 18, 2004

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Reviewer Kid (Albany, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Instant Immersion 33 Languages (CD-ROM)

My dad got this for me to supplement a Latin textbook I have been studying for my high school language course. It is quick and easily understandable. You get plenty of words and phrases, which is perfect for a traveler. If you want to learn the language for the sake of knowing it, not travel, however, you'd better get a book to supplement this. It doesn't teach about pluralization, verb conjugation, or other oddities that the language holds, such as, in Latin, the ending -m which implies a direct object. The Latin CD also does not use the dashes over the vowels, which may or may not be necessary, I don't know. Overall, I am very happy with the product and with the price of $39.99 (USD), but I am also quite glad I have my textbook (ECCE ROMANI) to go with it.