Instant Immersion Italian Deluxe

by TOPICS Entertainment

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00009ZLJQ
• Item model number: CS-362d
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 11, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (15 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #10,057 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #32 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Italian
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

MANUFACTURER WARRANTY: 90

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

22 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Useless, July 25, 2004

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J. Johnson "jsonofj" (Chicago) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion Italian Deluxe (CD-ROM)

This software is a mess! By the third lesson you are asked to fill in missing words of a sentence but have been taught no vocabulary. Avoid this product unless you already have a basic concept of the language.

17 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Total Waste of Money, December 6, 2004

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Katrina T. Lawson (Naples, Italy) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion Italian Deluxe (CD-ROM)

I wish I would have read the reviews on this product before purchasing it. I would have saved my money. These "instant immersion" CDs have you attempting to respond to conversations and place words in correct grammatical order without ever giving you the translation. You don't even find out where the glossary/dictionary is kept until you are well into the first hour of lessons.

Worst of all, there are glitches in the software that cause it to create nonsense words. This is especially evident in the dictionary and the crossword puzzle.

What good is language learning software that creates nonsense words, I ask you? Honestly, this program is worthless.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars terrible, July 19, 2004

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Y. Livson "chaton0000" (new york) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Instant Immersion Italian Deluxe (CD-ROM)

Stay away from this product. Besides the software setup being very confusing, the lessons themselves don't seem to be organized properly. A good language software should build the next lesson based on the previous knowledge. However, this one didn't seem like that, it would throw new grammar, vocabulary without ever introducing it before; I found this very confusing, had to click on the dictionary button constantly to figure out the exercise. Because I had some background in Italian before, I was OK for the first few lessons, then I was completely lost. I can't imagine anyone with zero background learning anything from this software. Unless you are trying brush up on what you once knew, I wouldn't recommend it.