Customer Reviews

Instant Immersion Italian Platinum

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The program is slow and tedious,and seems to concentrate more on games and videos than on teaching the language. It's extremely complicated to follow, and the only thing I've gained any useable information from are the vocbulary CDs, and you can get those with many other, far less expensive programs. Few people are going to sit by their copmputer waiting for videos to load so they can take a multiple choice test, which seemed to be a large part of the practice. I got more out of "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Learning Italian."

I bought this for my sister and she says that it is pretty easy to use and that it's definitely helping her learn Italian. For the price compared to some of the more high end language learning programs this is fantastic and you still get great results.

Instant Immersion Italian Platinum is definitely not the best learning Italian software on the market, but now that it's price is reduced, it is definitely a bargain especially for listening to the correct pronunciation, exercises in speaking the language and vocabulary. I wish it came with a book, but buying a book separately, and using the cds for hundreds of hours of pronunciation and vocabulary practice is particularly valuable. One does not learn Italian either by books alone or by listening alone. I have bought several books on learning Italian, and these cds are great practice to use with the books.....and far far cheaper than Rosetta Stone which relies exclusively on cds as well.