Talk Now! Learn Arabic Egyptian

by EuroTalk

Product Features

• The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
• Extensive basic vocabulary, from first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body and numbers, to telling time, shopping and countries
• Each of the target languages for Talk Now! has help available in an additional 102 languages ? simply choose the flag of your native country in the beginning of the program & EuroTalk?s Talk Now! Program will provide instruction in your native language
• Each topic contains listening practice, an easy game, a hard game, a printable dictionary as well as the opportunity to record your voice and hear how you sound in comparison to the two native speakers who tutor the user throughout the Talk Now! course
• Each question that is answered correctly increases the user's score - get an answer wrong and points will be lost. There are 1800 points in total to gain from the disc. A full score earns the user a 'Gold Award'

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00117QZ14
• Item model number: 51497
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 15, 2007
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,894 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #20 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > African

Product Description

Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. Designed for newcomers to the language, Talk Now! is the perfect method to access a wealth of comprehensive fundamental vocabulary and accurate pronunciation in one user-friendly plan packed with useful words, a picture dictionary, and quizzes. Anyone over 10 years of age will find the program indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. Now you can listen to Talk Now! wherever you are with new iPod integration.

Customer Reviews

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Not exactly for students of Arabic, November 28, 2009

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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Arabic Egyptian (CD-ROM)

I must say I was disappointed with this CD. I expected it to provide me with a beginner's foundation in Arabic. For example, I expected it to teach the alphabet (both written and with oral pronunciation) and give some basic grammar. Instead, this looks like it is one of a series of cookie cutter traveler's CD in various languages, where the same generic (white, non-Arab) presenters have travel Arabic voiced over their actual speaking. It is so obvious that the people on the CD are not speaking Arabic and that someone else is doing the audio! It appears that these same two presenters just have the words and phrases from each language in the series voiced over their real voices.

I am not really sure how anyone could learn Arabic from this CD as it is not instructional. It is just a series of travel phrases and vocabulary that one might need to know on a short business trip to the Middle East. The user would have to just repeat the phrases over and over in order to learn them. There are some games included, but again, without having any foundation in the grammar or alphabet it is just purely repetition and memorization.

I definitely cannot recommend this CD. I wish I could return it for a refund.