Talk Now! Learn Czech - Beginning Level [Old Version]

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Product Features

• Comprehensive interactive language learning; ideal for beginners
• Easy and hard quizzes, plus a challenging memory game
• Compare yourself with native speakers; monitor progress
• Topics include phrases, food, shopping, telling time, and more
• On-screen help available in over 75 languages; printable dictionary

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 3.2 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000899M8
• Item model number: AMT5023
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,336 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #13 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Slavic

Product Description

This unconventional language-learning series offers games and quizzes that make the learning process fun, relaxing, and, as such, more successful. Ideal for beginners, Talk Now! Czech includes such topics as vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more. A handy print and picture dictionary produces entries with both text and pictorial references. This interactive software title also features a recording tool, so you can compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers (microphone required). Quizzes and a challenging memory game let you test your newly acquired skills. You can also track your scores and print awards to celebrate. Best of all, you can change Talk Now! Czech's onscreen help and menus to the language of your choice. With more than 70 languages from which to choose, this software makes learning Czech accessible to everyone. Talk Now! is designed for people who want to learn a language quickly. If you don't have time to become fluent, but need the basics in a hurry, Talk Now! is for you. Talk Now! uses games and quizzes as a basis for making the learning process fun and relaxing. Features: * Talk Now! is ideal for beginners. * Comprehensive. Topics include: phrases, first words, food, shopping, countries, colors, telling time, numbers, and human body parts. * Interactive. Immediate response to every choice you make. Addictive, fun, and easy! * Compare your pronunciation. Compare yourself with native speakers using the record facility. Microphone required. * Test your knowledge. Easy and hard quizzes, plus a challenging memory game. * Monitor your progress. Keep a check on your total score and print your own awards. * On-screen help. Help available at all times in over 75 languages.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

33 of 33 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Easy and fun way to learn Czech, April 22, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Czech - Beginning Level [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I found the Talk Now! Czech CD-ROM very helpful in learning some basic Czech words and phrases. It is a difficult language to learn and this program offers easy games and options to keep it fun and motivating. While it doesn't get into grammar and more complex Czech, it's a great start for anyone wanting to feel more at home in the Czech Republic!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Not a good learning tool., December 7, 2006

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Andrea Lackman "Avid Reader" (Iowa, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Czech - Beginning Level [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have begun to learn Czech starting with a Pimsluer CD program (which I highly reccomend). I bought this because I wanted a program where I could hear pronunciation while also seeing the words and hopefully improving my vocabualary.

The program is divided up into different lessons such a colors, numbers, phrases, shopping, telling time, and food. Each lesson basically has a vocabulary list and then two short games in which you listen to a czech word and then pick out the right picture for it. Only one lesson has phrases in it and they are only the most basic and not something that I see of being enough to be of real help. Also, the lesson is just phrases, no real learning of more of the language or dealing in certain situations.

I feel very dissapointed in this product and feel like the software was put together very quickly and just meant to make some money rather than being a program that is meant to help you learn.

If you can find a very cheap copy it might be nice to have to learn some vocab words, but it is definitely not worth it for full price and will not help you to learn the language.

9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A good buy, February 23, 2006

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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Czech - Beginning Level [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

Easy and fun program for beginners, especially for the price.

I like the Eurotalk Talk Now! Learn Czech program much better than the Rosetta Stone French program I have (and I spent A LOT more on the latter). I find the Rosetta Stone programs more visually appealing, but I've learned a lot more with Talk Now!.

Note: Czech words and phrases are vocalized by both a man and woman. To my ear, their pronounciations are different. I am not sure if these speakers come from different regions or what, but as a stickler for pronounciation, I was a little unsure whether to follow the pronounciation of the man or the woman.