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

by TOPICS Entertainment

Product Features

• Danish language learning software
• Study vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more
• Recording tool lets you practice with native speakers
• Games and challenging quizzes make learning fun
• On-screen help available in more than 70 languages

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004VUA6
• Item model number: 9781843520122
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 25, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,179 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com 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! Danish 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! Danish's onscreen help and menus to the language of your choice. With more than 70 languages from which to choose, this software makes learning Danish accessible to everyone.

From the Manufacturer

Here at EuroTalk, we believe there is no such thing as someone who is bad at languages--only someone who hasn't yet discovered the right way to learn. Everybody should learn another language!

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.
• Print a picture dictionary. Print your own dictionary for a handy reference.

Learn to speak using your own native language!
Most language software sold in the U.S. requires you to first be proficient in English before you can learn another language. Not with EuroTalk software! All on-screen help and menus, words and phrases, quizzes and tests--even the printable dictionary can be changed to the language of your choice!

Amharic, Arabic, Bengali, Cantonese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Greek Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Latvian, Mandarin, Malay, Manx, Norwegian, Papiamento, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Romanian, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Tibetan, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh, Zulu, or any of over 80 different languages!

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Fun software, April 5, 2003

By A Customer

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

This is a great little program to get introduced to Danish-- the graphics are colorful and appealing and it hardly feels like you are "studying" vocabulary. If you are trying to decide between this and the Rosetta Stone software, all I can say is they're different. EuroTalk's software is DEFINITELY more fun (also has better graphics and is more user-friendly). However, Rosetta Stone's program teaches you more sentence structure and phrases (EuroTalk's focuses mainly on single words), and also lets you type to practice spelling/listening skills. I also like the recording feature better in the Rosetta Stone one too, because it actually maps out your speech pattern against that of the native speaker, and "rates" on how closely you matched it (isn't always accurate though). Wish there was more vocabulary in each of these programs... you go through them pretty quickly. If I had to choose between the two programs........well I'd pick "Talk Now!" because it is simply more enjoyable, and it feels like I am learning much faster using it. But I'd actually recommend getting both if you can, to give you a broader education of the language. Get the "Talk Now!" first though, then go on to the Rosetta Stone one afterwards.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good way to learn pronunciation, January 28, 2003

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"ja7000" (Long Beach, CA) - See all my reviews

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

You should not depend on software to teach you a language. It should be used in conjunction with a good grammar book, dictionary and flashcards. The great thing about software is that you can work on your pronunciation easily. With the Talk Now series you can click on a word over and over to practice. You can also record yourself. With tapes or a CD you have to constantly back up. Again you should not depend on software to learn grammar or syntax. Use it to practice pronunciation and build vocabulary.

There is one downside with Talk Now. You will only learn about 400 words. It would have been great if they had 600 to 800. However it is affordable so its worth getting.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Needs Work., December 30, 2002

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JAT (Wisconsin) - See all my reviews

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

The program is a cute, but incomplete tool for studying a language. It offers categorized quizzes and vocabulary introductions, but these are basically computer-aided flashcards.

There is no introduction to sentence structure, and only a hand full of obscure phrases.

The only unique feature is the record and playback feature that allows you to here yourself pronounce along with a native speaker.

The recorder is helpful, but I think for the price you could get a more complete understanding of Danish with a book/tape system.