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

by EuroTalk

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: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000899MA
• Item model number: AMT5070
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #14,107 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

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!

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Product Description

Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three 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.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

16 of 17 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars A start.... just a start, March 15, 2003

By 

Richard Jacob (Charlotte, NC United States) - See all my reviews

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

Noh...tere!
Although this is from a series called "Talk Now!" and it's entitled "Learn Estonian"... it hardly comes close to doing any of that. It only allows you to learn some words, and reinforces them through little games. However, if you wanted to say anything more than a simple phrase or word, this doesn't help you. This would be good for someone who might be visiting Tallinn and wants to impress the natives with a few words in Estonian. But if one seriously wants to learn about this language, even the Colloquial Estonian course is better, coming with tapes that have full sentences and teach some grammar. (although this program has its own weaknesses, too).
Even though there is no audio program, the texts from Indiana University's curriculum seems to be the best... if you can get them!
Tsau

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A great beginner's start., February 26, 2006

By 

Tiia "always learning more" (Shoreline, WA USA) - See all my reviews

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

This is a wonderful beginner's basic computer course. The speakers are native Estonians. The graphics are fun. The course is organized in different units of colors, numbers, body parts, food, shopping items, time, country names and simple phases. (That's it... nothing else.) You start by just hearing the words. Then build the brain's language connective tissues by playing memory games, first simple, and then more challenging. The important thing was that I could listen to it over and over to get to the point where I could instantly recall the words. My kids also loved listening over my shoulders and learned a few words. It's definitely kid interesting. This course doesn't even start to explain the grammar (which is extremely complex in Estonian), and it's definitely only a beginner's start. I loved it, found the memorization useful and necessary way to learn. I plan on buying the Spanish version.