Talk Now! Learn Finnish - 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 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B0000899MC
• Item model number: AMT5013
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,151 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!

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!

Product Description

Talk Now! is the world’s best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners because it gets results fast. Used by more than two million people, its innovative and fun learning method gives you the key words you want and the help you need to remember them. Ideal for travelers, holidaymakers, business people, students and families.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent, a great buy for the beginner, March 18, 2003

By A Customer

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

In New York Finnish language courses are hard to come by. I have been trying to teach myself to read, speak and hopefully write Finnish for years so I could speak with my cousins and grandmother overseas. It was a daunting task because books left me uninspired and tapes just don't work for me. Finally as a last ditch effort I took a chance on this program. I was pleasantly surprised to find that the program actually makes the process of learning language fun. The program and quizzes are colorful and engaging and manage to combine, listening, reading, understanding and speaking into one fun exercise. I have progressed with this program 100% faster than with the methods I've tried before. I definitely recommend this program to anyone who would like to start learning Finnish.
For those who are a bit more advanced or are anxious to get to the next level the Intermediate level for this program is World Talk Finnish.

11 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars I felt like I wasted my money., March 12, 2004

By 

Ari "Ari" (ny, usa) - See all my reviews

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

After the glowing review I decided to try this product out. After only 3 hours this disc was useless to me. There is very little information on here let alone useful information. In no time one can complete the entire program. There aren't any pronouns included which I expected would have minimally been there. The disc also can't be run off of the hard drive so one has to wait for the program to load every few seconds while listening to the life of ones cd drive wear away. A great idea that has fallen horribly short. A simple phrase book would have been more beneficial.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Good buy, December 13, 2005

By 

M. Homola (Narvik, Norway) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Finnish - Beginning Level [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I have used the program off and on for the last year, and feel that I have learned quite a few new words without getting bored. The total number of words on the disc is not so high (maybe a couple hundred), but then again, the price isn't either, and it definitely beats looking up words or listening to cassettes. You won't become fluent from this, but you'll definitely make progress. I'm now planning to buy the intermidiate version as I feel it's time to move up.
In reference to constantly using the CD, I use a CD emulator where the CD image is copied to the hard drive and then the CD is accessed virtually and best of all, silently. :-)
Also, now my 4 year old daughter thinks it's fun to play this and has also learned some Finnish.