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

by EuroTalk

Product Features

• Hebrew 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

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004UABB
• Item model number: AMT5017
• Date first available at Amazon.com: March 25, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,722 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #30 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > Hebrew

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

13 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Eurotalk ~ designed for the tourist who likes to know, October 23, 2006

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southpawami "The Best Selling Book IS the Bible" (US) - See all my reviews

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

Eurotalk is a UK company who puts out Language Software to many languages, from Native American Indian, such as Navajo, to Asian such as Japanese, and Semitic such as Hebrew.

There used to be only 3 CDs. One CD was for kids, Two CDs were for adults. Talk Now was a beginners 'barely conversational' CD for anyone who had little experience in that language, and World Talk was for the more experienced. The CD for kids was called Vocabulary Builder and is available for most languages, though sometimes it is only available special order via Eurotalk's Website as well as are many less popular languages.

Presently, there are 4 CDs. The software has been updated for versions of Mac OS X and Windows XP, and one more CD towards adults was added to the mix called Talk More. IN TALK MORE IS WHERE THE INDIVIDUAL SCRIPTS OF A LANGUAGE ARE EXPLAINED. The script is only given in Talk Now CDs so you can recognize it in print when you are in the country, and presently bonuses as for familiarity when you use Talk More after finishing with the Talk Now CD.

Talk More was introduced because of the vast difference from Talk Now(barely conversational) to World Talk(a good bit conversational). Talk More introduces any unique scripts of the language, such as Japanese Kana, and further immerses you into getting to be tolerantly conversational. Or at least understanding conversational speech.

To be frank, studying language by computer via a computer program will help you understand others, and may help you read at some point, but will not help others understand you.

So, the order is
1. Talk Now
2. Talk More
3. World Talk

All that explained, there are three primary contestants of the companies that offer various programs for learning multiple languages. Rosetta Stone, which offers online and offline programs which are very expensive, though good. Transparent Language, which offers an attempt to teach conversational language in a single program, which has annoyingly small buttons for going from one phrase or word to the next. Eurotalk, which has a three level program for many languages and a two level program for others, and a one level for the least known.

This program, Talk Now, is a good program, which generally requires headphones for decent sound output on laptops. If you are into knowing how to seriously read hebrew, check out davka, though it wouldn't hurt if you went through these first.