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

by TOPICS Entertainment

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: B0000899NS
• Item model number: AMT5036
• Date first available at Amazon.com: June 6, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 2.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #13,174 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

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Terrific for practice., September 16, 2006

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DCIT (Washington, DC) - See all my reviews

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

This program is positively wonderful for word practice and pronunciation with a number of flash-card style game and a very elegant listen-record-replay interface. While the two characters do pronounce words slightly differently, hearing those variations really helps to understand the phonetics in a way that a single voice would lack.

However, this really is more of a companion tool for a more traditional course. I purchased this with "Colloquial Icelandic" and would definitely recommend purchasing them together. There are some extremely strange spelling/pronunciation variations and without having a written explanation of these things, you may be left staring in great confusion as the characters read phrases on screen -- "Hva" is pronounced "kwah?" WHAT? Having "Colluquial Icelandic" to turn to for explanation helped a great deal. That package has two audio CDs of alphabet, number, vocabulary and conversation exercises with a very well-written 370 page coursebook.

I gave this product a 5-star rating as it is superb for its intended purpose, but it does not stand alone as a complete course.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Try creating a product that works next time..., July 3, 2008

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Bowen K. Staines - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Icelandic - Beginning Level [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I'm sorry to say that I purchased this product with the hopes of learning some basic Icelandic, but I can now say that I've learned more Icelandic from my trips there, than from this CD-ROM. Upon putting the disk in my drive (I have an up-to-date PC with all the programs required for effectively running the program), but alas, nothing happened. Upon further exploration into the contents of the CD-ROM, I found no program on the CD at all! After taking the disk out of my drive and inspecting it, I found that it had been printed on a CD-R. The booklet and case appeared as if they had been created on someone's home computer which was running severely low on color ink - totally cheap and unprofessional. I've emailed the company and am awaiting response, and needless to say, I will be asking for a full refund. Save your money, and wait until RosettaStone comes out with a useful product on the Icelandic language. Takk for nothing.

2 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Takk for nothing, September 15, 2006

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K. L. May "Impulsive Intellectual" (Erie, PA USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Icelandic - Beginning Level [Old Version] (CD-ROM)

I was very disappointed with this program. But I was also thinking it would be more comprehensive and include more than just basic words and phrases. Even so, the male and female guides in the program often pronounce the words slightly different which can be frustrating. I learned more Icelandic (along with correct pronounciations) while in Iceland than I did with this program. And besides, anyone under the age of 50 in Iceland speaks English.