Talk Now! Learn Malay - Beginning Level

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

• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 4.8 ounces
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B0000899QD
• Item model number: AMT5038
• Date first available at Amazon.com: January 15, 2003
• Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,688 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, used by more than three million people. Ideal for travelers, holidaymakers, business people, schoolchildren, students and families. Anyone over 10 years will find the disc indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. There are nine topics: first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries. The games and quizzes included on the disc ensure that users have fun whilst using the product, without realizing that they're learning.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't waste your time and money on this course, April 28, 2007

By 

Dr. Frans Wijma (Singapore) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Malay - Beginning Level (CD-ROM)

After you install and start this application, it will literally shout at you and require you to click on various buttons (such as '?', only to learn that this provides help), as if you have never used a Windows application before. That having been said, it could certainly do more to conform to Windows standards.

The linguistic content is very primitive and of arguable value. You just learn words, which in itself can be useful. However, the choice of words is very questionable - I could think of many more useful words than 'raspberry'.

The overall presentation, largely based on animations and games, is more suited for toddlers than for adult learners. Every time you give a correct answer, you will get the same complimentary spoken comment like '...YES!'.

On a graphic design note, I do not think it is very useful to have a blonde Caucasian woman teach you a language like Malay - she is unlikely to be a native speaker.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Extremely Poor Product, September 5, 2007

By 

Murray Storm - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Malay - Beginning Level (CD-ROM)

Even though it claims to run on Mac it only runs on the older Power PC Macs, it will NOT run on Intel based Mac and there is no patch forthcoming from the program writers and no response to tech support inquiries on their website.

That having been said it runs semi fine under Windows XP but the application itself is not particularly good at its stated goal of teaching you Malay.

I wouldn't waste my time with this, I know its hard to find material to learn Bahasa but this was a waste of money.