Talk Now! Learn Swedish - Beginning Level

by EuroTalk

Product Features

• Swedish 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

• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00004VUA4
• Item model number: AMT5010
• Date first available at Amazon.com: October 2, 2001
• Average Customer Review: 2.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,194 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

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

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

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

29 of 31 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars When you just need to hear it..., May 7, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Swedish - Beginning Level (CD-ROM)

I was having a great deal of trouble learning Swedish from books because I just couldn't "hear" it inside my head. A friend of mine loaned me this CD and it helped a great deal to get past that challenge. It is a very simple program and there isn't much depth, but I did find it useful because (as Swedish is uncommon here in rural New York) I needed to hear phrases to orient myself. The vocabulary and phrases taught are primarily for tourists. I would rate it higher if the price were just a bit lower, more in line with it's true value.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars EuroTalk Swedish, January 24, 2005

By 

Linnea C. Johnson - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Swedish - Beginning Level (CD-ROM)

I found this CD to be very useful in reviewing Swedish, which I had studied years ago. I have sampled other products and found them to be ponderous, making language learning more of a chore than it ought to be. The EuroTalk CD's (I have several) are the most fun to do. Will you become proficient in the language by using this CD? Hardly, but you will get a good grounding and it's just fun if you are like me and like to study foreign languages. I wish Amazon.com would make the more advanced levels available as well. I think this CD would be very useful as well for the traveler who just wants an intro to the language. Most Swedes speak English, but not all are comfortable with it. And everyone appreciates an effort to learn the language of the home country.

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars not recommended, April 3, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Talk Now! Learn Swedish - Beginning Level (CD-ROM)

I read the online reviews of this product and thought it looked good or at least good enough. It isn't.

The image editing is incredibly jerky and the actors' smiles are downright creepy when seen time and time and time again! (Were the option available to exclude the actors from the screen while still hearing them speak, it would be a better product.)

Though some of the vocabulary presented may be useful, the content of the CD does not offer much in the way of sentence or phrase help.