Learn French Now! 9.0

by Transparent Language

Product Features

• Over 15,000 Words Hundreds of Useful Phrases Full Motion "Big Picture" Video
• Full Native Speaker Pronunciation SlowSound to Hear Every Nuance Advanced Pronunciation Practice
• Record, Playback and Compare Alphabet Reference & Grammar Tutorial Conversation Practice
• Integrated BYKI Vocabulary Software MP3 Audio for iPods or other players
• Personal BYKI list creation (with sound) from 15,000 words Interactive Games Video Unscramble

Product Details

• Shipping Weight: 5.6 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00005Y3VB
• Item model number: 744573052102
• Date first available at Amazon.com: April 4, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,008 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
  • #36 in Software > Education & Reference > Foreign Languages > French
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

Learn French Now! 9.0 Deluxe takes you from beginner to confident speaker in no time. Listen and speak activities, grammar tools, and vocabulary games build a solid foundation, while real-life video content lets you interact with native speakers. Learn French Now! also adds online features that create an interesting and authentic atmosphere, making it fast, fun, and highly effective to learn French.

Learn French Now!'s four stimulating titles include: Fundamental French, Survival Phrases for French, Conversations in French, and A French Surprise Birthday Party. GrammarPro!, the software's comprehensive grammar tool, adds more than 10,000 words, extensive tutorials, and grammar quizzes to your desktop. Installed, GrammarPro! integrates seamlessly with all four Learn French Now! titles to provide detailed grammar analyses with just a click of your mouse.

Online features, fun interactive games, conversations, and phrases round out this deluxe suite. Practice your pronunciation using the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay your conversation. Learn at your own pace by deciding when you need translation. Microsoft Windows users also receive GlobalWriter98, a word-processing tool that helps you write in more than 100 languages, as well as a handy screen saver.

Product Description

Learn From Exciting Content and Interactive Activities - Learn French Now! is a revolutionary language-learning tool based on the proven Transparent Method of learning how to use a language in context through rich multimedia activities. Learn French Now! unites industry-leading tools with authentic, native multimedia content to make learning fast, fun, and effective. Big Video Screen - Just select one of the interesting articles or stories and click to explore the French language. View French language videos complete with the sites and sounds of real people speaking and interacting in French. Or jump directly into exciting interactive games, pronunciation-improving practice or invigorating conversations. Determine your own learning pace by deciding when you need translation-and when you don't. All the tools you need to quickly master a language are instantly available in Learn French Now! Interactive Conversational Practice - Practice your lines using the prompts and the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay the whole conversation with the lines you've recorded. It's a terrific way to get valuable real-world experience using your new language. In no time, you'll be conditioned to respond correctly without thinking about it, just like you do in English. Before You Know It - The revolutionary software that teaches you words and phrases so you know them cold - with Perfect Recall - is now integrated right into Learn French Now! You get: * Quick launch of BYKI from within Learn French Now! * Companion BYKI lists to use with immersion content * Dozens of bonus lists from BYKI Deluxe * The ability to create custom BYKI lists (complete with native speaker sound) from any of the 15,000 words in Learn Language Now! MP3 Learning on Your iPod or Other Player - Learn language Now! comes with dozens of BYKI Pod Audio MP3 files. Now you can practice your language wherever you take your MP3 player.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

80 of 83 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars For Intermediate Conversational French, February 9, 2002

By 

Lori St.Angelo (Colorado United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Learn French Now! 9.0 (CD-ROM)

I really enjoy using this program and I highly recommend it. This program has very good conversational skill levels. You practice speaking and it rates your pronunciation. It helps you to improve your listening skills as well. It has word games, grammar tools and vocabulary building. The real life videos are average. However, it would be difficult to use this program unless you have learned some grammar. I recommend this program to all intermediate french learners.

65 of 70 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Beware many of the other reviews, written by company..., December 27, 2003

By 

M. Greengard "Mig Greengard" (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Learn French Now! 9.0 (CD-ROM)

It's hard to imagine a more transparent attempt to inflate the user ratings for these products. Over half of the five-star rated reviews are copy-paste identical. Not coincidentally, there is one such review for each language product they make. I'm glad Amazon is bunching them together so you can see this clearly. Beware!

A friend lent me the French version and it's mediocre and unstructured.

29 of 30 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Nice course, July 26, 2002

By A Customer

This review is from: Learn French Now! 9.0 (CD-ROM)

Once installed, at first looks, you may start to wonder as to where is all the vocabulary. But believe me as soon as you go into the individual modules, you will find all the vocabulary. And things like the screen saver help a lot too. Just watching the screen saver I have found so many new words and sentences even. Definitely much better than most courses. I was planning on going to a school for French but seems that now I don't need it :)