Learn Dutch 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: 12 ounces
• Shipping: This item is also available for shipping to select countries outside the U.S.
• ASIN: B00006LSWQ
• Item model number: Learn Dutch
• Date first available at Amazon.com: November 19, 2002
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #11,268 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)
• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Amazon.com Product Description

DutchNow! 9 Deluxe takes you from beginner to confident Dutch speaker in no time. Five exciting language learning areas feature grammar tutorials, interactive learning, progress tracking from your desktop, and conversation practice with native Dutch speakers. DutchNow!'s stimulating multimedia environment adds enhanced large-format video and real-life video content that lets you experience Denmark, while integrated speech tools record and play back your own voice.

Learn at your own pace and build a solid foundation with DutchNow! 9 Deluxe's flexible language-study format. The DVD-box edition includes four titles: The Most Common Words in Dutch, Survival Phrases for Dutch, Vincent Van Gogh, and Amsterdam. Learn more than 10,000 words, build your language skills with interactive grammar exercises and quizzes, cover hundreds of survival phrases, do crosswords in Dutch, play fun games, and much more. DutchNow! also adds GlobalWriter98--an easy-to-use translation program that helps you write in more than 100 languages (Microsoft Windows only). Plus, access to online testing at Transparent Language's Web site extends the learning, making this comprehensive Dutch language course fast, fun, and highly effective.

Product Description

Learn From Exciting Content and Interactive Activities - Learn Dutch 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 Dutch 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 Dutch language. View Dutch language videos complete with the sites and sounds of real people speaking and interacting in Dutch. 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 Dutch 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 Dutch Now! You get: ? Quick launch of BYKI from within Learn Dutch 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

14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Now I can communiate with my colleagues!!, May 13, 2003

By A Customer

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

I was recently hired to work for a Dutch-owned business. Their English is very good; my Dutch was non-existent. While it wasn't required that I speak Dutch, I often find technical articles in our joint database that look as if they could be useful. I could have them translated by the other employees, but it would be nice to sort through them myself. It would also be polite to be able to say a few words in their native language.

I looked on the internet for Dutch translation/language packages and found very few. Several were much too expensive to be useful. Then I found Transparent Language's Learn Dutch Now! It's a life-saver! The price was was great and it arrived promptly.

Now I am really enjoying the variety of learning methods such as videos, exciting games and intriguing stories. I particularly like the Vocabulous and the Pronunciation Feedback and Analysis feature. Dutch is very difficult to pronounce and this feature really helps with rolling "r"s. I recommend this to everyone.

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars poor quality but still useful, April 12, 2004

By 

Jeff Mann (Toronto) - See all my reviews

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

I must agree that one could do a *much* better job of making a cd-rom for learning dutch (or the other languages). There's no systematic teaching of sentence structure, grammar rules, etc. - it's very poorly designed as a "language course". Also, the program (I'm using the Mac version) is many years old, and hasn't been updated for OS X. The sound and video are low-resolution and grainy.

On the other hand, I do find it useful, if only because a cd-rom is a better tool for practicing than a cassette tape. You can easily skip around the texts, click on individual words or whole sentences to hear them, see the (not always helpful) translation, etc. - so I would say that in conjunction with a *real* language course (maybe a good book) this could be helpful for extra practice. But ideally I would like to find a good-quality cd-rom language course. Anyone know of one?

10 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Dutch Teacher, May 30, 2003

By 

Jeff Brown (Pittsburg, PA USA) - See all my reviews

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

Hello I'm a teacher of the Dutch Language on the college level in the USA. Dutch Now is an incredible program. I've been using it to help teach my students and they seem to appreciate the usefulness of it. Dutch Now has significantly improved my students pronunciation and listening skills through the audio features (such as Full Native Speaker Pronunciation). It has expanded their vocabularies through games like Vocabulous and just in general has helped to improve their language skills. Dutch Now has many features that provide for great practice and review. I would highly recomend this program if you wanted to learn or needed help learning Dutch.