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Holistic Guidance - Rosetta Stone V3: Arabic, Level 1, 2 & 3
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List Price: $499.00
Our Price: $449.10
Your Save: $ 49.90 ( 10% )
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Rosetta Stone
EAN: 0794678321986
Feature: Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Rosetta Stone
Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Rosetta Stone
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Rosetta Stone
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Features
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Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
In no time you will speak without a script, Rosetta Stone's Contextual Formation™ makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
With Rosetta Stone Milestone activities you quickly gain confidence to engage in real-life conversations in a foreign language.
Track your progress to reinforce your new foreign language strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ language feature.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Learn Arabic Foreign Language learning with Arabic Level 1,2&3 you connect with the world around you. Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Quickly gain the confidence to enjoy social interactions such as greetings and introductions, travel, dining out, giving and getting directions, shopping and other recreational activities. Learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life, your work, your interests, current events, and much more.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: version 3 is way too self-important
Comment: I have been Rosetta Stone user for at least a decade and this new version seems overly complicated and top-heavy, what my son would call "bloatware". This is one of those programs that has sacrificed elegant simplicity for graphic bells and whistles. It's much harder to navigate than the first two versions. Underneath, of course, it's still the same language-learning approach, one I've always supplemented with a printed dictionary and grammar, but which is basically very fine and effective. The bossy self-satisfied feeling of the current version is a bit exasperating though.
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Summary: Definitely Room for Improvement
Comment: PROS:
-The concept of Rosetta Stone is great as it does put you in actual learning as you did as a child.
-Software is nicely laid out, better than I have seen in other software
CONS:
-There are many (besides the cost)
-For Arabic or any other language software that does not rely on the Roman Alphabet, you need to have perfect hearing (which I do not) to understand what they are saying and your speakers should be top quality.
-The first lesson throws you right into the verbiage using the Arabic alphabet. Therefore, I am left going is he saying it with an 'N' sound or an 'M' sound?
-There is no dictionary(online, software or hardcopy) to suppliment these lessons which would also help the previous issue.
-It is memory intensive. Older computers may choke on the load time of this.
Overall Thoughts:
If you can...sit in a classroom, if possible. It will be more worth the money than this software. If you are made of money...use Rosetta Stone as a supplimentary or a refresher guide.
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Summary: Hard to set up
Comment: I have a Linux based system and this has been hard to set this product up on my laptop.
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Summary: rosseta stone
Comment: I like it but part of the disk is faulty. some lessons are not there.
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Summary: Really Helpful Learning Tool
Comment: Yes, this is really expensive. It comes with a headset/microphone of good quality, installation cd's, stickers of the arabic alphabet to put on your keyboard, and one (yes 1) activation code, which does mean that it can only be loaded onto one computer (you CAN, however, load it onto an external hard-drive and thereby be able to access it from other computers). All 3 levels together will take up about 1800MB (or 1.8GB) of space on your computer, which is pretty good, and once loaded, you don't need the cd's in order to access the program.
I've only been using the program for about two days, it's pretty tough (but also fun and addicting), haha. But I've gone back over the lessons until I've gotten 100% on each area and I'm surprised that I'm able to retain so much and learn so well by their immersion method. Crazy enough, it does work, but it takes practice. This is the type of thing that you're going to have to do every day and to really dedicate yourself to if you want to be any good at it.
Buy this. It's worth it.
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