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Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 1 with Audio Companion |  | From: Rosetta Stone Category: Software
List Price: $229.00 Buy New: $206.10 as of 9/8/2010 05:49 CDT details You Save: $22.90 (10%)
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Seller: Amazon.com Rating: 35 reviews Sales Rank: 77
Format: CD-ROM Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X Genre: Childrens Foreign Language Software Media: CD-ROM Edition: Level 1 Operating System: Mac OS X Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.6 Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 3
MPN: 20918 Model: 20918 ISBN: 1603916709 UPC: 794678209185 EAN: 9781603916707 ASIN: B001AFDBBE
Release Date: June 16, 2008 Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| • | Rosetta Stone teaches you a new language naturally, by getting you to think, live and breathe the language | | • | Innovative solutions get you speaking new words, right from the start | | • | Rosetta Stone moves forward only when you're ready--you drive the pace, you set the schedule | | • | With Rosetta Stone, you'll discover a foundation of key vocabulary that you'll use to build into a whole new language | | • | Audio Companion lets you take the Rosetta Stone experience anywhere: in the car, at the gym, or on-the-go |
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Amazon.com Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone. The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life. Learn Naturally Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability. Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it. Engage Interactively Get feedback to move forward. You learn best by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your progress. Speak Confidently Start speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll speak. You'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll create new sentences on your own, using words you've learned. Have Fun Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So you'll keep using it, and you'll learn more! That's language-learning success. That's Rosetta Stone. No translation or memorization required. The most effective way to learn a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words with images. That's the ultimate language lab, but most language-learning programs completely ignore this. Think about all of the ways you've tried to learn a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software that uses your native language as a base for your next one. What do they all have in common? Translation and memorization.
Instead of taking a "direct flight" from your brain to your new language, translation and memorization connects you to your old language. You always have to "fly" from your brain, to your native tongue ... and then translate what you've memorized to communicate. That might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to change tenses? You're going to make a lot of "connecting flights." That's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail. Enter Dynamic Immersion. This method encourages you to think like a baby. You'll pair words with vivid, real-life images and make connections between things you know and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words together into phrases that you create. Innovative technology. Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software that works with you to develop your skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that you're speaking correctly and accurately. Best of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident. Discover the building blocks of a new language: Level 1. Your journey begins with a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and language structure that you'll need to begin to think, live and breathe in your new language. Rosetta Stone's solution will give you the confidence to master basic conversational skills. You'll be able to introduce yourself, say "Hello" and "Goodbye," ask and answer simple questions, go shopping and so much more. Audio Companion With Audio Companion, you'll enhance the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Each Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your travel time into productive language-learning time. Inside the box, you'll find: - Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Level 1 (Windows/Mac)
- Headset microphone
- User's guide
- Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player

Product Description As children, we gradually learned our first language through a process of associating mental images with words or phrases, accompanied by complete immersion in our environment. This approach was simple because it was natural and allowed the brain to adapt to increasing complexity. In learning a new language, Rosetta Stone replicates this process to provide the best and friendliest language learning software tool. Learn as many languages as you want!
Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to start learning a language. It's built around the award-winning Rosetta Stone curriculum, which has been adopted by organizations around the world including the U.S. Army, NASA, major corporations such as Deutsche Telecom, IKEA, Royal Dutch Shell, and over 10,000 schools worldwide--and is available in 31 languages spoken by over 90% of the world's population.
Proceed at Your Own Pace - Rosetta Stone is considerate of your time. Anytime, anywhere, you can learn a new language with Rosetta Stone. You learn comfortably without feeling pressured or overwhelmed. Rosetta Stone provides guidance to make your language learning effective, fast, and enjoyable with a process that is intuitive, interactive, and visually engaging. At the end of each lesson, you are given the opportunity to test your new skills. And, since Rosetta Stone automatically records your progress, you can easily pick up where you left off, when other priorities arise.
Dynamic Immersion - Rosetta Stone uses rich visual imagery to help you learn. You will be presented with sets of images to match correctly with a spoken or written phrase in the new language. You will advance to the next set of prompts once you've successfully matched words and images and pronounced the words correctly. With Dynamic Immersion, you learn by directly associating your new language with images--nothing is lost in translation.
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Rosetta Stone sucks! September 1, 2010 butch0548 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Received product and proceeded through chapter 1. It would not go to chapter 2 because it said I needed the password. I entered the password and it still would not let me into chapter 2.
Called customer support and they are useless. They could not make my password work to proceed and they were not concerned that their product did not work. They did not offer to send me a new CD to load or wanted to make it write. They just said send it back.
Method to the madness but finding the method with drive you to madness. July 15, 2010 M. Cotherman (McKinney, Tx United States) 5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I just finished Level 1. There is method to Rosetta Stone's madness. But figuring out their method can drive you to madness. They want you to look at a picture, most of the time a very obscure picture, (worth 1,000 words?) and find the words they are thinking of. Sometimes it's obvious, a lot of the time it is NOT!
I wasn't a complete beginner at Spanish so it was less frustrating for me. A friend, who had zero Spanish experience, began the course at the same time and is very frustrated with it for the above reason.
It would be nice if there were something that said, "This is what we want you to get from this section..." But there is not, you are on your own to figure out their method. Sometimes, like one reviewer said, you get so frustrated that you want to throw the computer across the room.
I get Rosetta Stone for free from my employer, so I'm going to do all five levels but I'm supplimenting it with as much different material as I can. I bought several books of the, "Practice Makes Perfect" series written by Dorothy Richmond. I bought; "Basic Spanish," "Spanish Vocabulary," "Spanish Verb Tenses," "Spanish Pronouns and prepositions." All are well reviewed here on Amazon and I have REALLY liked them and they are INEXPENSIVE! Several times I've been reading from one of them and, "OH, that's what Rosetta Stone is doing!" went through my mind. Another suppliment I'm using is the video novela, "Destinos!" It's a 50 episode (30 minutes each) Spanish novela by the ?University of Chicago?, it's free to watch online and you can find it at a library on DVD
( [...] ) I'm just listening to the episodes to help my comprehension.
Learning Spanish the painless way June 17, 2010 D. Rittenberg (Round Lake Beach, IL, US) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The Rosetta Stone is set up in such a way that one isn't even aware of having absorbed the vocabulary, pronunciation & grammar of the language.The head set leaves something to be desired as it's uncomfortable & clumsy. The mic doesn't always work well. But the lessons themselves are excellent.
to many weird copyright issues June 15, 2010 D. FRENETTE 4 out of 11 found this review helpful
I will not buy from this company due to to many weird copyright issues. Do your due diligence, read reviews here and elsewhere to find out for yourself.
awesome April 20, 2010 Stellacat 3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I love this program. Yes, you have to keep at it and practice regularly--it's not magic--but it's a natural and intuitive way to learn a language.
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