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Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion

Rosetta Stone  Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio CompanionFrom: Rosetta Stone
Category: Software

List Price: $539.00
Buy New: $485.10
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 165 reviews
Sales Rank: 99

Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 4 x 8

MPN: 20988
Model: 20988
ISBN: 1603916733
UPC: 794678209888
EAN: 9781603916738
ASIN: B001AFFZM2

Release Date: June 16, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:
  • 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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Editorial Reviews:

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.

Communicate and connect with the world: Level 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Level 1, 2 & 3 Set will take you on a journey from the basics to a whole new level of sophistication. You'll build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. You'll quickly gain the confidence to engage in social interactions. Say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange travel, order food, go shopping and more! From there, you'll share your ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about your life, your interests and more. You'll discover a voice. In a new language.

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 Levels 1, 2 & 3 (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.



Customer Reviews:
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5 out of 5 stars It's Great!!!   March 6, 2010
David A. Guitard (Atlanta GA)
It's as good as advertised! Be careful though, You can only instal it a couple of times. So if you have computer problems like I did, it can be a problem. The support at Rosseta Stone was very helpfull though!



5 out of 5 stars The item is great if only I had the activation code   March 3, 2010
Deborah S. Silva (Maryville, Tn.)
I purchased the Spanish (Latin) American. When my package arrived it is labeled Spanish.
When I went to download it is when I found out it was not what I ordered. What else I found out it came with no activation code. I contacted the seller she told me it would work with out it. Only for the first two lessons. Then it kicks you out to the activation code page. I called Rosetta Stone customer support. They told me I purchased from a unauthorized dealer. That I need to ask for my money back. I called Amazon / Chase Bank. They will dispute the charge. I am returning the product. Only thing it came from China. Who knows how much this will cost to ship back to them. I learned my lesson. Know who your buying from. The product is great I have already learned more in two weeks than I have in the last 6 months on other methods I have tried. I will be buying it. But this time I will pay the full price from a authorized site. The old saying goes you get what you pay for. The price was too good to be real..$393.98 for 3 levels and the Audio Companion, headset.



1 out of 5 stars There is no science to their "method"--they are lying to you.   February 23, 2010
Small Town Girl
3 out of 3 found this review helpful

If you watch the flash video presentation of their "Dynamic Immersion" method, you might be captivated by the idea that you could learn as you did your first language. While this sounds nice from the start, it is highly impractical and goes against all studies of language learning (second-language acquisition). As an adult, your mind is not as flexible as a child's. Why can children learn music easily? Run and bend more than you can maybe? The expression, "can't teach an old dog new tricks" has some truth to it. It takes 15 years or more to learn a language like a child. Does that sound fast to you? That also, is with constant input all day every day--not what Rosetta Stone offers you.

I took three different languages at the best language school in the US, Middlebury College. Their approaches were not always my favorite... but they met half way: Rote is REQUIRED because it's faster and makes it easier to understand. But rather than explaining the most difficult parts of the language day one, they let you absorb it through other means, such as by watching movies, listening to the language in a native setting. There isn't one way to learn a language, but Rosetta Stone is a glorified flash-card program with audio.

The limitations of Rosetta Stone first of all are to a script you can read. I spent years writing Chinese by hand, learning about stroke order, trying to understand the history of the characters... and Rosetta Stone makes it sound like "look at the word" "see the word" "know the word".... which isn't the case at all. They don't tailor their programs at all. You will see the same pictures in the Spanish version that you do in the Chinese or Hindi version. Think of the intricacies of your own language to understand how difficult it is to achieve a level of "understanding". Rosetta Stone will not teach you that.

Rosetta Stone is for people who feel they do not want anything to do with rote memorization and who also have no need to learn the language seriously. Pimsleur Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive) (English and Spanish Edition), while far from complete, is at least worth it's money due to the fact that you can SAY full sentences, and it helps you to overcome fears in pronunciation. As other users have mentioned, there are far superior products now available, such as Fluenz, if you really want a computer method. Fluenz also is smart-phone compatible. They also tailor their programs for their languages, and readily recognize how adults learn. Fluenz Version F2: Spanish 1+2+3+4+5 (Win/Mac) with software DVDs, audio CDs, podcasts, and Navigator. Learn Spanish with the latest upgrade.

There are too many subtleties in languages for you to just "pick up"---please don't think that this program will give that to you.

If you are excited by the prospect of pictures, I would suggest using a DK Visual Dictionary, which Amazon has. Spanish English Bilingual Visual Dictionary (DK Visual Dictionaries) Also, watch movies you know with Spanish subtitles or with a Spanish track and Spanish subtitles. (Most DVDs have this option) I find that movies I know the words to, make this exercise very meaningful... when watching Forest Gump, I was familiarized with the imperative (commands) when Jenny shouts, "Run, Forest, run!" Grammar can be picked up through cheap or free means. Reading the lyrics to songs in the language can help, and translations now are abundant. It also helps if you can hear quick speaking and pick out the words. One of my main problems with French was learning where words ended and began. Rosetta Stone wouldn't teach me that, but movies, music, and other media do. Try using podcasts. Blog/podcasts such as [...] give you more meaningful aspects of the language, such as idioms and how to learn different accents.

Remember: language learning is all about input. True immersion means you will live a life of the language, just as you would if you were raising a child. I recommend reading newspapers online, even if you only understand 10% or less. Familiarity with the shape of words is important as well. You want to be able to "know" when a word "sounds" Spanish.

There are workbooks, dictionaries, programs, audio tapes, all geared toward helping you. Be honest with what you will do. If you won't put in the effort to learn things by "rote" even if through flashcards, then your progress will be greatly inhibited. There are also online communities to get involved in if you want a "penpal".

I am absolutely against buying Rosetta Stone for four main reasons:
1. The program is a "one-size-fits-all" where they change the audio to whichever language they want to sell you.
2. There is no depth to the language, in Spanish for example, the word "banana" isn't the same in every country, even in Latin America. This is an important cultural point, which they pass up, due to point 1.
3. They don't explain pronunciation at all.
4. Their marketing is false and unfounded, and the price is much too high for what they offer.

If you want computer software, check out Fluenz before you buy. (There are others as well) Personally, I'm going to stick to music, movies, Pimsleur, and books such as Using Spanish: A Guide to Contemporary Usage which give me depth to the language. See also: Using Spanish Vocabulary for explanations on registers, polite speech, colloquialisms, regional phrases, and differences between synonyms.

It bothers me a great deal that people are being sold on this marketing that they should "grasp the language without interference". Rosetta Stone IS INTERFERENCE. The availability of Spanish resources for English speakers makes this product a FAIL. If you are hoping to learn Turkish, then perhaps I understand why you would choose it.

For those who want flashcards, download Anki [...] you can make your own and add audio, or you can download some that are pre-made.

[...]

If you're really going to spend $500 on learning Spanish, take a class where you can have things explained to you.

That's my two cents, hope it's helpful.

At the very least, please try the demo on their website before you buy it.



1 out of 5 stars Never Bought It, Never Will. THANK YOU!   February 8, 2010
Georgie Porgie Puddin Pie (Chehalis, WA, US)
0 out of 3 found this review helpful

Thank you for telling me about this product before I bought it. I am so glad I didn't jump in with both feet before researching others' opinions. Not having a head for learning languages, I believed every word the advertisements said about these products. I'm sorry for any of you who had to fork out the bucks to learn a valuable lesson. I think I'll take an evening course at the local community center. Thanks again!

Geo



2 out of 5 stars Good product, terrible customer service   February 5, 2010
John (Berkley, MI USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I had extreme difficulty loading Rosetta Stone on my laptop. During the process, the program told me that there was an update I should download from their website, but doing so caused fatal errors. I tried contacting their customer service department via phone. The first time I tried, the phone simply rang and rang until I finally hung up. The second time I tried, I was put on hold for 40 minutes, when I gave up. The third time I tried, I actually got through to a real human being (after being on hold for over 30 minutes), who took my name and then managed to disconnect me. I then gave up entirely and, after restoring my computer to a point before I had loaded Rosetta Stone, got it working without the update that was highly recommended. It works okay, with some glitches in the voice recognition area. I'm somewhat satisfied with the product as a language teaching system, although not as thrilled as I had expected to be, given its glowing reviews. Rather than a logical progression in material, there seems to be quantum leaps in levels of difficulty.

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