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Rosetta Stone V3: Spanish (Latin America), Level 1

Rosetta Stone V3: Spanish (Latin America), Level 1
From: Rosetta Stone

List Price: $219.00
Buy New: $197.00
You Save: $22.00 (10%)



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Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 35 reviews
Sales Rank: 23

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1 (Latin America)
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.2 x 2.3

MPN: 1580228542
UPC: 794678206207
EAN: 0794678206207
ASIN: B000P87C80

Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Learn Spanish with Rosetta Stone's proficiency-based listening and reading activities
  • Pronounce Spanish words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
  • Speak Spanish without a script in no time! Rosetta Stone's Contextual Formation makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
  • Use Rosetta Stone Milestone activities to gain confidence quickly so that you can engage in real-life conversations
  • Track your language learning progress to reinforce your strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall language feature

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Learn Spanish! Foreign Language learning with Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 1 allows you to build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more.

Amazon.com Product Description
Why is Rosetta Stone the world's No. 1 language-learning software? Because it works.

Escape the endless tedium of translation, memorization, and grammar drills. Get the language you want, the skills you need and the success you deserve by learning a new language naturally--the same way you learned your first language.



The complete immersion environment puts your native language-learning skills to work, eliminating your dependence on tedious translation and rote memorization.

Images Intuition

In Rosetta Stone you learn the meaning of new language from clear, real-life images.


In this activity you learn colors.

You advance using language you've learned and clues from new images. That's your intuition at work.


Now that you know colors, you can easily grasp the meaning of the new words...

Interactivity Instruction

Throughout Rosetta Stone, you constantly interact with the program to confirm your intuition.


...and then check what you've learned.

From beginning to end you build systematically toward your language-learning goals, for the most effective and enjoyable instruction anywhere.


And finally, you get the fun of trying your new language in a real-life simulation. Speech recognition shows you exactly how you're doing.

You learned your first language without translation.
You learned your first language easily and naturally by connecting words to objects and events around you. With Rosetta Stone, learn a new language the same way: using native speakers and thousands of real-life images to help you think in the new language from the very beginning. Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language, without translation as a crutch, is crucial.

The exclusive Dynamic Immersion method reinforces your natural language-learning skills with award-winning instructional technology. Identify your learning goals, then choose customized courses that take you there.

The timeless immersion method, along with research-based techniques and new technologies, make Rosetta Stone the clear solution to your language-learning needs.


What will you be able to do?

Understand everyday language.
Through Rosetta Stone's proficiency-based listening and reading activities, you'll learn quickly.

Pronounce words correctly.
After practicing with Rosetta Stone's speech recognition and analysis tools, pronunciation will come easily.

Speak without a script.
Contextual Formation makes sure you have the confidence and cues you need to get the words out on the spot.

Spell and write accurately.
You'll build gradually from letters to words and sentences.

Engage in real-life conversations.
With Milestone activities, gain confidence using speech alone in simulated situations.

Retain what you learn.
The unique Adaptive Recall reinforces language so it sticks with you in the real world.


Customer Reviews:   Read 30 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars Excellent product -works if you take the time   February 21, 2008
Valerie Ebberson (Nebraska)
93 out of 93 found this review helpful

As a 50+ learner I wondered how well I'd retain the information but it's been great. The format makes it fun & appealing while the word/picture association facilitates retention. We have all 3 levels and I'm currently on the last session of Level 1 (after 6 weeks). While it says it's a single user product, you CAN install the Version 3 on two computers; however both installations cannnot be running simultaniously (I called Rosetta Stone about this & we're doing this w/ husbands & my computers). The microphone set-up is great to hear yourself speak & make corrections as needed. Since Rosetta Stone provides no written Spanish (ie book) a good English-Spanish dictionary is helpful or having a free-translation window open on your computer for occasional clarification. Also it helps to look at some free websites that explain general sentence structure and word tense in the Spanish language. If you're consistent in it's use, quiz yourself mentally during daily activities, and proceed at a comfortable pace (too slow & you lose momentum, too fast & you forget) you'll be speaking Spanish in no time. I've learned far more in the past month with this product than I did taking a weekly conversational Spanish class at the local community college.


2 out of 5 stars a software note   December 27, 2007
bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
61 out of 97 found this review helpful

This product is sold as licensed software. Users will NOT be able to load it onto more than one computer. This aspect of the product is not clear from the blurbing on the Rosetta Stone website. It is a "single-user" product.
Don't think that you can share this with friends, or that it is appropriate for a lending collection.



4 out of 5 stars Just getting started, but like it.   January 7, 2008
Cnotta
51 out of 55 found this review helpful

Installed product, got the microphone hooked up, and then needed to not do the speaking portion of the lessons. Just felt overwhelmed with learning the words, and trying to speak at the same time.

I like the immersion concept. Just look at the pictures and see the words/phases and try to recall them. I'm a visual learner, so this is great for me. If you are not a visual learner this may not be for you.

I have images of pictures in my head now, with spanish words/phrases to go with it. Which is much better for me than grammar drilling, etc.

I'm NEW NEW NEW to spanish. I've never taken any spanish classes in school or anywhere else, and would appreciate it if those who HAVE prior knowlege of spanish or have taken Spanish formally in a classroom situation, or are a native spanish speakers, do not try to tell a NEW NEW spanish learners if this product will be good or bad for them, you don't know because you already know the language basics. You have a context to base your learning on, whereas an over 40 person who has never taken spanish is learning very differently than you, and is like a baby learning a new language. Which is what I'm hoping this product helps with. I'm learning like a new baby. Hear it, connect it with some images, and hopefully I'll integrate all this in and be able to speak it.
I've watched my infant/toddler learn, and they don't start speaking immediately with understandable words until they have a vocabulary foundation, and see the words in action, and they are looking at you and what you're saying and visually what its connected to. Then later they start to speak or repeat. Why people who create language learning product for adult beginners think adults should not learn like babies do is beyond me, but I think the Rosetta folks get it!

But who knows for sure. I'm giving it a shot with this product.



1 out of 5 stars DO NOT BUY!   May 14, 2008
Julie Rogers (Florida)
49 out of 61 found this review helpful

My husband and I were both excited to try Rosetta Stone. I had six years of Spanish in school and my husband had never had any Spanish lessons. We were both frustrated and upset by our experiences.

My husband was having a good time going through the first few lessons and felt he was doing well. I thought we would be able to have a few very simple conversations like "Hi, how are you?" "My name is...", but that isn't the way Rosetta Stone works. I quickly worked through several lessons and became amazed at how useless all the information was. If I was in Mexico and wanted to order food, make a hotel reservation, or just talk to a small child this software would not help. I went through lesson after lesson and was going over Geography and still hadn't seen anything about how to introduce myself, excuse myself or anything that would be of any use in a real life situation.

Meanwhile, my husband became frustrated as the learning curve became vertical. He gave up when the lessons were too confusing and I have to say I didn't encourage him to keep trying because I felt it was pointless.



1 out of 5 stars Rosetta Stone a Disappointment   November 14, 2007
Daniel S. Burr (Del Rio, Texas)
40 out of 78 found this review helpful

Rosetta Stone V3 Spanish (Latin America) Level 1 Personal Edition (Win/Mac)I have never been able to get a satisfactory launch of this product. Indications point to an incomplete install but no error messages appear until I try and run the program. Even after 5 re-installs I get error messages as soon as I hit the "go" button. The most irksome msg claimed that "There was an error in the application" (like I didn't know that.) Other errors, without an associated message, were a complete crash of the program immediately upon launch. A inquiree to product support was answered with the suggestion that I might not have enough RAM. Hogwash! I've loaded and run over 15 programs on this almost new computer, some very big, without so much as a hiccup.
Rosetta Stone has been a big disappointment. I will return it to Amazon



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