Rosetta Stone V3: German, Level 1, 2 & 3 | 
| From: Rosetta Stone
List Price: $499.00
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Rating:  13 reviews
Sales Rank: 279
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): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.2 x 2.3
MPN: 1580229085
UPC: 794678290855
EAN: 0794678290855
ASIN: B000P4FYES
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | 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 | | • | Track your progress to reinforce your strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall Language feature |
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Product Description
With German 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.
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.
| |  | |  | 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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 8 more reviews...
REVIEW FOR ALL MAC OWNERS November 6, 2007
T. Bailey
48 out of 75 found this review helpful
BACKGROUND
Using Rosetta Stone French (v.3) on a Mac iBook G4 (10.3.9). Using home school addition. Have used it for last 6 weeks.
SUMMARY
In spite of the cost, the awkward port from Windows and difficult network set up, it's still best of class for learning a foreign language.
REVIEW
Powerful, detailed and complicated: those are the adjectives I would use to describe this program. If you want to learn the language, then this program systemically teaches it to you. It keeps record of your progress, gives tests and records your grades. It treats you as if you are a student in a classroom. Additional workbook, study guide and included microphone headset supplement the visual and audio CD disk. But having said all this, there are some things I wish as a Mac user that I would have known.
The set-up of the program is SO non-intuitive and non-mac like. This includes installation of the application and its MANY helper files needed to run in the background with the main program disk. In my former life, I was an Apple System engineer, so I am no stranger to the Mac and networks setups. But even this installation caused me to eventually have to call Rosetta's technical support for instruction. This is partially due to my complicated home network set up (I've got multiple Macs with multiple (non-Mac) Routers that work as Access Points and bridges), and partially because of the complexity of installation of the program itself. This is definitely NOT a "drag-and-drop", or "double click to un- compress" or even "double click and follow the step by step instruction" type of experience. It is "multi-step, enter by hand, enter in data and information" type of installation process.
That is what is most disappointing to me. This is a BAD PORT of a PC program. They did nothing to make the program conform to Apple program standards. This means there are many helper files (20 something??!!!) in various folders. There is a network component that HAS TO run in the background for the main language program to run. This means you have to always first launch this secondary program (or leaving it running all the time). If you run on a network (like I do), you have to assign the computer's IP address that the program is running on (can't use the default, non-network IP given by the setup program). If your computer ever is assigned a different IP address locally by your router (power goes out, etc), then you will have to make some changes or this network helper file will not launch, and therefore, the language program will not either.
Getting to the place to even begin to first use the program is a tedious and complicated process. Another helper program that keeps track of the students progress must also first be set up. The "teacher's" name, access settings, the "student's" name(s) and their access privileges must first be established. ALL THIS IS DONE AWKWARDLY AND IN AN IBM 90'S INTERFACE. Constant referring to the user guide is necessary. There is no way some one could figure out what to do by only looking at the screens.
And this is the main criticism of the program, this clunky interface, non-intuitive layout of material is the same throughout the entire presentation of the language program. The program's strengh--the detailed comprehensive, multi-media presentation of material--is also it's greatest weakness. It's hard to follow where you are, where to go, what stage you are in, how much further you have to go on any given unit, lesson or session. The implementation of more than one user account and switching between the two is counter intuitive as well.
My 16 year old daughter, is now working her way through the program and has used it enough now to understand how to advance though it. But it was a slow start. She is enjoying the program and is learning the language of her love, and I have no doubt this program is a great help, I just wish more effort and forethought was given to making it more elegant in its presentation. Basically this looks to me like a 90's program in desperate need of a face lift. While calling the toll-free tech support and talking with a couple of different individuals, you quickly come to understand these people don't fully understand the Mac. The first individual had to pass me on once he discovered my Mac issues. The second was very polite and patient and we finally got my set up to work. But it wasn't easy for them since I was on a Mac. And I bet if you call you will get the same two people, They are, after all, not a help desk, but a language learning software company.
CONCLUSION
OK, so that's it. I hope this review was helpful. I've tried to share my experience for other Mac users so they know more of what to expect before they buy the program. A program that has (from my research) no other comparison as far as best in class for learning a foreign language, but a program that--in it's implementation and presentation as far as on Macintosh computers is concerned--leaves a lot to me desired.
Tom
 It Works Well October 16, 2007
shawn
36 out of 42 found this review helpful
It works very well and it is actually Dirt Cheap when you compare the cost of the Rosetta software and amount of actual learning you will receive to the cost of taking classes on a College or University level.
You should treat it the same as every other class, get a notebook and practice writing everything and saying everything and practice makes perfect.
The first 3 lessons are kinda boring but once you get to lesson 4 it starts getting interesting.
Good Luck!
Immersive learning, but don't try the repetition mode February 1, 2008
william-burroughs
30 out of 31 found this review helpful
Rosetta Stone promises learning a language by natural immersion. This is achieved by showing 4 pictures, while a speaker says a word or sentence relating to the pictures. The learner has to pick the correct picture out of the four by clicking on it with the mouse.
While this is the most basic way of using Rosetta Stone, other modes of learning are offered as well. Such as picking a picture without the text being displayed (focus on listening skill), or typing the text into an input (focus on writing skill).
It also offers a mode in which the user has to repeat the text spoken by the program. The wave modulation of the repeated text is compared by the computer which then shows a red, yellow, or green signal depending on how similar the two voices were.
This latter mode is a complete joke, however. I am am a native German speaker myself and bought this program for my girlfriend. The quality of the voice in the repetition mode is for some reason much worse than the voices in the other modes. It is high pitch, sounds computer generated, and probably was just made on the cheap. Unfortunately this also affects the recognition and I was most successful by adopting a high pitch nasal sound. While this creates some genuine fun for native speakers, it renders the mode useless for learning.
Fortunately, just listening to the speakers in the other modes and trying to repeat works well enough to learn pronunciation.
The program does what is promises. It gives you a new language from start by total immersion. While this method is less dry and more fun than grammar books and dictionaries it also suffers from some inherent problems.
While the meaning of most of the words are well introduced by pictures, more subtle concepts that are not easily described with pictures remain vague, and the exact meaning may remain hidden.
It is also not as simple to create grammatical generalizations and rules. Creating a grammatical rule set by trial and error is just a lot easier for a toddler who can spend a decade on it than for a thirty year old with limited time on his hands.
That being said, Rosetta stone is still tremendously helpful because it makes learning colorful. Used in conjunction with other books it is a powerful, quick, and fun way to learn a language.
Rosetta Stone German Level 1-2-3 December 2, 2007
T. Barnes (California, USA)
17 out of 22 found this review helpful
My daughter has been in German for Levels 1-2-3 and now AP German. She feels so much better since receiving this program. She feels she will be better prepared to take the AP German exam. She wants to learn several languages and plans to order more Rosetta Stone programs. I will purchase more of these programs with confidence.
 a software note December 27, 2007
bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA)
15 out of 46 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.
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