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Rosetta Stone V3: Spanish (Latin America), Level 1 & 2 | 
| From: Rosetta Stone
List Price: $339.00
Buy New: $305.10
You Save: $33.90 (10%)
Rating:  18 reviews
Sales Rank: 62
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Mac Os X
ESRB: Everyone
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Spanish (Latin America), Level 1 & 2
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.4
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.2 x 2.3
UPC: 794678291661
EAN: 0794678291661
ASIN: B000TFHZDG
Release Date: August 28, 2007
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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 Spanish (Latin America) Level 1&2 you build a foundation and navigate your surroundings. Learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence to talk about your environment; giving and getting directions, telling time, dining out, shopping, enjoying basic social interactions and much more
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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. 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 complete immersion environment puts your native language-learning skills to work, eliminating your dependence on tedious translation and rote memorization.
| |  | |  | 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 13 more reviews...
 The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 Level 2 November 22, 2007
A. Rivera (Daytona Beach, Florida)
96 out of 103 found this review helpful
As the editor of the Learning Spanish Products Reviews (LearningSpanishProductsReviews) site, one of my responsibilities is to review learning-Spanish resources. I am also a native Spanish speaker from Argentina, and a professional private Spanish instructor. In addition, I am the author of two learning-Spanish products offered here at Amazon:
1. Anna Rivera's 1000 Plus Most Powerful Spanish Words
2. Anna Rivera's 800 Plus Most Powerful Spanish Phrases
I will begin with an overview of the content of Rosetta Stone Spanish Version 3 Level 2. RSS V3 Level 2 consists of 4 Units:
Unit 1: Travel
Unit 2: Past and Future
Unit 3: Friends and Social Life
Unit 4: Dining and Vacation
Good Points of Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 Level 2:
1. The interface of this software has been greatly improved by Rosetta Stone. The old software interface was very ugly and archaic looking. But this interface is much more attractive with contemporary photos.
2. Much more content is covered in this version than the previous version of Level 2. This version teaches indirect pronouns. The previous version of Level 2 did not teach indirect pronouns. This version does a pretty good job at teaching the proper use of "te" and "le", etc. This version also covers the the familiar form of "you" or the "tu" form in Spanish. (As usual, I am omitting Spanish punctuation and other Spanish characters from my review because the Spanish characters often appear as strange looking characters/letters in my Amazon reviews.)
3. You will also learn the "imperative" or commands which is a good change from the previous version which failed to cover this topic.
4. Rosetta Stone Spanish Level 2 also does a great job of teaching the two forms of the future tense in Spanish.
5. You will also find that this software does a thorough job of covering the past tense in Spanish. Both the preterite and the imperfect tense.
6. They have also improved the software by adding lots of dialogs. The added dialogs will certainly improve the students' listening comprehension.
7. This version of the software is also a lot more interactive than the previous version.
Bad Points of Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 Level 2:
1. It is pretty hard to find any bad points about this software. I had to think long and hard. But one disadvantage that you will find is that it doesn't teach some of the topics that should be included in a Level 2 Spanish course, such as the "subjunctive." At the time that I am writing this review, I have not reviewed Level 3 of this software. So I do not know if Level 3 covers the subjunctive. If it does cover the subjunctive, then it probably fails to cover other important Spanish verb tenses, namely, conditional, past perfect tense, conditonal perfect, present perfect subjunctive, pluperfect subjunctive, future perfect, etc. It woud not be feasible to cover all of these intermediate/advanced topics in Level 3 when Level 2 hasn't even introduced the subjunctive.
2. The other negative about this software is that it lacks the type of interactivity that is required to reach a level of conversational proficiency. Although this version of the software is also a lot more interactive than the previous version, it does not have the type of interactivity that is needed to reach conversational proficiency in Spanish. You will find yourself clicking your mouse button more with this version than the previous version. But you will not find that this software has many exercises that require the user to speak out loud and then form her own sentences in Spanish. And that's what it takes to reach proficiency or fluency.
Considering the drastic improvement of this software compared to the previous version, I am still giving it 5 stars.
Here's how I compare this to the other top Spanish courses on Amazon November 26, 2007
Spanish-learner for Life (Albuquerque, NM)
54 out of 56 found this review helpful
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R6KJW73XNTYL Here's how I compare the three top Spanish courses on the market.
1. Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 -- still the best method out there for the visual learner but using this software by itself will only take you but so far. 5 Stars.
2. Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive)
This is great for the traveler. You will learn monetary vocabulary terms such as "pesos" and numbers so that you will be able to count your "dolares" when travling to a Spanish speaking country. There are other courses that cover more vocabulary for the traveler but their method isn't as effective as the Pimsleur method. This method teaches the formal Spanish that you are likely to encounter in formal speech or formal writing. 5 stars.
3. Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1 (2 volume set) This is the course that I would recommend for someone that needs to immediately learn how to speak Spanish in order to communicate with Spanish-speakers that have recently arrived in the U.S or for someone that expects to be speaking to people in familiar situations in Latin America. This course comes closer to teaching the colluquial or familiar style of conversational Spanish that you will hear native speakers use among themselves. 5 stars.
If you really want to see your Spanish take off, I'd say use all three of these courses. Which course you decide to use first or the order that you select to use these Spanish courses really depends on the type of learner you are and your needs for learning how to speak Spanish.
I hope that my review has been helpful to other Amazon shoppers.
 REVIEW FOR ALL MAC OWNERS November 6, 2007
T. Bailey
39 out of 48 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
 Too long to get to basic conversational level December 30, 2007
K. Simmons (Brooklyn, NY)
35 out of 40 found this review helpful
I really wanted to love this product. Perhaps at some point, one could get to a proficiency level. The great thing is that the software teaches you like one's parents would teach a child. The problem is that after 40 hours of instruction with Rosetta Stone, you have the language abilities of a three year old. I put a lot of time into the software (maybe 50 hours) and did not have the ability to speak even broken Spanish at a restaurant to order a meal. My friends wondered what the problem was given that whenever they called me, I was doing Rosetta Stone lessons. My friends who are fluent in Spanish, suggested that I take a conversational immersion class; I think that I'll take their advice.
 DOES NOT WORK WITH VISTA November 1, 2007
Andrew R. Mullen
14 out of 27 found this review helpful
Don't even think about buying this software if you have MS Vista. Go check their own website. It won't run and after I contacted Rosetta Stone for a fix I've never heard anything back. I returned it yesterday for a refund.
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