Rosetta Stone V3: Spanish (Latin America), Level 1 | 
| From: Rosetta Stone
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Rating: 39 reviews Sales Rank: 540
Format: Cd-rom Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Mac Os X Media: CD-ROM Edition: Level 1 Operating System: Mac OS X 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
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| 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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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.
| |  | |  | 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 34 more reviews...
Excellent product -works if you take the time February 21, 2008 Valerie Ebberson (Nebraska) 111 out of 112 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.
a software note December 27, 2007 bukhtan (Chicago, Illinois, USA) 68 out of 100 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.
Good Product, Unfair Corporate Policy August 13, 2008 Edward Barnett (Cambridge, MA United States) 60 out of 72 found this review helpful
I bought Rosetta Stone Levels 1 & 2 for my son to keep up his language skills over the summer. He never really got into the programs, using them for only an hour or two, so I decided not to keep them. Because we were beyond the 30-day return period, I decided to list the discs on eBay, to try to recover some of my $300. I received a legal notice saying that Rosetta Stone would not permit the sale. Rosetta Stone said that I hadn't really bought the programs, just a license to use them, and that I couldn't sell the packages I had paid over $300 for. Legally, they're probably right, but this corporate policy is unfair, and it's a poor way to treat customers. I paid good money for this product, it didn't have the value I expected, and now they're legally blocking me from selling it to somebody else. That just isn't right. I don't think I've ever left a negative review like this before, but potential buyers deserve to know how Rosetta Stone treats customers after the fact.
Just getting started, but like it. January 7, 2008 Cnotta 55 out of 61 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.
Rosetta Stone a Disappointment November 14, 2007 Daniel S. Burr (Del Rio, Texas) 45 out of 81 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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