| ![Italian Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51JJWQB9ZRL._SL500_.jpg)
| From: Fairfield Language Technologies
List Price: $339.00
Buy Used: $250.00
You Save: $89.00 (26%)
Rating:  27 reviews
Sales Rank: 2094
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Mac Os X, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows Xp
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8.3 x 3
MPN: 794678018152
Model: 230-12
UPC: 794678018152
EAN: 0794678018152
ASIN: B000077DD4
Release Date: October 28, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 This makes learning a new language painless December 13, 2005
Darren Burton (Ogden, Utah United States)
42 out of 45 found this review helpful
This program is amazing. I was at a friends house and tried the demo CD. I have never taken any classes or tried to learn Italian before, but I had learned 50 words within 2 1/2 hours and it was a fun process! I did take 3 years of Spanish in junior high and found it to be a very frustrating process, because the way languages are taught in public schools is so artifical. This program teaches you a language just like you learned English. By showing you something and telling you what it is called. You are shown 4 pictures, the name for the object for the picture, and each box is highlighted as the word is said. Then you are quized as the pictures are shown in different sequences and the word is shown with the picture - so you automaticly start to learn to spell the word, and associate the word with the sound.
Then after you learn about 16 basic words like cat, dog, man, woman, girl, boy, teenager, adult, you are taught verbs. You are shown 4 pictures again with a man running, a woman running, a boy running, and a girl walking. Since you now know the words for man,woman,boy, and girl you automatically know the new words mean running and walking. Then you are introduced to the pural forms - you are shown pictures of two girls running, one girl running, one boy walking, and two boys walking. So you are learning to recognize the words running and walking, and learning the feminine and masculine forms of the singular and plural words at the same time. What is so amazing about this program is that you are learning the grammar painlessly - which is the thing that is so painful about learning any foreign language. All the while you continue to associate the words with the sounds. The complexity slowly builds as your vocabulary base rapidly builds up. The demo CD takes you through the first two lessons of level 1 - about 6 hours of training. The software keeps track of where you left off and keeps track of your mistakes, re-quizing you over and over until it knows you know the words and just haven't made lucky guesses. I can't wait until I can save enough money to buy the full program and be ready to understand Italian for my next trip to Italy!
Easy Italian October 6, 2005
D. Voigt
29 out of 30 found this review helpful
My husband and I have been taking Italian for several months and were looking for something we could do at home that would enhance our classroom experience. The Rosetta Stone program is so much more than we ever expected. We easily spend an hour or two a day studying Italian. We wouldn't give up our live Italian instructor, but this program easily leads us through building language skills in a way that nothing else we've ever tried could. We also love the various ways of teaching, hearing, seeing, writing, reading, virtually all of the ways you need to learn any language. Since we're going to be permanently relocating to Italy next year, it's important for us to learn the language as quickly and efficiently as possible. Rosetta Stone provides all of the tools we need to do that.
 Not exactly top notch but it will get you there August 24, 2006
Benjamin A. Sylvester
27 out of 27 found this review helpful
This review might be alittle hard on the product but I wasnt impressed. Expecting something revolutionary instead the lessons were kind of like going though High School again with one big exception. They dont give you a writen translation of what every thing means. Rossetta Stone focuses on pictures and the actual sounding out of words spoken. In the program you are presented a picture and in Italian a narrator tells you what is going on or what the picture is. However what he is saying is not directly translated in written words. Its up to you to figure out what he is saying based on what you see in the pictures. So pretty much you are not sure at times which words spoken are verbs or nouns. They do their best to single out the verbs in which they give you multiple pictures of ppl performing the same actions. However still its up to you to figure that out. Other than that its a great program. It forces you to pronounce italian with an italian accent using the pictures you see. You are able to write italian sentences using the same technique (still no english translation). I chose a language I already knew to try the program out. If I was a true beginner...I might have a hard time learning this language and I would by far not be fluent in it. Thats for sure.
 Laptop Users: Be Warned January 30, 2007
J. Baker (Virginia, USA)
27 out of 31 found this review helpful
The Rosetta Stone application requires that the language CD be present in the harddrive, and it *continuously* spins up the CD disk while the program runs. This unfortunate design will quickly run down your laptop batteries, making this application unsuitable for travel. My repeated requests to Fairfield Technologies, the Rosetta Stone software company, to remedy this problem were declined. Considering the substantial price paid for this software, it should *behave* like software, and not a DVD. If the application could be installed and run like normal software, it would not uselessly drain you laptop batteries.
 Install Errors !!! January 9, 2007
Andrew Dobson (West Chester, Pa)
19 out of 30 found this review helpful
I bought this as Christmas present for my daughter who will be traveling to Italy this spring as part of a College course she is taking, and she will be spending a semister there next year as well ... She just called me for school to help her resolve an ERROR in the installation: The install reaches 100% then states it has encountered an ERROR, and quits. It remains uninstalled and is thus far UNUSABLE. An awefully expensive piece of plastic that does NOTHING. As a Senior Software Engineer I'd have been fired for less ... The RosettaStone WebSite/Knowledgebase offers NO information on this.
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