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Nabaza.net-The MarketPlace - Rosetta Stone V3: Arabic, Level 1, 2 & 3
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List Price: $499.00
Our Price: $449.10
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Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Rosetta Stone
EAN: 0794678321986
Feature: Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Rosetta Stone
Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Rosetta Stone
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Rosetta Stone
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Features
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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 in a foreign language.
Track your progress to reinforce your new foreign language strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ language feature.
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Editorial Reviews:
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Learn Arabic Foreign Language learning with Arabic 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.
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Customer Rating:
Summary: Helped LOADS with learning to READ Arabic
Comment: I have been doing Pimsleur Egyptian Arabic for the past few months to pick up on phrases. It has been working well and I've been able to chat with people BUT when I picked up "My first 100 words in Arabic" ... I struggled. Similarly, I struggled attempting to comprehend the squiggles, dots and dashes in my English-Arabic dictionary and I struggled attempting to understand the supposedly phonetic transliteration.
Rosetta Stone is a little different. It has you associate general photos with words. You hear them, and eventually you can see them too. You are able to go to their alphabet and click on letters to hear them and see them in different areas. This is important in Arabic because the letters change depending on their location in a word (beginning/middle/end). I am slowly learning to sound out words. I also tried a few freebie ways... like youtube-ing the arabic alphabet... I found a few overly boring videos... or various alphabet songs who were by authors who obviously couldn't agree on how to arrange the last few letters and would speed through the bunch leaving me baffled. The alphabet alone in this program is FABULOUS.
In comparison to my Pimsleur Arabic... words aren't really sticking. After I've learned to select the right picture, all of the words in the selection quickly disappear. It's nice being able to SEE the word wile hearing it because if I'm not sure on a sound, I can recognize the word pattern and attempt to listen for the slight distinction. Also, I can repeat loads of times, which is nice.
Lastly.. here's the other thing... I am reviewing the online version... using Windows Vista, my own headset, and on a computer with a weak wireless internet signal. I have had no trouble repeating words in the mic... and the program loads fast. In the beginning, I had some difficulties deciding how to start the program, but aside from that, no major problems. I made this decision because I felt it would provide me with more flexibility. A lot of people said when you install, you can only put it on one computer. So.. because I have the online version, I can use the computer in my room... the computer at work while taking a break.. etc. I can go to my boyfriends house and practice.
That being said... it DID NOT work well on my computer that's nearing it's 6th birthday. It's an old computer that was upgraded to windows XP. It was slow anyway. The program kept freezing on the web... and then it crashed.... So, that's something to keep in mind for old users.
Also, I consider myself to be an intermediate/advanced spanish learner. I do not believe this program would be useful for my spanish. I am kind of bummed because there are no demos of each language individually to see a class outline or something of each level separately. I have not seen anything regarding tenses early on. I am learning to say the basics. The girl is eating, the woman is eating, the man is eating, the boy is eating... And I'm learning to do the same with drinking and groups of people after Lesson 1. I can pick the right picture... But I can't remember how to say it-- and I never had a chance to write it down because the image disappears after clicking so quickly.
But as for this Arabic version, I might purchase the CDs themselves after my year subscription is up. It's a great program... kind of expensive, but useful for serious learners. My only concern with spending so much on a computer program is ... computers get old. I still have my Living Language CDs that were made for Windows 98. I loved them... but they are very much NOT compatible with Windows XP or Vista. Computers tend to "improve" a lot faster than oh say.. your DVD or MP3 players that recently upgraded from VHS and walkmen/discmen.
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Summary: version 3 is way too self-important
Comment: I have been Rosetta Stone user for at least a decade and this new version seems overly complicated and top-heavy, what my son would call "bloatware". This is one of those programs that has sacrificed elegant simplicity for graphic bells and whistles. It's much harder to navigate than the first two versions. Underneath, of course, it's still the same language-learning approach, one I've always supplemented with a printed dictionary and grammar, but which is basically very fine and effective. The bossy self-satisfied feeling of the current version is a bit exasperating though.
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Summary: Definitely Room for Improvement
Comment: PROS:
-The concept of Rosetta Stone is great as it does put you in actual learning as you did as a child.
-Software is nicely laid out, better than I have seen in other software
CONS:
-There are many (besides the cost)
-For Arabic or any other language software that does not rely on the Roman Alphabet, you need to have perfect hearing (which I do not) to understand what they are saying and your speakers should be top quality.
-The first lesson throws you right into the verbiage using the Arabic alphabet. Therefore, I am left going is he saying it with an 'N' sound or an 'M' sound?
-There is no dictionary(online, software or hardcopy) to suppliment these lessons which would also help the previous issue.
-It is memory intensive. Older computers may choke on the load time of this.
Overall Thoughts:
If you can...sit in a classroom, if possible. It will be more worth the money than this software. If you are made of money...use Rosetta Stone as a supplimentary or a refresher guide.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Hard to set up
Comment: I have a Linux based system and this has been hard to set this product up on my laptop.
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Summary: rosseta stone
Comment: I like it but part of the disk is faulty. some lessons are not there.
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