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Rosetta Stone Version 3: Italian Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion

Rosetta Stone Version 3: Italian Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion
From: Rosetta Stone
Category: Software

List Price: $549.00
Buy New: $494.10
You Save: $54.90 (10%)



Avg. Customer Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars 29 reviews
Sales Rank: 245

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 2.9

Model: 21685
UPC: 794678216855
EAN: 0794678216855
ASIN: B001AFD8XK

Release Date: June 16, 2008
Shipping: Eligible for Super Saver Shipping
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours

Features:
  • Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through proficiency-based listening and reading activities, proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
  • Contextual Formation makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
  • Milestone activities quickly give you confidence to engage in real-life conversations; Adaptive Recall reinforces language so it sticks with you
  • Audio Companion allows you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go
  • Build a foundation and navigate your surroundings: learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers

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Editorial Reviews:

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language. It's built around our award-winning Rosetta Stone curriculum, which has been adopted by organizations around the world including the U.S. Army, NASA, major corporations such as Deutsche Telecom, IKEA, Royal Dutch Shell, and over 10,000 schools worldwide--and is available in 31 languages spoken by over 90% of the world's population.
The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life.

Learn Naturally
Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability, Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it.

Engage Interactively
Get feedback to move forward. You learn best by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your progress.

Speak Confidently
Start speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll speak. You'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll create new sentences on your own using words you've learned.

Have Fun
Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So you'll keep using it, and you'll learn more!

The Fastest, Easiest Way to Learn a New Language

Proceed at Your Own Pace
Rosetta Stone is considerate of your time. Anytime, anywhere, you can learn a new language with Rosetta Stone. You learn comfortably without feeling pressured or overwhelmed. Rosetta Stone provides guidance to make your language learning effective, fast, and enjoyable with a process that is intuitive, interactive, and visually engaging. At the end of each lesson, you are given the opportunity to test your new skills. And, since Rosetta Stone automatically records your progress, you can easily pick up where you left off, when other priorities arise.

Make Language Learning Intuitive with Dynamic Immersion
Rosetta Stone uses rich visual imagery to help you learn. You will be presented with sets of images to match correctly with a spoken or written phrase in the new language. You will advance to the next set of prompts once you've successfully matched words and images and pronounced the words correctly. With Dynamic Immersion, you learn by directly associating your new language with images--nothing is lost in translation.

Fun, Easy, and Immediate Reinforcement
Interactive exercises create a learning environment that is engaging and game-like--it's fun!

How It Works

As children, we gradually learned our first language through a process of associating mental images with words or phrases, accompanied by complete immersion in our environment. This approach was simple because it was natural and allowed the brain to adapt to increasing complexity.

Rosetta Stone recreated this natural way of learning by developing a method that uses a computer to mimic the environment in which we learned our first language. We call this Dynamic Immersion. A simple, intuitive interface and advanced technology confirms learning at every step of the process by prompting you to make connections between images you already understand and the new language. You receive immediate feedback, which helps you to reinforce learning. This systematic structure builds from simple nouns and verbs to more complex concepts and phrases very quickly, helping you achieve your language-learning goals faster than you ever thought possible.

Level 1, 2 & 3--Connect With the World

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.

Features & Benefits

Faster and More Effective
Rosetta Stone will teach you as fast as you can learn! Leveraging your natural language-learning ability, Version 3 immerses you immediately in the new language, providing just the right context to prompt you to speak, pronounce, read and write in the very first lesson! Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count. Our Dynamic Immersion method is so fast and so effective, it's used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.

Convenient
You pick the time, the place and the pace! We are ready when you are because there are no class schedules or missed lessons to make up. From your desk or your dining room, your valuable time can be turned into productive language learning that fits your lifestyle.

Enjoyable
When something is fun, it captures your attention...and holds it! The interactivity in Version 3 instantly engages you. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone different from any other product out there--never tedious or boring. Rosetta Stone provides a captivating, game-like experience.

Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE feature lets you try out your new language knowledge in real-life situations.

Track Your Progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL feature tracks your progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.

New Speech Recognition Technology
State-of-the-art new speech recognition technology helps you learn to speak your new language even faster. And our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your voice to that of native speakers, helping you perfect your pronunciation.

Life-like Context
Our New CONTEXTUAL FORMATION feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give you exactly the context you need to produce new language--all on your own!

Level 1, 2 & 3 Set Includes:

The Basics
Nouns, verbs, adjectives, numbers, questions, colors, clothing.

Friends and Family
Ages, family relations, household items, introductions, landmarks, states, descriptions.

Work and School
Times of day, greetings, calendar terms, body parts, speaking, personal hygiene.

Shopping
Buying, selling and shopping; entertainment and sports; merchandise, speed and weight, comparing and contrasting.

Travel
Destinations, transportation, directions, locations, telling time, distance, cost, weather.

Past and Future
Tenses, letter writing, school subjects, signs, workplace terms, polite requests.

Friends and Social Life
Months of the year, arrivals and departures, social interaction, celebrations, meal courses, quality terms, apologies.

Dining and Vacation
Future tense; terms for art, architecture and music; emotions, places of worship, travel and lodging.

Home and Health
Terms for home, garden and backyard activities; household items and appliances; terms for strength and physical activity.

Life and World
Emotions, continents, life milestones, oceans, botanical terms, terms for animals.

Places and Events
Opinion and judgments, currency exchange and transactions; measurements, household repair tools, culinary terms.

Talking About the World
Nationalities, governmental leaders, political terms, media terms, business terms, religious terms. Doing things!

Audio Companion allows you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go.

Audio Companion--Taking Rosetta Stone to the Next Level

Introducing Audio Companion from Rosetta Stone, the newest enhancement to the world's #1 language-learning software! It's a great addition to the Rosetta Stone experience, allowing you to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go!

What is Audio Companion?
Audio Companion CD-ROMs enhance language learning anytime, anyplace. You can learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce them with Audio Companion. Play the CDs on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 Player and go!

Enhance the Rosetta Stone Learning Experience
Audio Companion activities correspond to Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. You can listen to Audio Companion and practice what you've been learning, turning travel time into productive language learning time.

Extend Study Time
Now, you don't have to stop learning when you leave your computer. Audio Companion lets you access lessons whenever and wherever you want. It empowers you, and works within your busy lifestyle!

Build Vocabulary and Pronounce Words and Phrases
Audio Companion features distinct words and shorter phrases to make them easier to hear and repeat. Build good enunciation habits by hearing native speakers pronounce them first.

Speak and Converse
The speaking portion of Audio Companion lets you listen to questions and answers, repeating them to use later. To help them build your conversation skills, first you'll listen to a conversation and then repeat phrases individually.




Customer Reviews:   Read 24 more reviews...

1 out of 5 stars Overpriced for bad and unworkable Italian language program   October 7, 2008
 2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The software does not work out-of-the-box. After a difficult install procedure they try to ram a forced authorization up you. The unworkable software comes with three sets of audio CD's. I tried the CD's alone, and they are all Italian so you cannot LEARN from the CD's, you can only practice recognizing what you hear. But because there is no english with the CD's you cannot verify that your interpretation is correct. I would give this package negative stars if that were possible.

Included in the box is a set of stereo headphones.



5 out of 5 stars An expensive but very effective program for learning to speak Italian   October 3, 2008
 1 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is easily the most comprehensive language instruction package I've ever seen. With four separate units, each split into several different sections -- including listening, speaking, vocabulary and grammar -- Rosetta Stone provides hours and hours of easy-to-use instruction in learning to speak the Italian language like an expert.

A language package like this requires the user to be a self-starter. There's nobody pushing you to use it or assessing your performance. The lack of feedback might prove challenging for some users. But if you're willing to push yourself, this system really works.

Rosetta Stone comes with a high price tag. But if you're serious about learning Italian, and have the discipline to follow a program on your own, your purchase will be money well spent.



5 out of 5 stars Astonishing!   September 29, 2008
 1 out of 3 found this review helpful

I am an Army Reservist and had to learn Arabic really quickly. I used Rosetta Stone and couldn't believe how fast I learned Arabic basics. Well, I'm back from the Middle East and can tell you that what they teach you is applicable and correct.
So, I am planning a trip to Italy in a few months and immediately thought of Rosetta Stone because I only know as much Italian as what I have heard from watching the Saprano's. I have been using the system for the last couple of month's now and I feel very confident in being able to carry on a basic conversation in Italian and I am only though 1/2 of the course. I'm astonished.
For those not familiar with Rosetta Stone's programs, they are hand's down the easiest way to learn a language. Just brief over the basic instructions, put the disc in your drive, and start--it's that simple! You don't have to pour over manuals, dictionaries, audio discs/tapes or history books.
I've tried Berlitz and many other programs in the past that required all of those other 'tools' and their systems depended on memorization. Other programs don't work for me. Rosetta stone uses another approach by allowing you to learn a language in a way that allows you to UNDERSTAND the language instead of MEMORIZING a language. If I can't remember a shopping list, how can I memorize an entire language?

By the way, the US Army offers only 1 language program free to soldiers and it's Rosetta Stone...because it is the only one that works.



5 out of 5 stars Great product. Period.   September 25, 2008
 1 out of 3 found this review helpful

This is my second Rosetta Stone product. I had previously use their German language set in order to prepare for a trip to Germany. That set was an online product that you paid for a certain number of days use. This was perfect because it lowered the price and I only had a limited amount of time before I left. I didn't get to use the German pack as much as I would have liked because of my schedule but when I did use it I enjoyed it a great deal. That is what led me to the conclusion that this is the best way to learn a language. I have never been good at learning foreign languages. My brain is better suited for math and computer science. My sister picks up foreign languages with ease but I always found myself having to memorize the vocabulary and that does not lead to being able to speak the language. Rosetta Stone's approach forces you to speak the language from the very beginning. It also adds in selection of the right answer, writing in the language, and working on pronouncing certain sounds that are common to the language. This combination of things really leads to a confidence that I have never seen before. I really feel like I can speak the language and I feel that after I use this product for a longer period of time I actually could become conversational in this language.

I want to say that I the disc version, which I am reviewing here is much nicer than the online version. It is nice to be able to login anywhere, and to be able to create multiple users. I also enjoy the CDs that allow you to practice when you are away from your computer, with your iPod, or in your car.

Great product.



5 out of 5 stars Simply Amazing   September 23, 2008
 2 out of 4 found this review helpful

There's not much more that can be said for Rosetta Stone that hasn't already been covered in countless reviews of this amazing product. As one who has never had the opportunity to study another language, other than my own, I approached this product with the general expectation that it would be some type of a translation education process. I was very surprised to discover that the Rosetta Stone offers NO translations of any kind, but rather teaches you the language of your choice in the same manner that you learned your own native language - from the ground up through the use of what they call "total immersion" in the experience, sights and sounds of the language.

Within just a few minutes of using the software I was speaking and understanding Italian words whereas before I didn't know any except for some very basic words. The overall structure and layout of the software is very intuitive, well designed and easy to navigate. The syllabus presented in each core lesson is comprised of pronunciation, vocabulary, grammar, listening, reading, writing, speaking, and then followed by a comprehensive review of all items covered. The software grades you on your performance and keeps track of your score for each segment of the course. It is very easy to go back to see which areas need the most work and you can concentrate on those areas over and over until you improve upon your score. I feel confident that by the time I complete each level of the training I will be able to converse, read and write effectively in the language. Now if I can just learn to roll my "R's" without spitting on the computer screen.