Math.com Store
 Location:  Home » Game Systems » Rosetta Stone Version 3: French Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion  

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

Rosetta Stone Version 3: French Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio CompanionFrom: Rosetta Stone

List Price: $539.00
Buy New: $475.99
as of 11/22/2009 08:35 CST details
You Save: $63.01 (12%)



New (6) Used (2) from $399.99

Seller: Kreston12
Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars 80 reviews
Sales Rank: 93

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

MPN: 21185
Model: 21185
ISBN: 1603916784
UPC: 794678211850
EAN: 9781603916783
ASIN: B001AFD20E

Release Date: June 16, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:
  • Rosetta Stone teaches you a new language naturally, by getting you to think, live and breathe the language
  • Innovative solutions get you speaking new words, right from the start
  • Rosetta Stone moves forward only when you're ready--you drive the pace, you set the schedule
  • With Rosetta Stone, you'll discover a foundation of key vocabulary that you'll use to build into a whole new language
  • Audio Companion lets you take the Rosetta Stone experience anywhere: in the car, at the gym, or on-the-go

Similar Items:


Editorial Reviews:

Amazon.com
Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone.

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!

That's language-learning success.
That's Rosetta Stone.

No translation or memorization required.

The most effective way to learn a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words with images. That's the ultimate language lab, but most language-learning programs completely ignore this.

Think about all of the ways you've tried to learn a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software that uses your native language as a base for your next one. What do they all have in common? Translation and memorization.

Instead of taking a "direct flight" from your brain to your new language, translation and memorization connects you to your old language. You always have to "fly" from your brain, to your native tongue ... and then translate what you've memorized to communicate.

That might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to change tenses? You're going to make a lot of "connecting flights." That's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail.

Enter Dynamic Immersion.
This method encourages you to think like a baby. You'll pair words with vivid, real-life images and make connections between things you know and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words together into phrases that you create.

Innovative technology.
Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software that works with you to develop your skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that you're speaking correctly and accurately. Best of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident.

Communicate and connect with the world: Level 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Level 1, 2 & 3 Set will take you on a journey from the basics to a whole new level of sophistication. You'll build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. You'll quickly gain the confidence to engage in social interactions. Say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange travel, order food, go shopping and more! From there, you'll share your ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about your life, your interests and more. You'll discover a voice. In a new language.

Audio Companion
With Audio Companion, you'll enhance the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Each Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your travel time into productive language-learning time.

Inside the box, you'll find:

  • Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Levels 1, 2 & 3 (Windows/Mac)
  • Headset microphone
  • User's guide
  • Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player



Product Description
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. In learning a new language, Rosetta Stone replicates this process to provide the best and friendliest language learning software tool. Learn as many languages as you want!

Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to start learning a language. It's built around the 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.

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.

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.



Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 80
1 2 3 4 5 6 ...16Next »



3 out of 5 stars Software works but TERRIBLE Customer Service   November 19, 2009
Pamela Druhan (Madison, Wisconsin)
We purchased Rosetta Stone and later had some computer problems so had to re-install on the same computer. I had the disks, the product keys and everything it should have taken to make this easy. It was a NIGHTMARE. The install didn't work because when it tried to re-register with the vendor, it said that the software was already installed on another computer. We called customer service (many times before the ordeal was over) and they suggested that our software wasn't "legal" and wouldn't help us unless we sent them a copy of the invoice. Luckily, we had purchased it on Amazon and not in one of their stupid kiosks so Amazon had the receipt on file. Eventually the problem get resolved, but it took 2 days and lots of phone calls to India.

I do like the software and had thought of purchasing it for my grandchildren as we now have some of our family living in France. I will find another product, however, as I would never want to subject anyone in my family to such terrible service.



3 out of 5 stars Disappointing for the effort and the price   November 9, 2009
Khalid Ikram (Potomac, Maryland USA)
I have now worked my way through most of Rosetta Stone's French and Arabic courses (all three levels of each language) and must record a sense of disappointment with the system, especially given its high price. Let me briefly record my misgivings.
First, the directions for doing the exercises are frequently confusing.
Second, several of the pictures are unclear, so one does not quite know what is happening.
Third, one's grip on the grammar (especially of a complicated language such as Arabic) remains infirm; after quite a bit of work and guessing you can extract the main rules regarding words and syntax of the material in the course, but it can be difficult to extend this to fresh material, because there are always exceptions, many of them important.
Moreover, I am not sure that this method of learning a language, allegedly in the manner one learnt one's mother tongue as a child, is necessarily the most efficient for an adult. As Professor Horace Lunt of Harvard said of such a method: "Do you really want to spend five years learning to speak like a child of five?" This "Child(like) route to language learning" ignores two key differences between a child and an adult learner of a language. One, the adult already knows a language, and thus can learn a new one more easily by comparing its grammatical rules with those of the one he already knows. For example, an adult knows what a verb is, and he also knows how to negate a verb in, say, English, by putting "not" in front of it. He needs to be told only that to negate a verb in French one puts "ne" in front of the verb and "pas" after; he doesn't need to divine this from endless repetitions of negative phrases. This sort of thing becomes even more complicated in Arabic, where negating past, present, and future phrases requires different moods of the verb. A rule and some examples would suffice. Two, the adult has acquired the ability to think abstractly; he can therefore easily be taught grammatical rules as generalizations.
Fourth, in the Arabic course, I was a bit startled to hear a male speaker sometimes pronouncing the "j" sound as a "g" sound. This is the Egyptian colloquial pronounciation, not the modern standard (which is the one being taught). The female speakers were consistent in the use of the modern standard.
At the prices charged, Rosetta Stone could do better. One suggestion is to provide a booklet with a summary of the grammar. Those who felt insecure about having correctly derived the rules from the pictures could refer to it; those who did not see this need could ignore it.



1 out of 5 stars Resist the Hype   November 8, 2009
Jay H. Colborn (Tallahassee, FL)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

Rosetta Stone is a ripoff.

1. They limit downloads, so if your computer crashes, or you get a new computer, you are out of luck.
2. They are not people friendly, if you call. Hopefully, you can get a native English speaker you understand.
3. The method is ok for some people; it is a matter of personal preference. One should develop one's own method which works best for them. For example, repetition is best for some, memorization is best for others. Rosetta Stone has you figure out words based on the pictures and context, and this can be much improved. This much like how a child learns her/her own language, which is ok. However, I think someone can make a similar method more suitable for adults.

My suggestions

1. Start with Pimseur. This method teaches you good pronunciation from the beginning, and develops a basic speaking ability. It repeats a lot, which many don't like, but I'm not one of them. Repetition hammers it into your skull, so that you can automatically spit outa word without trying to remember the word. A shortcoming to many is the limited vocabulary. Well, this method is NOT supposed to include a large vocabulary; you can best get that from beginner readers and other materials such as French at the Wheel and Living Language courses. They expand your knowlege, and supplement Pimsleur beautifully.

2. Read French materials on the internet, and even tune in on sitcoms via the internet. See what the library has, and talk to others for their own ideas.

3. Carefully read reviews on Amazon and elsewhere. Many reviews for various items seem fake, to me. Or reviews are by people who are naive and easily impressed. So read reviews for substance, and if you have time, read what other items a reviewer has reviewed. Personally, I have no problem in harshly rating something. I tend to give better than average ratings because I've already studied other reviewers carefully, and end up with products deserving good reviews. This review was based on looking at what someone else bought; I knew beforehand from reviews of others what it was.




1 out of 5 stars Extremely Disappointed   November 1, 2009
D. Poles
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I would not suggest the purchase of this product through amazon for the following reasons:

1. If it doesn't work, they will tell you to contact Rosetta Stone directly and in the event that RS cannot determine what the issue is with the software, the Rosetta Stone staff will tell you that they can not refund you because you did not purchase this item directly from them which brings me to my next reason which is
2. After many calls to Amazon they will tell you that they will not refund you after 30 days from (even if it took 2weeks for the item to get to you) and $400+ is alot of money to be out of therefore, if you want this software go directly to RS where you won't have to be the "go between" for the 2 companies which had no problems in selling the items.




1 out of 5 stars not worth the price   October 26, 2009
CAW (Middleboro, MA United States)
1 out of 2 found this review helpful

You're really excited about that trip you're taking to a foreign country. You want to speak the language and talk to the natives. So you dive right into Rosetta Stone and in the very first lesson learn how to say "The boy is sitting on the airplane" and "the girls are jumping." And it doesn't get very much more conversational from here until well into the program.

Save your money, get Pimsleur or Fluenz, which both teach you really useful phrases from the beginning, such as "do you understand English?" Or Living Language, which I believe is out of print for some languages but you'll be able to find used.

Oh, by the way, you won't be able to resell your Rosetta Stone software once you're finished with it, so YOU ARE STUCK FOR THE WHOLE PRICE! FOREVER!


Showing reviews 1-5 of 80
1 2 3 4 5 6 ...16Next »





Disclaimer

Return to Math.com
Sponsored Links
Math Jobs


Quick Links
Return to Math.com
Math Tutoring
Top Selling Electronics
Textbooks
Math Jobs
Privacy
Categories
Calculators
Math Books
Math DVD
Math Games
Math Toys
Math Software
Game Systems
Math Apparel
Related Categories
• Rosetta Stone
Brands
Software
• French
Foreign Languages
Education & Reference
Categories
Software
• Universal Translator
Foreign Languages
Education & Reference
Categories
Software
• Software
The Mac Software Store
Specialty Stores
Software
• For the Mac Addict
Gifts by Theme
Gifts
Custom Stores
Specialty Stores
• For the One with Everything
Gifts by Theme
Gifts
Custom Stores
Specialty Stores
• For Your New PC
Gifts by Theme
Gifts
Custom Stores
Specialty Stores
• For Kids 12 and Older
Gifts by Theme
Gifts
Custom Stores
Specialty Stores
• Foreign Language
Spanish Software
Custom Stores
Specialty Stores
Software
• List Price Warning Eligible
Custom Stores
Specialty Stores
Software
• Software Available for International Shipping
Specialty Stores
Software
• Street
Map Type (format_browse-bin)
Browse Refinements
Refinements
Software
• CD
Media Type (binding_browse-bin)
Browse Refinements
Refinements
Software
• Macintosh OS
Operating System (operating_system_browse-bin)
Unlaunched Refinements
Refinements
Software
• Microsoft Windows
Operating System (operating_system_browse-bin)
Unlaunched Refinements
Refinements
Software
• AmazonNow_AmazonFresh
Amazon.com Stores
Featured Stores