101 Languages of the World |  | From: Transparent Language
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Seller: GizmosForLife
Rating:  21 reviews
Sales Rank: 858
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Mac, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.3 x 2.3
MPN: 30524
Model: ML-W08-3-CD
UPC: 705381305248
EAN: 0744573358181
ASIN: B00004UFGD
Publication Date: 2005
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Features:
| • | Quickly and easily learn language survival phrases | | • | Greetings, exchanging money, navigating travel situations, and more | | • | From 1500 and 5,000 words per language and a variety of phrases | | • | Easy-to-learn, intuitive user interface | | • | PLEASE NOTE - UNITYPE WORD PROCESSOR ONLY FOR WINDOWS NOT MAC |
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Product Description
101 Languages Of The World teaches language survival phrases including meeting and greeting, exchanging money, navigating travel situations, and much more. Each individual language offers between 1500 and 5,000 words and a variety of phrases.
Languages of the World teaches you to use real language, in context, using the widest variety of interactive activities available from any multi-language learning product today.
Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese*, Chinese*, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic*, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belorussian, Bengali*, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English for Spanish Speakers, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi*, Finnish, Flemish, Galician, Greek*, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hebrew*, Hindi*, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Korean*, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Norwegian, Pidgin English, Polish, Portuguese, European, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sotho, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai*, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu*, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish*, Yoruba, Zulu
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 21
 Great for a Good Overview February 2, 2008
Literary Lover (USA)
This product is great for a good overview of various languages, to learn the basics. If you are planning to travel to a number of countries, this will allow you to communicate effectively. It's definitely worth buying.
Very happy... 101 languages of the world August 25, 2007
Mark Robert Zeiler (Pittsburgh)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I've heard a lot of good and bad stuff about the product, but I couldn't find any other product to learn Luganda with.
Anyhow, I am very pleased. However, You must be motivated in order for the product to help you. It's not like pimsleur (which I also love!) where you have set daily lesson plans, you must come up with your own lesson plan. Overall I am quite satisfied and would reccomend it.
It's true when people say you can't use this product to become fluent, but truefully, the only way you can become fluent in any language is to live somewhere that it is spoken. Language tools should always be seen as a supplement. I'm using this plus penpals to talk/email with...
 76 languages of the world and 25 vocabs lists March 8, 2007
C. Demarest (New York)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
Caveat Emptor, as usual for these types of products. Learning a foreign language well is a major undertaking that takes a lot of work and time. This product claims to allow you to explode through the language barrier for any of these languages. I never believed the hype (I hope no one does!), but I did want to be able to hear some Bemba language and get a few words of bemba vocabulary - too bad for me, AFTER opening the package you find out that 76 languages are included in their interface with audio and phrases, 25 languages only have vocabulary flash cards ("vocabulary of the world") and no audio! Bemba, that I couldnt find in other language learning aids, was, unfortunately for me, one of the unspoken languages. If you are interested in learning a major language, such as Spanish or Thai, there are better products. If you are considering getting this product because you are interested in getting some exposure to an obscure language like Bemba, Maori, Samoan, make sure it is one of the "Languages of the world" and not one of the "vocabulary of the world" langauges, because these scammers make it so can not tell until you open the package.
 Pure Garbage February 2, 2007
Concerned Citizen
6 out of 13 found this review helpful
Like everyone else is saying, this is absolute garbage and the company is trying to scam you by posting bogus 5-star reviews on Amazon. All products by Transparent Language are basically a 10-page piece of text spoken aloud by a native speaker. To lay the foundations of your language learning they use short, useless help files (a one-page list of the letters of the alphabet and a very sparse introduction to the different parts of speech) and nothing else. If you pay a single penny for this you'll regret it.
quantinty but not quality January 31, 2007
Jaroslaw Aniszewski (Texas)
I am a native speaker of Polish and my wife is American. We tried the speach recognition feature in our native tongues. We barely made it in our native languages into the beginnig of yellow and sometimes not even that. This feature one has to take with a grain of salt.
The program only has 76 languages with pronounciation. The remaining 25 are only vocabulary collections without any speach recordings.
There is some translation mistakes in Polish version but not very many.
The lessons are a little bit chaotic in their structure. I suspect they made an abridged version of their more extensive single language programs. In general it is not a bad tool for somebody planning a trip to a country and would like to acquire some basic vocabulary along with spelling and different alphabets. I would not get depressed if one cannot get the pronounciation right - even native speakers are unable to accomplish that. And for the price of under 20 bucks, one cannot ask for perfection.
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