Learn Dutch Now! 9.0

Learn at your own pace and build a solid foundation with DutchNow! 9 Deluxe's flexible language-study format. The DVD-box edition includes four titles: The Most Common Words in Dutch, Survival Phrases for Dutch, Vincent Van Gogh, and Amsterdam. Learn more than 10,000 words, build your language skills with interactive grammar exercises and quizzes, cover hundreds of survival phrases, do crosswords in Dutch, play fun games, and much more. DutchNow! also adds GlobalWriter98--an easy-to-use translation program that helps you write in more than 100 languages (Microsoft Windows only). Plus, access to online testing at Transparent Language's Web site extends the learning, making this comprehensive Dutch language course fast, fun, and highly effective.

Product Description
Learn From Exciting Content and Interactive Activities - Intermediate Learn Dutch Now! is a revolutionary language-learning tool based on the proven Transparent Method of learning how to use a language in context through rich multimedia activities. Learn Dutch Now! unites industry-leading tools with authentic, native multimedia content to make learning fast, fun, and effective. Big Video Screen - Just select one of the interesting articles or stories and click to explore the Dutch language. View Dutch language videos complete with the sites and sounds of real people speaking and interacting in Dutch. Or jump directly into exciting interactive games, pronunciation-improving practice or invigorating conversations. Determine your own learning pace by deciding when you need translation-and when you don't. All the tools you need to quickly master a language are instantly available in Learn Dutch Now! Interactive Conversational Practice - Practice your lines using the prompts and the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay the whole conversation with the lines you've recorded. It's a terrific way to get valuable real-world experience using your new language. In no time, you'll be conditioned to respond correctly without thinking about it, just like you do in English. Before You Know It - The revolutionary software that teaches you words and phrases so you know them cold - with Perfect Recall - is now integrated right into Learn Dutch Now! You get: Quick launch of BYKI from within Learn Dutch Now! Companion BYKI lists to use with immersion content Dozens of bonus lists from BYKI Deluxe The ability to create custom BYKI lists (complete with native speaker sound) from any of the 15,000 words in Learn Language Now! MP3 Learning on Your iPod or Other Player - Learn language Now! comes with dozens of BYKI Pod Audio MP3 files. Now you can practice your language wherever you take your MP3 player

On the other hand, I do find it useful, if only because a cd-rom is a better tool for practicing than a cassette tape. You can easily skip around the texts, click on individual words or whole sentences to hear them, see the (not always helpful) translation, etc. - so I would say that in conjunction with a *real* language course (maybe a good book) this could be helpful for extra practice. But ideally I would like to find a good-quality cd-rom language course. Anyone know of one?


WOW   July 2, 2003
Jeffrey Frost (Albany, NY USA)
7 out of 15 found this review helpful

I bought this program to learn Dutch because my ancestors were from the Netherlands so I had a general intrest in learing the language. To my surprise this program exceeded my expectations ten fold and has helped me on my way to learning the Dutch Language. Dutch Now teaches all the necessary skills to learning a language - Listening, Speaking, Reading & Writing, Vocabulary & Grammar. It does each of these in multiple ways which all seem to be effective. I really appreciated the conversation practices which are available for many different situations making this feature very useful for travel at the least. Technology wise this program makes good use of it with Advanced Speech Analysis and full motion video. Dutch Now most definitely deserves the 5 star rating.


Dutch Teacher   May 30, 2003
Jeff Brown (Pittsburg, PA USA)
10 out of 10 found this review helpful

Hello I'm a teacher of the Dutch Language on the college level in the USA. Dutch Now is an incredible program. I've been using it to help teach my students and they seem to appreciate the usefulness of it. Dutch Now has significantly improved my students pronunciation and listening skills through the audio features (such as Full Native Speaker Pronunciation). It has expanded their vocabularies through games like Vocabulous and just in general has helped to improve their language skills. Dutch Now has many features that provide for great practice and review. I would highly recomend this program if you wanted to learn or needed help learning Dutch.