Rosetta Stone Version 3: Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion |  | From: Rosetta Stone
List Price: $539.00
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Seller: Global_Software
Rating:  150 reviews
Sales Rank: 57
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 4 x 8
MPN: 20988
Model: 20988
ISBN: 1603916733
UPC: 794678209888
EAN: 9781603916738
ASIN: B001AFFZM2
Release Date: June 16, 2008
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| • | 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 |
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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.
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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
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 A great product!! November 19, 2009
S. Carrish-Bulkley (Salem, Oregon USA)
This is a GREAT product. I have never had any success with learning another language..Middle School and High School were just boring memorization. For the first time in my life, I was actually learning a language from native speakers. Also, I was having GREAT fun!! I am a Ph.D. and you would think with all that education that one would be smart enough to learn another language but I just couldn't "get it" and just got discouraged.
Now, there is no substitute for practice and that is also true with RS. It is not a magic bullet where you become instantly fluent but I have never seen a system that was so much fun and as addictive as this is. There are many people where I live who are either bilingual or are Hispanic and I was already speaking with them after I completed the first level. It helps to listen to Spanish TV as well as local conversations to pick up some of the slang but I am moving so quickly through this that my friends are amazed.
I live on the west coast where knowing Spanish is extremely important and I find myself being able to listen to people talk and really being able to follow the conversation! Yes, this is an expensive product but worth EVERY PENNY. RS is like having a private tutor. It is far more enjoyable and much less expensive than a single college course even at a community college. Unlike a class, you can spend more time on a section which is harder for you and move quickly through another section which is easier. I have purchased a SPA/ENG dictionary which helps with a tricky verb or word (not included in the vocabulary) and also have a good friend (Hispanic) when I am not exactly sure of the exact sound of a word. Other than that, I am SO impressed with this product!
By profession I have been a college professor for 25 years and I have heard so many students complain about how boring a foreign language class is as you just "sit in class and congugate verbs". True, you have to know the grammar just like in English but RS makes it so much fun you learn in spite of yourself. I have read reviews by some people who think this is either too expensive or you don't learn how to be fluent in "conversation" but I couldn't disagree more.
I don't work for RS so I have nothing to gain by writing this except that I am so glad it was developed to really help people learn in a fun way.
Rosetta Stone November 15, 2009
Carissa (IL, USA)
This is such an awesome product! What a fun and interesting way to learn a language!
2nd only to actual immersion November 13, 2009
J. Orcutt (Washington State University)
Here's the low down on Rosetta Stone - It doesn't work like other forms of teaching a foreign language, but that is the point. You will not be learning the same way as you will in a college class (I am in my 5th semester now). You will not know that you are speaking in the "preterit" conjugation by name, but you will know you are referring to the past (which is the point after all right?!?!?). Could you imagine trying to explain the complexities of the rules to a young child instead of just saying "No son, we are not WENT to the store, we're GOING to the store". Learning the rules after having a foundation is a tremendous help, trust me.
I studied abroad in Costa Rica with a Dora the Explora level of spanish (much less than my classmates) yet progresses much faster because I used Rosseta Stone simultaneously. I admit taking 4 hours-a-day of spanish classes while in a spanish-speaking country may have helped a little bit, but I went from 'hola, como es-TAH-sssss' to being able to carry a full conversation in 4 months.
That is obviously the most ideal situation for learning a foreign language, but I could see the confidence difference between me and classmates. When ever our class would go out (say to the market to practice names of foods) I was the only one with the confidence to start conversations with the merchants with out the professor prodding. That is because I had interactive feedback from RS and knew the words and that I was pronouncing them correctly.
Of all the complaints about this software I have read on Amazon, none are exclusive to RS but learning a foreign language in general. The best way to learn a language is to be immersed in it, which most people don't have the luxury of doing.
The bottom line is that using RS by itself is not the best way to learn a language, but nothing is. It is, however, the best you are going to get in a product. Vastly superior to any other product available. Taking spanish classes is great, if you have a basic foundation in the language. If you don't it is stressful and confusing. If you truly want to learn a foreign language, start here and move forward.
Learning a foreign language is difficult but one of the most rewarding things you can do. I have seen so many people start and give up because they were confused. They were confused because spanish classes are ridiculous and terrifying to most people. By practicing with RS before taking classes, you will have the confidence you need to excel.
PS: Rosetta Stone haters - relax. There is NOTHING that is going to teach you a language overnight. NOTHING. RS is like a treadmill. It's what you need to drop the pounds but it is just a starting point to a healthy life and you still have to get on for it to work.
 not worth the price October 26, 2009
CAW (Middleboro, MA United States)
2 out of 3 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!
Do not buy Rosetta Stone, it's a total ripoff! October 22, 2009
spinoza (North Shore, MA United States)
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
Before spending big bucks for this software, you should know that according to Rosetta Stone's licensing agreement, you are not purchasing the software as a physical product, but rather you are purchasing only the *right* to use it! In other words, Rosetta Stone is only granting you permission to use their software for the $400+ you spend for it. You do not have a right to sell or in any other way share the software with others. Legally, only you the purchaser have "permission" to make use of their software. This deceitful practice of "licensing" a product for use and not for purchase is now being challenged in the courts as a breach of the "First Sale Doctrine", and the best way to protest such tactics is to not buy Rosetta Stone software until the company changes its manipulating and deceitful practices.
My own experience with Rosetta Stone is that is way overpriced for what it offers. There is nothing revolutionary about its method, it is only using multimedia to guide you through learning a language. Rosetta Stone is a highly controlling company and its marketing machine makes it appear that you are getting something special for a very high price. Nothing could be further from the truth. You would be better served by less expensive and more advanced language-learning programs.
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