Rosetta Stone Version 3: Italian Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion | 
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Category: Software
List Price: $549.00
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Avg. Customer Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 225
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Xp, Mac Os X, Windows Vista, Windows 2000
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3 (with Audion Companion)
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
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| • | 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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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.
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| Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...
 Next best thing to being there September 4, 2008
I knew no Italian before working with this program, and I found that I was easily able to follow it. It's efficient, enjoyable, and practical.
Initially, I questioned whether I would actually remember the new things I was learning. It seemed as though getting the right answers -- which I did -- had more to do with problem-solving skills than with actually learning the language. However, I found that I was able to build on what I had learned,and the program has review designed into it.
This really is painless language learning.
I had worked through the French language as well, to brush up on and improve my language skills, and I found that installing a second language with the Rosetta Stone software was easy and convenient, though Italian did require a lengthy "update" session which kept it from being fast. I was also able to put it on my laptop, so I could take it along with me and practice while traveling.
The other concern I'd had was that the two language programs might be identical apart from the language itself --the same pictures, the same sequence, etc. -- and thus confusing. This was not the case.
I strongly recommend the series.
Learn Italian Faster than You Thought Possible September 4, 2008
Rosetta Stone calls their language method Dynamic Immersion. Vocabulary is introduced to you through pictures and word associations and the grammar is introduced the same way along with more pictures. The program also works on your pronunciation skills with their system of speech recognition. You listen to words and phrases and write them down or practice staying them. The program also focuses on sounds common to the language you're learning, further improving how you sound when you speak.
The program is very easy to use and it's very intuitive. I like the way the program shows you four images at once and lets you figure out which picture goes with what you're hearing. It's pretty easy and it seems to burn the words and phrases into your memory. If you stick with the program, which isn't all that hard to do, because it's fun and rewarding, I imagine you'll be learning Italian faster than you thought possible.
If You're Serious, this is the Best Way to Learn a Language September 4, 2008
It seems to me that Americans are pretty much known world wide for their lack of languages skills. When we travel, we seem to expect everybody to speak English. If they can't understand eggs over easy, then we come home and tell any and everyone who will listen, how backward those people in Japan, Spain, France or Sweden are.
And am I any different? I'm an educated person, but not a word of Italian or Chinese do I speak, though I've spent the last month and a half studying Japanese and Spanish, so I guess you could say that I'm working hard to dispel the myth that American's can't learn a foreign language. We can. My Japanese is not so good, but the Spanish I've been working on for the last six weeks, well, I've really surprised myself.
I've put aside studying those other languages for a bit and have been concentrating on Italian and Chinese, Italian for the last couple weeks, wondering will I be able to retain what I've learned and be able to grasp the new languages. Italian, yes, but the tonal inflections in Mandarin are very hard for me and they put a Chinese friend into stitches every time I try them. It seems I'm having a bit of trouble trying to say what I want. I guess that's why they say practice makes perfect.
Back to the program. Level One is supposed to give you a foundation in essential vocabulary and it does, at least it seems from my point it gives you what you need to get around a bit. There is no translation, instead you learn by looking at pictures and hearing the words, much like a child growing up and let me tell you, sometimes I feel like a child as I work through the lessons.
Level two builds on the vocabulary, taking you from simple sentences to some that are a little more complex. That's where I was when I wrote my reviews of Spanish and Japanese at only a couple weeks. I'm confident about moving ahead in Italian, Chinese is going to take more work, it's harder, don't let anyone tell you any different. I'm guessing you could be pretty fluent in a Romance language in six or seven months with Rosetta Stone. It'll take you a lot longer with Chinese, my opinion. Still, like my reviews of the other languages, Italian and Chinese both get five stars.
If you're serious about learning a foreign language, get Rosetta Stone, you won't be sorry.
Want to Learn a Language, Get Rosetta Stone September 3, 2008
If you've read Jack's review, you know we both got new Rosetta Stone software, Italian and Chinese. I loaded it on both my desktop and Viao no problem. The program does have to be authorized, much like the Adobe software, but it went without a hitch. You're allowed to put it on two computers.
You may also know we've been studying French and Spanish, well here we go again, plunging right in learning something new. It's a darn good thing I can take time off in the middle of the day (my son is back in school) and go to the park with my laptop. I do so enjoy the time with my computer, especially when I'm learning something new.
First I work through the lessons, learning the basic vocabulary for things, verbs and numbers, then I practice them aloud, listening to myself, wrapping my tongue and vocal chords around the words. Then I repeat the lesson. I don't use the microphone. I don't know why, just don't like the headphones and that thing in front of my face, I guess.
Anyway, my impression of the program is that it's probably the best way to learn a foreign language. I'm picking up Italian a lot faster than Chinese, lots easier it is, plus the background in Spanish is a huge help. But like with Jack, Chinese is a challenge, however we're both using the software and we use words from all four languages all the time, people think we're nuts, we think we're fun
Like I've said before, Rosetta Stone is a very good way, maybe the best way, to learn a foreign language and if you use the audio companion (I loaded it onto my iPod) and if you listen to a radio station in your target language (thank goodness for the internet) then you'll be speaking in no time at all.
When Learning is Fun, You Learn September 3, 2008
I'd spent the last six weeks or so diligently working with Rosetta Stone and two different languages, French and Spanish. They're different then English, but not that much and it seems like we share many of the same words, they just sound different. Maybe I should have just stayed with those two languages, but when offered the chance to delve into two more languages via Rosetta Stone, I jumped at the chance.
So now I've spent the last couple weeks with Italian and Chinese. The Italian I'm picking up very quickly, as it's so similar to French and Spanish and has a whole slew of those same words. But Chinese, this is a horse of a different color and it's now my new hobby. I don't think I'd have ever learned a word in that language were it not for Rosetta Stone. Never would have had the desire, but now I do, go figure.
I don't know how I can possible continue with all four languages. French is so flowery and I get a chance to use it on occasion. Spanish is important and I don't ever want to forget what I've learned. And to me Italian seems like Spanish with an attitude. But Chinese, that one I'm going to keep on with, probably that and Spanish, but I'll occasionally fire up Italian and French. Maybe language wise I'm going to be a jack of all trades and a master of none, but I'm having fun and when learning is fun, you learn.
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