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| | Features | Rosetta Stone teaches you a new language naturally, by getting you to think, live and breathe the languageInnovative solutions get you speaking new words, right from the startRosetta Stone moves forward only when you're ready--you drive the pace, you set the scheduleWith Rosetta Stone, you'll discover a foundation of key vocabulary that you'll use to build into a whole new languageAudio Companion lets you take the Rosetta Stone experience anywhere: in the car, at the gym, or on-the-go
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| | Description | Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone Farsi Level 1 with Audio Companion includes everything you need to begin learning a new language—from grammar and vocabulary to basic sentence structure. It’s the foundation upon which your language-learning journey begins. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more. Now Rosetta Stone with Audio Companion allows the learner to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on the go! What is Audio Companion? Audio Companion CDs provide activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and reinforce what they’ve been learning on the computer, turning almost anytime into productive language practice time. Audio Companion lets the learner access the power of Rosetta Stone whenever and wherever they want. Play the CDs in the car, or download them to a MP3 player and take it with you anywhere. Audio Companion truly empowers the learner and extends the total learning time – even with a busy lifestyle | |
| | Product Details | | Package Length: | 7.7 inches | | Package Width: | 6.5 inches | | Package Height: | 3.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.9 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 5 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows Vista / Windows 2000 / Windows XP / Mac OS X | | Media: | CD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Customer Reviews | Average Customer Review: ( 5 customer reviews )
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25 of 25 found the following review helpful:
 Well-designed, engaging program but not a total solution. Oct 27, 2009
By Marmot
I've made it through the first three sections of Level One and I'm enjoying it a lot. Rosetta Stone is very easy and intuitive to get into - you simply match phrases with pictures and, by using the visual associations you've already made, learn new material. No language other than Hindi is used anywhere in the interactive lessons.
You should definitely learn the Devanagari script before you start, because RS does not use transliteration. While it does explicitly teach you certain Devanagari characters along the way, the pace is extremely slow. I feel you'll be able to make associations between characters and the spoken sounds in RS much more quickly if you already have some familiarity with the script (I recommend Rupert Snell's book).
The program is visually appealing, with lots of quality photography and audio - it seems like there are at least two different male and two different female native speakers on the audio, which gives you a broad variety of pronunciation references. It clearly took a lot of effort and money to create this product.
However, if you're not careful it's easy to coast along on the beautiful surface of the program, and not learn as much as you really can from it. For example, in order to teach you colors, the program relies on your prior knowledge of other vocabulary, so it might show you four pictures of objects and give you a sentence such as "the apple is red". It's really easy to click on the picture of the apple because you know the word for "apple", and completely ignore the new word "red" that they're trying to teach you. Even if I'm not doing a "speaking" section, where my voice is being recorded and analyzed, I still like to repeat all sentences and really study the text.
The default pacing of this program is too fast, I think - it always wants to move you relentlessly forward, but it's important to pause once in a while and really look closely at what's on the screen. For instance, sometimes you'll be given four pictures, and hear audio of a sentence (but no text) and have to choose a picture. Only after you've finished the screen does the text of each sentence fade up next to its picture - and it stays up only several seconds before the screen fades out and the next one comes up. I find myself scrambling to hit "pause" so I can really read the words and see how they're spelled.
For me personally, the intuitive approach is a great way to be introduced to new material, but in order to really learn the structure of the language, especially grammar, I've been looking at other, more traditional sources, such as Snell's "Teach Yourself Hindi", that lay out the rules rather than have you guess them.
I also find that once I've gotten through a section, it's almost impossible to refer back to a specific screen to refresh my memory, because sections are named very vaguely, and individual screens are only numbered. For instance, if you wanted to revisit the screen where they first introduce the words for the rooms of a house, it would be a frustrating exercise in trial and error. For this reason alone it's a good idea to have a Hindi-English dictionary and a grammar book or more traditional course on hand as well as RS.
Although it's hard to do your own review of specific words or rules, the program does automatically take you through review screens of previously completed sections, based on how many days have passed since you first completed them, which is a useful feature.
Overally I think this is a great product, especially for visual and intuitive learners. Rosetta Stone is unique in its approach, and it's a much more engaging and "entertaining' way to learn than many others out there, but most Hindi students will need other resources as well to really learn the language.
11 of 12 found the following review helpful:
 Rosetta Stone Hindi Dec 16, 2008
By Tamie Smitherman
This is my first foreign language at 49 years. It took me several weeks to get the hang of it, but now it is speeding up. It is an intuitive program. and the associative pictures really do help to integrate your memory. It is easier than just the audio programs I have purchased over the years and never retained the knowledge. My favorite feature is the voice activated recording that graphs your voice against the correct pronouciation. It is so cool and instructive.
6 of 6 found the following review helpful:
Excellent Program Apr 27, 2009
By P. Shockley
I am a language teacher and this is a much better way to learn a language than others that I have seen. I learned Spanish in the traditional manner (memorization) in about 2 years. However, I am making headway in Hindi much faster than I did in Spanish even with learning a new alphabet.
The software has no problems running on my 2.5 year old system. Make sure that your system complies with the specifications laid out. The supplied USB headset is very good; much better than a typical headset. I have been using it for about 2 months and the software has never had any hang-ups on my system.
4 of 4 found the following review helpful:
brilliant for speaking,and reading -- average for writing Feb 08, 2010
By S. Davitt-Style
"Triskie"
I love this program. It has increased my confidence greatly, and because I'm a visual learner, its made a lot of sense. It also does as a previous reviewer mentioned "push relentlessly onward" but I've noticed that the program does loop back on itself, and remind you and repeat words learned before. The separation of male and female, adult and child speaking voices, really helps understand the class and gender issues used in Hindi. And the microphone is amazing... that it listens to you and makes you repeat things also while seeing the writing links the written and the spoken strongly.
In critique, however:
-if you have a slow or old computer, make sure you have plenty of memory, or it may affect the speech recognition feature.
-the use of English words (that are homophones in both English and Hindi) is disappointing, mostly because it relies heavily on many spacial characters and conjugated letters, that are rare... and it misses an opportunity to link viewers to Indian culture.
-These special characters are difficult to type (esp. as you get up into the higher levels) and there is no "cheat sheet" which shows which consonants + vowels, or conjugate consonants make which sort of letter. Sometimes it is obvious, but most times often in the case of homophonic words, it isn't (and I've been at this for a while) -- (If anyone has figured it out please help?)
-the program doesn't recognize ' and ' + ' as the same thing -- it would be the same "written by hand" -- but not in the computer... making a good portion of the letters hard to get "correct" in the written lessons.
BUT - I love this thing. And believe me when I tell you -- I have tried it ALL. Snell, Rao, classroom learning, "teach yourself" series -- all of it... And while those books/knowledge did come in handy when trying to understand what the program was aiming to teach you in a given exercise, this is the first thing that had made it "stick" -- with regular use, of course!
1 of 14 found the following review helpful:
Pretty good lesson but the software sucks Dec 31, 2008
By X. Zu
After 1 hour into the course, the software slows down and sometime simply hang up on me and refuse to respond to me anymore.
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