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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 Italian 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 are activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and practice what they’ve been learning on the computer, turning travel time into productive language learning time. Audio Companion lets the student access the power of Rosetta Stone lessons whenever and wherever they want, they can play the CD’s on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 player. It empowers the student and helps reinforce the lessons in any busy lifestyle! | |
| | Product Details | | Package Length: | 7.7 inches | | Package Width: | 6.5 inches | | Package Height: | 3.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 11 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: ( 11 customer reviews )
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113 of 124 found the following review helpful:
 phenomenal language learning software Dec 28, 2008
By Martha Grace Reese
I am an American native speaker, was a Spanish major in college, lived in Madrid for about a year and a half and am (well, WAS) fluent in Spanish. I love Italy and have faked my way through Italian trips with my Spanish for years. And then my husband ordered Rosetta Stone. It's wonderful! I'd heard about it for years, but had no idea that this system was so intuitively exciting. It's more fun than playing Freecell, or other addictive games on the computer!
The system (an immersion approach, with picture recognition and hearing native speakers) is so natural, I couldn't believe it. I've done about half the first level and I find myself out on a walk and making up fun-sounding little italian phrases and sentences in my head. The teaching system is logical, gradual, progressive, challenging, exciting, quickly paced, never boring, and plain fun. I love the tapes for the car. My husband and I are both using it and we both love it.
There are several negative reviews for the Rosetta Stone software (here and on the level 1&2 software), none of which I find substantial. The first here complains, in essence, that you can't steal the software and give it away to your friends! That's fine with me. It's licensed for one computer, but you can have lots of users using that one machine. If you're honest and respect intellectual property rights, that won't be an issue for you.
A second negative review asserts that there isn't much material for level one. First, if you want to buy more levels at the same time, you can get levels 2 & 3 for a reduced price. If you're pretty clear that you want to learn Italian, you might want to start with at least 2 levels. (Amazon has the other packaging options, too.) Second, I suppose you could zoom through all the lessons in level 1 in a couple of weeks, but it's possible that the person who went through the lessons very quickly is skimming over all sorts of built in layers. The software adjusts for increased subtlety in pronunciation & layered appropriation of grammatical structure. Review is critical to the learning process - learning language is like learning to play an instrument. The practice layers available on the software are impressive. This software is constructed as if it were written by Bach! There's a LOT here, even if you just buy the first level and not one of the packaged versions.
The final critique is that the set-up is difficult for MAC users. I have a two iMACS (and am a 25 year PC user who just switched, so I'm completely PC oriented) and have just installed it on one of my machines. The installation was easy, flawless and the software works beautifully. The person who complained had a very sophisticated system and had trouble with some of his intricate settings. I am an Apple neophyte and trust me, for those of us with plug-and-play systems, this is a plug-and-play program. MAC users - don't worry!
Final word: Get the software and start having fun. It's truly amazing stuff.
19 of 19 found the following review helpful:
Exceeded highest expectationa Aug 10, 2009
By Isaac L. Thorp
I thought Rosetta Stone was all hype. After trying Berlitz (huge disappointment), I decided to give it a try. It is remarkably intuitive, progresses very logically and, most important, is a lot of fun. I normally hate getting on the computer when i get home (after being on one all day), but I look forward to doing 30 minutes of Rosetta Stone.
28 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Not for tourists! Jan 16, 2010
By L. Fisher
"lfisher302"
After toiling through over a hundred lessons (I have levels one and two) it gradually dawned on me that we were NEVER going to get to shopping or sightseeing sentences...at least, not in a specific way. That's a disappointment, because I have a lot more use for "Does this come in other colors?" or "Where is a store that sells hairbrushes?" than I do for such memorable statements as "The little girl is putting on her skates" or "One tree is pink and the other is green; it is spring."
I think if I were moving to Italy to live, discussing whether the swimmer is getting out of the pool and such topics might have a little more relevance, but I'm a tourist. I need tourist language. Sadly, this ain't it.
17 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Effective Italian language learning Apr 06, 2009
By Terry J. Ligocki
I have found this product easy to install and use. Installation and set up were straightforward. For me, RosettaStone's language learning technique, immersion, is effective. I am trying to gain a basic understanding of Italian and the ability to listen and speak simply. If you take all the instruction seriously, don't guess without some attempt to understand, and speak most of what is said (even when not asked to), I think you can learn a lot using the RosettaStone method and software.
16 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 Great help for learning a new language Dec 10, 2009
By Busy Executive
I purchased Rosetta Stone in advance of a trip to Italy I was planning. I'm the stereotypical American in the sense that I sometimes think the world starts and ends with US English, but at the same time I worried about traveling places where finding English-speakers might be difficult. While I have a great mind for math, science and so on, languages have always been difficult for me.
I'm happy to say that I found the software easy to install and run on my modest Dell laptop. Ten minutes after opening the box, I was up and running with no surprises. The product is fairly lean and ran well without cluttering my disk with tens of gigabytes of data the way some other applications do.
The approach is "immersion" style - you start learning words and phrases immediately. Although I'm no wizard at languages, I picked up the first few lessons quickly, and then built up steam as my confidence grew. Within about 30 days, I felt like I could hold my own with some very basic vocabulary. The Italian comments in The Godfather even started to make sense. I don't know whether there are better solutions out there, but I know that if I had used a more traditional approach, I probably would have never done it. Now, mostly in my spare time over the course of several weeks, I've managed to pick up the beginnings of a new language. In my book, that's worth four stars.
Only negatives I might cite are that the user experience feels a little dated to me - hasn't kept up with the look and feel of today's systems. That, and for the type of software you'll probably just use once, the price seems a bit high. I also think it might be the sort of thing you run in your Web browser "software as a service" style, rather than traditional software you install and run on your PC. If Intuit can do this with Turbo Tax, no doubt Rosetta Stone can, too.
To the comments of another reviewer complaining about not being able to resell the software on eBay, realize that a lot of software companies aren't really selling you the software per se - they're selling you a specific and limited license to use their software, and only under certain conditions. Many of these licenses prohibit transferring the software, which means you can't resell it on eBay or anywhere else. I haven't read the terms and conditions of the Rosetta license in detail, however if you agreed to these terms (typically using the software implies consent), then there's nothing wrong with Rosetta Stone enforcing the agreement. Microsoft and many other vendors do similar things, registering software to a specific user and/or computer. Moral of the story is to read the license. Of course, that's not easy to do before purchasing the software, so perhaps Amazon should consider posting software license terms and conditions online so customers can make an informed decision prior to purchasing.
Otherwise, I think Rosetta Stone is uniquely valuable if you need to learn a language quickly. Highly recommended.
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