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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 Portuguese Levels 1, 2&3 you connect with the world around you. With level one you begin learning fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence and enter the intermediate level where you will be able to talk about your environment; give and get directions, tell time, dine out with self-reliance, shop and enjoy basic social interactions. Taking what you’ve learned in Levels 1 and 2, we help you reach an advanced level of competence. This competence allows you to connect with the world around you. You will learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life; your work, current events 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: | 6.4 inches | | Package Height: | 3.0 inches | | Package Weight: | 1.95 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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25 of 30 found the following review helpful:
 Major Disappointment Nov 29, 2008
By Van M. Claypool
Note: The product I purchased did not include the "Audio Companion", but the product had all 3 levels.
The product's long suit is pronunciation. The computer analysis was good at getting the pronunciation better.
However, I consider the course nearly a waste of time and money. (Based on the company's reputation, I assume other products are better.)
As an alternative, I recommend Sonia Althoff's Portuguese (both the book and the CD) as the best product to get off the ground. (It is only available on her web site: http://www.sonia-portuguese.com/index.htm.)
For more advanced work, I recommend "Brasil!: Língua e Cultura". ("Brasil!" may be overwhelming for beginners.)
The amount of vocabulary in Rosetta Stone was low. I learned basic words in the very first screen of Sonia's CD and the very first page of Brasil! that never were presented in any of the 3 levels of Rosetta Stone.
Rosetta Stone made no attempt in English to explain how Portuguese grammar works. Due to the number of verb tenses (over 30), the rules for regular conjugations, the large numbers of exception patterns (mainly for the basic present tense), and the significant numbers of exceptions (again mainly for the present tense) that fit no pattern, I stayed paralyzed by inability to figure out what the rules were.
I also was mystified by the complex pronoun rules (pronouns of all things!) -- especially the contractions of prepositions with pronouns and the rules for appending pronouns to verbs.
The program bogged down my (admittedly older) computer. (There were times when I first bought the program when the program would crash. Then a fix came out and the program no longer crashed, but ran slower.)
Finally, when I finally finished all the lessons, I decided I wanted to cruise the written exercises to transcribe some of the useful examples for my notes. I discovered I could only review one exercise and the program would crash. Tech support claimed I had a corrupted progress database. Based on the timing of the problem starting, I am dubious.
15 of 17 found the following review helpful:
 INCREDIBLE!!! Jan 19, 2009
By C. Hendricks
I had 2 yrs. spanish in high school, and a 40 hour (tutored) refresher course while stationed in Honduras. I've had tutored classes in Italian, Croatian, Finnish, and Japanese.
After 1 week of daily study with Rosetta Stone Portuguese (Brazilian), I speak and more easily remember the Portugese language THAN any previously studied language I had. I used books, CD's, etc. for the previous languages, BUT NOTHING works for me like this product. I WILL be ordering other languages, by Rosetta Stone, as time goes by.
11 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 A Lazy approach that is Not for the serious language learner Apr 19, 2010
By TonyT
Rosetta Stone claim that the best way to learn a language is the way native speakers learn their first language as children, omitting the obvious problem that children have about 15 years of 24 hour immersion in their native language and that children's brains are specifically geared to picking up language quickly, a skill that the brain loses once reaching adulthood.
The Rosetta Stone support rep informed me over the phone that upon completing level 3, I would be at the level of a university student of the Portuguese language. I was skeptical yet curious, I figured if it is this expensive there must be something good about it. Upon finishing the courses and memorizing all of the vocab, I found that I could say a handful of phrases (such as "the boy is in the house") but was still clueless about forming my own complex sentences because I had not been taught any grammatical rules. It is ridiculous to suggest that Level 3 is the equivalent of a university level, university students will no doubt be reading and commenting on works of Portuguese Literature, not simply saying "the boy is in the house"!
Rosetta Stone uses pictures instead of translations, i.e. instead of telling you that the `cavalo' means `horse', they just show you a picture of a horse. Whilst this undoubtedly saves them money because they do not need to produce separate versions for users of different native languages, it makes things that much harder for the user because you then have to interpret the pictures and determine which part of the phrase refers to the picture. For example, when the software introduces the verb "to have", it was always accompanied by a picture of a cat: "I have a cat", over and over again! This leaves the user bewildered as to whether the word for "Eu tenho" means "I have" or "a cat". Granted this is a simple example, but nowhere in the software are sentences broken down word by word. The pictures used are clearly universal stock photos that they use for all their different language software, for example there are pictures of Japanese people eating sushi, but no pictures of Brazilians playing football on the beach. If I am paying half a grand, you would think they would at least provide culture specific imagery for that language!
There was no early lesson on the numbers, numbers were thrown in at random, so that you might learn the number 4 at one stage but would not come across the numbers 3 and 5 until much later.
Also the audio recognition was very inaccurate, you could say the word into the speaker totally wrong and it would still come back saying you were correct. I had some fun with this, saying completely different words and it would still say I got them right.
What many adult language learner's fail to accept is that learning a new language takes a huge amount of dedication. It's about memorizing the rules of grammar, and then memorizing heaps of word lists. That is the only way to truly learn a new language! You are kidding yourself if you think you can just pick up a copy of Rosetta Stone and then just sit back and listen and then *poof* you have picked up a foreign language.
At least with a more traditional language learning method, you will learn the basics of grammar and can then begin to form your own sentences, and that is a solid foundation on which to build. And the traditional methods cost about 1/10th of the price of Rosetta Stone.
9 of 11 found the following review helpful:
Great product but a few reservations Apr 02, 2009
By Keith Douglas Johnston
The learning process is effective. I have no problem learning but it does require real concentration. Expect to have your mind expanded. The initial lessons proceed by introducing a word with an associated picture. Your job is to match the correct picture. The lessons proceed to phrases, gender, and multiple vs single items. New items are often introduced with no explanation, you just use the hints provided by previously introduced words and ideas. It is very effective. I can't wait until I get to level 2 to see what happens.
On the negative side is the upper level interface. You are left guessing as to where to find out what you need and even how to exit properly. The user guide must be downloaded. You need to have an internet connect while installing otherwise the installation requires you to connect before the product can be registered. At one point I had to call customer service to complete the registration.
As a software engineer I can see improvements at interface and in word recognition. I was asked a few week ago if I would be interested in working with them. Wish I could but I am not going to Virginia. It will be interesting to see where this company is going.
12 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Rosetta Stone Portuguese is BRAZILIAN Portuguese Aug 21, 2009
By A. Sardo
Be aware, this NOT standard Portuguese! It is Brazilan... which has a VERY different pronounciation and words. As Amazon listed several different Portuguese products, some labeled "Brazilian" and some not, that clearly indicated that the ones that were not labeled Brazilian should have been standard (continental) Portuguese. Extremely misleading by Amazon. They should immediately label all of these products with a "Brazilian" label. I am very surprised they didn't do this after the very first compliant.
In reading another reviewer, I am shocked to see they contacted Rosetta Stone and they didn't even offer standard Portuguese! After seeing the dozens of languages they offer, I can't believe they are mis-representing the Portuguese language that way.
I just received it today and will be sending it back immediately, unopened.
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