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Rosetta Stone Chinese (Mandarin), Level 1 with Audio Companion |  | From: Rosetta Stone
Category: Software
List Price: $229.00
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  16 reviews
Sales Rank: 435
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: Childrens Foreign Language Software
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 3
MPN: 20215
Model: 20215
ISBN: 1603916954
UPC: 794678202155
EAN: 9781603916950
ASIN: B001AFEBGI
Release Date: June 16, 2008
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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. Discover the building blocks of a new language: Level 1.
Your journey begins with a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and language structure that you'll need to begin to think, live and breathe in your new language. Rosetta Stone's solution will give you the confidence to master basic conversational skills. You'll be able to introduce yourself, say "Hello" and "Goodbye," ask and answer simple questions, go shopping and so much more. 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 Level 1 (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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 Great Marketing. Terrible Language Program. September 3, 2010
Jacques
Rosetta Stone gets an A+ for its marketing skills. No amount of dissatisfied customer reviews and blogs can gain a foothold against the overwhelming amount of advertisements for Rosetta stone in magazines, on television, and at shopping mall kiosks across the country.
"Learn language like a baby!"
"Impress an Italian super model!"
Try, "Waste your money!"
Why? It is very hard to explain without a long discussion on the topic. It is just as if all of the "learning" going on is taking place outside of my mind, between my eyes/ears and the computer. As if I am a monkey learning to recognize certain cues, sounds, phrases, words, but not really understanding the significance of any of it. It does not root within my subconscious... I am not truly "getting" it. Outside of my office, on the streets of Huhhot, China (where I live), I can never recall anything from the lesson earlier that day. If I hear the word, I will recognize it, but try to get me to recall how to say it, and I will be without a prayer.
I can't even point at a carrot and say its name! Don't even try to get me to say "Grocery Store" in Chinese! I have no clue how to say that!
Contrast this with what I have learned through Pimsleur. The learning that takes place there is deep in my mind. I can say those phrases in my sleep. I can construct new sentences without skipping a beat. I can speak with confidence. I can speak well, and clearly. I can... speak Chinese! Pimsleur gives you the building blocks of a language, teaches how to USE the language, and equips you to, not just recite certain words or phrases, but to construct your own! It liberates you to go out onto the streets, use the tools in your box, add some more, refine your skills, and... learn a foreign language!
Perhaps this review has been a little murky, I know, but not nearly as murky as the memory of the last lesson completed on the "famed Rosetta Stone."
Save your money.
 Okay, but don't expect too much from the pronunciation correction August 26, 2010
anonymous (USA)
This is just a short review about the pronunciation correction feature. Many of the other comments left here refer to the audio companion as being an advantage. Actually, it does NOT recognize tonal differences. I have been studying Chinese for a year and have always been given great compliments about my tones in Chinese (my Chinese is NOT good yet, but I do well with the tones). Just out of curiousity, I did the wrong tones on purpose and the voice recognition system still tells me that I am correct. It WOULD be a great help for those struggling with the basic sound system of Chinese, but in the classes that I have taken, it seems like most students struggle more with the tones and this product pretends like they don't exist when it grades you. I even asked a Taiwanese friend to test it out for me, and she agreed that it will still tell you that you are correct even if your tones are wrong.
Other than this, I am happy with the system so far. I do not expect to become fluent with the system, but it seems like it does well for what it is. Just another tool among many to help me inch toward my goal of eventually being able to have a conversation in Mandarin. :)
 Don't waste your money August 5, 2010
Kevin Clark (San Diego, CA)
I received the Mandarin Level 2 as a Christmas gift. I had taken Chinese in college but wanted to refresh my foundation before starting the level 2 so I purchased the level 1 myself. While going through the program I kept coming across some errors in the program, specifically mistranslations and incorrect pinyin-to-character matching. I called Rosetta Stone to tell them about it and to see if anything could be done to correct the problem. They said they had been unaware of the problem but would get back to me. They never did. 2 months later I called again to say I was dissatisfied with the program because it was essentially teaching the wrong words to people using the program. That basically ended up in another 2 month back-and-forth with their "customer service" department who has yet to refund my money. I bought the level 1 in January and we're now in August. Their customer service reps have been completely unreliable, hard to get a hold of, even when you have an "appointment" to call them. I am totally and completely disgusted with the company itself, and have lost all faith in the Rosetta Stone name. They really should be ashamed of how they manage their product and relations with paying customers.
I'm at a loss for another program to try, but if I were you, I wouldn't waste my money on this. I sure wish I hadn't.
 having a great time!! May 16, 2010
JLS
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I am about halfway through level 1 Chinese and am having a great time and really learning Chinese! My sister in law is a native speaker and she says I am doing well with the pronounciation and grammer. I think the reviewers who said the method was too confusing maybe weren't giving it a chance. One of the ways they introduce new words is this: they show you a picture of say bread and say 'mian bao', then repeat (different picture of bread then "mian bao") then they say "mian bao" and give you three pictures to choose from (one of which is a picture of bread). Then they show a picture of an apple and say "ping guo" and repeat "ping guo" and give you the same three pictures (bread, apple and egg) you choose apple. Then they say "jie dan" and you pick the only picture you haven't used yet... the egg. Now you know the words for bread, apple, and egg. I am not good at memorizing things, and I am learning very quickly (we've had the program about one month and I am halfway through it. My older two kids (ages 13 and 10) are also doing it, and although they are not going as quickly as I am, they are able to do it without too much trouble. I highly recommend this program for anyone who is an auditory or visual learner. Another great feature is that the lessons are mostly very short, 5 to 15 minutes average, so if you don't have big blocks of time you can still achieve a lot in a short time. There is a lot of repetition so everything you learn is reinforced.
Happy learning and Zia Jiian (good bye)
Great Product April 20, 2010
J. Gore
So far, it's been a great product. It's about the price of an introductory course at a community college and you learn the stuff pretty well. You do need some background though, like tones for pronunciation and a little experience before doing it. Jumping in 100% (as in can't even hello in Chinese) new to Chinese and you'll get lost a bit.
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