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Rosetta Stone Japanese Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion |  | From: Rosetta Stone
Category: Software
List Price: $539.00
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Rating:  63 reviews
Sales Rank: 427
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Genre: Childrens Foreign Language Software
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 6.5 x 3.1
MPN: 21785
Model: 21785
ISBN: 1603917039
UPC: 794678217852
EAN: 9781603917032
ASIN: B001AFFYSW
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. Communicate and connect with the world: Level 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Level 1, 2 & 3 Set will take you on a journey from the basics to a whole new level of sophistication. You'll build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. You'll quickly gain the confidence to engage in social interactions. Say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange travel, order food, go shopping and more! From there, you'll share your ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about your life, your interests and more. You'll discover a voice. In a new language. 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 Levels 1, 2 & 3 (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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 Nice supplement, great listening comprehension August 25, 2010
Taco
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm about to finish up disc 3. Rosetta Stone makes a great SUPPLEMENT to learning Japanese, but you better hit the books beforehand. There is a lot of things they won't teach you that they want you to just 'get the feel for' (like particles, good luck). Hit the books beforehand to learn the grammar, after you finish a textbook, then hop onto Rosetta for listening comprehension. Their slow, clear speaking is AMAZING for listening comprehension. I don't think it can be substituted by anything else.
On the other hand, that's all it has going. Downright SKIP the pronunciation, the listening software sucks. You can say complete gibberish and it will pass you, or you can say it perfectly and it wont pass you. Their 'writing' area is horrible too. You basically type, with the latin alphabet, what they are saying. This will never teach you to write, at all. In fact, it will hold you back. Learn to write hiragana/katakana/kanji from something else. Skip the kanji/kana sections in rosetta and learn it somewhere else. During the actual program, you're best off with kanji + furigana (subtext for reading kanji). They have way too many kanji for you to know at the start, so you wont be able to read them, but after you learn hiragana and katakana, you can read the small-type and be good to go. Do NOT use the romaji (latin alphabet) it will hold you back and build terrible habits.
The main, number one most horribly problem with rosetta stone is it is FAR too polite. Polite speak isn't very common and you won't learn how to talk casually, yet that is all they drill into your head. You must learn to speak 'normally' somewhere else. Don't think "well, its okay to be polite!", no, it's not like that. If you are only used to polite language, you will become VERY lost upon hearing normal, casual conversation.
PS: When they introduce a word, check a dictionary to make sure you think it means what they think it means.
For 500 dollars, they could at least teach you a proper way to speak. Do NOT expect this to be your 1 'go to guide' for Japanese. This is merely a supplement.
 A Good Way to Learn Japanese July 22, 2010
Ronald Hammond (Key West, FL USA)
The Rosetta Stone method tries to emulate native speakers by plunging you right into the language, not quite total immersion, but perhaps the next best thing. It accomplishes this with pictures and phrases, without taxing you by making you memorize vocabulary and making you conjugate countless verbs. You sort of assimilate the language by association as you look at a photo, hear a phrase and try to figure it all out. Does that sound difficult? Believe it or not, it's not.
One nice thing about Rosetta Stone is that you can move at your own pace, without worrying about being left behind. However, you have to be careful not to go too long before going back to the program. Like a child learning how to talk, you have to keep at it, but if you do (you can skip a day here and there) you'll find you really do pick up on the language.
I've been using the Japanese course for six weeks now and I haven't missed a day, save for one very hectic Sunday. I had four semesters of Japanese in College, but that was a long time ago. However I do think my experience with it helped me a lot, especially as the grammar is so very different from English.
I am moving through the courses at a pretty good clip, but as I said, I've had prior experience with Japanese and I'm pretty dedicated when I set my mind to something. Learning a language is a good thing and with Rosetta Stone it's not nearly as difficult as you might think, in fact it's kind of fun.
Exactly as I thought it would be June 19, 2010
Anonymous
I've been trying to learn Japanese for a while now, bending over backwards looking for new books and software because I simply could not afford a private tutor. Rosetta stone has an easy to use interface and colorful pictures. I already had a head start on some of it and the new stuff was so easy to absorb. I could easily point things out in real life in Japanese as I could with English. The click-match-listen-repeat gets repetitive, but that's what makes it stick into your head. Manual flash cards are a test of patience and don't have a native speaker read the words/sentences aloud. Everything is broken down to the smallest bits so you soak it up like a sponge. I recommend using this program in conjunction with the Genki textbooks and workbooks and devoting at least 45 minutes a day to study, and within a month everything will fall into place. I wish I had found this sooner because I've only been using it for a couple of weeks and I've made tremendous progress in speaking and vocabulary.
Not much to say- everything was fine- no news is good news. June 9, 2010
Karen E. Zeilman (usa)
This was a repeat purchase. We had bought Rosetta Stone before. My son just needed the next set of lessons. Very good product-worth the price although I wish it was cheaper.
 Difficult Language Needs Repetition May 28, 2010
Grace M. Danziger (Los Angeles, CA USA)
Our family bought this because we're taking our first trip to Japan. I'm the only person among us who has some Japanese comprehension, but have never been able to speak it. We're still on Level One, and at first I thought it was being too repetitive. But checking in with my husband and son, for a language so foreign in sound and appearance, that repetition is welcomed. I think in my case because of the prior comprehension I'm zipping through One and should probably be tackling Level Two. It is definitely a fun and user-friendly way to learn a language. I don't know why at least one reviewer was complaining about the headset. For something that gets packaged in a box with software, it works exceedingly well. Certainly, if your goal is to study the Japanese language, as noted by some others, you will need additional materials for reading and writing practice. The Akiyama book on Japanese Grammar has been very helpful in learning the structure of the language. It also provides some real-world tips you don't get from Rosetta Stone, such as using a person's name whenever possible in referencing him or her. Since Rosetta Stone doesn't identify the photos by name, it teaches you a lot in the form of "he, she, him, her, they, their" which is not the best in everyday conversation, we understand. But all in all, Rosetta Stone is a useful way to gain instruction when one does not have time to enroll in classes. We wish it were slightly less strictly licensed so members of the family could also work on their laptops. We take turns at the one desktop in our household.
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