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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:  62 reviews
Sales Rank: 304
Format: CD-ROM
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3
Operating System: Mac OS X
Shipping Weight (lbs): 3
Dimensions (in): 8 x 4 x 8
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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Showing reviews 1-5 of 62
 Not Nearly Worth the Price February 13, 2010
Oliver (Los Angeles)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Someone clearly put a lot of time into creating the Rosetta Stone program. The production values are pretty good. But, the purpose of the program is to learn Japanese, and the amount of Japanese you can learn from all three programs is very limited. Better to spend the money on covering more material, and skip the bells and whistles.
In my estimation, all three programs are insufficient to equal even one full year of college Japanese. I'm not saying that the program is bad, just that it is limited in the amount of material covered. Perhaps my expectations were too high, but given the shockingly high price, I think I had a right to have those kinds of expectations. I would have returned it if I could, but I foolishly bought it on sale when it cannot be returned.
 Learning stage A+++++++ Great Program January 20, 2010
Derek
Konichiwa
That's the correct way to spell hello in Japan.
Let me tell you what I really love the way this program works,
I've recently purchased this program from a Kiosk on the 13th and on the first day I got half of lesson 1 done and I've stopped for the day, I got frustrated with Rosetta stone and I thought I wasn't learning anything at all, because I couldn't remember half the words they were teaching me.
Well day 2 came around which was 15 and I've tried again but I've actually started comprehending what I was seeing & learning with kanji, However I still got frustrated and I've stopped again. I noticed the pronunciation started to sound familiar to me and I could get a lot more right and understand it so so. Ok so it's Jan 19th and I had to go to the big city to look for a sushi making kit & some nori which I've found at the asain / japanese store, and the Kanji lettering started to look like letters & words forming in front of my face and I was totally blown away I can see that early in this program.
I'm very excited to what I can do in the 6 months time frame and after 6 months, I will give this program 1 billion stars & A++++++++++++, It's WORTH THE $589 that I've borrowed from my wonderful and grateful folks.
 Better than I imagined January 4, 2010
aozorap (Stratford, CT)
I was rather skeptical when I decided to give this product a try, thinking it might just be too boring to sit in front of the computer to learn a language. However, this product really did impress me. I am actually addicted to learning the language. Although there are a lot of repetitive tasks, but it makes the words or phrase stick to you like a glue. Though I did find that there are certain words/phrases that the furikana is not in tune with the program, and thus become confusing, as I am not sure whether it's pronounced incorrectly or written incorrectly (I had to look up in Japanese book to find that it was written incorrectly in RS). The microphone that came with the program does not seem to work that well, although I did find that you have to wait a second before speaking into the mic, otherwise it will not recognize your pronouciation. Overall I think this product works for me, however it is overpriced. I would consider getting another language program through RS if it wasn't priced so high. I will most likely consider Fluenz product for my next language learning tool of French and Italian.
The strongest part of a multi-faceted approach October 30, 2009
Moonspot (North Carolina USA)
Rosetta Stone Japanese is the strongest part of my multi-faceted approach to learning Japanese.
I don't think there's a perfect single system to learning Japanese. Although, as been pointed out in other reviews, people learn a language in different ways, in my opinion one way that's going to work well with almost everyone is to use a number of sources more or less simultaneously. Even true immersion, meaning going to Japan and staying away from English speakers, is going to leave the learner guessing on many, many points. The use of textbooks and a dictionary normally will be needed to round out the true immersion experience.
I am finding that with Rosetta Stone as my centerpiece I am learning Japanese much better and more quickly than I expected. In addition I have a lexicon, a number of textbooks, Rocket Japanese (for the car), a friend who is native Japanese, and I make regular visits to the internet and specifically to international chat rooms where I practice making up Japanese sentences ("dare mo ocha o ikaga desu ka" -- would anyone like tea?).
The great thing about Rosetta Stone is it uses a sort of limited immersion. From the first lesson there's not one word of English or any language other than Japanese (I imagine this has the happy effect for Rosetta Stone of permitting them to market equally to speakers of any language). The photos are, in the main, perfectly understandable. Occasionally it's hard to tell what they're talking about. In a lesson about household places, we see a boy and his grandfather at a garden gate. What does "ie no soto" mean -- garden, gate, back yard? If, like me, you drop out of Rosetta Stone and head for the wider internet or consult the lexicon, you'll discover it means "outside the house." However, it works well most of the time.
There are also, as has been said elsewhere, a few minor problems with the voice recognition software. I will occasionally have the program tell me I'm pronouncing something wrong the first two times and right the third time when I've pronounced it identically all three times. This, again, is far from the norm.
Starting with pictures of "onnanoko" (girl) and "otokonoko" (boy) and proceeding through complex sentences and sets of sentences, this program truly helps me understand the language. The problem with a lot of tourism-based programs is that they teach you well how to parrot set phrases, but you'd better not stray off the path or you have no idea what's going on. If you're really interested in being able to converse with Japanese people (and this is why I'm learning Japanese), you have to understand what words are used for.
As I've pointed out above, I think any single language learning method is going to leave large gaps, but for people who learn language from a combination of seeing, hearing, reading and speaking, Rosetta Stone is my best recommendation for the central feature of a group of complementary methods.
Ganbatte!
Good Start October 19, 2009
Robert L. Derr Jr.
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I'm been using Rosetta for a while now. I'm suprised how well it works for learning a language. I did have to buy other books to advance my learning. The one thing I would like them to add is a translate button. They often give out sentences in their exercises. I know some of the words from the exercises, but I had to guess at the others. I bought a dictionary to look up the words I didn't know, which is also a good way to learn.
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