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Rosetta Stone V3: Arabic, Level 1, 2 & 3 Studio : Rosetta Stone by Rosetta Stone Brand : Rosetta Stone Platform : Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X Release Date : 2007-08-28 Publisher : Rosetta Stone Availability : Usually ships in 3-4 business days EAN : 0794678321986 UPC : 794678289927 Avg. Customer Rating: (based on 8 reviews)
List Price : $499.00 Our Price : $449.00
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Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
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You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools
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In no time you will speak without a script, Rosetta Stone's Contextual Formation™ makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot
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With Rosetta Stone Milestone activities you quickly gain confidence to engage in real-life conversations in a foreign language.
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Track your progress to reinforce your new foreign language strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ language feature.
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Learn Arabic Foreign Language learning with Arabic Level 1,2&3 you connect with the world around you. Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Quickly gain the confidence to enjoy social interactions such as greetings and introductions, travel, dining out, giving and getting directions, shopping and other recreational activities. Learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life, your work, your interests, current events, and much more. |
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Why is Rosetta Stone the world's No. 1 language-learning software? Because it works. Escape the endless tedium of translation, memorization, and grammar drills. Get the language you want, the skills you need and the success you deserve by learning a new language naturally--the same way you learned your first language.  | |  | | | 
The complete immersion environment puts your native language-learning skills to work, eliminating your dependence on tedious translation and rote memorization.
| |  | |  | You learned your first language without translation. You learned your first language easily and naturally by connecting words to objects and events around you. With Rosetta Stone, learn a new language the same way: using native speakers and thousands of real-life images to help you think in the new language from the very beginning. Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language, without translation as a crutch, is crucial. The exclusive Dynamic Immersion method reinforces your natural language-learning skills with award-winning instructional technology. Identify your learning goals, then choose customized courses that take you there. The timeless immersion method, along with research-based techniques and new technologies, make Rosetta Stone the clear solution to your language-learning needs.
What will you be able to do? Understand everyday language. Through Rosetta Stone’s proficiency-based listening and reading activities, you'll learn quickly. Pronounce words correctly. After practicing with Rosetta Stone’s speech recognition and analysis tools, pronunciation will come easily. Speak without a script. Contextual Formation makes sure you have the confidence and cues you need to get the words out on the spot. Spell and write accurately. You'll build gradually from letters to words and sentences. Engage in real-life conversations. With Milestone activities, gain confidence using speech alone in simulated situations. Retain what you learn. The unique Adaptive Recall reinforces language so it sticks with you in the real world. |
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Definitely Room for Improvement |
PROS:
-The concept of Rosetta Stone is great as it does put you in actual learning as you did as a child.
-Software is nicely laid out, better than I have seen in other software
CONS:
-There are many (besides the cost)
-For Arabic or any other language software that does not rely on the Roman Alphabet, you need to have perfect hearing (which I do not) to understand what they are saying and your speakers should be top quality.
-The first lesson throws you right into the verbiage using the Arabic alphabet. Therefore, I am left going is he saying it with an 'N' sound or an 'M' sound?
-There is no dictionary(online, software or hardcopy) to suppliment these lessons which would also help the previous issue.
-It is memory intensive. Older computers may choke on the load time of this.
Overall Thoughts:
If you can...sit in a classroom, if possible. It will be more worth the money than this software. If you are made of money...use Rosetta Stone as a supplimentary or a refresher guide. |
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I have a Linux based system and this has been hard to set this product up on my laptop. |
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I like it but part of the disk is faulty. some lessons are not there. |
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Really Helpful Learning Tool |
Yes, this is really expensive. It comes with a headset/microphone of good quality, installation cd's, stickers of the arabic alphabet to put on your keyboard, and one (yes 1) activation code, which does mean that it can only be loaded onto one computer (you CAN, however, load it onto an external hard-drive and thereby be able to access it from other computers). All 3 levels together will take up about 1800MB (or 1.8GB) of space on your computer, which is pretty good, and once loaded, you don't need the cd's in order to access the program.
I've only been using the program for about two days, it's pretty tough (but also fun and addicting), haha. But I've gone back over the lessons until I've gotten 100% on each area and I'm surprised that I'm able to retain so much and learn so well by their immersion method. Crazy enough, it does work, but it takes practice. This is the type of thing that you're going to have to do every day and to really dedicate yourself to if you want to be any good at it.
Buy this. It's worth it. |
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Good, but not as good as you would think given the cost |
This course teaches Modern Standard ARabic. Bear in mind that MSA is essentially formal, textbook ARabic, used throughout the Arab world for formal situations, but it differs significantly from the Arabic spoken daily, especially in North Africa. I have been working with the software nearly everyday for 1-2 months, and have completed level 1, and started level 2.
The good: It works. I can read the full alphabet, have a decent understanding of the grammar, and I think my pronunciation is decent. I would guess I have an effective vocabulary of somewhere around 100 words, though the course has covered significantly more than that, I just haven't retained it all.
The bad: The software never gives you a translation. you must decode meaning from pictures. This is part of Rosetta's approach, but for me personally, an online dictionary to tell me what some of the smaller words (but, because, the question words) mean would be helpful and would probably speed my learning. I'd also like explanation of what cases the endings correspond to. I personally suggest picking up a book on Arabic grammar to accompany your study. Also, this software is really only for people who really want to learn the language, not just some survival phrases. IF you just want enough to get you through a few days of travel, just buy a phrasebook.
The ugly: The program appears to me to have memory leaks associated with some of the audio files, which means that the longer you run it, the slower it becomes, and eventually bogs down to a standstill, requiring you to shut the program down and restart. Not that big of a deal in the grand scheme of things, but for the money, I'd think Rosetta could have fixed that.
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