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Product Features
- FREE Multilingual Word Processor
- 140,000 words and 25,000 phrases
- Fully integrated native-speaker sound for every word and sentence
- Advanced speech analysis to help you speak like a native
- Record, playback, and compare
- Interactive games
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Learning to speak another language has never been easier, quicker or more fun. Right from the start learners of any level - even complete beginners - can start using a foreign language with this unique learning system. Languages of the World teaches you to use real language, in context, using the widest variety of interactive activities available from any multi-language learning product today.In 101 Languages of the World easy-to-use interface puts all the tools on one screen. Begin your adventure with interactive dialogs and everyday conversations. When you come across something you don't understand, simply glance at a help window to get the meaning, then continue without losing your train of thought.
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70 of 73 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Something to impress the girls with.,
By MR D J BURNS (Coventry, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: 101 Languages of the World (CD-ROM)
OK, then. Who wants to learn to speak 101 languages? It may just be that you are planning a quick trip to Lesotho via Reykjavik, and want to gen up on the lingo before travelling. Then again, the new love of your life may find it romantic to be chatted up in Esperanto. It takes all sorts. The program does contain 101 languages - but beware, not all languages are treated equally. Of the 101, only 76 have actual spoken dialogue available, the other 25 are a series of flashcards. Of the 76, minority languages are given a more superficial treatment than their major Western European counterparts. The program does not offer fluency in any of the offered tongues; it is more of a survival phrase book, with emphasis on learning set dialogues, not on grammar, or explaining how to adapt the vocabulary to different situations/sentences/expressions. It will not take you much further than beginner in any of the languages. If you seek to develop skills and fluency in only one of the languages listed, then it may be worth considering purchasing a program dedicated solely to your cause. It is easy to find other programs if you want to learn German or French, but it may not be easy finding other programs dedicated to African languages and obscure dialects of W. Euoropean languages (such as Catalan). For someone who already has a fair understanding of grammar in general, and/or can speak another language, it serves as a great introduction for exploration of other tongues. For the uninitiated, it may prove daunting, as the grammar sections are sometimes non-existant for the lesser languages, and sometimes unclear for those graced with a help file. Once you are used to the fiddly interface, the various sections do prove to be fun. There is a games section, which offers a useful excuse for not cracking on with the project that should have been in yesterday, and useful practise in the various skills. All in all, a good product if you want to learn a little about a lot of languages, learn an obscure language, have only a passing interest in learning a few phrases for your holidays, want to try and impress the girls by introducing yourself in Lithuanian, or just want a brief introduction before taking your studies further.
61 of 64 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Excellent,
By A Customer
This review is from: 101 Languages of the World (CD-ROM)
This is an excellent program. The languages offered are:Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belorussian, Bengali, Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, Galician, Greek, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Norwegian, Pidgin English, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sotho, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba and Zulu. Vocab flashcards are provided for Asturian, Aymara, Bemba, Blackfoot, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cornish, Ecuadorian Quechua, Faroese, Frisian, Inuktitut, Kongo, Macedonian, Maori, Maya, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Papago, Provencal, Romansch, Romany, Ruanda, Samoan, Sepedi, Shona, Sicilian, Sorbian, Swazi and Tongan. You can also make your own flashcard sets up from any of the other languages in the program, which is really useful for drilling tricky words. The languages aren't covered in huge depth, but for language-obsessives this program is the perfect chance to get a taste of more languages than anyone could possibly need to know.
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
excellent value for money but room for improvement,
By A Customer
This review is from: 101 Languages of the World (CD-ROM)
The software offers a wide and varied selection of the world's languages. It gives you a concise course for the most popular languages: French, Spanish etc to enticing samplers of the more exotic tongues such as Tahitien or Quecha. One of the few criticisms I would have would be in relation to the vocabulary lists of about 25 languages. Of the languages in question such as Cornish or Romansch, there are no pronunciation guides or sentence or grammatical structures to assist the user further. Also, I found the information on Provencal inaccurate. This language within the Provence region is not considered a dialect of Occitan and the spelling on offer is not a system recognised in this region. I may seem to be splitting hairs but this is a very contentious issue in this area. Lastly, some of the languages such as Breton have no reference grammars unlike for instance Arabic or Chinese which would be of interest to those of a certain approach to language learning. However, for the price and the selection on offer it is a good enough method to start off with and it has given legitmacy and space to the many languages under threat in this day and age.
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