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System Requirements
- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / XP, Mac OS X
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features
- Over 140,000 words and 25,000 phrases (up to 5,000 words and 100s of sentences per language!)
- Fully integrated native speaker sound (for every word and sentence)
- Advanced speech analysis
- Record, playback and compare your voice
- Interactive skill-building activities
- Interactive dialogues and conversation practice
- Personal progress tracking
- SlowSound to develop listening skills
- And much more
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Learning to speak another language has never been easier. Whether you want to learn a foreign language for travel, school, business, or for your own personal enjoyment, 101 Languages of the World is the fastest, most effective and fun way to learn a language. The unique system allows anybody - even complete beginners, to start speaking a new language after the very first lesson.
Learn to listen and speak another language
The easy-to-use interface puts all the tools on one screen. Begin your adventure with interactive dialogues and everyday conversations. When you come across something you don't understand, simply glance at the help window to get the meaning...then continue without losing your train of thought.
| Discover the world's common and uncommon languages, from Arabic to Zulu 101 Languages of the World teaches language survival phrases making it an excellent travelling aid. Whether it's the airport, hotel, restaurant, or the bank, there are countless situations to deal with when you travel to a country where the language spoken is not the one you know. Each individual language offers between 1,500 and 5,000 words and a variety of phrases perfect for learners who want to brush up their existing skills or acquaint themselves with another language. If you love all kinds of language or want to experiment with a less commonly taught language, this is the product for you. |
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Spanish, English, French, Irish, German, Scottish, Italian, Welsh, Russian, Polish, Japanese*, Portuguese, Chinese*, Bengali*, Arabic* and Urdu*.
... and unusual languages including:
Afrikaans, Albanian, Latvian, Azerbaijani, Lithuanian, Basque, Luganda, Belorussian, Malagasy, Breton, Malay, Pidgin English, Catalan, Quechua, Esperanto, Somali, Estonian, Sotho, Farsi*, Swahili, Flemish, Tagalog, Galician, Tahitian, Thai*, Guarani, Tswana, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Ukrainian, Hebrew*, Vietnamese, Hindi*, Wolof, Xhosa, Icelandic, Yiddish*, Indonesian, Yoruba, Korean* and Zulu.
*These languages are presented in a transliterated format using the Latin alphabet. They represent the sounds of the foreign language in a way that is more easily recognisable to English speakers.
| Vocabulary of the World Contains word lists of more than 750 key words in each of the 29 languages listed below. Simply select a language, and with just a click of your mouse you'll have a collection of electronic flashcards for review. Not only does it help you to quickly build vocabulary it even gives you extra practice for the words you're having trouble with. Choose from the following languages: 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. |
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Learning is as Easy as One, Two, Three.
1. Read
Learn key words and phrases in a natural context as you build your vocabulary and practice your reading.
2. Listen
Compare your voice to native speakers using the fully integrated native speaker pronunciation for every word and sentence. Then build your comprehension with the different games and listening activities.
3. Speak
Participate in realistic dialogues to learn to speak like a native. Record your voice, and then play back the conversation. This program has the ability to slow down the pronunciation of each word to allow you to hear each syllable.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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101 Languages of the World has been around for a while with an unrivalled offering of languages in a single product, and this latest edition installs quickly and easily, and runs without the CD-ROM after installation. You simply tick the languages you want available on your computer, and the relevant files are installed to your hard drive so you can tidy away the CD-ROMs (of which there are four!) and run everything with ease later on.
There are differing amounts of resources for each language, with the most popular languages supported by a wealth of material, while the less commonly taught / learnt languages having fewer. For example, Russian includes an impressive 24 conversational topics, while Scottish Gaelic has just 10. The resources themselves consist of passages and dialogues which you are completely interactive - click on a word to hear it spoken individually, read its translation, and see a translation of the whole sentence with the word in context. It's a very in-depth way to look at a text, and a good way to focus on vocabulary. It's probably not such a good way to learn a language from scratch, and you'd probably need a basic coursebook as well - but it's a really excellent way to get some extra practice and supplement your learning.
Each of the learning units comes with traditional learning / consolidation games like crosswords, jumbled letters and dictations. There's also the chance to record / compare your own pronunciation against that of a native speaker too. They're features which have been around in language learning software for some time, and the software is by no means cutting edge and can feel a bit old-fashioned and clunky at times, but it's solid, tried and tested stuff, and it works, which is what counts.
One nice extra feature is a set of reference help files on grammar in many of the languages included. Also, a handy customisable flashcards app is bundled with the software - 'Before You Know It' comes pre-loaded with flashcards in some very obscure tongues, but you can download / create your own sets too, so it's a nice resource for any language.
All in all, it's a really exhaustive set of resources for anyone interested in languages and having a dabble. There's certainly enough material to keep budding linguists happy for some time!
There are differing amounts of resources for each language, with the most popular languages supported by a wealth of material, while the less commonly taught / learnt languages having fewer. For example, Russian includes an impressive 24 conversational topics, while Scottish Gaelic has just 10. The resources themselves consist of passages and dialogues which you are completely interactive - click on a word to hear it spoken individually, read its translation, and see a translation of the whole sentence with the word in context. It's a very in-depth way to look at a text, and a good way to focus on vocabulary. It's probably not such a good way to learn a language from scratch, and you'd probably need a basic coursebook as well - but it's a really excellent way to get some extra practice and supplement your learning.
Each of the learning units comes with traditional learning / consolidation games like crosswords, jumbled letters and dictations. There's also the chance to record / compare your own pronunciation against that of a native speaker too. They're features which have been around in language learning software for some time, and the software is by no means cutting edge and can feel a bit old-fashioned and clunky at times, but it's solid, tried and tested stuff, and it works, which is what counts.
One nice extra feature is a set of reference help files on grammar in many of the languages included. Also, a handy customisable flashcards app is bundled with the software - 'Before You Know It' comes pre-loaded with flashcards in some very obscure tongues, but you can download / create your own sets too, so it's a nice resource for any language.
All in all, it's a really exhaustive set of resources for anyone interested in languages and having a dabble. There's certainly enough material to keep budding linguists happy for some time!
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
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Sure you can't go in-depth with this software like you could with a single course in one specific language but the tools at your disposal here are quite fantastic. For someone who regularly travels to different places or holidays somewhere new every year, this is a fantastic piece of kit for learning some of the local lingo. There is no real structured learning plan, so if you want to come to grips with a whole language in an obvious and structured way, this isn't the product for you. You just really dive in and learn what you want here. The amount of languages included is quite staggering!
A list of the languages with full text, audio, dialogues and games : 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 for Spanish Speakers, 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 (European), 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, Zulu.
The other languages included in the 'Vocabulary of the World' section : Asturian, Aymara, Bemba, Blackfoot, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cornish, Ecuadorian Quechua, Faroese, Frisian, Inuktitut, Kongo, Macedonian, Maori, Maya, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Papago, Provençal, Romany, Romansch, Ruanda, Samoan, Sepedi, Shona, Sicilian, Sorbian, Swazi, Tongan.
As you can see, some of the languages covered are *very* specialist and to be honest I've not even heard of some of them. For that alone, I must give this product 5-stars in my review!
Thoroughly recommended.
A list of the languages with full text, audio, dialogues and games : 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 for Spanish Speakers, 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 (European), 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, Zulu.
The other languages included in the 'Vocabulary of the World' section : Asturian, Aymara, Bemba, Blackfoot, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cornish, Ecuadorian Quechua, Faroese, Frisian, Inuktitut, Kongo, Macedonian, Maori, Maya, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Papago, Provençal, Romany, Romansch, Ruanda, Samoan, Sepedi, Shona, Sicilian, Sorbian, Swazi, Tongan.
As you can see, some of the languages covered are *very* specialist and to be honest I've not even heard of some of them. For that alone, I must give this product 5-stars in my review!
Thoroughly recommended.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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First off, let me say I do really like this product. The vocabulary range and the useful phrases make this a fantastic choice for any semi-serious language learner. However, the four discs lead you through the hoops in order to load up the product. Either you download every language which takes up huge swathes of memory, or you pick your languages. The most commonly needed languages are not on one disc so you are forced to look at the contents and tick boxes then wait to see if your computer wants to download it properly!
Once set up has been negotiated a wealth of features await that are worth five stars, but the sheer difficulty of loading the software is the reason it is a four star package.
Once set up has been negotiated a wealth of features await that are worth five stars, but the sheer difficulty of loading the software is the reason it is a four star package.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Good for pre-holiday and a language dabbler's dream!
If you were looking to learn a new language to full competence, I don't think you'd buy a package called "101 languages". Read more
Published 8 days ago by C. A. Austin
A partial success .... great idea
I enjoy learning languages, particularly if I am visting a new country and so I thought this computer package would help. I managed to load it. Read more
Published 9 months ago by Meerkat
An excellent way to sample languages
I have used this range of language learning software via their online system. This is not as 'foolproof' a system as something like Rosetta Stone. Read more
Published 13 months ago by Joanne K. Pilsworth
OK for basics
When I saw this software package I thought it was too good to be true - in some ways I was right.
This software package is tricky to work through & navigate at first. Read more
This software package is tricky to work through & navigate at first. Read more
Published 13 months ago by I. Clarke
Overall good for the price
Intially I had difficulty loading the product, and it caused my computer to freeze up on the other open applications. Read more
Published 15 months ago by zenadox
Easy to use and complements a proper language course
It's worth bearing in mind that this is not going to replace a properly dedicated language course, but it's a fantastic resource to allow to practice learning a language in your... Read more
Published 15 months ago by Mr. Graham Cummings
101 languages
Crashes or freezes
Hard to install
Hard to navigate
Not much information
"Product never would load and almost totally wrecked our computer. Read more
Hard to install
Hard to navigate
Not much information
"Product never would load and almost totally wrecked our computer. Read more
Published 15 months ago by E. Dale
Fun ways to learn
Let's get this out there right off the bat - this software will not make you fluent in any language!
That's fine though, it's not really what this is for. Read more
That's fine though, it's not really what this is for. Read more
Published 16 months ago by Mr. M. E. Merritt
a bit disappointing
I thought the interface between me and the information was very hard to navigate. There are lots of languages on this course but it is really difficult to get hold of the relevant... Read more
Published 16 months ago by vh1967
poor
A very poor language pack. I can only label it a 'jack of all trades, master of none'.
Stay away
Stay away
Published 16 months ago by S. Paterson
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