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Rosetta Stone Version 3: Persian (Farsi) Level 1, 2 and 3 Set with Audio Companion (Mac/PC CD)
 
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Rosetta Stone Version 3: Persian (Farsi) Level 1, 2 and 3 Set with Audio Companion (Mac/PC CD)

by Rosetta Stone
Windows Vista / XP, Mac OS X
4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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System Requirements

  • Platform:    Windows Vista / XP, Mac OS X
  • Media: CD-ROM
  • Item Quantity: 1
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Product Features

  • Learn a new language quickly and effectively
  • Build your vocabulary and language abilities
  • Spell and write accurately
  • Speak without a script
  • Retain what you've learned
  • Read and understand your new language
  • Share ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about everyday life
  • includes headset microphone and a user's guide
  • Audio Companion: a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player.

Product details

  • Delivery Destinations: Visit the Delivery Destinations Help page to see where this item can be delivered.
  • ASIN: 1607177676
  • Release Date: 20 Nov 2008
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 4,448 in Software (See Top 100 in Software)

Product Description

Amazon.co.uk Review

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

Manufacturer's Description

Foreign language learning with Rosetta Stone Levels 1, 2 & 3 you connect with the world around you. With level one you begin learning fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure, from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence and enter the intermediate level where you will be able to talk about your environment; give and get directions, tell time, dine out with self-reliance, shop and enjoy basic social interactions. Taking what you’ve learned in Levels 1 and 2, we help you reach an advanced level of competence. This competence allows you to connect with the world around you. You will learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life; your work, current events and much more. Now Rosetta Stone with Audio Companion allows the learner to take Rosetta Stone anywhere: in the car, the gym or on-the-go! What is Audio Companion? Audio Companion CDs are activities that correspond to the Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software lessons. The learner can listen to Audio Companion and practice what they’ve been learning on the computer, turning travel time into productive language learning time. Audio Companion lets the student access the power of Rosetta Stone lessons whenever and wherever they want, they can play the CD’s on a stereo, or download them to a MP3 player. It empowers the student and helps reinforce the lessons in any busy lifestyle!






















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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars It really is a better way to learn a language!, 5 Mar 2009
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Geoffrey Krause "dsch1978" (York, England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone Version 3: Persian (Farsi) Level 1, 2 and 3 Set with Audio Companion (Mac/PC CD) (CD-ROM)
As an experienced language learner (I have studied French, German, Russian and Arabic - all in the traditional classroom environment) I have been impressed with this course. I have just finished Level 1 of this 3 level set and I find myself able to recall vocabulary and complete sentences quite easily.

The software itself is very polished and easy to use and the vocabulary taught is useful for the beginning learner.

Personally, I do find it hard to rely completely on the dynamic immersion system where nothing is translated. I find myself making lists of vocabulary to study independently from the software.

I understand that Rosetta Stone use the same basic script and tweak it a bit for each specific language. This poses problems with Farsi, where basic English sentences such as "the girl is writing" or "the man is eating" are much more grammatically complex when translated. This wouldn't be problematic in languages like German where this construction doesn't exist and is simply translated as "the girl writes". It might have been better for them to introduce Farsi verb conjugation and construction differently.

Some people have complained that the voice recognition software doesn't work properly. They say that the system accepts their response even though it is obviously incorrect. This can be fixed by changing the sensitivity of the software. I have mine set at about 75% (between normal and difficult) and I find it challenging enough to make me concentrate on my pronunciation, but not too difficult as to become discouraging.

I can imagine it would be difficult to cope with the Farsi alphabet when using this software, as only very basic guidance is given. Having studied Arabic, I have had no problems. For those new to the script, it might be worth investing some time becoming familiar with it before starting this course.

I have had a problem with the writing exercises. I have difficulty finding all of the Farsi characters on the pop-up keyboard that appears on the screen. Sometimes you can press the shift key and more letters appear, but sometimes they don't. I have had to skip several of these exercises because of this. This may just be a problem with my set up.

While this review is starting to sound negative, I am being picky. Overall I am enjoying the software and I am definitely seeing results. I have also purchased their Russian software and will most likely purchase their Arabic program in the future. I would recommend this system to anyone wishing to learn Farsi or any language for that matter.
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2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent way of learning a new language, 25 Nov 2010
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This review is from: Rosetta Stone Version 3: Persian (Farsi) Level 1, 2 and 3 Set with Audio Companion (Mac/PC CD) (CD-ROM)
If you have struggled with boredom in spite of being motivated when you wanted to learn a new language Rosetta Stone is really a solution for you too. Of course the time you have to sacrifice, but you can relax, dont need to concentrate too hard, just repeate, repeate and suddenly realise you know it. Have fun. I do.
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