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This Rosetta Stone Version 4 TOTALe product has customer support and customer mentoring provided in English only and has been tested technically for use in the United Kingdom.
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- Platform: Windows Vista / 7 / 2000 / XP, Mac OS X
- Media: CD-ROM
- Item Quantity: 1
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Manufacturer's Description
 What do I get? |
 Our Method |
 Natural Discovery |
 Speech Recognition |
 Native Socialisation |
Level 1,2,3,4 &5: Develop true command of your new language
You’ll learn to express yourself more completely as you engage in social, political, cultural, and economic discussions, learn what to say in a health emergency, or deal with sudden schedule changes.
What will I learn?
This level will help you:- Build your vocabulary and language abilities
- Spell and write accurately
- Read and understand your new language
- Share ideas and opinions in your new language, express feelings and talk about everyday life
- Develop a command of your new language
- Convey complex thoughts and ideas in your new language
- Negotiate in complex situations with confidence and accuracy
- Engage in advanced conversations in your new language
- Learn language basics, such as age and family relations
- Questions, greetings, introductions
- Times of day, calendar terms, the weather
- Directions, locations, telling time
- Present, past and future tense
- Apologies and polite requests
- How to order at a restaurant and give and receive directions
- Emotions, opinions and ideas
- Political, media, business and religious terms
Sample topics include:
What Do I Get?
Rosetta Course
Rosetta Stone Version 4 TOTALe comes with proprietary speech-recognition technology.
Audio Companion
Review your new language while on the go with your mp3 player.
Rosetta Studio
Schedule online practice sessions led by native speakers.
Rosetta World
Practise your language skills by playing games and participating in enjoyable activities.
Mobile Companion
Take advantage of our application for your iPhone or iPod Touch.
Our Method
The Rosetta Stone language learning solution teaches new language in the same way you learnt your first. You’ll learn naturally by connecting words, images, and sounds to their meanings. Our method has been adopted by FTSE companies, UK government organisations, the UN, and over 15,000 schools.
Learn Naturally: Discover how to speak, read, write, and understand –– all without translating or memorising. Our award-winning solution recreates how you learnt your first language, unlocking your natural abilities.
Speak Confidently: Perfect your pronunciation with our speech-recognition technology. Gain confidence as you practise in online sessions tutored by native speakers and with other learners in our online community.
Immerse Yourself: Be surrounded by language right from the very first lesson. Every aspect of our solution gets you engaged, from core lessons to online sessions that activate your new language.
Stay Motivated: Experience accomplishment with each milestone you reach. You’ll have fun in interactive games with other learners, and our dedicated success team will help you keep sight of your goals.
Your Natural Ability, Awakened
Natural Discovery
Learning a new language can be as easy as learning your first. Effortless. Rewarding. Clear, compelling images appear in logical sequences, conveying meaning. Intuitively, you just know what it means.
Speech Activation
Build your confidence and improve your pronunciation with our proprietary speech-recognition technology and real-life conversational scenarios.
You’ll be able to compare your pronunciation with native-speaking tutors, helping you to improve your verbal skills.
Native Socialisation
Practise with native speakers in our live interactive sessions and our online community. Every conversation gives you confidence.
Real conversation is the key to success with the Rosetta Stone language-learning solution. This is why we give you the chance to play games, participate in activities, and chat with native speakers and other learners in our online language community. From day one, you’ll be speaking your new language with confidence and ease.
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Most Helpful Customer Reviews
9 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Rosetta Stone gets a lot of unfair criticism on various review sites on the internet and it's usually from people who seem half-hearted about learning a language or expect it to be some magical pill that'll instantly give them the ability to speak another language. I wish some of these people would get real.
Learning another language takes a lot of time and effort. Simply studying the first level isn't enough, nor should you expect it to be. What Rosetta Stone does well is demystify the language you're learning and present it in everyday situations using what is essentially an expensive visual flash card system, one that for me works better than other methods.
I've nearly completed level two and feel that my Spanish level is improving all the time. I try and do an hour everyday, two if possible, plus watch some Spanish TV on the internet (Telemadrid.es is my favourite). Already, I'm starting to understand what's going on in some programmes and I've still got another three levels to go.
Rosetta Stone isn't perfect, but you know what? No product on the market is. In my opinion, Rosetta Stone is the best there is right now, a conclusion I've come to after using many other products such as Michel Thomas, numerous textbooks, Linguaphone, part-time evening courses at a local college (never again), plus others. It's the only product that has kept me motivated.
No product on the market right now is going to make you fluent in speaking your target language because they are all designed to improve your receptive skills (listening and reading). Only interacting with native speakers in the real world will bring fluency in speaking. I know after studying the first two levels that my speaking ability isn't going to be great when I've finished all five levels. This is simply because I don't have anybody to practice with and it's the spontaneity and thinking on your feet that unrehearsed real-life conversation brings that will ultimately improve my speaking fluency. However, I know that my listening, reading and pronounciation skills will be a solid intermediate level when I've completed all five levels. I can already read Spanish to a lower intermediate level with my listening skills not far behind.
The online activities are good, if a little light on content and a tad pricey, especially considering how expensive the initial product is. I really like the stories with audio and wish there were more. Maybe there will be at the higher levels.
It gets a little boring at times, which is when I'll watch some Spanish TV or listen to Spanish radio online to still keep me in the frame of mind of learning, without actively taking part. I'll then return to Rosetta Stone and this usually does the trick.
It's a comprehensive package that will improve your Spanish, if you're willing to put the work in on a regular basis. To all those who criticise Rosetta Stone so freely, I say complete at least three levels, preferably all five levels, then give your opinion. If your Spanish still hasn't improved, then by all means, moan til your heart's content. I'm pleased with what I have experienced so far.
Learning another language takes a lot of time and effort. Simply studying the first level isn't enough, nor should you expect it to be. What Rosetta Stone does well is demystify the language you're learning and present it in everyday situations using what is essentially an expensive visual flash card system, one that for me works better than other methods.
I've nearly completed level two and feel that my Spanish level is improving all the time. I try and do an hour everyday, two if possible, plus watch some Spanish TV on the internet (Telemadrid.es is my favourite). Already, I'm starting to understand what's going on in some programmes and I've still got another three levels to go.
Rosetta Stone isn't perfect, but you know what? No product on the market is. In my opinion, Rosetta Stone is the best there is right now, a conclusion I've come to after using many other products such as Michel Thomas, numerous textbooks, Linguaphone, part-time evening courses at a local college (never again), plus others. It's the only product that has kept me motivated.
No product on the market right now is going to make you fluent in speaking your target language because they are all designed to improve your receptive skills (listening and reading). Only interacting with native speakers in the real world will bring fluency in speaking. I know after studying the first two levels that my speaking ability isn't going to be great when I've finished all five levels. This is simply because I don't have anybody to practice with and it's the spontaneity and thinking on your feet that unrehearsed real-life conversation brings that will ultimately improve my speaking fluency. However, I know that my listening, reading and pronounciation skills will be a solid intermediate level when I've completed all five levels. I can already read Spanish to a lower intermediate level with my listening skills not far behind.
The online activities are good, if a little light on content and a tad pricey, especially considering how expensive the initial product is. I really like the stories with audio and wish there were more. Maybe there will be at the higher levels.
It gets a little boring at times, which is when I'll watch some Spanish TV or listen to Spanish radio online to still keep me in the frame of mind of learning, without actively taking part. I'll then return to Rosetta Stone and this usually does the trick.
It's a comprehensive package that will improve your Spanish, if you're willing to put the work in on a regular basis. To all those who criticise Rosetta Stone so freely, I say complete at least three levels, preferably all five levels, then give your opinion. If your Spanish still hasn't improved, then by all means, moan til your heart's content. I'm pleased with what I have experienced so far.
8 of 9 people found the following review helpful
Rosetta Stone is no doubt a good piece of software. You probably already know how it works; it tries to immerse you in a new language through a 'recreation' of real world scenarios. And it does work, to an extent. I've been using it for a couple of months and I have learnt quite a bit in that time. But, I have also been using other products and approaches along with Rosetta Stone, such as Michel Thomas' CDs (which are excellent, by the way). When using Rosetta Stone, you have to be switched on at ALL times because it is all too easy to miss what exactly they are trying to teach you with each exercise. This is especially the case with grammar, which isn't taught well. In fact, it is barely taught at all. Some of the stuff that comes up in Rosetta Stone has only made sense to me because it had been covered in other courses that I have been using. So, although it is a useful piece of software for stuff like vocabulary and phrases, it is no way worth £320. I'd rather spend the money on actual lessons.
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful
I have been doing this course slowly, but surely over the last 5 or so months. It's a great program, which gives you a large working knowledge of the language. It is quite a slow start, but I do think that it's necessary, because the basics of a language are critical. When you're doing it, it is a lot of fun, you'll find that the hours fly by! The only negative is the price, and that they are constantly fleecing you of all your money for online activities! I can't justify that kind of price for you, it depends how much you want to learn the language! This WILL give you all the tools to learn the language to a decent standard, over about 6 months. In relation to other products, I don't think there is one on the market which will give you the depth, coverage and variation that this does. The speech recognition is really useful too, although sometimes irritating.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
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A very user friendly language course. Some issues encountered when loading the software, but after a few attempts all up and running. Read more
Published 7 months ago by Disco30
WARNING! This is a waste of money, do not buy it.
Ok so, I've had this since the summer (now entering winter) and it is absolutely ridiculous. All you do for the start is match up words, to pictures, there isn't even an English... Read more
Published 9 months ago by Jesse James
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