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- The world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners
- Essential words and phrases for absolute beginners
- Ideal for young learners, families, students and people going abroad
- Completely intuitive - simple interface means that learning is as easy as pointing and clicking
- Speech recording - allows you to compare your voice with native speakers
- Quiz yourself! Test what you've learnt, earn points and monitor your progress
- Nine topics: first words, food, colours, phrases, the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries
- Intelligent Software - remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
- Automatic Localisation - Choose the language you learn from (more than 100 available)
- iPod integration - listen to Talk Now! on your iPod for complete learning on the move!
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You'll find you can't drag yourself away - in short, you can't stop yourself learning.'
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The Talk Now! Range is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. Talk Now! caters for all types of beginner: young learners from the age of 4, families, students and people going abroad with no knowledge of the language. It is simple to use, with no installation required – the program runs straight from the CD, and is compatible with the latest versions of Mac and Windows.
Eurotalk software is completely intuitive – the simple interface means that learning is as easy as pointing and clicking. Speech recording allows you to record your voice and compare it with native speakers. Quiz yourself with 2 levels of difficulty to test what you've learnt – earn points and monitor your progress, then take on the memory man and get the maximum possible 1800 points to receive the gold award! Learn at your computer – or alternatively, print out pages of the printable picture dictionary, or you can learn on the move using the iPod application.
Above all, EuroTalk discs are designed to be fun. Research in the early 1990s at the University of California revealed that memory is greatly improved when accompanied by fun and laughter. Our quizzes, games and stories provide this and you will be amazed how much you remember after a surprisingly short time devoted to a disc.
What people have said
'You'll find you can't drag yourself away – in short, you can't stop yourself learning.' PC Magazine
'Addictive' The Times
'The most entertaining CD-ROM language packages come from the publisher EuroTalk' South China Post
'Buying EuroTalk has helped me so much - the vocabulary I had learned in just 30 minutes was extraordinary! I look forward to learning more with EuroTalk software.' Robin Cross - 16th May 2008
'This is an excitingly different language learning series. Talk Now! uses games and quizzes as a basis for making the learning process fun and relaxing. There's no better way to teach and old dog new tricks and this fun element of the programme means that your fears are forgotten as you absorb words and phrases without even realising you are learning them.' PC Answers
PC Magazine'You'll find you can't drag yourself away – in short, you can't stop yourself learning.'
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37 of 37 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
The answer to the question is no. The CD rom is simply a talking dictionary of a limited number of objects, although they are quite useful such as shopping and numbers. It does not even tell you how to speak or write a sentance or even put one together. So if you did go the the Netherlands you would only be able to say single words, mainly nouns such as cucumber or trousers, and probably not understand a lot of Dutch.
You can benefit from the CD rom by listening to the speakers saying the names of objects and you copying. But it's really not worth it. Some of the games are quite fun but they just test vocabulary.
A cassette and book are far better because they will contain more than what this CD includes. I recommend Dutch In Three Months (by Hugo) of the brand new updated Teach Yourself Dutch (the new one has a picture of a tulip field on the front, it came out on 1st Jan. 2003). With these you will actually be able to string a sentance together and learn a whole lot more and they cost about the same.
You can benefit from the CD rom by listening to the speakers saying the names of objects and you copying. But it's really not worth it. Some of the games are quite fun but they just test vocabulary.
A cassette and book are far better because they will contain more than what this CD includes. I recommend Dutch In Three Months (by Hugo) of the brand new updated Teach Yourself Dutch (the new one has a picture of a tulip field on the front, it came out on 1st Jan. 2003). With these you will actually be able to string a sentance together and learn a whole lot more and they cost about the same.
7 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
I found that this software is very simplistic. It tends to emphasize simple vocabulary by repetition and games. While it does teach some phrases it does not touch upon grammar, sentance structure, etc. It does provide a good springboard into the Dutch language but it may leave you wanting more detail. On the plus side it is very user friendly and you will have no trouble getting started.
28 of 34 people found the following review helpful
Format:CD-ROM
I bought this CD about 12 months ago as my partner is Dutch and I had a hankering to learn the language. Having done nothing with it (and been frustrated by other methods of learning) I had a go at the thing last week. With 5 or 6 hours effort my vocab is much better and I even took her to a Belgian resturant last week, ordered in Nederlands - and got what I ordered. Brilliant.
Tot Ziens
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I recently came back from a break in Amsterdam and before I went I bought this CD to learn some basics. Read more
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can't believe some of the comments here; this product is truly dreadful ... though admittedly I haven't spent too long using it as the inane pauses where you have to wait for the... Read more
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Execellent learing aid and great fun.
You need a structured training course too, but it's an excellent addition and great fun.
Published on 19 Dec 2007 by Andrew Kirtland
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dutch is a very hard language to learn and i found this helped me with the pronounciation, it is very basic and ideal for the complete beginner.
Published on 16 Sep 2004
this is a brilliant cd rom
This CD rom is very good. I planned on buying it for myself, because I am quite good at speaking dutch, but I needed some more help. Read more
Published on 26 Jun 2001 by Jackie
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