Manufacturer's Description
Our complete set offers Beginner through Advanced instruction with over 8000 real-life images and phrases in 210 lessons.
Rosetta Stone Level 1&2 Pack Japanese provides up to 550 hours of mastery instruction in Listening Comprehension, Reading and Speaking. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. Previews, exercises and tests accompany every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. Some of the covered topics include:
Present, Past, Future
Professions and Activities
Family Relationships; People and Talking
Descriptive Adjectives; Comparative Nouns
Alone, Crowd, Friend
Directions: How Do I Get To . . .
Measurement: Length, Weight, Volume, Temperature and Distance
More Advanced Grammatical Structures
Travel and Transactions at a Bank
Before and After in Time and Space
Political Geography
A Complete Reference Section of Commonly Used TermsHow it works
The Rosetta Stone's Dynamic Immersion method works by simulating the natural language learning process we all experienced as children. No translation. No memorization. No drills or lists. With instruction exclusively in the target language, you start thinking in the new language from the very first lesson. The association of pictures, native speaker voices and texts allows you to master basic vocabulary quickly. And this in turn acts as a foundation on which to build words, phrases, sentences, and grammatical structures, still in the target language only.
Within each lesson, choose from a variety of different activities that concentrate on listening comprehension, reading comprehension, speaking or writing:
Dynamic Immersion teaches you to link speech directly with meaning. Match the spoken phrase and the image correctly and the meaning is clear. No translation or memorization. The words have meaning. The image has a name.
Reading comprehension parallels the comprehension of speech. The Rosetta Stone develops reading skills by presenting written text without spoken-language support. Match words to image and the computer verifies the meaning.
Speaking a new language is the learner's most rewarding challenge. Speech Recognition records your voice and plays it back for comparison with the voice of the native speaker. A graded meter quickly assesses your proficiency and a voiceprint analyzes your pronunciation in detail.Dictation uses the computer to check your written work for accuracy. Click on the picture. Write what you hear. The program indicates errors and allows you to correct your work before you proceed.