Rosetta Stone Chinese
Posted By iba03 on February 9, 2012
Product Description
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Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Begin to learn and speak with confidence. Master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more.
What Will I Learn This level will help you:
- Build vocabulary and language basics
- Spell and write accurately
- Speak without a script
- Retain what you’ve learned
- Read and understand in your new language
Sample topics include:
- Age, family relations, household items
- Introductions and greetings
- Times of day and calendar terms
- Buying and selling
What Do I Get? Interactive Software
Our award-wining version, complete with proprietary speech recognition technology.
Audio Companion
For your CD or MP3 player so you can review while on the go.
Headset with Microphone
For use with our state-of- the-art speech-recognition software.
Live Online Lessons 
Practice sessions led by native speaking tutors.
Games & Community
Language-enhancing games move you towards real-world proficiency.
Mobile Companion
Learning application for your iPhone or iPod Touch device.
Our Method 
Recreate the natural way you learned your first language and reveal skills that you already have using Dynamic Immersion. This award-winning method has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world.
Learn Naturally: Discover how to speak, read, write, and understand–all without translating or memorizing. Our award-winning solution recreates how you learned your first language, unlocking your natural abilities.
Speak Confidently: Perfect your pronunciation with speech-recognition technology. Gain the confidence in your new voice as you practice with other learners in our exclusive online community and participate in online sessions coached by native tutors.
Immerse Yourself: Be surrounded by your new language. From core lessons to online sessions, Rosetta Stone gets you engaged and interacting with others.
Stay Motivated: Experience accomplishment with each moment of achievement; with dedicated success agents you will never lose sight of your language-learning goals.
Your Natural Ability. Awakened. Natural Discovery
Learning your first language is as natural as smiling. Effortless. Rewarding. Every step in Rosetta Stone feels like that. Clear, compelling images appear precisely, in juxtaposition, conveying meaning. Intuitively, you just know what it means.
- Our puzzle-like environments–a systematic presentation of sounds, images, and text–help learners absorb meaning intuitively.
Rosetta Stone’s award-winning software, where you will interact by speaking, clicking, selecting phrases and writing. Speech Activation 
Rosetta Stone’s proprietary speech-recognition technology provides immediate and ongoing feedback.
Build your confidence and polish your pronunciation skills with state-of-the-art speech-recognition technologies and success-filled dialogues.
- Our software provides immediate and ongoing assessments of your speech through Actionable Feedback, which helps you pronounce syllables, words and sentences correctly and easily.
- Based on a collection of literally millions of speech samples, our proprietary speech-recognition algorithms and speech models were engineered with a singular purpose–to help you communicate with accuracy, confidence and ease.
Native Socialization 
Language-learning games will keep you motivated along the way.
Practice with native speakers in our live interactive sessions and our online community. Every conversation gives you the confidence to communicate in your new language.
- For many, traditional language-learning fails because it lacks real conversation. With Rosetta Stone you’ll play games and chat with native speakers and other learners in our online language community.
- Hundreds of native-speaking tutors trained in the Rosetta Stone method are ready to help reinforce the language you’re learning through live, online conversations. From Day One you’ll be speaking your new language with confidence and ease.
This review is from: Rosetta Stone Chinese (Mandarin) Level 1 (CD-ROM)
Many people complain about no English translations on the screen when you hear new words and phrases.
It’s important to realize that when using Rosetta Stone, you are not supposed to completely understand the words/phrases when you hear them the first time, or even the second or third. You’re not supposed to know the answers before the software asks you to interact. Rosetta Stone forces your mind to grasp at possible meanings until you puzzle it out, and when you do finally puzzle it out, a light bulb flashes on and true comprehension takes place.
Rosetta Stone integrates failure and ‘learning by trial and error’ directly into the program which, for me, makes the vocabulary and usage far more concrete in my head than being told what something means then picking it out of a list. What good does that do?
If you pay attention to the pictures and the context in which they are displayed, you really can intuit the meanings of the words and phrases. After you fail to choose the correct answers then finally get it right, this stuff will be burned into your memory because you’ve been actively engaged in the ‘discovery of the language. Exactly like a kid does. Exactly what Rosetta Stone claims.
To summarize: you can’t sit there and passively learn the language. Rosetta Stone won’t download it into your brain. You have to actively interpret what you’re seeing with what’s being said in the new language. It’s amazing how much language and nuance can be assimilated in this way.
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