French Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]
by Fairfield Language Technologies
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Software Reviews of French Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]
Customer Review: Rosetta Stone French Levels I and II
Summary: 3 Stars
This product is helpful in many ways, unhelpful in others. Here are the unhelpful features:
1. While there is adequate learning of vocabulary and grammar, there is little opportunity to learn conversational French the way it is really spoken.
2. Typically, the product offers the learner panels of four pictures from which to choose the one correct response to a given statement or question. But frequently the choice is obvious--e.g., the statement or question has to do with horses, but only one of the four response panels shows horses. So one can guess the right response without really understanding what is being said or asked. No learning is taking place here. In the example cited, it would be better if all four response panels concerned horses so that the learner would really have to understand what is being said or asked in order to give the right response.
3. The breakdown of each level into lessons, units, and exercises is somewhat confusing, and navigating among them is awkward.
4. When moving from one four-panel section to the next, the native speaker's voice in the new section is often clipped off so that the first word or two is unheard. Hearing the entire phrase, of course, can make all the difference in understanding what the speaker is saying and is critical to giving the right response. The manufacturer has twice shown us how to adjust our computer's audio mechanism to fix this, but the fix still does not work very well. This is a fault in production of the software disk.
5. The software on the disk cannot be downloaded into the user's computer, meaing the user must insert the disk each time and wait for it to upload for use.
In general, this product is useful for beginners or near-beginners. If one already has some skeleton grasp of vocabulary and grammar, a higher level of learning is indicated.
Customer Review: another great purchase with Amazon
Summary: 5 Stars
Thanks for a great product. it was just as described!Customer Review: Warning
Summary: 2 Stars
I really like the Rosetta Stone product (although it is over priced).
WARNING: Rosetta Stone (Fairfield Language Technologies) will NOT replace a CD if it is lost, stolen or damaged unless you bought the product DIRECTLY from them (and then they charge you $30 for a replacement CD). I had the misfortune of purchasing from a local bookstore and someone had stolen the disk from inside the package. In this case I can get my money back from the store I bought it from but since you can't backup the disks you had better be VERY careful to not lose one.
Customer Review: Awsome language product!
Summary: 5 Stars
You learn extremely fast using Rosetta stone, and you learn to think about what the word is, not it's translation. Probably the best language system available.Customer Review: dazzled with french
Summary: 5 Stars
I have not had the chance to use the item as much as I would like, but have been very satisfied with what I have seen. I was a French minor in college and have participated in numerous ways to learn and maintain the language. The interactive technique and exercises appear to be far more effective than those I have experienced in the past. I am pleased with the product, overall.