1 of 1 customers found the following review helpful:
 A Fine Tool For Getting Started, 2006-10-08
I am an owner and experienced user of this product and other Rosetta Stone products, and I am also a professional (American) English teacher living overseas. Let's balance the view on this product. I can understand how someone would be disappointed if they were expecting something comprehensive, but like the reviewer says, it is only a demo product. Being only a demo product, however, it is still a state-of-the-art, top of the line product. This product is quite valuable if you are using it to get someone started in learning English, and it will take them plenty of time to get through it (there are about 20 lessons which take a person maybe 30-45 minutes each to complete -- when the last reviewer says it includes only 2 of 8 lessons, they really mean 2 out of 8 UNITS, each unit having about 10 lessons). The reason the time module consists only of "o'clock" and not "quarter past" etc. is because this is just a basic lesson. In the advanced lessons that come later on, more comprehensive examples of time-telling are given. As for the other languages on the CD, they only consist of a first lesson because they are an added bonus (this CD is for English and contains 20 English lessons -- the rest are a bonus addition for your convenience and perusal). I own this product and have used it and similar products to help others learn English. The advantage of Rosetta Stone products is that they utilize natural techniques (giving a combination of pictures to view to help establish word meaning by context) rather than, as they say, requiring hours of boring memorization, etc.. It's real, and it works.
 This a Demo - not a real product, 2002-03-25
I only gave this product a 1 because 0 was not an option.This is not a real product. This is a demo. This CD only contains 2 out of 8 English lessons. The rest are part of the "advanced" product. (More money please) The learning time module consists of learning "o'clock" only. No "quarter past three" or "three thirty". Just 3 o'clock. For other languages (Portuguese, Chinese etc.) it only contains the first Exercise in the first lesson. Just enough to learn to say boy, girl, cat, dog. I'm not kidding. I don't know how they get away with saying that this has been selected by the State Department. Certainly the State Department didn't select this demo. I find it hard to imagine that they would even select the full product from what I saw...
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