Rosetta Stone V2: Greek, Level 1 & 2 From:Rosetta Stone
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Rosetta Stone
EAN: 0794678287206
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Rosetta Stone
Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
Packaged Height: 220 hundredths-inches
Packaged Length: 980 hundredths-inches
Packaged Weight: 100 hundredths-pounds
Packaged Width: 810 hundredths-inches
Platform: Windows Vista
Platform: Windows 2000
Platform: Windows XP
Platform: Mac OS X
Publisher: Rosetta Stone
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Rosetta Stone
Feature:
- Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
- You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech comparison tool
- Find the words you need when you need them Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts
- Rosetta Stone teaches you to spell and write accurately Language-specific keyboards and drag and drop tiles perfect your writing skills
- Learn to communicate by quickly combining words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogue
Product Description:
With Greek Level 1&2 you engage the world around you, drawing on basic content and structures from level 1 and the blocks of everyday language from level 2. Learn to speak and write clearly and correctly, gaining the confidence to go where you want and connect with the people you meet.
Customer Reviews:
 useful, but with limitations and a bit pricey, 2008-08-07
This can be quite useful to get the first feeling about the language as well as a surprisingly good tool for building up a basic vocabulary. However, it isn't a self-sufficient material for language learning - almost certainly you will need additional textbook(s) and/or teacher.
One, often noted, shortcoming of Rosetta Stone materials is complete lack of cultural context (the same set of pictures is reused for quite a number of languages). Still, the things are probably not as bad as they might be, since anhyway the main thing you will learn from this is vocabulary and not the skills at casual conversations (although the overrepresentations of some words, which probably are hardly used elsewhere but american english (e.g. "cowboy"), is a bit annoying). And apart from just having little use, such borrowed nouns usually also tend to be indeclinable in Greek!
A more important limitation, probably, is organization/ordering of pictures - beeing the same for a number of languages it is hardly the best for demonstrating the most important grammatical features of a particular language (such as tenses, declinations etc).
The bottom line - if you can get your hands on it, I would recommend at least to have a try. The official price tag, however, seems to be far too inflated for what these materials really contains - will not recommended buying without trying first and seeing, whether this really suits you.
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