Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three million people to date. It's ideal for travelers, holidaymakers, business people, schoolchildren, students and families. Anyone over 10 years will find the disc indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. There are nine topics: first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries. The games and quizzes included on the disc ensure that users have fun whilst using the disc, without realizing that they're learning. The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points. Each question that is answered correctly increases the user's score - get an answer wrong and points will be lost. There are 1800 points in total to gain from the disc. A full score earns the user a 'Gold Award'. Each topic contains listening practice, an easy game, a hard game, a printable dictionary as well as the opportunity to record your voice and hear how you sound in comparison to the two native speakers who tutor the user throughout the Talk Now! course. Each of the target languages for Talk Now! has help available in an additional 102 languages. The disc localizes automatically using the computer's operating system language. There is also the option to click on the flag on the first screen to change the help language.

# Nine topics: first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries. # Speech recording: compare your voice with native speakers

# Two quiz levels: test what you've learned, earn points and monitor your progress. # Memory Games: to improve your knowledge of key vocabulary.

* Intelligent Software: remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points. * Automatic Localization: lets you choose the language you learn from (more than 100 available)

# Wide range of words: from greetings and phrases to parts of the body, numbers and shopping. # Gold Award: if you get all 1800 points when using the disc.

# Printable Dictionary with color pictures. # iPod integration: listen to Talk Now wherever you are!