| | |  | Translation | Home » » Talk Now! Learn Latin - Essential Latin Words & Phrases for Beginners of All Ages (Windows & Macintosh with MP3 Audio Lessons for iPod) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Talk Now! Is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three million people. 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 product, without realizing that they're learning. | | | Features: | |
• Comprehensive interactive language learning; ideal for beginners
• Easy and hard quizzes, plus a challenging memory game
• Compare yourself with native speakers; monitor progress
• 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 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'
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Length:
| 7.74 inches | | Product Width:
| 4.96 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.37 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.3 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
| based on 3 reviews |
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| Mac / Windows | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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79 of 84 found the following review helpful:
This is uselessMar 19, 2004
I bought this to help my son who is having trouble in Latin at school, although I was a little skeptical of the title "Talk Now." I should have trusted my reservations. This is just a cheaply created imitation of language immersion programs; the first two practice phrases include the words "beer" and "telephone." No grammar; no conjugations or declensions; no vocabulary lists. This is of NO use to a Latin student; I can't imagine who it could be used by. Even spoken Latin is primarily liturgical.
51 of 56 found the following review helpful:
Not very usefulJan 22, 2005
By traderje
"traderje"
Okay, you should get your first clue as to how tailored this software is to learning Latin from the claim "Recording tools let you record your own voice, to compare pronunciation with a native Latin speaker."
There haven't been any native Latin speakers in quite some time. If they found some secret recordings of Cicero--- it would be worth quite a bit. And no, neither Latin America nor the Vatican count.
You see Latin broke into many spoken dialects which later evolved into the various "Romance" languages. No one really knows for sure how the original Latin was pronounced.
Very little grammar is taught in this software.
8 of 8 found the following review helpful:
Horrible!Sep 10, 2007
By R. T. Jones
"Single Dad"
The Beginners Level edition of Talk Now! has a total of 44 words of vocabulary with no grammar or further description. Three of the words are the numbers one, two, and three. Don't waste your money!
It does however, install easily and has a nice, simple user interface. It requires the disk to be in the CD drive for copy protection. The diction is clear and the words are pronounced the way my Latin teacher pronounced them.
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