| | |  | Education | Home » » Talk Now! Learn Swedish - Essential Swedish Words and Phrases for Beginners of All Ages (Windows & Macintosh) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | This unconventional language-learning series offers games and quizzes that make the learning process fun, relaxing, and, as such, more successful. Ideal for beginners, Talk Now! Swedish includes such topics as vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more. A handy print and picture dictionary produces entries with both text and pictorial references. This interactive software title also features a recording tool, so you can compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers (microphone required). Quizzes and a challenging memory game let you test your newly acquired skills. You can also track your scores and print awards to celebrate. Best of all, you can change Talk Now! Swedish's onscreen help and menus to the language of your choice. With more than 70 languages from which to choose, this software makes learning Swedish accessible to everyone. | | | Features: | |
• The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
• Extensive basic vocabulary from first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body and numbers, to telling time, shopping and countries
• Each of the target languages for Talk Now! has help available in an additional 102 languages ¿ simply choose the flag of your native country in the beginning of the program & EuroTalk¿s Talk Now! Program will provide instruction in your native language
• 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: | | | Package Length:
| 7.6 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.4 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.15 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 4 reviews |
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| Mac / Windows | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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29 of 31 found the following review helpful:
 When you just need to hear it...May 07, 2002
I was having a great deal of trouble learning Swedish from books because I just couldn't "hear" it inside my head. A friend of mine loaned me this CD and it helped a great deal to get past that challenge. It is a very simple program and there isn't much depth, but I did find it useful because (as Swedish is uncommon here in rural New York) I needed to hear phrases to orient myself. The vocabulary and phrases taught are primarily for tourists. I would rate it higher if the price were just a bit lower, more in line with it's true value.
16 of 16 found the following review helpful:
 EuroTalk SwedishJan 25, 2005
By Linnea C. Johnson
I found this CD to be very useful in reviewing Swedish, which I had studied years ago. I have sampled other products and found them to be ponderous, making language learning more of a chore than it ought to be. The EuroTalk CD's (I have several) are the most fun to do. Will you become proficient in the language by using this CD? Hardly, but you will get a good grounding and it's just fun if you are like me and like to study foreign languages. I wish Amazon.com would make the more advanced levels available as well. I think this CD would be very useful as well for the traveler who just wants an intro to the language. Most Swedes speak English, but not all are comfortable with it. And everyone appreciates an effort to learn the language of the home country.
10 of 10 found the following review helpful:
 not recommendedApr 03, 2004
I read the online reviews of this product and thought it looked good or at least good enough. It isn't.The image editing is incredibly jerky and the actors' smiles are downright creepy when seen time and time and time again! (Were the option available to exclude the actors from the screen while still hearing them speak, it would be a better product.) Though some of the vocabulary presented may be useful, the content of the CD does not offer much in the way of sentence or phrase help.
3 of 3 found the following review helpful:
fairly uselessFeb 18, 2007
By Warner M. Otter
The first problem is that the amount of material covered is extremely limited - the vocabulary you learn would probably fit on a single sheet of paper. What's worse though is that they don't bother including the "en" or "ett" articles with nouns, so you have no idea what gender a noun is, and whatever nouns you do learn will have to be learned a second time with their proper gender. Definitely not recommended.
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