| | |  | Software | Home » » Rosetta Stone Homeschool Polish Level 1-3 Set including Audio Companion | | | | | | | Description: | | Rosetta Stone Homeschool features a foreign language curriculum specifically designed to provide homeschool students with a rich, fully interactive and engaging language-learning experience, while giving parents the tools and resources needed to manage student progress without extensive planning or supervision. Rosetta Stone Homeschool is self-paced and designed to make it easy for parents to offer language learning even if they don't speak the language their students are studying. Students are instantly captivated by Rosetta Stone so they stay engaged. Plus, with positive reinforcement and quick results, their language-learning confidence soars! | | | Features: | |
• Rosetta Stone Homeschool teaches your student a new language naturally, the same way they mastered their first language.
• Innovative solutions get them speaking new words, right from the start.
• Rosetta Stone Homeschool moves forward only when your student is ready--you set the schedule and your student drives the pace.
• Parent Administrative Tools allow you to formulate lesson plans, manage your student's progress and track their success.
• Audio Companion CDs let them reinforce the Rosetta Stone experience anytime, anywhere.
| | | Product Details: | | | Package Length:
| 7.7 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.5 inches | | Package Height:
| 3.0 inches | | Package Weight:
| 2.0 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 3 reviews |
| | | System Requirements: | | | Platform:
| Windows Vista / Mac OS X Intel / Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
| 1 |
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9 of 9 found the following review helpful:
 Best Way to Learn a Language- Hands Down!Jul 27, 2010
By Chad Tibbetts
"Brooklyn Running"
I am in love with Rosetta! Rosetta Stone has made it possible to continue my steps toward becoming better able to speak and understand Polish. There is no substitute for going to the country and immersing yourself in the language. I have done that several times in my 4 trip to Poland. But when I am back in the US, this program keeps me focused and moving forward.
I highly reccommend getting all levels at once. I made the mistake of getting Level 1, to see how I liked it. Then I was stuck without 2 and 3. I ended up getting 1,2,and 3 in a set and gave my other one away to a friend.
I actually got the Homeschool edition, which is cool because you can chart time spent and progress made a little easier.
A great purchase and a great way to learn a language.
There is no english in the program, everything is learned through association of pictures and memory of past lessons. It mimics the way kids learn a language for the first time.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Good program, good monitoring systemOct 13, 2011
By Just Trying to Help
"Product Guru"
(if you have any question about this review, please leave a comment. Amazon will email me and I will try to post a response as soon as possible answering your question. It might take me a few days to get back to you, yeah, I'm a lousy volunteer).
We were really reluctant to buy this item. It costs a lot, and its software. Most places you buy software from won't let you return it after you break the shrink wrap.
But when I talked to amazon customer support about it (via chat box) they assured me that I could try it and return it within 30 days even after we had installed it. I was dumbfounded. I couldn't return the generator my mother got me as a present (Amazon's generator return policy is two letters: N and O! So with this last bit of information we plunked down our money and took our chances.
I have to say, its really good and we have never regretted it.
The kids really love using it, and they are learning soooo much faster than when they attended Saturday morning Polish school, which was taught by native speakers. I agree that learning from a native speaker is best. But the only way you are going to get 20 or 30 minutes of practice 4 days a week is if you marry one. Just sayin'. So the kids are now using Polish as a secret language and its never hard to get them to do a lesson. It rocks. And my spouse was actually born in Poland and is 100% fluent, and they are pleased too. My spouse now just fills the role of reviewing the lessons and doing some light practice from time to time.
There are various teaching methods. In one kind, the kids try to match picture (drag and drop) with the appropriate words. As they learn the words, they progress to sentences. Plurals are taught by showing a picture of a girl, and a picture of girls, and you drag and drop the sentence or word to the appropriate picture. It includes a headset with a microphone. The speech recognition is very good. Each time you log in, it does a speech check so that its accurate for that lesson. For the most part its EXTREMELY accurate. But, sometimes the kids seem to say it right, and it says its wrong. This provided more practice. Other times the kids totally butchered the sentence (to our ears) and the program accepted it. But, for the most part it was very accurate. I give the program a pass on the few inaccurate moments because I think speech recognition is a squirrely thing (difficult and unreliable in nature).
For the homeschool angle, they have a nice little interface that I check all the time. It tells you, for each lesson, how long it is. It also tell you if the lesson is "in progress" or "completed" and what the score was. This is really nice because you can see the progress on a graph, you know what they learned (from the lesson title) and what they will learn next. So we check a couple times a week how things are going, and encourage the kids to go back and finish lessons that were unfinished for whatever reason. life is full of distractions). Good job!
Overall I can tell you that we've been very pleased.
One caveat: If you are headed to a foreign country in 2 weeks, you already missed the boat. I don't think this could help you fast enough, unless you intended to do an hour a day or more.
4 stars. Its good, I recommend it.
1 of 1 found the following review helpful:
 Not as good as total immersion with a native speaker!Jul 29, 2011
By Ben Franklin
First, please read my other reviews to gain a bit of insight into my background. Beyond that and relevant to this review, I studied German (3 years) in high school, studied Japanese for six years, Spanish for six years. In addition to the usual classroom study, I have used Berlitz type instruction as well as private tutors. On the current product, I am presently in Level 2 and aim to finish Level 3 within a month. My purpose in obtaining and using the Rosetta Stone course is to learn to speak Polsih. To be clear, if I had simply wanted to learn a few phrases to greet, to ask where the bathroom is, to order a beer, to direct a taxi, etc. I would have used my phrase book. My purpose, as with my prior experiences with both Japanese and Spanish, is to be able to converse, to understand a movie or tv. If your purpose is only to gain a few phrases this course is not for you.
Next, I am comfortable with immersion learning of languages. If you are not--if you need to have the translations, conjugations, etc. immediately before you, this learning method, and thus the course, is not for you. Likely you should stick with traditional text-book, class room study.
Finally, with respect to the mechanics of this product, and the title I used, while the material can be challenging, it is much less than if one is in a total immersion environment with an instructor--in part it is the feedback on errors, in part it is the speed at which the program moves. I would like to be pushed more, to have my errors pushed back immediately and then repetitively until I was speaking / remembering correctly. I would like to have more on a single screen than say four or six or eight words / phrases, and for the screens to move much more quickly from one to the following. At times it seems the program wanders off for a break!
Yes, much less expensive that a private tutor, and I believe I will be reasonably prepared for my next trip to Poland, but not a replacement for personal immersion study with another human. Should you choose to purchase the product, stick with it. A friend commented that she knows many who have purchased Rosetta Stone and most of them are sitting on shelves!
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