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Summary: Excellent program for someone with some basic French.
Review: I loved this program. I had taken French thirty years ago for a semester and a couple of adult education courses before starting. The CDs have learning tools for comprehension, vocabulary, present and past tense, speaking and dictation. It uses a video to begin the lesson with both spoken and written dialogue. One can follow along with the written until familiar. The lessons build on the video. There are different games to improve skills and exercises that require one to repeat words, rearrange sentences, fill in blanks, match words for meaning, and answer questions. The variety kept me interested. There are tools to assess how well one is doing. I would highly recommend it for someone with some basic vocabulary and verbs.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent program for someone with some basic French.
Review: I loved this program. I had taken French thirty years ago for a semester and a couple of adult education courses before starting. The CDs have learning tools for comprehension, vocabulary, present and past tense, speaking and dictation. It uses a video to begin the lesson with both spoken and written dialogue. One can follow along with the written until familiar. The lessons build on the video. There are different games to improve skills and exercises that require one to repeat words, rearrange sentences, fill in blanks, match words for meaning, and answer questions. The variety kept me interested. There are tools to assess how well one is doing. I would highly recommend it for someone with some basic vocabulary and verbs.
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Summary: Super Stars
Review: Merci beaucoup french pro! I failed french in high school. Now with Immersion french pro I speak like I was born in France. Now I go to France every year and enjoy speaking to everyone. Buy this product, trust me... you'll find a big difference.
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Summary: This software is horrible.
Review: Navigating through this software is very difficult and confusing. It is almost as if you have to be able to speak french already to be able to use this software with any degree of success.The othe discs that come with this software are just as useless as the rest. I am very disappointed and I wish I had just saved my money and bought Learn French Now! 9.0 which is infinitely better.
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Summary: 1 star is not low enough, here's why:
Review: Poor vocabulary, poor grammar, poor translations, poor software. Topics Entertainment's Instant Immersion French Pro 7-CD set is all packaging. The 7 CDs are broken into 4 parts: 1) CD-1 Installation disk
CD-2,3,4 Tell Me More series. Completey useless for a beginner. There are supposed to be three different levels here beginner, intermediate, advanced, WRONG, ALL Advanced. Every disc contains lengthy french dialogue with no starting point for vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, or pronuncitaion. This is aimed at someone already familiar with french. 2) CD-5 Vocabulary Builder. Everything about this is for children and on the Eurotalk website you will see this is targeted at 3-10 year olds. It has a miniscule vocabulary and the words and sentences it does contain are downright useless, "The duck is under a desk". It also does not even contain english translations of the french words, just pictures. It is left to the user to infer what the picture means! 3) CD-6 French Plus (A Rosetta Stone application) I found this disc to be the least help of them all. It has pictures with words on top of them that can disappear and you are supposed to pick the word spoken but you get no english translation. It is all a mess just like that last sentence. 4) CD-7 Audio Disc. I only listened to the first track and thought this would be perfect for those who like to repeat long sentences from memory. However, the converstation on the track was relevant for those traveling to France (encounter with a passport agent) unlike the other discs which are not relevant to anything really. This software is just a pretty box, no useful content or lesson plan. If you are looking for an introduction to French do not buy this software.
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Summary: 1 star is not low enough, here's why:
Review: Poor vocabulary, poor grammar, poor translations, poor software. Topics Entertainment's Instant Immersion French Pro 7-CD set is all packaging. The 7 CDs are broken into 4 parts: 1) CD-1 Installation disk
CD-2,3,4 Tell Me More series. Completey useless for a beginner. There are supposed to be three different levels here beginner, intermediate, advanced, WRONG, ALL Advanced. Every disc contains lengthy french dialogue with no starting point for vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, or pronuncitaion. This is aimed at someone already familiar with french. 2) CD-5 Vocabulary Builder. Everything about this is for children and on the Eurotalk website you will see this is targeted at 3-10 year olds. It has a miniscule vocabulary and the words and sentences it does contain are downright useless, "The duck is under a desk". It also does not even contain english translations of the french words, just pictures. It is left to the user to infer what the picture means! 3) CD-6 French Plus (A Rosetta Stone application) I found this disc to be the least help of them all. It has pictures with words on top of them that can disappear and you are supposed to pick the word spoken but you get no english translation. It is all a mess just like that last sentence. 4) CD-7 Audio Disc. I only listened to the first track and thought this would be perfect for those who like to repeat long sentences from memory. However, the converstation on the track was relevant for those traveling to France (encounter with a passport agent) unlike the other discs which are not relevant to anything really. This software is just a pretty box, no useful content or lesson plan. If you are looking for an introduction to French do not buy this software.
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Summary: Not impressed
Review: Seemed to be a jumbled mix of previously released titles - the whole setup was extremely unintuitive and very confusing for a beginner (which is what the software claims to be geared towards). You get a confusing GUI where you navigate between a scene, and then you get a Q&A session. No instructions, no teaching, no training - very frustrating and ultimately unrewarding. After 4 days of plodding through the material given, I gave up. I purchased Rosetta Stone afterwards - much more expensive, but also much more rewarding...
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Summary: Not impressed
Review: Seemed to be a jumbled mix of previously released titles - the whole setup was extremely unintuitive and very confusing for a beginner (which is what the software claims to be geared towards). You get a confusing GUI where you navigate between a scene, and then you get a Q&A session. No instructions, no teaching, no training - very frustrating and ultimately unrewarding. After 4 days of plodding through the material given, I gave up. I purchased Rosetta Stone afterwards - much more expensive, but also much more rewarding...
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Summary: Not worth it for beginners
Review: The box says you can "Quickly start speaking, reading, and writing French." Well, though it does have tutorials on quickly picking up the language, it has nothing to show a beginner how to pronunciate the letters and accents. The first program, Tell Me More, is all French with no English translation. This is four of the 7 CD's that only helps someone review French that already knows it. Example, it'll show you a picture of a boy and a soccer ball, then have some French text and prounce the text in French. You don't know if they're saying "Boy with Ball", "Boy Playing Soccer", "Boy Playing" or what. Does no good for a beginner. The French Plus CD is a different product and like the Tell Me More is more of a review for those who already know French. The French Vocabulary Builder is basically a dictionary that pronounces certain words, but again, no syntax on how French is setup... so still no go for a beginner. And the final CD is an audio CD, which again, isn't for the beginner. To top it off, the package came with one sheet for instructions that basically says, Put in the install CD and follow the instructions. 7 CD's with a fancy package. Save your money and choose another package. This is definately not worth it for beginners. The person that rated this 5 stars must work for the company.
Rating:
Summary: Not worth it for beginners
Review: The box says you can "Quickly start speaking, reading, and writing French." Well, though it does have tutorials on quickly picking up the language, it has nothing to show a beginner how to pronunciate the letters and accents. The first program, Tell Me More, is all French with no English translation. This is four of the 7 CD's that only helps someone review French that already knows it. Example, it'll show you a picture of a boy and a soccer ball, then have some French text and prounce the text in French. You don't know if they're saying "Boy with Ball", "Boy Playing Soccer", "Boy Playing" or what. Does no good for a beginner. The French Plus CD is a different product and like the Tell Me More is more of a review for those who already know French. The French Vocabulary Builder is basically a dictionary that pronounces certain words, but again, no syntax on how French is setup... so still no go for a beginner. And the final CD is an audio CD, which again, isn't for the beginner. To top it off, the package came with one sheet for instructions that basically says, Put in the install CD and follow the instructions. 7 CD's with a fancy package. Save your money and choose another package. This is definately not worth it for beginners. The person that rated this 5 stars must work for the company.
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