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Build a foundation and navigate your surroundings. Learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence to talk about your environment and enjoy basic social interactions – giving and getting directions, telling time, shopping, dining out, and more.
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div class="content" div class="productDescriptionWrapper" div class="aplus" div class="rightImage"img alt="Product Shots" height="113" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/product_shots.jpg" width="300" //div pstrongBuild a foundation and navigate your surroundings./strong Learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence to talk about your environment such as giving and getting directions, telling time, dining out, shopping, and enjoying basic social interactions./p div class="break"/div h4What Will I Learn/h4 div class="break" /div div class="half-col"strongThis level will help you:/strong ul liLearn the basics/li liBuild intermediate-level conversational skills/li liSpell and write accurately/li liSpeak without a script/li liRetain what you've learned/li liRead and understand your new language/li /ul /div div class="half-col last"strongSample topics include:/strong ul liAge, family relations, household items/li liQuestions, greetings, introductions/li liTimes of day, calendar terms, the weather/li liDirections, locations, telling time/li liPresent, past and future tense/li liApologies and polite requests/li liHow to order at a restaurant and give and receive directions/li liEmotions, opinions, and ideas/li /ul /div div class="break"/div h4What Do I Get?/h4 div class="third-col" h5Interactive Software/h5 pOur award-wining version, complete with proprietary speech recognition technology./p /div div class="third-col" h5Audio Companion/h5 pFor your CD or MP3 player so you can review while on the go./p /div div class="third-col last" h5Headset with Microphone/h5 pFor use with our state-of- the-art speech-recognition software./p /div div class="break"/div div class="third-col" h5Live Online Lessons img alt="NEW" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/ic-new.png" //h5 pPractice sessions led by native speaking tutors./p /div div class="third-col" h5Games Community img alt="NEW" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/ic-new.png" //h5 pLanguage-enhancing games move you towards real-world proficiency./p /div div class="third-col last" h5Mobile Companion img alt="NEW" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/ic-new.png" //h5 pLearning application for your iPhone or iPod Touch device./p /div div class="break"/div h4Our Method/h4 div class="rightImage"img alt="Our Method" height="187" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/our_method.jpg" width="250" //div pRecreate the natural way you learned your first language and reveal skills that you already have using Dynamic Immersion. This award-winning method has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world./p pstrongLearn Naturally:/strong Discover how to speak, read, write, and understand--all without translating or memorizing. Our award-winning solution recreates how you learned your first language, unlocking your natural abilities./p pstrongSpeak Confidently:/strong Perfect your pronunciation with speech-recognition technology. Gain the confidence in your new voice as you practice with other learners in our exclusive online community and participate in online sessions coached by native tutors./p pstrongImmerse Yourself:/strong Be surrounded by your new language. From core lessons to online sessions, Rosetta Stone gets you engaged and interacting with others./p pstrongStay Motivated:/strong Experience accomplishment with each moment of achievement; with dedicated success agents you will never lose sight of your language-learning goals./p div class="break"/div h4Your Natural Ability. Awakened./h4 h5Natural Discovery/h5 pLearning your first language is as natural as smiling. Effortless. Rewarding. Every step in Rosetta Stone feels like that. Clear, compelling images appear precisely, in juxtaposition, conveying meaning. Intuitively, you just know what it means./p ul liOur puzzle-like environments--a systematic presentation of sounds, images, and text--help learners absorb meaning intuitively. /li /ul div class="centerImage"img alt="Natural Discovery" height="163" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/natural_discovery.jpg" width="650" / div class="imageCaption"Rosetta Stone's award-winning software, where you will interact by speaking, clicking, selecting phrases and writing./div /div h5Speech Activation/h5 div class="rightImage"img alt="Speech Activation" height="123" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/speech_activation.jpg" width="200" / div class="imageCaption" style="width: 200px;"Rosetta Stone's proprietary speech-recognition technology provides immediate and ongoing feedback./div /div pBuild your confidence and polish your pronunciation skills with state-of-the-art speech-recognition technologies and success-filled dialogues./p ul liOur software provides immediate and ongoing assessments of your speech through Actionable Feedback, which helps you pronounce syllables, words and sentences correctly and easily. /li /ul ul liBased on a collection of literally millions of speech samples, our proprietary speech-recognition algorithms and speech models were engineered with a singular purpose--to help you communicate with accuracy, confidence and ease. /li /ul div class="break"/div h5Native Socialization/h5 div class="rightImage"img alt="Native Socialization" height="136" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/software/detail-page/native_socialization.jpg" width="200" / div class="imageCaption" style="width: 200px;"Language-learning games will keep you motivated along the way./div /div pPractice with native speakers in our live interactive sessions and our online community. Every conversation gives you the confidence to communicate in your new language./p ul liFor many, traditional language-learning fails because it lacks real conversation. With Rosetta Stone you'll play games and chat with native speakers and other learners in our online language community. /li /ul ul li Hundreds of native-speaking tutors trained in the Rosetta Stone method are ready to help reinforce the language you're learning through live, online conversations. From Day One you'll be speaking your new language with confidence and ease. /li /ul div class="break"/div /div /div /div