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As the third most commonly used language in the United States, American Sign Language is the fastest growing form of communication. Used by both the deaf and the hearing community, ASL is the most thorough and eloquent system of signing ever developed. Instant Immersion American Sign Language is the quick and easy way many beginners learn how to sign. Based on the same tried and proven techniques that allow people to quickly pick-up a spoken language, the key to success with signing is to immerse yourself. For years, we have known that an immersion environment is the absolute, fastest way to learn a new language. The Instant Immersion method provides this atmosphere and allows you to put your lessons to use immediately. Suitable for all ages, this award-winning 5 CD-ROM set includes Signing Avatar Friends, Personal Communicator, SignLink, and HyperSign Kids, which aids children in developing essential analytical skills. With 3D characters, one-on-one interactive dialog features, digital and full-motion video, word and phrase translators, and three interactive games, you will move from beginner to advanced in a surprisingly short time!
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• American Sign Language

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Instant Immersion™ Spanish Version 2.0 moves you from a beginner to an intermediate speaker with a 5CD-ROM course of study. Including Talk Now!, Talk More and World Talk from Eurotalk, you willfocus on basic vocabulary, phrases and accurate pronunciation through the use of videotechnology features. Supplement your study with the Interactive Picture Dictionary, featuring2,000 word entries. Finally, test your linguistic skills with Who is Oscar Lake, a challenginginteractive mystery game.

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• 35 in-depth lessons covering starter subjects like the alphabet and pronunciation, then moving onto complex topics like emergencies, invitations and eating out
• Enrich your studies by learning about important cultural moments
• Master everyday conversations such as greetings,

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Instant Immersion™ Italian Version 2.0 moves you from a beginner to an intermediate speaker with a 5CD-ROM course of study. Including Talk Now!, Talk More and World Talk from Eurotalk, you willfocus on basic vocabulary, phrases and accurate pronunciation through the use of videotechnology features. Supplement your study with the Interactive Picture Dictionary, featuring2,000 word entries. Finally, test your linguistic skills with Who is Oscar Lake, a challenginginteractive mystery game.

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EuroTalk's interactive flash card system is perfect for helpingbeginning students and children (ages 3 to 10) learn basic Latin language andvocabulary skills. Language games create a fun education environment, while theprogram's recording tool lets students record their own words and sentences.Instruction is provided in more than 40 languages by a talented talking tiger. ... Read more

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cant install to hard drive, so too slow
too slow on an up-to-date PC. that's a shame, since the content is good enough, but nobody wants to play anymore. ... Read more

Features

• Multiple games and quizzes introduce basic elements of Arabic culture, while explaining simple words & phrases
• Fun quizzes and challenging memory games will reinforce learning
• Handy print & picture dictionary with both text and pictures to help you look up unfamiliar words
• Recording tools let you record your own voice, to compare pronunciation with a native Arabic speaker
• Track your abilities and measure your progress, for greater improvement - you can even print out special certificates to prove you completed the program

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• Comprehensive interactive language learning; ideal for beginners
• Easy and hard quizzes, plus a challenging memory game
• Compare yourself with native speakers; monitor progress
• Topics include phrases, food, shopping, telling time, and more
• On-screen help available in over 75 languages; printable dictionary

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Now you can learn a foreign language at your own pace with Easy Language's proven interactive learning methods. Learn more than 2,100 words and 360 phrases in 61 languages. This is ideal for international business travelers, tourists, and students. Learn by playing interactive games to test your vocabulary and compare your pronunciation with native speakers.

Start learning in four easy steps. Step one is to select a language from one of 15 native languages and then select the language you want to translate to. In step two, learn essential vocabulary by learning individual words, key phrases, and basic verb conjugations. Learn words in context, hear phonetic pronunciation, and even explore the native alphabet. In step three, perfect your pronunciation by comparing your pronunciation to native speakers with the advanced record and playback feature (available for many of the languages). In step four, reinforce your new vocabulary by researching world cultures, exploring written languages, and playing interactive games as you put what you've learned to use.

Choose from these 61 Languages: Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Bengali, Bulgarian, Catalan, Chinese (Simplified), Chinese (Traditional), Creole (Haitian), Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (UK), English (US), Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Flemish, Finnish, French, French (Canadian), Gaelic (Irish), German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latvian, Malay, Navajo, Norwegian, Polish, Lithuanian, Portuguese (Brazilian), Portuguese (Iberian), Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Slovak, Spanish (Castilian), Spanish (Latin America), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Yiddish, and Zulu. ... Read more

Reviews (4)

False advertizing
A crappy program which makes misleading claims.

Only 16 of those 61 languages actually have audio samples. For the rest, all you get is a picture, the word in English, and in your chosen language. None of their ads tell you this, not even on their own website!

I thought something was wrong when I couldn't hear the Icelandic words. The manual doesn't have a troubleshooting section. Their listed website says the help section has been removed! The 1-800 help line listed in the manual led me to an operator who said there was a new help line for this product... one where I have to pay long distance fees... and when I called it... I was put on hold with an expected wait of 15 minutes. I hung up and tried reinstalling, and this time checked the box to see the readme file, thus learning that this software is practically useless to me for learning Icelandic.

I also ordered EuroTalk Interactive's Talk Now "Learn Icelandic", which is much better, friendlier and more fun to use. I'd recommend them any day over Easy Langage's. Not that there's much choice. They are the only two I've found that *seemed* to have sound clips of the language. As it turns out, there's really only one, and that's Euro Talk. Too bad there's nothing beyond beginner level available.

Great if it worked
The promise of the software was so much more than it delivered. We have had similar problems with the software crashing the computer almost every time we attempt to use it. The sound works only occasionally and not at all for languages like Icelandic and Czech. Switching from one language to another almost always crashed the computer and most times we were unable to even get one language to switch from one activity to another. We bought the program because we have young children who are gifted in languages and naturally curious about and this seemed to be the perfect resource for them to explore many different languages on a superficial level until they found one they were interested in studying. The program proved so frustrating to use that we all gave up on it.

Don't waste your money
I bought this software to practice Hindi. It wasn't until I read the "Readme" file after installation that I learned that there's no pronunciation for Hindi and the Devanagri script is not displayed, despite the fact that L & H's web site says "you can see each language's International Character Set." It turns out that only the major languages (e.g. French, Japanese) have sound associated with the words and when I did listen to these the sound was simply terrible. Granted, I'm listening on a laptop with less than wonderful audio, but it has never sounded so bad. In my estimation Easy Language 61 is a complete waste of money. Fortunately it comes with a 30-day money back guarantee; I plan to take them up on it.

frustrating!
Easy Language 61 is an okay program -- when it works! I'd only used it briefly a couple of times at first, and it worked fine. It's a very simple interface [sometimes to the point of being a little confusing], and it helps you learn a few words and phrases by displaying pictures of items with the word in both your language and the word in your target language; you can hear the word spoken in your target language by clicking on the picture. Since in my case I was trying to learn Greek, I could toggle between the word written in Greek, and the word written phoenetically with a 'normal' alphabet.

Well.. later I sat down to do some serious learning, and I found that although I could still see the word written phoenetically, the word in Greek was inexplicably replaced by a bunch of "? ". I tried restarting the program and my computer several times, but the Greek seemed to be gone for good.

One of the selling points of the program was a nifty-sounding feature that will allow you to record your voice and compare it graphically with a native speaker. Well.. it's not as nifty as it sounds, as it turns out. The graph has no identifyers or explanations whatsoever, and is just a very simple sound-wave graph. There isn't even any explanation of or reference to this feature in the 19-page "User's Manual" [actually just a jewel case insert booklet that contains very little useful information]. Their customer support URL is listed in the User's Manual, but after visiting the URL the only thing I found was a mailing address for the company and a 1.800 number. I loathe talking on the phone, so the lack of online customer support was pretty disappointing. Also, inside the software box was an insert stating that Navajo was not available on my version of the program, but that I could visit a URL and recieve further information on how to receive "both" languages. Well, as it turns out, it's the very same URL as the "customer support" page. So, I couldn't download a patch -- by now I was kind of expecting something like that -- but there wasn't even any instructions on the site on how to get my Navajo upgrade! Talk about bloody frustrating..

To make matters worse, after about a half-hour of using the program [without my words written in Greek, but I figured I could do without that feature if I had to] the audio fritzed out and I couldn't hear the spoken word anymore. My computer then proceeded to lock up. My computer's fault, or the software's? At this point, my bet's on the software. ... Read more

Features

• Provides an easy way to learn to speak a second language
• Based on immersion-style environment for fast learning
• Teaches the basics of 9 different languages
• Covers Spanish, English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Russian, and Portuguese

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• Before You Know It Multi-Language includes fun and effective activities that really build your Spanish, French, German, and Italian listening, reading, writing, and speaking capabilities.
• Enhance your speaking ability with Pronunciation Practice.
• Test your language knowledge with the multiple choice activities.
• Build your writing and spelling skills with Dictation Practice.

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Business trip to Boston? Vacation in Vancouver? From Los Angeles to London, now you can join the conversation with Instant Immersion English 2.0, the dynamic 5-disc language learning system on CD-ROM. Begin your course of study with Talk Now English, your computer primer for basic vocabulary and accurate pronunciation. Talk More English reinforces your learning progress with video technology and supplemental phrases. Graduate to an intermediate level with World Talk English and its recording studio and interactive game show features. Build your English lexicon with 2,000 word entries from the Interactive Picture Dictionary offering audio and pictorial definitions. Finally, test your command of your new language with Who is Oscar Lake English, the interactive mystery game in which hunting down a stolen diamond in a foreign city is your only chance to clear your name. Packed with on-screen demonstrations, dictionaries, and diversions.
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Offers the freedom to learn at your own pace - Free-To-Roam Mode allows you to select the activities and exercises, while Guided Mode offers a predefined lesson plan. Improve your learning with 21 different oral and written activities -- from word association and dictation to games like The Right Word, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Mystery Phrase and more. Advanced 3D animations speed up the learning of unique Arabic phonemes. Key grammar, vocabulary and conjugation points presented in a clear and concise manner. Enrich your vocabulary in Arabic with an audio glossary of over 4,300 words. Available for shipping within the US and Canada only! ... Read more

Features

• Offers the freedom to learn at your own pace -Free-To-Roam Mode allows you to select the activities and exercises, while Guided Mode offers a predefined lesson plan
• Improve your learning with 21 different oral and written activities -- from word association and dictation to games like The Right Word, Fill-in-the-Blanks, Mystery Phrase and more
• Advanced 3D animations speed up the learning of unique Arabic phonemes
• Key grammar, vocabulary and conjugation points presented in a clear and concise manner
• Enrich your vocabulary in Arabic with an audio glossary of over 4,300 words