| Can I Come Look At These Items? | | This online store is in association with Amazon.com, so these great, high-qualiy products will come from their warehouse or from other partners. Thanks for shopping! |
|
|
|
Rosetta Stone V2: Thai, Level 1 |  | From: Rosetta Stone Category: Software
List Price: $219.00 Buy New: $197.10 as of 3/15/2010 15:37 CDT details You Save: $21.90 (10%)
New (3) Used (3) from $186.99
Seller: Amazon.com Rating: 15 reviews Sales Rank: 1259
Format: CD-ROM Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Mac OS X Media: CD-ROM Operating System: Mac OS X Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2 Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.1 x 2.3
MPN: 1580228925 ISBN: 1603917373 UPC: 794678128158 EAN: 9781603917377 ASIN: B000TFI08U
Release Date: August 28, 2007 Shipping: Eligible for FREE Super Saver Shipping Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
| |
| Features:
| • | Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities | | • | You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech comparison tool | | • | Find the words you need when you need them Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts | | • | Rosetta Stone teaches you to spell and write accurately Language-specific keyboards and drag and drop tiles perfect your writing skills | | • | Learn to communicate by quickly combining words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogue |
|
| Similar Items:
| |
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description Thai Level 1 starts at the very beginning. You progress from words and phrases to complete sentences. Basic content and structures help you engage the world around you, culminating in practical language for getting around town. At any time you can practice writing or speaking what you've learned until you get it right.
Amazon.com Product Description Why is Rosetta Stone the world's No. 1 language-learning software? Because it works. Escape the endless tedium of translation, memorization, and grammar drills. Get the language you want, the skills you need, and the success you deserve by learning a new language naturally--the same way you learned your first language.  | |  | | | 
The complete immersion environment puts your native language-learning skills to work, eliminating your dependence on tedious translation and rote memorization.
| |  | |  | You learned your first language without translation. You learned your first language easily and naturally by connecting words to objects and events around you. With Rosetta Stone, learn a new language the same way: using native speakers and thousands of real-life images to help you think in the new language from the very beginning. Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language, without translation as a crutch, is crucial. Rosetta Stone's exclusive Dynamic Immersion method reinforces your natural language-learning skills with award-winning instructional technology. The timeless immersion method, along with research-based techniques and new technologies, make Rosetta Stone the clear solution to your language-learning needs.
What will you be able to do? Understand everyday language. Through Rosetta Stone's proficiency-based listening and reading activities, you'll soon be able to understand everyday language. Pronounce words correctly. After practicing with Rosetta Stone's proprietary speech comparison tool, the correct pronunciation of words will come easily. Find the words you need when you need them. Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts. Spell and write accurately. Language-specific keyboards and drag-and-drop tiles perfect your writing skills. Learn to communicate. You'll quickly combine words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogues. Retain what you learn. Regular reinforcement of new words and phrases in new contexts ensures the language sticks with you in the real world.
|
| Customer Reviews:
Showing reviews 1-5 of 15
Don't buy it February 10, 2010 J. Wright (Bangkok, Thailand) I've been living in Thailand for more than six years and have a decent grasp of Thai, but not great. I wanted to learn more using the much-touted Rosetta Stone approach. What a nightmare.
I was constantly asking my wife what this meant and what that meant. I understood a lot of what was said thanks to my current level of Thai, but many parts of each sentence I had no idea what they were talking about. If you are learning on your own without the constant help of a native Thai speaker, this will not work for you. Take it from someone who has knack for languages.
Other readers have also commented on the lack of attention the importance of tones in the language. Someone who does not know this won't understand that there are five different tones in the language (hi, mid, low, rising and falling). Don't waste your money.
Rosetta Stone Program to Learn Thai November 14, 2009 Don Antoine (Bangkok 10110, Thailand) 2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I am a life-long student of languages and have been living in Thailand for several years. I have tried to study Thai on my own and with language tapes and language CDs over the years, even before I came here to live. I am finishing Unit I of the Rosetta Stone V2: Thai Level One language course, and I find it very helpful to me--but with one very serious consideration: the program's use of the Thai alphabet throughout with no explanation of how to read it would be highly frustrating to someone who can't read Thai. Fortunately, I took the trouble some years ago to learn to read Thai. I think it is essential to be able to read the Thai writing system BEFORE getting the Rosetta Stone Thai. You don't have to know Thai vocabularly before getting this course, but you certainly do need to know how to read that writing system. Once you can read the Thai alphabet, the Rosetta Stone program will be beneficial in learning vocabulary and how to speak the language. Thai is a tonal language in which every syllable must be spoken on one of five different tones. The writing system makes it clear which tone goes with each syllable.
Several years ago, after trying two other books on how to read Thai, I came across "Thai for Beginners", by Benjawan Poomsan Becker. The course includes a CD,which is helpful. She made learning to read Thai almost a joy. She makes a steadily progressive and logical presentation of the writing system in easy stages. By the end of the book, you will be able to read Thai and have a good head start to make the Rosetta Stone Thai course work its best for you. That is my experience. When I bought Benjawan Poomsan Becker's "Thai for Beginners", I also bought her handy and easy-to-read "Thai-Englilsh English-Thai Dictionary". I strongly recommend both her books as prerequisites to the Rosetta Stone Thai course. I find the ability to read Thai and the occasional use of this dictionary essential for me to get the most out of the Rosetta Stone course. I hope there will be a Rosetta Stone Thai Level Two course available, soon. Note: "Thai for Beginners" and the dictionary are available at amazon.com.
RosettaStone Thai Level 1 June 12, 2009 Mina Haga (Asheville, NC) 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This product, in my opinion, is wonderful! My family is from Thailand and my dad never taught me the language. So, never really had conversations with my family without translation. I have been to Thailand a couple of times and am definitely familiar with the language and alphabet. This course is very involved and deep. It is not for the person who just wants to learn a few 'key' phrases to get them by on a brief visit. This, in my opinion, is for the person who wants to learn a new language. If that's you... I highly recommend it!
Excellant April 30, 2009 J. Pokorski 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I just received my Thai Rosetta Stone yesturday and have emersed myself in it.
The program is phenominal. It basiaclly breaks the language down "Barney style" in that it teaches as you would learn had you been born in Thailand. You learn "ball, cow, man, woman, inside, outside on top" and then you learn how to put them together like "the boy is under the plane" and thats just the first section. There are 8 sections with around 10 subsections to each CD-ROM. There is a lot of information for those who wish to speak more than just casual Thai i.e. "hello, how much and where is a resturant." This program is for people who actually want to LEARN a Language. Those who give bad reviews I fear have a small attention span and cannot or will not give time to learn. It's an entire new language, of course it will be hard. I speak English, Russian and Thai. For all intent and purpose English is by far the most confusing to a non native speaker. Thai is easily grasped if you put forth the effort. I awoke this morning with Thai phrases running through my head with a clear understanding of what they meant without having to relate it to my native tongue before understanding it. And thats what Rosetta Stone does, it shows a picture with native writing and says the word or senetece in the language specified. I.e. it will not give for example the following "poo chai, a picture of a man and then say in English, "a man". This is the only proper way to learn a language, and with this program, one is well on his way to doing so. A+
Rosetta Stone Language Immersion Software V2 Review - Thai L1 March 18, 2009 S. Jackson (Washington, DC, USA) The Rosetta Stone software is easy to install and get started with. It is easy to start learning words & phrases in the immersive environment it creates, however for situations where the written alphabet of the language under study is not common with the Student's language, it does have some drawbacks.
I'm an English-speaker attempting to learn Thai. In written Thai, breaks between words evidently are optional, and the Rosetta Stone software does not employ them, making it much more difficult to associate individual spoken words with their written counterpart. There is also apparently no tutorial provided as to the complex Thai alphabet, though perhaps that's a subject for the next level yet to be released.
I think it would be very useful for the next version of this software to employ word breaks (spaces between the words written in Thai) along with English subtitles in some of the exercises in order to speed the Students' grasp of the grammar and more quickly associate words. An alternative may be to include lesson-by-lesson word & sentence reference cards.
The language disks are copy-protected, making it impossible to create a backup copy for use on the road. This is a shame since I travel a lot and don't want to risk carrying my $200 originals around.
In spite of the mentioned shortcomings, I am making slow but steady progress in learning the spoken language, although I think that at this price range Rosetta Stone should work hard to fill in the obvious gaps.
Showing reviews 1-5 of 15
|
|
|
CERTAIN CONTENT THAT APPEARS ON THIS SITE COMES FROM AMAZON SERVICES LLC. THIS CONTENT IS PROVIDED ‘AS IS’ AND IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE OR REMOVAL AT ANY TIME. | |