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Whistle Stopper - Rosetta Stone V2: Thai, Level 1
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List Price: $219.00
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Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
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Binding: CD-ROM
Brand: Rosetta Stone
EAN: 0794678289255
Feature: Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
Format: CD-ROM
Label: Rosetta Stone
Manufacturer: Rosetta Stone
Platform: Windows Vista
Publisher: Rosetta Stone
Release Date: 2007-08-28
Studio: Rosetta Stone
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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
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Summary: Rosetta Stone - The Fastest Way to Forget a Language!
Comment: I had four months of Thai in Thailand two years ago and have spoken "Tourist Thai" there for years. With this background I figured the first few lessons on Rosetta Stone would be a great refresher courses, but then I'd get into the good stuff and work on the critical pronunciation skills needed to speak Thai well.
For example `maa' may either be a dog, a horse or have any of several other meanings. The word for tiger and shirt are also "the same". The meaning changes with the infection. Wrong inflection and you wind up collecting your tiger from the drycleaner.
I have wanted Rosetta Stone Thai for years, but at over well over $200.00 it was never practical. Then, I just did it. While this may work for Nike, it did not work for me. What I received was a 200+ dollar flaming yellow box of headaches.
The flaming yellow instruction manual is full of pictures - none of which match the pages I am looking at on screen - except for the title at the top that lets me know I am truly on the correct screen and that life is just cruel. No worries though they have a Help Desk. Of course the it is open M-F when any semi - normal person would be at work. When I finally did get through the man asked about my purchase, then laughed at me and snotted off. I looked around for another $200.00 to have him beaten to a pulp, but alas I am broke.
Ultimately the Hyena behind the Customer Service desk gave me some token advice to make me go away (you know how you can feel it when someone is doing this to you). Of course nothing was fixed. I waited all weekend for Rosetta Stone CS desk to open again and got a helpful, friendly lady who got me set up despite my disks persistent desire to teach me Spanish. Se habla Thai?
Let the learning begin! Well, not really. You see I could barley keep up with the first lesson. Had I not already spoken Thai, I doubt I'd of been able to any lean Thai. Heaven help those starting from scratch. There was no introduction into the unique language issues around the specific language. I don't know how long you may practice inunciating the words casually before they bother to tell you the that if you are not perfect you will be riding a dog up the beach on vacation. Of course you have to get past the wrong screen issue in order ever practice pronunciation - I think. Who knows?
Wore yet, mid way through a first lesson (may be 20 minutes in) with long sentences like "The woman and the young boy are in the boat" I found myself suddenly being asked to match the `sentence' to one of several photos. No. There was no intropduction to the alphabe. No. There was no intro to small words. (I want my Tiger back).
For those unfamiliar with Thai, the letters look like swirled noodle. These long sentences look like a plate of spilled spaghetti. It is ludicrous to start where Rosetta Stone does! So why not skip that section and just feel like a looser, then move on? I tried. Believe me. I studied the manual, not Thai for an evening - that lead me back to all those screens that are not the same in the book as in real life. It is now another Friday. Costumer Service is closed and Hyena Man is off for the weekend. By the way - be prepared to live on hold trying to get thought to him. When I call on Monday I will be sitting on hold with my good old Thai Language school Flash Cards in hand, so technically I am guess learning Thai by owning Rosetta Stone.
I fully believe the dream is dead. The disks I wanted for years are a flaming yellow hole in my wallet. The only reason I have not returned this product is I purchased them just as I was moving and the receipt is A.W.O.L. I have tried for over 4 weeks of discouraging experiences to even get started using my Rosetta Stone Thai and it has been nothing but one negative experience after another. This is time I could have spent reviewing materials I already own - not being discouraged and having my limited time wasted. Adiós a mis amigos!
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Summary: This is Version 2 of Rosetta Stone...
Comment: I failed to notice that I was buying V2 of Rosetta Stone. My daughter used V3 of Italian, and it was wonderful. I checked out her program, and it was nicely arranged and easy to use. V2 is not so. Very difficult to use, not user friendly, etc.
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Summary: Great Software to learn advanced Thai
Comment: My mother is from Thailand, and I never was taught the language as a child. I picked up this software before a monumental trip to meet my older sister who does not speak english. I studied each chapter religiously, and attempted to really LEARN each and every lesson. It was amazing!! You must be very self disciplined to use a piece of software like this, but the rewards are worth it. I can now speak casual Thai with my sister, and I understand my little nieces when they say that they love me. It has truly helped me become more conversant in Thai. Since then I have been looking for a more advanced software tool but have not found one yet. I really hope that Rosetta can create a Level 2 soon!!!
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Summary: Mixed
Comment: The speaking and the vocabulary building are nice. Where this product fails is in the writing area. If you were studying the writing independently, the program would reinforce it. But, if you buy the program to learn Thai speaking and writing you're only getting half of what you paid for.
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Summary: Experienced only need apply
Comment: This program assumes that you can already read Thai script. There is nothing that teaches you the individual characters and sounds; you are presented, from the gitgo, with whole words and phrases (Thai script does not uses spaces between words). For the first two lessons, this approach is OK, as you associate sounds with pictures. However, the third lesson expects you to associate sounds with written symbols, which cannot be done without a prior study of the characters and some sense of what they represent.
To use this program, you will need a dictionary and some kind of guide to the alphabet to begin reading. This is not exactly an easy task, as many dictionaries either use phonetic transliteration (using Roman characters instead of Thai), or have very small print.
Before buying this program, learn the alphabet, if you can find a good book. Printing out Wikipedia's page on the Thai alphabet may help, although the characters are very small and the differences between many of them are very minute.
I'm extremely disappointed with the overhyped Rosetta Stone approach, and cannot recommend it to anyone, at least not for an Asian language. However, if you already have some background and knowledge of the characters, this may help. Otherwise, you won't get past the first three lessons.
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Editorial Reviews:
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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.
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