Talk Now! Learn Swedish - Beginning Level

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From: EuroTalk
Category: Software

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Rating: 2.0 out of 5 stars

4 reviews
Sales Rank: 2399

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4

MPN: amt5010
Model: AMT5010
ISBN: 1862210101
UPC: 781735501924
EAN: 9781862210103
ASIN: B00004VUA4

Release Date: January 31, 2003
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Features:

•	Swedish language learning software
•	Study vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more
•	Recording tool lets you practice with native speakers
•	Games and challenging quizzes make learning fun
•	On-screen help available in more than 70 languages

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Talk Now! Beginners Swedish is the perfect way to study a new language. It operates on multiple levels to create an immersive learning experience. Through vocabulary lessons and cultural exercises you'll develop a solid Swedish vocabulary -- and you'll have fun, too!

Amazon.com Product Description
This unconventional language-learning series offers games and quizzes that make the learning process fun, relaxing, and, as such, more successful. Ideal for beginners, Talk Now! Swedish includes such topics as vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more. A handy print and picture dictionary produces entries with both text and pictorial references. This interactive software title also features a recording tool, so you can compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers (microphone required). Quizzes and a challenging memory game let you test your newly acquired skills. You can also track your scores and print awards to celebrate. Best of all, you can change Talk Now! Swedish's onscreen help and menus to the language of your choice. With more than 70 languages from which to choose, this software makes learning Swedish accessible to everyone.

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars

fairly useless February 18, 2007
Warner M. Otter (Tokyo)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

The first problem is that the amount of material covered is extremely limited - the vocabulary you learn would probably fit on a single sheet of paper. What's worse though is that they don't bother including the "en" or "ett" articles with nouns, so you have no idea what gender a noun is, and whatever nouns you do learn will have to be learned a second time with their proper gender. Definitely not recommended.

4 out of 5 stars

EuroTalk Swedish January 25, 2005
Linnea C. Johnson
15 out of 15 found this review helpful

I found this CD to be very useful in reviewing Swedish, which I had studied years ago. I have sampled other products and found them to be ponderous, making language learning more of a chore than it ought to be. The EuroTalk CD's (I have several) are the most fun to do. Will you become proficient in the language by using this CD? Hardly, but you will get a good grounding and it's just fun if you are like me and like to study foreign languages. I wish Amazon.com would make the more advanced levels available as well. I think this CD would be very useful as well for the traveler who just wants an intro to the language. Most Swedes speak English, but not all are comfortable with it. And everyone appreciates an effort to learn the language of the home country.

1 out of 5 stars

not recommended April 3, 2004
9 out of 9 found this review helpful

I read the online reviews of this product and thought it looked good or at least good enough. It isn't.

The image editing is incredibly jerky and the actors' smiles are downright creepy when seen time and time and time again! (Were the option available to exclude the actors from the screen while still hearing them speak, it would be a better product.)

Though some of the vocabulary presented may be useful, the content of the CD does not offer much in the way of sentence or phrase help.

3 out of 5 stars When you just need to hear it... May 7, 2002
28 out of 30 found this review helpful

I was having a great deal of trouble learning Swedish from books because I just couldn't "hear" it inside my head. A friend of mine loaned me this CD and it helped a great deal to get past that challenge. It is a very simple program and there isn't much depth, but I did find it useful because (as Swedish is uncommon here in rural New York) I needed to hear phrases to orient myself. The vocabulary and phrases taught are primarily for tourists. I would rate it higher if the price were just a bit lower, more in line with it's true value.

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