Learn French Now! 9.0

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From: Transparent Language
Category: Software

Buy New: $69.95

New (1) Used (1) from $49.99

Rating: 4.0 out of 5 stars

14 reviews
Sales Rank: 5320

Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Full
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Macintosh
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 9.7 x 8 x 2.4

MPN: FER093CD
Model: 744573052102
UPC: 744573052102
EAN: 0744573052126
ASIN: B00005Y3VB

Release Date: April 10, 2002
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days

Features:

•	Over 15,000 Words Hundreds of Useful Phrases Full Motion "Big Picture" Video
•	Full Native Speaker Pronunciation SlowSound to Hear Every Nuance Advanced Pronunciation Practice
•	Record, Playback and Compare Alphabet Reference & Grammar Tutorial Conversation Practice
•	Integrated BYKI Vocabulary Software MP3 Audio for iPods or other players
•	Personal BYKI list creation (with sound) from 15,000 words Interactive Games Video Unscramble

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Editorial Reviews:

Product Description
Participate in real dialogs with native French speakers at your own speed. As you interact with the program, you'll hear how words are pronounced, see the spelling, discover word meanings and actually hear yourself speaking. In no time, you'll be confidently conversing in French!

Amazon.com Product Description
Learn French Now! 9.0 Deluxe takes you from beginner to confident speaker in no time. Listen and speak activities, grammar tools, and vocabulary games build a solid foundation, while real-life video content lets you interact with native speakers. Learn French Now! also adds online features that create an interesting and authentic atmosphere, making it fast, fun, and highly effective to learn French.

Learn French Now!'s four stimulating titles include: Fundamental French, Survival Phrases for French, Conversations in French, and A French Surprise Birthday Party. GrammarPro!, the software's comprehensive grammar tool, adds more than 10,000 words, extensive tutorials, and grammar quizzes to your desktop. Installed, GrammarPro! integrates seamlessly with all four Learn French Now! titles to provide detailed grammar analyses with just a click of your mouse.

Online features, fun interactive games, conversations, and phrases round out this deluxe suite. Practice your pronunciation using the integrated speech features, then record your voice and replay your conversation. Learn at your own pace by deciding when you need translation. Microsoft Windows users also receive GlobalWriter98, a word-processing tool that helps you write in more than 100 languages, as well as a handy screen saver.

Customer Reviews: Read 9 more reviews...

5 out of 5 stars

Interactive March 8, 2007
Sara Eugene-Torres
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

This product is wonderful. My son loves it and showing more interest in learning the language. The section which records your voice is great as it shows you how to practice the pronounciations, and where you need improvement. The alphabet, the letters, the translation they are all great, as well as the games. This was a wonderful investment.

4 out of 5 stars

Best used as addition to other programs October 24, 2004
Laura De Giorgio (Canada)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful

The good side of this program is that you can click on each word separately to hear it pronounced slowly and then you can click on the entire sentence to hear it spoken at a normal speed.

After going through the section with some essential words and phrases, there is a leap to dialogues and also to the language which moves to intermediate / advanced level. If you already speak French, but your French got a little bit rusty, this may be a fun way to review it. If you're just beginning to learn French, this may be frustrating and you will need to supplement this program with other more solid books both related to language and grammar.

On a side note, Transparent Language has additional CDs as add-ons to this program, which as far as I know are only available through their website. Add-ons deal with different applications of language - for business, travel, entertainment, literature, etc. One CD, for example will take you on a tour through Paris.

It is definitely much cheaper just renting or buying French movies and the only benefit from getting these add-ons is that you can click on each word separately and hear words pronounced slowly as many times as you need to, and then you can click on the entire sentence, or let the entire video excerpt play.

1 out of 5 stars

Sorry I Ever Wasted My Money On This @%$# January 31, 2004
36 out of 43 found this review helpful

I bought this title back in August when the reviews seemed overwhelmingly good. But it is obvious now that someone connected with this company was trying to boost the rating with false commentaries. This is truly the worst piece of software I have ever used. There is no rhyme or reason to the GUI, even the sound of the French speakers is muddled. I have the Rosetta Stone French Explorer that my husband and I enjoy using.We were surprised when we actually started the learn the language. But rather than spend the extra money for the Rosetta Stone complete software program I fell for this drivel. As my husband says, quite often you really do get what you pay for. This lousey piece of &^$# is heading for the Goodwill Store.

2 out of 5 stars

Beware many of the other reviews, written by company... December 27, 2003
M. Greengard (New York, NY United States)
54 out of 59 found this review helpful

It's hard to imagine a more transparent attempt to inflate the user ratings for these products. Over half of the five-star rated reviews are copy-paste identical. Not coincidentally, there is one such review for each language product they make. I'm glad Amazon is bunching them together so you can see this clearly. Beware!

A friend lent me the French version and it's mediocre and unstructured.

5 out of 5 stars Try this! Its good! July 2, 2003
6 out of 11 found this review helpful

French Now by Transparent Language is excellent for language learning. It gave me everything I could need to learn and practice all aspects of French. It has an Alphabet Reference, Pronunciation practice features, Grammer tutorials, thousands and thousands of vocabulary words and phrases, and many games to help practice it all. My favorite feature is the Conversation practice which has you talking back into the computer with a microphone and then the computer will tell you if you answered correctly and how well your pronunciation is. In the end, I could not be happier with this software, it does everything its supposed to and more.

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