Product Description

With Learn To Speak English 2002 shows new English speakers how to speak like a native in no time! Any user becomes a skilled English-speaker with this comprehensive language study aid!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5083 in Software
• Brand: The Learning Company
• Model: 381415
• Released on: 2004-06-07
• Platform: Windows XP
• Format: CD-ROM

Features

• Learn to speak English
• Over 100 lessons build fluency
• Perfect your pronunciation with voice recognition technology
• Adjustable study plan, talking dictionary, cultural video clips, and more
• 4 CD set includes conversational CD

Amazon.com Product Description
Build your fluency in English with this feature-rich four-CD collection. Learn to Speak English's 100 lessons and adjustable study plan expand your English vocabulary and perfect your pronunciation. Choose from a variety of instructional features, including cultural video clips and a talking dictionary. Learn to Speak's voice recording, playback tools, and speech recognition technology let you practice your English, develop your ear, and hone your pronunciation. A conversational CD completes the collection, adding a final polish to your newly acquired abilities.

Customer Reviews

Obsoleted when it came out
I see so many people who brought it in 2003 or 2004 say it's obsolete because they couldn't download the internet lessons. Guess what, I brought it directly from The Learning Company when it came out in 2002, and I couldn't download any of the internet lesson since the beginning. I called technical support, they told me the internet courses will be available later, since the product is very new at the time I brought it. I waited and waited, the internet courses never available. The CD is too basic, and it doesn't offer much. People should look else where for a better quality product than Learn to Speak English 8.1.

Obsolete product - Do not buy it.
I bought this product for my niece. This is for a beginner
who just start learning english. I can't access the Internet
Lessons category from the CDs because all the files are no
longer existed and can't get help from technical support
either since this is an obsolete product. Technical support
is terrible and such a waste of time - You are on your own
with your problem!

A Word to the Wise
1. This is an obsolete product. ALL of the optional downloads expired 2 YEARS AGO!!! So, you'll have limited support.

2. The on-line help, FAQ and Knowledge base are totally worthless. Don't even waste your time looking for help there.

3. Installation totally locks up a Windows 2000 system. My system was absolutely rock solid and stable until I installed this product. Installation totally locked up the system -- even the mouse didn't move. Be Ware!

4. There are no books or documentation of any kind with this product. If you want any help, you have to go to a web site or use the CDs. If the product kills your system as it did mine, you can't use either. There is no phone number for support.

5. Support is basically non-existant. If you can't figure out how to use the product or if something goes wrong or you get error messages, you are totally on your own to figure it out.

If you're technically astute, you can eventually get the product to work but expect to spend many hours in the process. Once you get it working, it looks like an OK package but it wasn't an easy process here. Again, there is absolutely no where to go if you have a problem.