Product Description

Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three million people to date. Designed for newcomers to the language, Talk Now! is the perfect method to access a wealth of comprehensive fundamental vocabulary and accurate pronunciation in one user-friendly plan packed with useful words, a picture dictionary, and quizzes. Anyone over 10 years of age will find the program indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #5887 in Software
• Brand: TOPICS Entertainment
• Model: 51581
• Released on: 2007-12-01
• Platforms: Windows XP, Mac OS X
• Format: CD-ROM
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds

Features

• The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
• Extensive basic vocabulary, from first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body and numbers, to telling time, shopping and countries
• Each of the target languages for Talk Now! has help available in an additional 102 languages ¿ simply choose the flag of your native country in the beginning of the program & EuroTalk¿s Talk Now! Program will provide instruction in your native language
• Each topic contains listening practice, an easy game, a hard game, a printable dictionary as well as the opportunity to record your voice and hear how you sound in comparison to the two native speakers who tutor the user throughout the Talk Now! course
• Each question that is answered correctly increases the user's score - get an answer wrong and points will be lost. There are 1800 points in total to gain from the disc. A full score earns the user a 'Gold Award'

Customer Reviews

Mistakes and Too Little Useful Content
My wife was born and educated in Slovakia which, with this language course, is a good thing. It has a number of mistakes-- places where what the actors in the video are saying is not what the topic vocabulary item is. My wife checks the content out before I study it, pointing out the things I should ignore.

The phrase content is not very useful in the real world. I really cannot imagine why, in Slovakia, I would need to say "May I please have a Mango?" Since Slovakia is not exactly the focal point of contemporary Asian cuisine why waste time with things like "May I have chopsticks?"

The course also uses too much archaic language; words and phrases that have not been routinely used in casual conversation for decades.

Why can't SOMEBODY produce a language course that is actually useful? How to read a restaurant menu in Slovak, how to read the Bratislava public transit maps and schedules, how to ask for an itemized bill, how to use the Slovak equivalent of 911, how to work the self-service pricing scales used in Slovalk supermarkets, how to order eggs over easy, etc.

The course is marginally useful, at least it's not expensive.