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Usually ships in 1 business days | | | | | | The quickest way to learn - guaranteed! Instant Immersion uses natural image association techniques to help you learn as easily as you learned your first language. You will have more fun, save money and reach your goals faster - guaranteed! Whether you're learning for school, work or your next vacation, Instant Immersion's fun and effective exercises, interactive activities and challenging quizzes will help you achieve language fluency in less time than other language systems. You will think, read and speak your new language with ease. German Levels 1, 2 & 3 includes three levels of interactive language learning on a DVD-ROM, the complete audio course for transferring to your iPod or MP3 player, and a printable picture dictionary. Bonus content includes an interactive DVD and the Who is Oscar Lake? computer mystery game. Includes a six-month money-back guarantee! Level 1 teaches you the essential words and phrases so you can get around with ease. Learn more complex phrases in Level 2, plus pronunciation and how to converse. In Level 3, immerse yourself in advanced conversations, refine your language skills and retain what you learned. Why does Rosetta Stone cost so much more? Because we refuse to spend millions on advertising. So instead of paying for their expensive ad campaign, try Instant Immersion Levels 1, 2 & 3. We guarantee you'll be satisfied or we'll give you your money back! | | | |
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| | Product Details | | Product Weight: | 0.4 pounds | | Package Length: | 7.6 inches | | Package Width: | 5.5 inches | | Package Height: | 2.2 inches | | Package Weight: | 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating: |  based on 7 reviews |
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| | System Requirements | | Platform: | Windows Vista / Windows 7 / Windows XP / Mac OS X | | Media: | DVD-ROM | | Item Quantity: | 1 |
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| | Features | Perfect for travel, business or schoolFun and easy to use!The world?s most popular language learning softwareWindows & Mac compatibleIncludes: DVD-ROM, audio course for MP3, interactive DVD, Who is Oscar Lake? CD-ROM, and a printable dictionary
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10 of 11 found the following review helpful:
 I feel this product is a great value. Sep 12, 2011
By Gary Smalz
I do not think you can go wrong for this price. There are 6 titles from Euro Talk, (whose format I like very much) plus iPod/MP3 software you can download to your computer or MP3 player. I made an MP3 disc and listen to it in my car....very useful practice. This package is a fun easy way to increase your vocabulary. Plus a DVD game and a CD Rom game. Low price and Great Value. I use a PC. The orange box DVD version of the Euro Talk software had bugs. I would buy the Yellow box version with CD ROM discs.
14 of 17 found the following review helpful:
Easy and fun! Aug 05, 2011
By StephyJade
This is the only thing that you'll need to learn German quickly and efficiently. I had a brief layover in Germany, about nine hours, but I didn't want to spend those hours confused or disoriented from my lack of fluency in the native language. I searched for quite a bit of time for a solution to my language deficiency, but nothing was really 'working' for me- until I saw this product. I highly recommend it to anyone who has a problem similar to mine or to anyone who simply wants to learn a new language! I absolutely love the voice recording feature which allows you to finely 'tune' your pronunciation. I remember taking French in school, and this product is just like having a real teacher to guide and instruct you! Forget about books and other programs that offer maybe half of what this has to offer. If you aren't the 'school' type, and think that perhaps this program won't be able to hold your attention, think otherwise! There are many interactive games and even lessons you can simply transfer to your iPod (or other mp3 player) and listen while you go about your day. This worked for me and if you're looking to learn German (or perhaps another language that Instant Immersion offers), search no further!
10 of 13 found the following review helpful:
 Worthless. Dec 15, 2011
By Ethan Lantz
As someone who has studied 7 languages (Spanish, German, Ancient Hebrew, Ancient Greek, Latin, Modern Greek) and has obtained a BA in Linguistics and Biblical Languages, I can tell you that this product and this method will get you nowhere. I also attempted to use this product (or perhaps an older edition) four years ago, before having done the studying.
This product is not true immersion and you CANNOT learn language the way that you did as a child. You may hear that people claim to have learned a language using a method like this, but such people will not be fluent. The first flaw is in their reasoning, you cannot learn language like child; it's simple, children and adults function very different mentally. It's true that adults can acquire language at levels of incredible fluency, but there is no easy way there. You have to put time into it. The second flaw in this product is that it in no way resembles immersion. If you want true immersion, move to Germany. Otherwise, find a tutor. This product does not even teach you the alphabet until late. Contrary to what you might think, knowing the alphabet will help learn the oral aspects of the language. Furthermore, you cannot learn the complex grammar of another language intuitively. There are no grammar explanations with the product. Adults best learn by using their developed cognitive abilities; this product does not make use of that.
The only suitable use for this product is to teach you a few basic phrases. If you want that, just buy a phrase book with a CD. Save some money.
2 of 2 found the following review helpful:
Das ist gut! Mar 20, 2012
By AndiV
This product is great. It explains very well, the material is easy to understand and it's actually fun to learn. I would recommend this to anyone who wants to learn a new language but can't afford Rosetta Stone
19 of 29 found the following review helpful:
Such a weak disorganized program, I was glad it was also broken May 27, 2011
By Joseph W. Fowler
It is difficult to believe how amateurish this software is. No, "amateur" is not the word. I've used dozens of excellent Linux applications from the free software community, almost all written by amateurs. There "amateur" tends to mean solid, with few or no bugs, simply lacking some of the slickness of professional products (and not even always that). That does not describe this product.
No, this was probably written by true professionals, with too little time on their hands. No amateur working on this at night out of love would come up with this jumble of junk.
Instant Immersion is better described as juvenile, disorganized, and creaky. I'm sure the interfaces would have been truly cutting-edge...in 1987. It's worth knowing that it consists of six to ten separate, weakly linked products in one box. I imagine they were all written by one company, but they have slightly different feels and interfaces. (Yes, it turns out there are multiple ways to feel ugly and disorganized.) So you should read the subtitle "Levels 1, 2, and 3" as "Programs that were written by programmer 1, 2, and 3 in our shop. We let #3 use bigger words." (And hey, in Deutsch, the words can get really big!)
With all this in mind, you'll understand why I was relieved, rather than upset, to discover that some kind of bug rendered this program basically unusable on my MacBook (OS 10.5). With (literally) every single word that I attempted to learn in the "Talk Now Part I" program, a dialog box would appear to explain that a long unsigned integer was expected but not found. (I wasn't informed what was found instead. Hmm?) I sympathize, I really do. When I want an unsigned long integer and get, I don't know, a cheeseburger, it's really distressing. So this dialog box wants to know if I'd prefer to "Cancel" or "Quit". "Quit" is obvious enough--you give the program permission to crash. "Cancel", it turns out, means "ignore the cheeseburger and treat it as an unsigned long integer", or something. But click the wrong box, and your work learning German is done. It's like it was never tested. I'd assume this bug does not apply in Windows, nor in the previous (yellow) edition. But maybe I am being too generous.
Aside from the insufferable long integer dialog boxes, there are plenty of weaknesses that could be overlooked individually, but not in combination. For me the most severe was the requirement that you run the application from the CD-ROMs. I understand they want to protect their intellectual property (such as it is), but the performance hit you take from reading EVERY SINGLE NEW WORD off the CD is enormous. The program is just looking up a short audio file, a small and ugly image, and some letters. From memory, that would be a piece of cake. From the disk? Many seconds. Add on the way that the detective game "Where is some missing dude?" can only run in full-screen mode but using only a small subscreen (320x200 maybe? Or 480x300?); the way that the MP3 files are a zillion little one-word files (free of any context or even the English translations; the way that the program does not appear to engage you in conversation at any point.... Well, I think I've covered enough serious flaws.
It's true that I did not give the program much of a chance to show me some unexpected tight connections between the sections. I can't say whether it teaches grammar as well as vocabulary. Perhaps the advanced levels (which also have debugging dialog boxes) engage you in conversations.
You see, the program being so weak in all respects, I was glad to have a technical excuse to send it back for a refund. (I assume it's hard for the vendor to argue with "It pops up a pointless debugging dialog on Mac OS X for every single activity I attempt".)
Perhaps language-learning software is just an impossible dream. The pain of using the Instant Immersion program is far too great, and the expense of its most prominent yellow-boxed competitor (you know who I mean) is just far too steep. I am going to return to my previous German-learning technique: checking out the excellent Pimsleur language CDs from the local library, maybe buy some textbooks or workbooks.
I don't know what to say about all the positive reviews that the 2nd (yellow) edition of Instant Immersion receives. Are they using the same program I got? Did the 3rd (orange) version break everything that was beautiful in its predecessor? Or have we all come to expect sludge in a box when we buy software? I did not think I was a total software snob, but perhaps that's the answer. Anyway, if you are, too, then I thought you'd like to know why I found this program not worth the polycarbonate it was printed on.
But if you find something good, let us all know!
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