Rosetta Stone Latin American Spanish Version 3 Level 1
1. Brief Introduction of Rosetta Stone software.
Rosetta Stone software is proprietary language-learning software, its title and its logo refer to the Rosetta Stone, an artifact inscribed in multiple languages that helped Jean-Francois Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone software uses a combination of images, text, and sound, with difficulty levels increasing as the student progresses, in order to each various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drills or translation. They call this the "Dynamic Immersion method". According to the company, the software is designed to teach languages they first languages are learned.
2. Rosetta Stone Latin American Spanish Version Level 1
Level 1 consists of four units, each with four thirty-minute lessons and a number of five to fifteen minute activities.The four units in Level 1 are: Language Basics, Greetings and Introductions, Work and School, and Shopping. The leve is supposed to "build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure," takes about 24 hours to complete following Rosetta Stone's recommended course. Starting from simple vocabulary such as basic greetings, "boy", "girl", "man", and "woman", moving up through numbers, comparisons, adjectives, nouns, verb conjugation, and telling time. Each unit also contains a ten-minute simulated conversation called a "Milestone." Learners will gain the confidence to begin to learn and speak Latin American Spanish after they finish Level 1.
3. Application of Rosetta Stone Latin American Spanish Version Level 1
There are USA headset with microphone, User's guide, CD-ROM for level 1 and Audio Companion inside the package.
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations are:
Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
512 MB RAM
1 GHz or faster processor speed
600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
16-bit sound card
800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
Internet or phone connection required for product activation
Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (included with purchase)
16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)
4. Learning Tips for Latin American Spanish
Spanish pronunciation and spelling are regular and predictable
There are two categories of Spanish nouns of masculine and feminine
Don't be surprised if you see sentences without subjects. Rosetta
Spanish has two verbs that mean to be. One is used for characteristics that are more permanent, and one for characteristics that are more temporary.
Youll notice that many Spanish words use accent marks, which indicate where to put stress.
Sometimes an accent distinguishes one word from another that is identical except for the mark. For example: esta and est.
The letter is distinct from n in its pronunciation. The letter ll is also pronounced differently than two single ls.
Spanish has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and her relationship to the person being addressed.
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