Instant Immersion German
- Challenging interactive mystery game, Who is Oscar Lake
- 5 CD-ROM course of German language study
- Includes Talk Now!, Talk More, and World Talk from Eurotalk
- Focuses on basic vocabulary, phrases, and accurate pronunciation
- Interactive Picture Dictionary with 2,000 word entries
Product Description
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Instant Immersion German delivers an authentic German learning environment to your desktop. Based on the Euromethod–an approach that immerses students in a country’s language and culture–this language-learning suite includes five CD-ROM titles: Talk Now!, World Talk, Talk to Me, Interactive Picture Dictionary, and Who Is Oscar Lake? Native German speakers introduce words and phrases. Lessons can be … More >>
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For the low price, you definitely get your money’s worth! The program covers numbers, telling time, basic words, sentences, colors, nations, foods, names of body parts, and more! I especially like that each word is pronounced, not just by one person, but by a man and a woman, so you get a little bit of variation on acceptable pronunciation. And it even has a feature where a word is first said by the software, then you say the word (you need to have a mic) and then you get to hear how your pronunciation sounds compared to how the software says it. There are tests, both easy and hard, which I personally enjoyed. And there’s a game show type test option that is kind of cute and fun too. And all this is just on the FIRST of the five disks! The other disks cover such things as pronunciation tests (the software critiques how well you pronounce the words), an interactive picture Dictionary (Kind of like the Rosetta Stone Explorer series), and a cool game called “Who is Oscar Lake?” where based on how well you do will determine if you win the day or end up in prison.
While you’ll not become fluent in German with just this software, you’ll certainly be able to make your way around Germany just fine after using this software.
That’s My Opinion, ut You’re Welcome To It.
Rating: 4 / 5
There is alot missing from this program (and most German programs out there, in my opinion), but it has some nice features. The games are just flashcard practice, but fun nonetheless. The speech recognition on CD 3 is not as good as German Now! 9, but still helpful. The picture dictionary isn’t terribly helpful.
The game on CD 5, Who is Oscar Lake, was what really made me want to get this. The concept is great, and after learning the interface and giving it time, it grew on me.
Having fun and maintaining your interest in the language is the best way to learn it. That is a strength of this program, in my opinion. I would recommend using this program as a supplement to a class, textbook, or mabye a better program, because it is not comprehensive enough to stand alone. But for a good price, why not go for it?
Rating: 3 / 5
Super software for the price
Covers all the elements to learn German
Very fun and engaging activities
I will highly recommend it, you definitely get a great value for a low price
Rating: 5 / 5
There is alot missing from this program (and most German programs out there, in my opinion), but it has some nice features. The games are just flashcard practice, but fun nonetheless. The speech recognition on CD 3 is not as good as German Now! 9, but still helpful. The picture dictionary isn’t terribly helpful.
The game on CD 5, Who is Oscar Lake, was what really made me want to get this. The concept is great, and after learning the interface and giving it time, it grew on me.
Having fun and maintaining your interest in the language is the best way to learn it. That is a strength of this program, in my opinion. I would recommend using this program as a supplement to a class, textbook, or mabye a better program, because it is not comprehensive enough to stand alone. But for a good price, why not go for it?
Rating: 3 / 5
For starters, all the content offered would have easily fit on a single CD-ROM, so their offering so many disks reminds of bogus language courses from the past which had 30 or so cassettes or videocassetes, each with about 10 minutes or so of playback. Each area of the course is essentially worthless. To just describe one disk, the vocabulary disk has about 2,000 or so words almost randomly chosen. Very few of the essential words of the language appear, and instead hundreds of terms deal with country names and things you don’t need to know your first days, such as cufflinks and redcurrant.
It is true that pictures and videos help remember words, but the images are thoroughly depressing and [sad] on many ocassions. For example, the woman in the “kiss” term looks like she is doing so forcibly, and in general any picture or video (one in about 30 definitions has a 2 or 3 second video) in which people of any age appear seem to either have a great dislike for the photographer, or for life in general. It is rather disturbing to see such suffering when one is trying to learn a new language.
The other disks are even more worthless, and everything has a depressing quality to it. Needless to say, I sent it back, and will instead try another product. I recommend staying far away from this one!
Rating: 1 / 5