Instant Immersion French Levels 1, 2 & 3 [Old Version]

I bought this because I am traveling to France for vacation.

I have been using this program for a week now and am totally into it. Its actually fun and amusing. I was debating buying Rosetta Stone for a few months but was nervous to spend that much money without knowing what it was like. I thought for $20 I will give Instant Immersion a try and can say now, that I would definitely pay more than $20 something dollars. It really works and is helping me remember a lot from the french lessons I took a few years ago. I have a MACbook and unlike the other review I can say that I have had no problem with this program. I have tried using workbooks and lessons and flash cards for quite some time and none of it is as effective as this has been in a matter of days.

I absolutely detested this course. The most annoying thing was watching the characters on the screen move their mouths completely out of sync with the words being spoken. It was like watching that 80s character, Max Headroom. I like Max, but I dont want him trying to teach me French.

This product starts off fairly good, it offers you a game where you have to say, recall, and pick out basic french words from a given selection. This is a good idea, except that in the later stages the process tends to test your ability to win the games rather than the french language. To graduate from the first session, you have to score 100%. The hard game consists of six cards that have pictures on them. They are then flipped over and you have to remember where each of them are. If you make one mistake, the entire 5 minute game is pointless and you have to start again. If you have two symbols that have similar sounds, there is no repeat button to hear it again so you have to guess.

This is a very good educational program. I took French years ago in school, and it is sharpening skills and teaching new ones.

Im not impressed. Im not impressed. Im not impressed. Im not impressed. Im not impressed. Im not impressed. Im not. For some reason this review does not respnd to me pressing the submit button. Is this because you do not like my evaluation? Or is my computer on the fritz?

It looks new enough but I cant get it to play on any device.

I bought this product as a refresher for French learned in high school and college. It worked great for that. I popped the mp3 CD into the car stereo and finished all of the lessons before I even realized it. With the reasonably paced review, the French I once spoke came rushing back after many years of not using it. Counter to some other reviewers complaints, I had no problems with the discs in my PC and also easily copied the MP3s onto my portable player. Likewise I have my own computer headset/mic (I dont expect software to come with hardware like some of the reviewers apparently do), so had no problems there either. As to language courses in general, I learned French in the classroom and needed this product as a worthwhile review. Its well worth the money. I learned German on my own by being immersed while living in Germany and am fluent. Lesson learned: if you are serious about learning a language, get away from your computer/stereo and interact with real native speakers. This product will give you a valuable, reasonably priced intro until you can make that happen. For those not sure what to do but want to get started, I suggest you try this product first. If it works well for you, you can always go for the much more expensive Rosetta Stone after. (If youre able to pay the high cost of RS, you wont notice the little bit youve spent on Instant Immersion.) If this doesnt work for you, at least youre only out $30 instead of $500+.

I bought this disk for my children as they all wanted to learn french. They love playing the games and WANT to get on and learn. I have to say that I have even started to play the games because they are entertaining and interactive. THis program is good for vocabulary and learning basic phrases but if you need a program to learn to speak and understand french today (because of a trip or business)this may not be the best program for you. It is working great for my kids as an exposure to the sounds and some basic vocab. Compared to Rosetta Stone (which I purchased several years ago in Spanish) it is much more entertaining and fun to use, easy to install and set up, and I can track my students progress very easily (in Rosetta even after following the instructions it never tracked my kids progress properly. Worth the 25-30 dollars.

I got this as a gift for my girlfriend and she is hooked on it. Shes taken French in school and was brushing up on her fluency. Needless to say, shes hooked. Cant get her away from it. Plays for hours at a time. I also have Spanish and Chinese and find them to be extremely helpful and useful in learning the languages. Pennies on the dollar compared to Rosetta Stone and just as good.