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

I have a friend from France. She speaks several languages, and well, I only know one (English). I wanted to, yknow, impress her a bit, show her that Im more internationally minded than other people. I picked up this program and used it for a bit. I learned quite a bit of words that I didnt know before and was able to earn a smile from her, that was great.

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

I just purchased this and tried to run it on my relatively new MacBook (Intel Core 2 Duo)

I really have learned a lot from this program and I havent spent that much time on it, because I dont have much time. I turn the speaking portions on and just listen, after I have quickly gone through the lessons, then challenge myself to try to remember just from hearing it over and over. Its hard, but it works. For those of you who havent much time, try it.

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

This program isnt cohesive at all; it seems to be a bunch of programs packaged together without an overall plan. I really dont think anyone could actually learn a language from this.

Should have read the fine print as this product does not function properly with Windows 7. Partway through Level 2, the PC reported problematically huge memory use (my PC has 9 GB RAM)! While playing and recording my pronunciation, the machine repeatedly stopped functioning rendering the program useless beyond that point. Each disc is a separate program to be installed and that disc must be inserted to run the program. Very old fashioned style graphics and interface. Learned some vocabulary but thats about it. It may play better on a Windows XP machine.

Excellent cds

I have used Rosetta Stone and this product. I agree that neither are quite what they promise, which is an EASY way to learn a language. For someone to compare this favorably to RS is highly suspicious to me. After multiple failed attempts to get this product to work on my Mac, I went to a PC laptop to actually check it out. This product compares to Rosetta Stone in the way that a fast food hamburger compares to a well-prepared steak. This is really nothing more than a mildly-interactive vocabulary list. Perhaps thats worth the money, but dont confuse it with the advanced learning procedures from Rosetta Stone. My problem with RS is that they do not show you enough direct translation vocabulary. So in that sense, this would be a nice complement to RS. The audio CDs included in this are actual lessons, thus not really helpful for drilling and memorizing. Its really not comparable to RS at all, and any comparison is incredibly unfair. They should take those claims off of their packaging. Ill be demanding a refund for the Mac incompatibility, but otherwise would make use of the money back guarantee. Save yourself the hassle.

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