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Entered CNET Catalog: 08/20/2003
SKU: 794678018589
Manufacturer: Fairfield Language Technologies
Manufacturer description
This complete set offers Beginner through Advanced instruction with over 8000 real-life images and phrases in 210 lessons. Chinese Levels I & II provide up to 550 hours of mastery instruction in Listening Comprehension, Reading and Speaking. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. Previews, exercises and tests accompany every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. Some of the covered topics include: Present, Past, Future; Professions and Activities; Family Relationships; People and Talking; Descriptive Adjectives; Comparative Nouns; Alone, Crowd, Friend; Directions: How Do I Get To; Measurement: Length, Weight, Volume, Temperature and Distance; More Advanced Grammatical Structures; Travel and Transactions at a Bank; Before and After in Time and Space; Political Geography; A Complete Reference Section of Commonly Used Terms. Chinese Level I & II, Personal Edition set comes complete with illustrated User's Guides and Curriculum Text books.User opinions
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User Rating: 
2/10
Don,t waist your money. Very expensive - not effective
Pros: I have nothing good to say about Rosetta Stone
Cons: This over rated system simply did not work for me and it is very expensive
User Rating: 2/10
very boring, a hindrance to learning
Pros: can use on computer
Cons: unnatural learning process, often assume wrong meaning of words or grammar rules, "no translation" is a gimmick to save money by distributing same software to multiple language carriers.
User Rating: 
1/10
Tried Demo not impressed at all, gives no word base.
Pros: Keeps you interested kind of....hmmmm colorful?
Cons: This feels like you are starting in the middle, you know nothing and after the first lesson you still don't know fully what you were doing.to begin with. you are reading, spelling, and writing things they don't tell you what are? Way Too Much Money!
User Rating: 1/10
Look elsewhere
Pros: interactive format
Cons: expensive, no basics
It does not teaches you the language. There is no attempt at teaching you verbs and tense. It has nice pictures and you GUESS what the things are. Big, expensive disappointment. I suggest you try something else. I am.
User Rating: 
4/10
Confusing for the Money
Pros: Visual and Audio Display of pronuciation
Cons: Poor method for intended use
The reason I kept the program is to use the pronunciation recording that shows my voice compared to a native speakers voice.
User Rating: 2/10
Not much content, not practical, and too expensive
Pros: It does have a lot of pictures.
Cons: Pay too much to learn very little.
User Rating: 
9/10
Great Product!
Pros: simplicity, flexibility, lesson plans, and depth of programs
Cons: price, language cross reference (it can be downloaded at no charge)
