[.uk] Rosetta Stone V2: Welsh, Level 1

• Rosetta Stone helps you understand everyday language through our proficiency-based listening and reading activities
• You will pronounce words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech comparison tool
• Find the words you need when you need them Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts
• Rosetta Stone teaches you to spell and write accurately Language-specific keyboards and drag and drop tiles perfect your writing skills
• Learn to communicate by quickly combining words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogue

Amazon.com Product Description:
Why is Rosetta Stone the world's No. 1 language-learning software? Because it works. Escape the endless tedium of translation, memorization, and grammar drills. Get the language you want, the skills you need, and the success you deserve by learning a new language naturally--the same way you learned your first language. The complete immersion environment puts your native language-learning skills to work, eliminating your dependence on tedious translation and rote memorization. Images Intuition In Rosetta Stone you learn the meaning of new language from clear, real-life images. In this activity you learn a few basic nouns. You advance using language you've learned and clues from new images. That's your intuition at work. Now that you know these nouns, you can easily grasp the meaning of the new verb... Interactivity Instruction Throughout Rosetta Stone, you constantly interact with the program to confirm your intuition. ...and then check what you've learned. From beginning to end you build systematically toward your language-learning goals, for the most effective and enjoyable instruction anywhere. Pattern your speech after a native speaker. Our speech comparison feature shows you exactly how you're doing. You learned your first language without translation. You learned your first language easily and naturally by connecting words to objects and events around you. With Rosetta Stone, learn a new language the same way: using native speakers and thousands of real-life images to help you think in the new language from the very beginning. Studies show that learning exclusively in the new language, without translation as a crutch, is crucial. Rosetta Stone's exclusive Dynamic Immersion method reinforces your natural language-learning skills with award-winning instructional technology. The timeless immersion method, along with research-based techniques and new technologies, make Rosetta Stone the clear solution to your language-learning needs. What will you be able to do? Understand everyday language. Through Rosetta Stone's proficiency-based listening and reading activities, you'll soon be able to understand everyday language. Pronounce words correctly. After practicing with Rosetta Stone's proprietary speech comparison tool, the correct pronunciation of words will come easily. Find the words you need when you need them. Connecting new language directly to real-life images means the words spring to mind when you're in everyday contexts. Spell and write accurately. Language-specific keyboards and drag-and-drop tiles perfect your writing skills. Learn to communicate. You'll quickly combine words and phrases into complete sentences and dialogues. Retain what you learn. Regular reinforcement of new words and phrases in new contexts ensures the language sticks with you in the real world.

The Best Way to Learn:
I've learned more Welsh in two days with this package than I had learned in the previous several years using (or rather trying to use) audio tapes and written texts. This is an incredibly effective way to learn. It's as though you had been forced to forget your native language (which in my case is English) and dropped into a place where people know how to speak only Welsh. (I'm sure the software works the same way for other languages as well.) The process is pretty much painless: 1. You see pictures of people, places, and things, or of activities, and listen to a native Welsh speaker pronounce the name of the thing, or a brief sentence describing an action, while simultaneously seeing the Welsh words you're listening to printed out, so you can compare look and sound. There's no translation into or out of your own language, just programmed exposure to the new one, written and heard. 2. You see pictures and match them to the written word and the sound, over and over till you get it right. 3. You hear the sound and see the written word, and match those to the pictures. (In other words, the opposite of what you did in item 2.) 4. You practice saying the sounds back into a (provided) microphone, and the program analyzes your sound production and compares it to the native speaker's pronunciation. You see graphs of your speech and the native speaker's speech, and you can try over and over again till your speech matches the native speaker's both aurally and graphically. 5. When you're ready, you take a test to make sure you've 'got it.' 6. When you achieve a score that is acceptable to you, you proceed to the next exercise. That's it! That's all there is to it. And you really do learn fast. New vocabulary is introduced at a predictable pace, associated with words you've already learned. You basically learn from context: by eliminating the words, and details in the picture, that you already know, you're left with the new word, and the one detail in the picture that you didn't already know a word for. It's like magic. You pretty much stop thinking in your own language, and start associating the pictures directly with the Welsh words, and vice versa. I love it. In only three hours of practice over two days, I can now get 100% correct matches on all the items in the first three lessons, and I never have to stop and think of the equivalent English and do any mental translation. I'm learning Welsh the way people who grow up in Wales learn it--by being exposed to concepts and sounds that match up with each other. It's the 'Me Tarzan You Jane' school of language learning, and it works!