| | |  | Foreign Language | Home » » » » Instant Immersion Chinese Levels 1, 2 & 3 | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Instant Immersion uses natural image association techniques to help you learn as easily as you learned your first language. With Instant Immersion, you will have more fun, save money and reach your goals faster ¿ guaranteed! Whether you¿re learning a new language for school, work or your next vacation, Instant Immersion¿s fun and effective exercises, interactive activities and challenging quizzes will help you achieve language fluency in less time than other language systems. You will think, read and speak your new language with ease. Chinese Levels 1, 2 & 3 includes six language learning CD-ROMS and two bonus discs: an interactive DVD, and audio for an iPod or MP3 player. | | | Features: | |
• A complete language learning system
• Great for travel, business or school
• For all levels and learning styles
• Fun and easy to use
• The quickest way to learn ¿ guaranteed
| | | Product Details: | | | Product Weight:
| 0.7 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 6.1 inches | | Package Height:
| 1.6 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.5 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 6 reviews |
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| Windows Vista / Mac OS X Intel / Windows 7 / Windows XP | | Media:
| CD-ROM | | Item Quantity:
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42 of 43 found the following review helpful:
 Pretty Good Product: Not the SAME as RSJul 03, 2010
By David A. Bielby
"Ev Xpistw"
I am no language training expert, but I have spent a lot of time with various products offering to teach me Mandarin this year. So far this is probably my favorite product. My package says that this product is as effective as RosettaStone for a fraction of the cost. I think so far I would agree with that. However, it does not have all the features that RS has. What it does have though is a more practical vocabulary list.
For example in the first lesson on CD1 for RS you get to learn how to say Elephant, Soccer ball and a few other words. The three times I was in a Chinese speaking nation, I never ran into an Elephant. I did not see a soccer field. However with Instant Immersion Mandarin I learned the words for Taxi, Bus, Bicycle all right away. These things are everywhere every day. So from my perspective I am learning more practical words immediately with this product.
The second thing about this product is that you get an awful lot of stuff for your money. I was able to purchase my set of the three levels at a bookstore. It included a DVD, audio files (which are pretty nice to listen to in my opinion), and all the cd's for the three levels on a laptop (6 cd's-two for each level).
There is a pleasant alternation between a male and female voice. The graphics are cheesy. But they have worked harder at the motivational side of things by offering an easy and a hard game for every level. You have a log in name and you are told to earn a certain number of points. The idea here is to test you with multiple choices. The one difference in this that I think they should change...offer the choices as pictures like RS does. Instead, Instant Immersion offers you English words. I think it's better to tie our vocabulary to pictures in every aspect of language training. I was disappointed with that aspect of the training.
The other key difference is that you do not have voice recognition to analyze how you are saying words. BUT from my perspective that was one of the things I didn't like about RS...the voice recognition features that I used on RS were not very good. So I stopped using that feature.
I also like a feature on the lessons where you can set the vocab list to play the words rapidly while you look at the flashcard of the photo.
Things missing that might be nice if they had: Traditional Characters (as used in Taiwan and other places).
Better graphics. Voice recognition (if they could get it to work well).
I think this product is a deal and highly recommend it. I do think that Pimsleur and perhaps Berlitz may be good additions to help you get conversational aspects flowing better, and that Vocabulearn is a good option. I don't know if that's available in cd, it's rather old, but very effective for building vocabulary. I would not recommend RS over this product because of the cost barrier and the choice of vocabulary that RS offers...yes elephants make for interesting pictures, but are we really going to see a lot of them on our trips to Asia?
7 of 7 found the following review helpful:
Mostly Decent Interactive SoftwareJun 23, 2010
By Lisa C. Herta
I'm not going to say that this product is amazing by any means, it has its pro's and con's. The software seems a rough around the edges, (the speakers mouths don't match what the audio clearly pronounces), but I think if you can find this product on the cheaper side, it might be worth it. There are games to help you get a hang of learning the language; they mostly say the words, so it puts the responsibility a little more on the user to get the most out of it. The vocabulary lists are helpful for learning new words/phrases. I wish it had voice recognition software to say whether or not you are pronouncing correctly since Chinese is a tonal language, but if you want, you can record yourself saying the word and then compare it to the speaker's voice.
Overall, the product isn't the prettiest (the graphics are a little poor), but can be a good deal if you're willing to work a little. (Also, it is quite a bit cheaper than RS, but that's because it doesn't have voice recognition software...)
18 of 23 found the following review helpful:
 Mac problems and not comparable to RSApr 10, 2010
By C. Weaver
"PsychoDoc"
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 that's worth the money, but don't confuse it with the advanced learning procedures from Rosetta Stone. This is particularly problematic with non-Romance languages like Mandarin. 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 CD's included in this are actual lessons, thus not really helpful for drilling and memorizing. It's really not comparable to RS at all, and any comparison is incredibly unfair. They should take those claims off of their packaging. I'll be demanding a refund for the Mac incompatibility, but otherwise would make use of the money back guarantee. Save yourself the hassle.
6 of 7 found the following review helpful:
 You had better know some Chinese before using this.Jul 04, 2010
By joereno
If you are just starting out this will not be much help to you as the beginning lacks any context. Just learning a vocabulary list, though not totally useless, is going to be totally confusing to you, at best.
My suggestion is to use this program as a supplement to other learning programs, or classroom coursework as it does add vocabulary that can be inserted into your other learning.
0 of 1 found the following review helpful:
Turns my computer into a vacuumMay 31, 2011
By M. Reed
On both my mac and PC, the software makes my CD do quite a bit of work and results in a loud vacuum cleaner like noise. I can't study this way. I wish they just put everything on to the hard drive. Anyways I can't study with the racket, so I almost immediately stopped using this product.
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