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Instant Immersion French Pro gets you off to a great start with your French-learning endeavors. This seven-CD-ROM set offers a wide range of learning tools that accommodate many learning styles. With so many discs, we were surprised to see a quick installation. The discs offer the Tell Me More software (four discs), a French vocabulary-builder disc, French Plus, and a bonus audio CD.
The three content discs in the Tell Me More series--beginner, intermediate, and advanced--jump right in with language lessons, games, dialogue practice, speech recognition, and grammar. Not a stitch of English is to be seen or heard, even on the beginner disc. We started by checking out the demonstration, which was, in a word, annoying: no non-audio option was available, the presentation was about five minutes long, and it looped, not allowing us to exit. But after charging into the program itself, we were impressed with the creative presentation of learning tools: against the backdrop of a film set, students can take part in "scenes" of dialogue, video, or exercises. The technical options were plentiful as well, allowing us to turn off speech recognition (if you don't have a mic, or don't care to do that), change text size and audio quality, and set a number of other preferences. The games were fun, although a bit challenging without any knowledge of French. The Tell Me More series does offer a number of learning tools that aren't immediately obvious: right-clicking on words and phrases brings up pull-down menus that offer needed translations and pronunciation guides. Also, we found the speech recognition to be a little overly critical. However, the "report card" at the end of a lesson gave us a nice sense of progress.
The other two learning discs--a vocabulary builder and French Plus--seemed like the place to start with our foray into French. Through picture association and memory games in the vocabulary builder, we quickly got into the sound of the language. The French Plus CD-ROM also offered picture association, plus interactive activities. This disc goes into greater depth than the vocabulary builder, through 22 lessons ranging from the simple names of nouns to more difficult grammar topics.
Comparing this package to other language packages out there, we found the interface inviting and the activities engaging. We recommend this for learners at any stage of their French education as a valuable resource. --Emilie Herbst
| PLATFORM: | Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows XP |
| CATEGORY: | Software |
| MANUFACTURER: | Topics Entertainment |
| TYPE: | Computer software (programs), Education (Educational), Reference, Foreign Languages (Language), French, Learn learning |
| MEDIA: | CD-ROM |
| # OF MEDIA: | 1 |
| UPC: | 781735801420 |
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Customer Reviews of Instant Immersion French Pro 7 CD Platinum
This software is horrible. Navigating through this software is very difficult and confusing. It is almost as if you have to be able to speak french already to be able to use this software with any degree of success.
The othe discs that come with this software are just as useless as the rest. I am very disappointed and I wish I had just saved my money and bought Learn French Now! 9.0 which is infinitely better.
wasted money
This is the worst french learning application i've seen. I thought before buying it that 7 cd's will teach me french from a beginning to an advanced level. But this is not the case.
I've tried some other programs obtaining better results and they fit into just 1 CD.
1 star is not low enough, here's why:
Poor vocabulary, poor grammar, poor translations, poor software.
Topics Entertainment's Instant Immersion French Pro 7-CD set is all packaging. The 7 CDs are broken into 4 parts:
1) CD-1 Installation disk
CD-2,3,4 Tell Me More series. Completey useless for a beginner. There are supposed to be three different levels here beginner, intermediate, advanced, WRONG, ALL Advanced. Every disc contains lengthy french dialogue with no starting point for vocabulary, grammar, sentence structure, or pronuncitaion. This is aimed at someone already familiar with french.
2) CD-5 Vocabulary Builder. Everything about this is for children and on the Eurotalk website you will see this is targeted at 3-10 year olds. It has a miniscule vocabulary and the words and sentences it does contain are downright useless, "The duck is under a desk". It also does not even contain english translations of the french words, just pictures. It is left to the user to infer what the picture means!
3) CD-6 French Plus (A Rosetta Stone application) I found this disc to be the least help of them all. It has pictures with words on top of them that can disappear and you are supposed to pick the word spoken but you get no english translation. It is all a mess just like that last sentence.
4) CD-7 Audio Disc. I only listened to the first track and thought this would be perfect for those who like to repeat long sentences from memory. However, the converstation on the track was relevant for those traveling to France (encounter with a passport agent) unlike the other discs which are not relevant to anything really.
This software is just a pretty box, no useful content or lesson plan.
If you are looking for an introduction to French do not buy this software.