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The Rosetta Stone CD-ROM ESL Course
The Rosetta Stone ESL course is the premier foreign language learning system on CD-ROM. The course is equivalent to one year of college study and teaches reading, writing, vocabulary building, listening comprehension, conversational skills, and pronunciation practice. This course may render traditional means of language training obsolete. Version 3 now comes with Audio Companion CDs, audio recordings that supplement the Rosetta Stone method and can be used at home, in your car, and on the go! Rosetta Stone comes in the Personal Edition, which is great for the independent student, and the Homeschool Edition, intended for parents who want to educate their children and follow their progress. Great for school or home study. Shipping weight 3 lbs.
Levels 1 to 3
$299
Levels 1 and 2 Package
$495
Levels 1, 2, and 3 Complete Package
$575
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English Software Courses

Merit ESL Software
Merit Software gives everyone involved - teachers, tutors, parents and students - the tools and opportunities to improve learning and to attain positive, measurable results. The programs provide detailed coverage of the core competencies students require to succeed. Concepts in reading, writing, grammar, vocabulary and math are covered from the basics to higher levels. Troublesome points are identified and broken down into understandable parts. Personalized explanations and tips are tailored to each student�s responses. A multi-sensory approach, made possible by incorporating text-to-speech functionality in many of the English language programs with the Merit Text Talker, reaches out to students in ways not achieved by simply reading text on a screen.
ESL Beginning Skills Pack, Home edition
$85
ESL Intermediate Skills Pack, Home edition
$195
ESL Advanced Skills Pack, Home edition
$195
ESL Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced Skills Pack, Home editions
$445
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Language Solution ESL Software for Windows/Mac
Just as children learn their first language through audiovisual association and oral practice, Language Solution's natural method of instruction provides children and adults alike with immersion totally in the new language. Translation and grammar are not introduced until conversational fluency has been achieved. It is this method that accounts for the increased effectiveness of Language Solution in comparison with other language acquisition courses on the market today. The Level 1 Beginning English CD-ROM for Windows/Mac Level 1 guides you through a 15 Lesson multi-sensorial experience that eliminates all anxiety of traditional approaches and provides you with a vocabulary of over 1,000 words & the ability to articulate over 10,000 expressions, more than enough for effective daily communication. Level 2 Intermediate has an additional 15 lessons, that increases your vocabulary to over 3,000 words and a tremendously fluent 30,000 expressions. Each level includes a CD-ROM, User's Manual and Work Books, and are compatible with Windows and Macintosh sytems.
Language Solution English (ESL) Learning Level 1 CD-ROM
$135
Language Solution English (ESL) Learning Level 2 CD-ROM
$135
Language Solution English (ESL) Learning Level 1 and 2 Bundle
$225

Tell Me More for English
Tell Me More is Europe's best selling language software, used by major schools, universities and corporations. Tell Me More comes with a "dynamic" mode that automatically adjusts the software according to the learner's needs and results, and includes a cultural workshop, multimedia video and sound, and state-of-the-art speech recognition. Tell Me More speech recognition technology recognizes what you say, assesses your pronunciation, and corrects any mistakes. Tell Me More Performance is the most complete and extensive language software available anywhere, providing language learning that is simple-to-use and increasingly effective, making learning a language fun and engaging. Become fluent with 2,000 hours of language learning and 10 different levels, and 10,000 exercises, and utilize exclusive online services. Tell Me More Premium combines 4 levels (Complete Beginner, Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced) into one comprehensive package, with 850 hours (950 in Spanish) of learning divided into 37 different types of activies and 4,500 exercises (5,000 in Spanish).
Tell Me More Performance
$495
Tell Me More Premium
$325
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EuroTalk Complete Set for English
Originally ~~$149~~, now on sale for $125!
EuroTalk's Complete Set of four CD ROMs and a DVD-ROM will help you to learn a language step-by-step. From complete beginners through to intermediate learners, there is a disc for everyone. By listening and talking to native speakers in real life situations, these discs makes learning easy. Start with Vocabulary Builder, aimed at children and their families, using cartoon characters to make learning fun. Talk Now is ideal for beginners to build confidence in listening to and speaking a foreign language. Talk More for beginners helps to increase your language skills and prepare yourself for the next level with the latest interactive techniques and broadcast quality video. World Talk is for intermediates, and works to improve listening and speaking skills and build on fluency. Finally, Movie Talk is a DVD-ROM using popular television series available for English, French, German, Spanish, and Italian - all other complete sets include a Talk More extras disc including the 'Where on Earth' geography game instead. Available for Arabic, Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian, Spanish, and Thai.

$125
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Advanced DVD from EuroTalk for English
Combining the power of the movies and DVD-ROM technology, EuroTalk brings you an exciting language learning package that really works! Super sleuth sex-symbol, Inspector Morse (John Thaw of Kavanagh C.Q., The Sweeney) has an ear for music, a taste for beer and a nose for crime. He sets out with Sergeant Lewis (Kevin Whately of Peak Practice) to solve yet another exciting case. Based on 'Sins of the Fathers', an episode of the hugely popular British detective series, Inspector Morse, this unique language learning package lets you enter the world of movies and absorb English as it's spoken. Watch full-screen video and play games and exercises that make you remember what you've seen and learnt. Search for any word used in the script, or compete in a quick-fire TV Quiz; star in a murder mystery by joining in the action and recording your voice into the movie. Windows and Macintosh DVD-ROM.
$45
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EuroTalk Network Editions
Now you can run Vocabulary Builder, Talk Now!, World Talk, and Movie Talk through your school or college CD server or CD tower for simultaneous use of these titles on your network! You'll have access to permanent reports for all the activities done by each student in the class for such things as time and sessions spent on each activity, scores in the quizzes and games. These network discs operate on most networks that are in common use in schools and colleges, such as NT, Novell, and Macintosh networks. Students can select their names from classes, and run the program currently assigned to that class, and students may optionally also be allowed to join classes. Teachers can see at a glance which students are currently logged on and what they are doing, and they can add students to classes, remove them, or move them around. A reports facility allows you to display or print reports for entire classes, or for individual students. Student reports show the number of sessions, the time spent on each activity, and scores in the quizzes and games, and times and scores can also be displayed in chart form. The prices are highly competitive, and the price per unit goes down dramatically as one goes up in the number of users and units. With a configuration of 100 users and 100 units, which goes for $9,995, you pay less than $1 per unit per person!
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Talk Now! / Talk More! / World Talk Package for English
Now get Talk Now!, Talk More!, and World Talk from Eurotalk in a bundle and save $40! These courses perfectly complement each other, with World Talk and Talk More! at an intermediate level taking up where Talk Now! for beginners leaves off. Both offer the same format of interactive learning with fun games and tests that monitor your progress while you are having fun and learning. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM.
$99

Talk Now! CD-ROM Course for ESL
  Now on special for $35 - save $10!
The Talk Now! series is for any language beginner who wants an entertaining self-study course to learn basic phrases, such as colors, numbers, food, shopping, and time. We have been selling this European-produced CD-ROM for a few years and find that it is highly praised by people from all over the world. Designed by language experts, Talk Now! includes great features like speak and repeat, interactive games, and digital recordings with native speakers. Interactive and fun, it is ideal for beginners and travelers. Test your knowledge with easy and hard quizzes and play a challenging memory game. Monitor your progress: keep your total score and print your own awards. You can also print your own picture dictionary for handy reference. On-screen help is available at all times in over 50 languages. Talk Now! runs on both Macintosh and Windows computers. Shipping weight 1 lb.
Talk Now! for American English
$35
Talk Now! for British English
$35
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Talk More! CD-ROM Course for English
Talk More! continues the Talk Now! series using broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques in a software package that is ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families. The software uses the familiar Eurotalk interactive style of learning, with topics such as The Alphabet, Greetings, At The Restaurant, Shopping, Getting Around, At The Hotel, One The Phone, Emergencies, Leisure, and Business, and modules on phrases and conversations, and entertaining quiz games to test and further learn the language. Help is available in over 25 languages and the package includes an Talk More! Extras disc with additional help languages and bonus material. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM.
$45
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World Talk from EuroTalk for English (for intermediate learners)
  Now on special for $35 - save $14!
World Talk is the perfect follow-up to EuroTalk's popular Talk Now! series. As well as having new activities, there is also dictation, worksheets and a brand new recording section. Topics covered include: the calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather and numbers. The interactive TV Quiz is a definite hit, where the resident champion may turn out to be more intelligent than he looks. You can also compete in a one-to-one match with a friend! World Talk is now available for learning Afrikaans, Arabic, Cantonese, Danish, Dutch, American English, British English, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, and Welsh. Windows and Macintosh CD-ROM.
World Talk for American English
$35
World Talk for British English
$35
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Asterix English CD-ROM (Windows and Macintosh)
Intermediate to Advanced
Asterix is based on the popular French comic book series of the same name and is a fun, interactive way to learn. It is intended for a person who has already studied the language on an introductory level, but wants to increase their vocabulary, fluency and word recognition in a more interesting setting. Asterix is available on CD-ROM only, to teach your choice of English, French, German, Latin, Italian, and Spanish. Windows or Macintosh CD-ROM. Shipping weight 2 lbs.
$99
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