Customer Reviews
Great buy
I am very glad I bought this program. While it is true that the instruction is strictly beginner's level, and the native script is missing for most non-Latin based languages, this is still a great tool if you want to sample a large number of languages and decide which ones to take further with a more detailed course. This is also great for people studying a more exotic language for which there aren't any stand-alone audio programs for you to practice pronunciation.^M
Amazing product!
This is truly an amazing product. It supplies audio pronounciation for 76 langues, and essential vocabulary for 25 others. These 76 languages are Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Chinese, Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Azerbaijani, Basque, Belorussian, Bangali, Brazilian, Breton, Bulgarian, Canadian French, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Esperanto, Estonian, Farsi, Finnish, Flemish, Galician, Greek, Guarani, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Korean, Latin, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Malagasy, Malay, Norwegian, Pidgin English, Polish, Portuguese, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Scottish, Serbian, Slovak, Slovene, Somali, Sotho, Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog, Tahitian, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Wolof, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, and Zulu. The other 25 are Asturian, Aymara, Bemba, Blackfoot, Cebuano, Chamorro, Cornish, Ecuadorian Quechua, Faroese, Frisian, Inuktitut, Kongo, Macedonian, Maori, Maya, Mohawk, Nahuatl, Papago, Provencal, Romansch, Romany, Ruanda, Somoan, Sepedi, Shona, Sicilian, Sorbian, Swazi, and Tongan.
Not for fluency
This is an EXCELLENT product if you're tourist-travelling, or if you plan to use it as I do: a resource for students who are studying geography of the world. The students will be researching the spoken language(s) of their selected/assigned countries and will incorporate as many native languages as possible into the various products they produce to demonstrate learning. The phrases/words that are utilized in 101 Languages isn't enough to actually LEARN a language, but may be of help if you're tourist-travelling or if you're begining to dabble in the feel of a particular language. It is certainly NO Rosetta Stone, which is where a person should go if needing to actually LEARN a language with software. EASY to use and install.
