Amazon.com Review
While it’s true that no better vocabulary-acquisition method exists than tried and true flash cards, they need not be of the paper variety. Instant Immersion Italian is one solution: a set of four CD-ROMs that will take some of the pain out of learning new Italian words simply by being quite a bit more fun than flash cards. In addition, the package includes the “Voyage in Italy” CD-ROM, a buoyant tourist guide to Italian art and food–all in Italian. The software pac… More >>
Most unfriendly user product I have ever encountered. The help menus are terrible and the 4 cd’s included must have been selected at random. There is no continuity. Don’t waste your time.
Rating: 1 / 5
This product is ideal for someone that wants to potentially go to Italy and not cause an internation incident by offending the entire country or, more likely, impress a date at a local restaurant. The interactive format helps you retain a lot of words and phrases in a short period of time. I would recommend it to anyone that thinks Italian is a beautiful language but doesn’t have the time to learn it. It can be done!
Rating: 4 / 5
This program is a good value. In one box you receive 4 CD’s. One is “Talk Now,” a second is “World Talk” (both from EuroTalk, and much more expensive when bought separately) The third CD is Webster’s 5 language Dictionary. The fourth is Voyage in Italy, a travelogue with sights and sounds of Italy.
The EuroTalk programs are very good values. As noted in other reviews, there is a big step between Talk Now and World Talk. I found the games useful teaching devices. The other disks are just gravy.
Rating: 4 / 5
IF you can keep your wife from talking too much in the background, you will learn quite a bit of Italian. Better yet, use headphones and put a sign on your back that you are trying to learn the language so that she won’t be eating strange food like pig intestines when you get there. Otherwise, you will learn quickly, but there is a big leap between the beginner cd and the intermediate one. That’s okay because you will have to wade into using Italian once you get there. It’s worth the purchase.
Rating: 4 / 5
How horrible!!! All I can do is go to Italy for a week and say words like yellow corn and ask where the bank is “Dove’ la banca?” If I was asked a question or wanted to converse about flowers I couldn’t because well the disks don’t even teach you how to say flower. No sentence building, no basics even to learn when to use il, lo or la. Don’t even ask about the other disks because it just gets worse. Only two teach the very simple words and they speak so fast you don’t learn correct pronounciation. Save your money and go buy an Italian text book and do the homework. I realy wished I would have researched before buying this product.
Rating: 1 / 5