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Talk Now! Learn Malay - Beginning Level | 
 enlarge | From: EuroTalk
Category: Software
List Price: $29.99
Buy New: $9.95
You Save: $20.04 (67%)
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Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 5891
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Macintosh, Windows
Media: CD-ROM
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Operating System: Windows
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 0.4
Model: AMT5038
UPC: 781735501641
EAN: 0781735501641
Release Date: January 31, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Features:
| • | Comprehensive interactive language learning; ideal for beginners | | • | Easy and hard quizzes, plus a challenging memory game | | • | Compare yourself with native speakers; monitor progress | | • | Topics include phrases, food, shopping, telling time, and more | | • | On-screen help available in over 75 languages; printable dictionary |
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Product Description
Talk Now! Is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than three million people. Ideal for travelers, holidaymakers, business people, schoolchildren, students and families. Anyone over 10 years will find the disc indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. There are nine topics: first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body, numbers, time, shopping and countries. The games and quizzes included on the disc ensure that users have fun whilst using the product, without realizing that they're learning.
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| Customer Reviews:
Extremely Poor Product September 5, 2007
Murray Storm
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
Even though it claims to run on Mac it only runs on the older Power PC Macs, it will NOT run on Intel based Mac and there is no patch forthcoming from the program writers and no response to tech support inquiries on their website.
That having been said it runs semi fine under Windows XP but the application itself is not particularly good at its stated goal of teaching you Malay.
I wouldn't waste my time with this, I know its hard to find material to learn Bahasa but this was a waste of money.
Don't waste your time and money on this course April 28, 2007
Dr. Frans Wijma (Singapore)
7 out of 7 found this review helpful
After you install and start this application, it will literally shout at you and require you to click on various buttons (such as '?', only to learn that this provides help), as if you have never used a Windows application before. That having been said, it could certainly do more to conform to Windows standards.
The linguistic content is very primitive and of arguable value. You just learn words, which in itself can be useful. However, the choice of words is very questionable - I could think of many more useful words than 'raspberry'.
The overall presentation, largely based on animations and games, is more suited for toddlers than for adult learners. Every time you give a correct answer, you will get the same complimentary spoken comment like '...YES!'.
On a graphic design note, I do not think it is very useful to have a blonde Caucasian woman teach you a language like Malay - she is unlikely to be a native speaker.
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