The Oscars 2009

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LANGUAGES D – I (USA)

November 19, 2008 by · Leave a Comment 

Here are our recommended language courses for languages D – I.


These links will take you to our language course stores – click on the TOP COURSES tab and then use the search box to find your language course.

Language Best Bet 1 Best Bet 2 Best Bet 3
  (audio/book) (cd-rom) (ipod/mp3)
      coming soon!
D      
Danish Teach Yourself: Danish Rosetta Stone: Danish Pimsleur: Danish
Dutch Michel Thomas: Dutch Rosetta Stone: Dutch Collins: 40 minute Dutch
       
E      
English (American)   Talk Now!: American English  
Esperanto Teach Yourself: Esperanto    
Estonian Teach Yourself: Estonian Talk Now!: Estonian  
       
F      
Farsi (Persian) Pimsleur: Farsi Rosetta Stone: Farsi Pimsleur: Farsi
Finnish Teach Yourself: Finnish Talk Now!: Finnish  
Frisian   Talk Now!: Frisian  
       
G      
Gaelic Teach Yourself: Gaelic    
Galician   Talk Now!: Galician  
Georgian   Talk Now!: Georgian  
German (Swiss) Pimsleur: Swiss German Talk Now!: Swiss Pimsleur: Swiss German
Greek (Ancient) Teach Yourself: Ancient Greek    
Gujurati Teach Yourself: Gujurati Talk Now!: Gujurati  
       
H      
Haitian-Creole Pimsleur: Haitian-Creole   Pimsleur: Haitian Creole
Hausa   Talk Now!: Hausa  
Hawaiian   Talk Now!: Hawaiian  
Hebrew Pimsleur: modern Hebrew Rosetta Stone: Hebrew In-Flight: Hebrew
Hebrew (Biblical) Teach Yourself: Biblical
Hebrew
 
Hungarian Pimsleur: Hungarian Talk Now!: Hungarian In-Flight: Hungarian
       
I      
Icelandic Teach Yourself: Icelandic Talk Now!: Icelandic  
Igbo   Talk Now!: Igbo  
Indonesian Teach Yourself: Indonesian Rosetta Stone: Indonesian Pimsleur: Indonesian
Irish Pimsleur: Irish Talk Now!:Irish Pimsleur: Irish

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EUROTALK LANGUAGE CD-ROMS

November 11, 2008 by · Leave a Comment 

language  advantage brings you our top courses from Eurotalk, one of the world’s leaders in language learning software.

There is ground-breaking software at beginners, intermediate and advanced level in well over 100 languages (and growing), both on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM (the only language learning DVD-ROMs in the world!), as well as downloads, plus a new business language course.


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Feature Product!

01 Premium Set – Five Programs In One!

premier set greek language courseslevel: beginner, beginner+, intermediate
languages: Afrikaans, Amharic, Arabic, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English (American), English, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian,  Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
media: DVD-ROM
platform: pc, Mac

The Premium Set includes five of the Eurotalk language courses in one! It comprises the Talk Now, Talk More, World Talk, Vocabulary Builder and Talk the Talk courses on one DVD-ROM. This is an invaluable course for absolute beginners right through to intermediate learners.  You will learn vocabulary progressing to full sentences in no time. You will also improve on your speaking skills and compare yourself to native speakers. This way you can hone your accent skills too! There is an amazing range of languages – perhaps the widest ever available – well over 100!

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>


02 Talk Now! Essential Words and Phrases for Absolute Beginners

eurotalk-talk-now-dutchlevel: beginner
languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Amharic, Arabic, Arabic (Egyptian), Armenian, Assamese, Aymara, Azeri, Basque, Bengali, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Canadian English, Canadian French, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Chuvash, Cornish, Corsican, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English (American), English, Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, French, Frisian, Galician, Georgian, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujurati, Haitian Creole, Hausa, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Igbo, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jèrriais, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Kinyarwanda (Rwanda), Kirghiz, Klingon, Korean, Kurdish, Latin, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luganda, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Manx, Maori, Marathi, Mongolian, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Pidgin (Papua New Guinea), Polish, Portuguese, Provençal, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Saami, Sardinian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho (Southern), Shona, Sindhi, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tibetan, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Uzbek, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yiddish, Yoruba, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac – you can also uploads words onto your iPod

Talk Now! is the world’s bestselling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. It’s ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, school children, students and families. This is great as an introduction to a new language for an absolute beginner and leaves you with the basic vocabulary to get by and the first building blocks of your new language. You can have fun learning through playing games and even record your voice to compare yourself to native speakers.   There is an amazing range of languages – perhaps the widest ever available – well over 100!

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>

for more information and to buy Talk Now! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
for more information and to buy Talk Now! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk store on amazon.com>>


03 Talk More!

eurotalk-talk-more-polishlevel: beginner +
languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Assamese, Basque, Bengali, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (American), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujurati, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kannada, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Kurdish, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Maori, Mandarin Chinese, Marathi, Nepali, Norwegian, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Quechua, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Sesotho (Southern), Shona, Sinhala, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamil, Telugu, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac

Talk More! is the next step up from our best-selling Talk Now! range for lower intermediate learners. Increase your basic knowledge and prepare yourself for World Talk, our intermediate level. With Talk More! you can learn a new language the EuroTalk way using over an hour of broadcast quality video and the latest interactive techniques. Ideal for travellers, holiday makers, business people, students and families.

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>

for more information and to buy Talk More! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
for more information and to buy Talk More! CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk store on amazon.com>>


04 World Talk

eurotalk-world-talk-greeklevel: intermediate
languages: Afrikaans, Arabic (Egyptian), Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, English (American), Finnish, French, Galician, German, Greek, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Latin American Spanish, Luxembourgish, Maltese, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac

If you’ve mastered the basics in a language and still want to improve your language skills while having fun, then World Talk is the CD-ROM for you. World Talk takes you from intermediate level onwards if you have already built up some confidence listening to and speaking the language. The interactive games and quizzes will help to further develop fluency and understanding of the language.

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>

for more information and to buy World Talk CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
for more information and to buy World Talk CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk store on amazon.com>>


05 Movie Talk

eurotalk-movie-talk-frenchlevel: advanced
languages: English, French, German, Italian, Spanish
media: dvd-rom
platform: pc, mac

You can take part in a hugely popular film and learn a foreign language as it’s really spoken. You can become the starring part of the movie, talking in your target language! These are the only language learning DVD-ROMs in the world!

Movie Talk English – Inspector Morse
Movie Talk French – Au Coeur de la Loi
Movie Talk German – Ein Fall Fur Zwei
Movie Talk Italian – Mio Padre e Innocente
Movie Talk Spanish – Querido Maestro

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>

for more information and to buy Movie Talk DVD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>


06 Vocabulary Builder

eurotalk-vocabulary-builder-turkishlevel: children 4 to 12 years
languages: Africaans, Albanian, Alsatian, Arabic (Egyptian), Armenian, Azeri, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Breton, Bulgarian, Burmese, Canadian English, Canadian French, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Chuvash, Cornish, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (American), Esperanto, Estonian, Faroese, Finnish, Flemish, French, Frisian, Galician, German, Greek, Greenlandic, Gujurati, Haitian Creole, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Jèrriais, Kazakh, Khmer, Kurdish, Latin, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lingala, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Macedonian, Malagasy, Malay, Malayalam, Maltese, Manx, Mandarin Chinese, Manx, Maori, Navajo, Nepali, Norwegian, Occitan, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Pidgin (Papua New Guinea), Polish, Portuguese, Provençal, Quechua, Romanian, Romansh, Russian, Saami, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Somali, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Tamazight, Thai, Tswana, Turkish, Welsh, Xhosa, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, Mac

Your kids can learn the basics of a new language in a fun way on the computer. They learn through cartoons and there is even a voice recognition function that records the children saying the words in their new language and plays it back in a show! Adults love Vocabulary Builder too.

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>

for more information and to buy Vocabulary CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
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more on Language Advantage Kids>>


07 Talk Business

eurotalk-talk-business-hindilevel: beginner+, intermediate
languages:  Afrikaans, Albanian, Amharic, Arabic, Basque, Bengali, Berber (Tamazight), Brazilian Portuguese, Bulgarian, Cantonese Chinese, Catalan, Chichewa, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dari, Dutch, English, English (American), Esperanto, Estonian, Finnish, Flemish, French, Galician, German, Greenlandic, Haitian Creole, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Icelandic, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Korean, Latin American Spanish, Latvian, Lithuanian, Luxembourgish, Malay, Manx, Maori, Mandarin Chinese, Norwegian, Papiamento, Pashto, Persian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Scottish Gaelic, Serbian, Shona, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swahili, Swedish, Swiss German, Tagalog, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese, Welsh, Xhosa, Yoruba, Zulu
media: cd-rom
platform: pc, mac

If you want to succeed in business abroad, then Talk Business is for you. Aimed at people who already know the basics, it gives the specialised language you need for doing business abroad. Must-know language ranges from basics like ‘what is your website address?’ to more advanced discussion of exchange rates, product guarantees and marketing budgets.

for more information on the full range of Eurotalk language courses and to buy direct from Eurotalk on eurotalk.com>>

for more information and to buy Talk Business CD-ROM language software, browse our Language Advantage Eurotalk shop on amazon.co.uk>>
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more on Language Courses for Business>>


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ROSETTA STONE LANGUAGE COURSES

November 10, 2008 by · Leave a Comment 

language advantage brings you our top courses from Rosetta Stone, one of the world’s leaders in language learning CD-ROM software.

The Rosetta Stone language software program provides language instruction in over 30 different languages. The program is used by Fortune 500 companies, NASA, the US State Department, over 10,000 schools and more than 5 million people worldwide. The amazing dynamic immersion method teaches you to speak a language using word and picture association, through thousands of real-life pictures and the voices of native speakers. In this way you can learn to understand, read, write and speak a new language.


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01 Rosetta Stone Version 4 TOTALe

level: beginner up to advanced
languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English (British), English (American), Farsi (Persian), French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian, Japanese,  Korean, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Latin American),  Spanish (Spain), Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Turkish, Vietnamese
method: mp3 and cd-rom (please check operating system requirements)

This is the newest product from Rosetta Stone.  Learn naturally with its interactive software, audio companion and speech-recognition software to build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, questions and answers, shopping and much more. The Rosetta Stone Version 4 TOTALe is available as individual levels or as sets of levels (such as levels 1, 2 & 3, or levels 1-4 or levels 1-5).

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02 Rosetta Stone CD-ROM Personal Edition Level 1

rosetta-stone-german-level-1level: beginner
languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Danish, Dutch, English (British), English (American), Farsi (Persian), French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Italian, Japanese,  Korean, Latin, Pashto, Polish, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Latin American),  Spanish (Spain), Swahili, Swedish, Tagalog (Filipino), Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Welsh
method: cd-rom (please check operating system requirements)

Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more.

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03 Rosetta Stone CD-ROM Personal Edition Level 2

rosetta-stone-japanese-level-2level: intermediate
languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dutch, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Italian,  Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish (Latin American), Tagalog (Filipino)
method: cd-rom (please check operating system requirements)

Navigate your surroundings as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure in Level 1. Learn to talk about your environment, such as giving and getting directions, using transportation, telling time, dining out, enjoying basic social interactions and much more.

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04 Rosetta Stone CD-ROM Personal Edition Level 3

rosetta-stone-arabic-level-3level: advanced
languages: Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, Spanish (Latin America)
method: cd-rom (please check operating system requirements)

Connect with the world around you by building on the language fundamentals and conversational skills you developed in Levels 1 and 2. Learn to share your ideas and opinions, express your feelings and talk about everyday life, your interests, your work, current events, and much more.

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LEARN TO SPEAK OTHER LANGUAGES

November 7, 2008 by · Leave a Comment 

Learning another language? We have language courses for over 100 other languages!   Get the language advantage!


LANGUAGES A – Z: Find the language you are learning and then click through for the best and most innovative language courses.

Top 10 world languages

Languages A – C:  visit UK site | USA site

Afrikaans | Albanian | Alsatian | Amharic | Arabic (Egyptian) | Arabic (Gulf) | Armenian | Assamese |

Azeri | Basque | Bengali | Breton | Bulgarian | Burmese | Chinese (Cantonese) | Catalan | Chichewa |

Chuvash | Cornish | Corsican | Croatian | Czech

Languages D – I: visit UK site | USA site

Danish | Dutch | English (American) | Esperanto | Estonian | Farsi (Persian) | Finnish | Frisian | Gaelic

| Galician | Georgian | German (Swiss) | Greek (Ancient) | Gujurati | Haitian-Creole | Hausa |

Hawaiian | Hebrew | Hebrew (Biblical) | Hungarian | Icelandic | Igbo | Indonesian | Irish

Languages J – O: visit UK site | USA site

Jèrriais | Kannada | Khmer | Kirghiz | Klingon | Korean | Kurdish | Latin | Latvian | Lithuanian | Luganda |

Luxembourgish | Macedonian | Malagasy | Malay | Malayalam | Maltese | Manx | Maori | Marathi |

Mongolian | Navajo | Nepali | Norwegian | Ojibwe

Languages P – S: visit UK site | USA site

Papiamento | Pashto |   Persian (Farsi) | Pidgin | Polish | Portuguese (Brazilian) | Punjabi | Romanian |

Romansh | Rwanda | Saami | Sanskrit | Sardinian | Scots Gaelic | Serbian | Sesotho | Setswana | Shona |

Sindhi | Sinhala | Slovak | Slovenian | Somali | Spanish (Latin American) | Spanish (Mexican) |

Swahili | Swedish

Languages T – Z: visit UK site | USA site

Tagalog | Tamazight | Tamil | Telugu | Thai | Tibetan | Turkish | Twi | Ukranian | Urdu | Uzbek |

Vietnamese | Welsh | Xhosa | Yiddish | Yoruba | Zulu


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LANGUAGES D – I (UK)

November 7, 2008 by · Leave a Comment 

Here are our recommended language courses for languages D – I.


These links will take you to our language course stores – click on the TOP COURSES tab and then use the search box to find your language course.


Language Best Bet 1
Best Bet 2
Best Bet 3
  (audio/book) (cd-rom) (ipod/mp3)
       
D      
Danish Teach Yourself: Danish Rosetta Stone: Danish  
Dutch Michel Thomas: Dutch Rosetta Stone: Dutch Collins: 40 minute Dutch
       
E      
English (American)   Talk Now!: American English  
Esperanto Teach Yourself: Esperanto    
Estonian Teach Yourself: Estonian Talk Now!: Estonian  
       
F      
Farsi (Persian) Teach Yourself: Farsi Rosetta Stone: Farsi  
Finnish Teach Yourself: Finnish Talk Now!: Finnish  
Frisian   Talk Now!: Frisian  
       
G      
Gaelic Teach Yourself: Gaelic    
Galician   Talk Now!: Galician  
Georgian   Talk Now!: Georgian  
German (Swiss)   Talk Now!: Swiss  
Greek (Ancient) Teach Yourself: Ancient Greek    
Gujurati Teach Yourself: Gujurati Talk Now! Gujurati  
       
H      
Haitian-Creole      
Hausa   Talk Now!: Hausa  
Hawaiian   Talk Now!: Hawaiian  
Hebrew Teach Yourself:  Modern Hebrew Rosetta Stone: Hebrew In-Flight: Hebrew
Hebrew (Biblical) Teach Yourself: Biblical
Hebrew
 
Hungarian Teach Yourself:  Hungarian Talk Now!: Hungarian In-Flight: Hungarian
       
I      
Icelandic Teach Yourself: Icelandic Talk Now!: Icelandic  
Igbo   Talk Now!: Igbo  
Indonesian Teach Yourself: Indonesian Rosetta Stone: Indonesian  
Irish Teach Yourself: Irish Talk Now!:Irish  

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