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Award-Winning Software
Used by FTSE 500 companies, government departments, and over 10,000 schools worldwide - and available in 31 languages.
What Do I Get?
Your Rosetta Stone Purchase Includes:
- Application CD
- Language CD
- User’s Guide- Discusses the basics of the Rosetta Stone program
- Parent’s Guide- Aids the parent in lesson planning, tracking student progress, and effectively using Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 in a homeschool environment
- Keyboard stickers with letters for the target language
- Headset with microphone
- Quick Start Activation Card
- Supplemental Education Materials CD which includes printable files for:
- Table of Contents
- Scripts for each lesson
- An index to all words in the program
Features & Benefits
It’s Fast and Effective!
Leveraging your students’ natural language learning ability, Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 immerses them immediately in the language, providing just the right context to prompt speaking, understanding, reading, and writing from the very beginning. Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count.
Our Dynamic Immersion™ method is so fast and effective, it’s used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.
Independent Learning
With Rosetta Stone your students learn independently, at their own pace. Each student is tracked individually and frequent review and testing ensure students’ confidence in the language learned. Best of all, parents don’t need to know the language!
It’s Enjoyable!
When something is fun it captures your students’ attention… and holds it. The interactivity in Version 3 is instantly engaging. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context, and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone Homeschool better than any other product out there- never tedious or boring. And it really works!
Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE activities are the perfect wrap up to each study Unit. Milestones let your students try out their new language knowledge in real-life situations. They’ll be guided through a scenario to speak in simulated conversation on screen.
Track your progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL™ feature tracks your students’ progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.
Administrative functionality
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 program comes with an administrative tool which provides you, the parent the ability to choose one of our preloaded lesson plans or build one of your own. You can also see specific information about student performance. This tool allows students to work without you being present. You can simply check in on student progress from time to time.
New Speech Recognition Technology
New State-of-the-art speech recognition technology promotes speaking the new language even faster. Our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your students’ voices to that of native speakers, helping them to perfect their pronunciation.
Life-like Context
Our new CONTEXTUAL FORMATION™ feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give your students exactly the context they need to produce new language all on their own.
Sample Topics
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 1 builds a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Level 1 provides instruction in such categories as:- Basic conversational skills
- Greetings and introductions
- Colors, adjectives, and numbers
- Prepositions, definite and indefinite articles
- Singular and plural nouns
- Family relations, the 5 senses, time of day
- Compare and contrast
- First and second person pronouns and possessive pronouns
Parent Administrative Tools
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.
Lesson Planning
For many home educators, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.
Rosetta Stone® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.
Full Year Curriculum
The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.
Alternate Paths of Study
There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.
Testing
With Rosetta Stone® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.
As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.
One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Reporting
The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:
- Exercises the student has completed
- Current lesson progress
- Scores achieved on exercises and tests
- Time spent learning
More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GHz or faster processor speed
- 600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
- 16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)
Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:
Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.
Rosetta Stone offers Standard Italian
Benvenuti all’Italia. Italian is spoken by over 70 million people in Italy and abroad. Beyond Italy, Italian is an official language in Switzerland, Vatican City, San Marino, Croatia, Slovenia and the European Union. Substantial communities of Italian speakers live in Germany, Monaco, France, Malta, Corsica, Albania, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. In North and South America, many Italian immigrant communities speak Italian in addition to their countries’ official languages.
The Italian peninsula is home to hundreds of distinct dialects, but only one of these is recognised as Standard Italian. Standard Italian is based on the Florentine dialect of “the three crowns” of Italian literature — Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, who were the first major figures to write in Italian, rather than the literary Latin of the time. Though regional dialects are still alive in the peninsula, Standard Italian is the official language used by the media, the government, the academy and business, and is understood throughout the country.
Business travellers will find their Italian language skills essential in the fashion and design industries. Proficiency in Italian will enable students of art history, music, architecture and film to explore one of the most influential cultures in their respective fields. And for Chianti enthusiasts and literati alike, a journey through Tuscany is easier to savor when they drink in the local language.
Tourism is one of Italy’s strongest industries, due to the hundreds of archaeological sites and over 2,000 museums found within its borders. According to Unesco, Italy contains more than half of the world’s artistic and historic patrimony. Each year, millions of foreign tourists visit Rome, Venice and Florence in search of archeological and artistic treasures, while others seek out Italy’s hidden corners to discover for themselves la dolce vita.
What Do I Get?
Your Rosetta Stone Purchase Includes:
- Application CD
- Language CD
- User’s Guide- Discusses the basics of the Rosetta Stone program
- Parent’s Guide- Aids the parent in lesson planning, tracking student progress, and effectively using Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 in a homeschool environment
- Keyboard stickers with letters for the target language
- Headset with microphone
- Quick Start Activation Card
- Supplemental Education Materials CD which includes printable files for:
- Table of Contents
- Scripts for each lesson
- An index to all words in the program
Features & Benefits
It’s Fast and Effective!
Leveraging your students’ natural language learning ability, Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 immerses them immediately in the language, providing just the right context to prompt speaking, understanding, reading, and writing from the very beginning. Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count.
Our Dynamic Immersion™ method is so fast and effective, it’s used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.
Independent Learning
With Rosetta Stone your students learn independently, at their own pace. Each student is tracked individually and frequent review and testing ensure students’ confidence in the language learned. Best of all, parents don’t need to know the language!
It’s Enjoyable!
When something is fun it captures your students’ attention… and holds it. The interactivity in Version 3 is instantly engaging. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context, and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone Homeschool better than any other product out there- never tedious or boring. And it really works!
Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE activities are the perfect wrap up to each study Unit. Milestones let your students try out their new language knowledge in real-life situations. They’ll be guided through a scenario to speak in simulated conversation on screen.
Track your progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL™ feature tracks your students’ progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.
Administrative functionality
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 program comes with an administrative tool which provides you, the parent the ability to choose one of our preloaded lesson plans or build one of your own. You can also see specific information about student performance. This tool allows students to work without you being present. You can simply check in on student progress from time to time.
New Speech Recognition Technology
New State-of-the-art speech recognition technology promotes speaking the new language even faster. Our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your students’ voices to that of native speakers, helping them to perfect their pronunciation.
Life-like Context
Our new CONTEXTUAL FORMATION™ feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give your students exactly the context they need to produce new language all on their own.
Sample Topics
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 2 helps you to navigate your surroundings as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure you learned in Level 1. Level 2 provides instruction in such categories as:- Directions, transportation, and telling time
- Past and future tenses, adverbs, and formal imperatives
- School subjects, months of the year, and social dialogues
- Emotions
- Sequencing with First/ Then/ Finally
- Ordinal numbers
- Spatial relationships
Parent Administrative Tools
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.
Lesson Planning
For many home educators, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.
Rosetta Stone® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.
Full Year Curriculum
The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.
Alternate Paths of Study
There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.
Testing
With Rosetta Stone® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.
As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.
One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Reporting
The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:
- Exercises the student has completed
- Current lesson progress
- Scores achieved on exercises and tests
- Time spent learning
More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GHz or faster processor speed
- 600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
- 16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)
Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:
Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.
Rosetta Stone offers Standard Italian
Benvenuti all’Italia. Italian is spoken by over 70 million people in Italy and abroad. Beyond Italy, Italian is an official language in Switzerland, Vatican City, San Marino, Croatia, Slovenia and the European Union. Substantial communities of Italian speakers live in Germany, Monaco, France, Malta, Corsica, Albania, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. In North and South America, many Italian immigrant communities speak Italian in addition to their countries’ official languages.
The Italian peninsula is home to hundreds of distinct dialects, but only one of these is recognised as Standard Italian. Standard Italian is based on the Florentine dialect of “the three crowns” of Italian literature — Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, who were the first major figures to write in Italian, rather than the literary Latin of the time. Though regional dialects are still alive in the peninsula, Standard Italian is the official language used by the media, the government, the academy and business, and is understood throughout the country.
Business travellers will find their Italian language skills essential in the fashion and design industries. Proficiency in Italian will enable students of art history, music, architecture and film to explore one of the most influential cultures in their respective fields. And for Chianti enthusiasts and literati alike, a journey through Tuscany is easier to savor when they drink in the local language.
Tourism is one of Italy’s strongest industries, due to the hundreds of archaeological sites and over 2,000 museums found within its borders. According to Unesco, Italy contains more than half of the world’s artistic and historic patrimony. Each year, millions of foreign tourists visit Rome, Venice and Florence in search of archeological and artistic treasures, while others seek out Italy’s hidden corners to discover for themselves la dolce vita.
What Do I Get?
Your Rosetta Stone Purchase Includes:
- Application CD
- Language CD
- User’s Guide- Discusses the basics of the Rosetta Stone program
- Parent’s Guide- Aids the parent in lesson planning, tracking student progress, and effectively using Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 in a homeschool environment
- Keyboard stickers with letters for the target language
- Headset with microphone
- Quick Start Activation Card
- Supplemental Education Materials CD which includes printable files for:
- Table of Contents
- Scripts for each lesson
- An index to all words in the program
Features & Benefits
It’s Fast and Effective!
Leveraging your students’ natural language learning ability, Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 immerses them immediately in the language, providing just the right context to prompt speaking, understanding, reading, and writing from the very beginning. Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count.
Our Dynamic Immersion™ method is so fast and effective, it’s used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.
Independent Learning
With Rosetta Stone your students learn independently, at their own pace. Each student is tracked individually and frequent review and testing ensure students’ confidence in the language learned. Best of all, parents don’t need to know the language!
It’s Enjoyable!
When something is fun it captures your students’ attention… and holds it. The interactivity in Version 3 is instantly engaging. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context, and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone Homeschool better than any other product out there- never tedious or boring. And it really works!
Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE activities are the perfect wrap up to each study Unit. Milestones let your students try out their new language knowledge in real-life situations. They’ll be guided through a scenario to speak in simulated conversation on screen.
Track your progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL™ feature tracks your students’ progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.
Administrative functionality
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 program comes with an administrative tool which provides you, the parent the ability to choose one of our preloaded lesson plans or build one of your own. You can also see specific information about student performance. This tool allows students to work without you being present. You can simply check in on student progress from time to time.
New Speech Recognition Technology
New State-of-the-art speech recognition technology promotes speaking the new language even faster. Our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your students’ voices to that of native speakers, helping them to perfect their pronunciation.
Life-like Context
Our new CONTEXTUAL FORMATION™ feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give your students exactly the context they need to produce new language all on their own.
Sample Topics
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 3 helps you to connect with the world around you by building on the language fundamentals and conversational skills you developed in Levels 1 and 2. Level 3 provides instruction in such categories as:- Household items, physical activity, and animals
- Present subjunctive and present perfect
- What happened? What is wrong? “If….then” sequences
- Portions, weights, and measurements
- Correct/ incorrect, remember/ forget, no one/ everyone, nothing/ everything
- Continents, life milestones, and compass directions
Parent Administrative Tools
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.
Lesson Planning
For many home educators, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.
Rosetta Stone® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.
Full Year Curriculum
The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.
Alternate Paths of Study
There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.
Testing
With Rosetta Stone® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.
As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.
One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Reporting
The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:
- Exercises the student has completed
- Current lesson progress
- Scores achieved on exercises and tests
- Time spent learning
More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GHz or faster processor speed
- 600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
- 16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)
Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:
Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.
Rosetta Stone offers Standard Italian
Benvenuti all’Italia. Italian is spoken by over 70 million people in Italy and abroad. Beyond Italy, Italian is an official language in Switzerland, Vatican City, San Marino, Croatia, Slovenia and the European Union. Substantial communities of Italian speakers live in Germany, Monaco, France, Malta, Corsica, Albania, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. In North and South America, many Italian immigrant communities speak Italian in addition to their countries’ official languages.
The Italian peninsula is home to hundreds of distinct dialects, but only one of these is recognised as Standard Italian. Standard Italian is based on the Florentine dialect of “the three crowns” of Italian literature — Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, who were the first major figures to write in Italian, rather than the literary Latin of the time. Though regional dialects are still alive in the peninsula, Standard Italian is the official language used by the media, the government, the academy and business, and is understood throughout the country.
Business travellers will find their Italian language skills essential in the fashion and design industries. Proficiency in Italian will enable students of art history, music, architecture and film to explore one of the most influential cultures in their respective fields. And for Chianti enthusiasts and literati alike, a journey through Tuscany is easier to savor when they drink in the local language.
Tourism is one of Italy’s strongest industries, due to the hundreds of archaeological sites and over 2,000 museums found within its borders. According to Unesco, Italy contains more than half of the world’s artistic and historic patrimony. Each year, millions of foreign tourists visit Rome, Venice and Florence in search of archeological and artistic treasures, while others seek out Italy’s hidden corners to discover for themselves la dolce vita.
What Do I Get?
Your Rosetta Stone Purchase Includes:
- Application CD
- Language CD
- User’s Guide- Discusses the basics of the Rosetta Stone program
- Parent’s Guide- Aids the parent in lesson planning, tracking student progress, and effectively using Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 in a homeschool environment
- Keyboard stickers with letters for the target language
- Headset with microphone
- Quick Start Activation Card
- Supplemental Education Materials CD which includes printable files for:
- Table of Contents
- Scripts for each lesson
- An index to all words in the program
Features & Benefits
It’s Fast and Effective!
Leveraging your students’ natural language learning ability, Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 immerses them immediately in the language, providing just the right context to prompt speaking, understanding, reading, and writing from the very beginning. Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count.
Our Dynamic Immersion™ method is so fast and effective, it’s used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.
Independent Learning
With Rosetta Stone your students learn independently, at their own pace. Each student is tracked individually and frequent review and testing ensure students’ confidence in the language learned. Best of all, parents don’t need to know the language!
It’s Enjoyable!
When something is fun it captures your students’ attention… and holds it. The interactivity in Version 3 is instantly engaging. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context, and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone Homeschool better than any other product out there- never tedious or boring. And it really works!
Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE activities are the perfect wrap up to each study Unit. Milestones let your students try out their new language knowledge in real-life situations. They’ll be guided through a scenario to speak in simulated conversation on screen.
Track your progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL™ feature tracks your students’ progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.
Administrative functionality
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 program comes with an administrative tool which provides you, the parent the ability to choose one of our preloaded lesson plans or build one of your own. You can also see specific information about student performance. This tool allows students to work without you being present. You can simply check in on student progress from time to time.
New Speech Recognition Technology
New State-of-the-art speech recognition technology promotes speaking the new language even faster. Our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your students’ voices to that of native speakers, helping them to perfect their pronunciation.
Life-like Context
Our new CONTEXTUAL FORMATION™ feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give your students exactly the context they need to produce new language all on their own.
Sample Topics
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 1 and 2 Set builds a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure that helps the student to navigate his or her surroundings while building on basic language skills. The Level 1 and 2 Set provides instruction in such categories as:- Basic conversational skills
- Greetings and introductions
- Colors, adjectives, and numbers
- Prepositions, definite and indefinite articles
- Singular and plural nouns
- Family relations, the 5 senses, time of day
- Compare and contrast
- First and second person pronouns and possessive pronouns
- Directions, transportation, and telling time
- Past and future tenses, adverbs, and informal imperatives
- School subjects, months of the year, and social dialogues
- Emotions
- Sequencing with First/ Then/ Finally
- Ordinal numbers
- Spatial relationships
Parent Administrative Tools
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.
Lesson Planning
For many home educators, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.
Rosetta Stone® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.
Full Year Curriculum
The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.
Alternate Paths of Study
There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.
Testing
With Rosetta Stone® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.
As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.
One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Reporting
The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:
- Exercises the student has completed
- Current lesson progress
- Scores achieved on exercises and tests
- Time spent learning
More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GHz or faster processor speed
- 600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
- 16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)
Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:
Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.
Rosetta Stone offers Standard Italian
Benvenuti all’Italia. Italian is spoken by over 70 million people in Italy and abroad. Beyond Italy, Italian is an official language in Switzerland, Vatican City, San Marino, Croatia, Slovenia and the European Union. Substantial communities of Italian speakers live in Germany, Monaco, France, Malta, Corsica, Albania, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. In North and South America, many Italian immigrant communities speak Italian in addition to their countries’ official languages.
The Italian peninsula is home to hundreds of distinct dialects, but only one of these is recognised as Standard Italian. Standard Italian is based on the Florentine dialect of “the three crowns” of Italian literature — Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, who were the first major figures to write in Italian, rather than the literary Latin of the time. Though regional dialects are still alive in the peninsula, Standard Italian is the official language used by the media, the government, the academy and business, and is understood throughout the country.
Business travellers will find their Italian language skills essential in the fashion and design industries. Proficiency in Italian will enable students of art history, music, architecture and film to explore one of the most influential cultures in their respective fields. And for Chianti enthusiasts and literati alike, a journey through Tuscany is easier to savor when they drink in the local language.
Tourism is one of Italy’s strongest industries, due to the hundreds of archaeological sites and over 2,000 museums found within its borders. According to Unesco, Italy contains more than half of the world’s artistic and historic patrimony. Each year, millions of foreign tourists visit Rome, Venice and Florence in search of archeological and artistic treasures, while others seek out Italy’s hidden corners to discover for themselves la dolce vita.
What Do I Get?
Your Rosetta Stone Purchase Includes:
- Application CD
- Language CD
- User’s Guide- Discusses the basics of the Rosetta Stone program
- Parent’s Guide- Aids the parent in lesson planning, tracking student progress, and effectively using Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 in a homeschool environment
- Keyboard stickers with letters for the target language
- Headset with microphone
- Quick Start Activation Card
- Supplemental Education Materials CD which includes printable files for:
- Table of Contents
- Scripts for each lesson
- An index to all words in the program
Features & Benefits
It’s Fast and Effective!
Leveraging your students’ natural language learning ability, Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 immerses them immediately in the language, providing just the right context to prompt speaking, understanding, reading, and writing from the very beginning. Intuitive, sequential learning builds progressively and makes every lesson count.
Our Dynamic Immersion™ method is so fast and effective, it’s used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.
Independent Learning
With Rosetta Stone your students learn independently, at their own pace. Each student is tracked individually and frequent review and testing ensure students’ confidence in the language learned. Best of all, parents don’t need to know the language!
It’s Enjoyable!
When something is fun it captures your students’ attention… and holds it. The interactivity in Version 3 is instantly engaging. Rich, vivid imagery, real-life context, and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone Homeschool better than any other product out there- never tedious or boring. And it really works!
Milestones
Learn and apply! Our MILESTONE activities are the perfect wrap up to each study Unit. Milestones let your students try out their new language knowledge in real-life situations. They’ll be guided through a scenario to speak in simulated conversation on screen.
Track your progress
New ADAPTIVE RECALL™ feature tracks your students’ progress, reinforcing your strengths and revisiting your development areas.
Administrative functionality
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 program comes with an administrative tool which provides you, the parent the ability to choose one of our preloaded lesson plans or build one of your own. You can also see specific information about student performance. This tool allows students to work without you being present. You can simply check in on student progress from time to time.
New Speech Recognition Technology
New State-of-the-art speech recognition technology promotes speaking the new language even faster. Our new Speech Analysis Tool compares your students’ voices to that of native speakers, helping them to perfect their pronunciation.
Life-like Context
Our new CONTEXTUAL FORMATION™ feature uses real-life simulations and vivid imagery to give your students exactly the context they need to produce new language all on their own.
Sample Topics
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 1, 2, and 3 Set helps the student to navigate his or her surroundings while connecting with the world around them by continually building on basic language fundamentals, vocabulary, and conversational skills. The Level 1, 2, and 3 Set provides instruction in such areas as:- Basic conversational skills
- Greetings and introductions
- Colors, adjectives, and numbers
- Prepositions, definite and indefinite articles
- Singular and plural nouns
- Family relations, the 5 senses, time of day
- Compare and contrast
- First and second person pronouns and possessive pronouns
- Directions, transportation, and telling time
- Past and future tenses, adverbs, and formal imperatives
- School subjects, months of the year, and social dialogues
- Emotions
- Sequencing with First/ Then/ Finally
- Ordinal numbers
- Spatial relationships
- Household items, physical activity, and animals
- Present subjunctive and present perfect
- What happened? What is wrong? “If…..then” sequences
- Portions, weights, and measurements
- Correct/ incorrect, remember/ forget, no one/ everyone, nothing/ everything
- Continents, life milestones, and compass directions
Parent Administrative Tools
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Language program includes Parent Administrative Tools seamlessly integrated into the program. The Administrative tools assist parents in lesson planning, viewing student progress, and generating reports.
Lesson Planning
For many home educators, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning.
Rosetta Stone® makes lesson planning easy with predefined lesson plans to help parents enroll students into their desired lesson plan based on their learning objective.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 offers a Full Year Lesson Plan and Alternative Paths of Study to provide you with the flexibility to meet your student’s language learning needs.
Full Year Curriculum
The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each Level of Rosetta Stone for a one year course.
Alternate Paths of Study
There are eleven different paths of study to choose from based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly than with the Full Year curriculum.
Testing
With Rosetta Stone® Homeschool, Students are tested periodically as they move through their assigned lesson plans. Students automatically advance from exercises focused on specific language skills to tests.
As students progress through their assigned lesson plan, and reach the end of a lesson, they are tested with a review exercise, or test. Depending on the student’s score, the review exercise will then be repeated at a later time in the lesson plan. A student who scores lower will see the review exercise more quickly than a student who scores higher. Eventually, the review exercise will no longer be repeated after a student achieves a satisfactory score.
One of the greatest features of Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 is the Milestone Activity. Once a student has completed a Unit of material, they must complete a Milestone Activity. Milestones force the student to actually speak into the microphone and participate in conversation on screen. Milestone completion is essential to proceeding to the next Unit in Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Reporting
The built-in reporting tool gives parents the ability to view, print, and export student results. Information available in the report includes:
- Exercises the student has completed
- Current lesson progress
- Scores achieved on exercises and tests
- Time spent learning
More information regarding lesson planning, testing and reporting as well as a detailed sample schedule and cultural activities can be found in the Parent’s Guide included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000, XP or Vista, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 512 MB RAM
- 1 GHz or faster processor speed
- 600 MB free hard-drive space (per level)
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution (1024 x 768 recommended)
- Internet or phone connection required for product activation
- Speech recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB recommended)
- 16X CD-ROM Drive (for installation)
Note for Microsoft® Windows Vista™ users:
Current Rosetta Stone® products have been engineered to install and run on the Windows Vista operating system. Some 3rd party components used in Rosetta Stone products have not been certified by Microsoft as ‘Vista Compliant’. Accordingly, you may encounter some Vista-related operating issues. Rosetta Stone technical support may or may not be able to resolve these Vista-related issues. Rosetta Stone hereby disclaims any representations, warranties, guaranties and conditions with respect to the compatibility of the Rosetta Stone products with the Windows Vista operating systems.
Rosetta Stone offers Standard Italian
Benvenuti all’Italia. Italian is spoken by over 70 million people in Italy and abroad. Beyond Italy, Italian is an official language in Switzerland, Vatican City, San Marino, Croatia, Slovenia and the European Union. Substantial communities of Italian speakers live in Germany, Monaco, France, Malta, Corsica, Albania, Libya, Ethiopia, Eritrea and Somalia. In North and South America, many Italian immigrant communities speak Italian in addition to their countries’ official languages.
The Italian peninsula is home to hundreds of distinct dialects, but only one of these is recognised as Standard Italian. Standard Italian is based on the Florentine dialect of “the three crowns” of Italian literature — Dante, Petrarch, and Boccaccio, who were the first major figures to write in Italian, rather than the literary Latin of the time. Though regional dialects are still alive in the peninsula, Standard Italian is the official language used by the media, the government, the academy and business, and is understood throughout the country.
Business travellers will find their Italian language skills essential in the fashion and design industries. Proficiency in Italian will enable students of art history, music, architecture and film to explore one of the most influential cultures in their respective fields. And for Chianti enthusiasts and literati alike, a journey through Tuscany is easier to savor when they drink in the local language.
Tourism is one of Italy’s strongest industries, due to the hundreds of archaeological sites and over 2,000 museums found within its borders. According to Unesco, Italy contains more than half of the world’s artistic and historic patrimony. Each year, millions of foreign tourists visit Rome, Venice and Florence in search of archeological and artistic treasures, while others seek out Italy’s hidden corners to discover for themselves la dolce vita.
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