Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #90357 in Books
• Model: 9781843520276
• Published on: 2000-12-31
• Platforms: Macintosh, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP
• Original language: English
• Binding: CD-ROM

Manufacturer's Description
This is an excitingly different language learning series. Talk Now! uses games and quizzes as a basis for making the learning process fun and relaxing. There's no better way to teach an old dog new tricks and this fun element of the program means that your fears are forgotten as you absorb words and phrases without even realising you are learning them.

Customer Reviews

Super introduction
An excellent fun way to learn a new and rather alien language. Well there is hardly any grammar or classroom type learning. It consists of pictures and the Bulgarian words for them, plus some quizzes to see if you remember which was which. You learn by side effect and learn the pronunciation in a painless way. Audio first, text later, grammar never. Even my 6-year old thought it was superb and took to it like a duck to water. And VFM too. There is a speech feedback bit (require microphone) which I didn't bother with as I didn't feel the need.

learn Bulgarian
I have found the Talk Now CD extremely useful and enjoyable to use. When I started using it, I was unable to speak or understand the language at all. The language pronunciation is good, and I found it really easy to learn. The quizzes are great fun. I have used the CD in conjunction with a phrase and grammar book, and have picked up sufficient language skills to make myself understood. Having recently returned from Bulgaria, I was thrilled at how easy it was to speak to people in their own language, and I would definitely recommend using Talk Now.

Learn the easy way
I thought that learning a difficult language like Bulgarian would be a nightmare, How Wrong!.

This CD makes it easy and fun, It can take a few days to get used to the accents of the native speakers on the CD but I found that by concentrating on only one of the two speakers I was able to get to grips with the pronunciation.

Only one gripe is that the speakers speak very quickly, I would have liked to see a slowed down version or the words spelled out phonetically in the dictionary.

Apart from that I am surprised at how quickly I am learning from using the software for less than an hour a day.