Language World

Israel

Platform: Mac OS, Windows 95 / 98 / Me
Media: CD-ROM
Features:

• Hebrew language learning software
• Study vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more
• Recording tool lets you practice with native speakers
• Games and challenging quizzes make learning fun
• On-screen help available in more than 70 languages

This unconventional language-learning series offers games and quizzes that make the learning process fun, relaxing, and, as such, more successful. Ideal for beginners, Talk Now! Hebrew includes such topics as vocabulary, phrases, culture, and more. A handy print and picture dictionary produces entries with both text and pictorial references. This interactive software title also features a recording tool, so you can compare your pronunciation to that of native speakers (microphone required). Quizzes and a challenging memory game let you test your newly acquired skills. You can also track your scores and print awards to celebrate. Best of all, you can change Talk Now! Hebrew's onscreen help and menus to the language of your choice. With more than 70 languages from which to choose, this software makes learning Hebrew accessible to everyone.

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Platform: Mac OS, Windows 95 / 98 / Me
Media: CD-ROM
Features:

• Designed for intermediate-level language learners
• Helps learners speak and understand a new language by hearing and practicing authentic every-day speech
• Learning topics include calendar, sentence building, asking directions, the weather, and numbers
• Monitor your progress with dictation, worksheets, and a recording feature
• Features an interactive TV Quiz

World Talk is the perfect language-learning follow-up to EuroTalk's popular Talk Now! series. In addition to new activities, the creators have added dictation, worksheets, and a brand-new recording section. Topics are designed for the intermediate learner and include reviewing the calendar, building sentences, asking directions, and translating weather terms and numbers. The interactive TV quiz is another useful learning tool, pitting learners against the resident champion or one-on-one against a friend.

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Platform: Mac OS, Windows 95 / 98 / Me
Media: CD-ROM
Features:

• Learn basic Hebrew language and vocabulary skills
• Perfect for kids and adult beginners
• Engaging flashcards, fun games, and talking tiger tutor
• Recording tool for pronunciation practice
• Instruction provided in over 40 languages

EuroTalk's interactive flash card system is perfect for helping beginning students and children (ages 3 to 10) learn basic Hebrew language and vocabulary skills. Language games create a fun education environment, while the program's recording tool lets students record their own words and sentences. Instruction is provided in more than 40 languages by a talented talking tiger.

System Requirements:
PC:

• 486 MHz or faster processor
• Microsoft Windows 3.1, 95, 98, NT 4.0, 2000, Me, or XP
• 16 MB RAM minimum
• 4x or faster CD-ROM drive
• 256-color VGA display with 800 x 600 resolution
• Sound card
• Mouse, speakers, microphone (for use with recording tool)

Mac:

• 68040 or faster processor
• Mac OS 7.5.5 or later
• 16 MB RAM minimum
• MB hard disk space
• 4x or faster CD-ROM drive
• Thousands of colors display with 800 x 600 resolution
• QuickTime 3.0.2 or above
• Mac-compatible microphone (for use with recording tool)

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Ingram: This book, designed for people planning a trip to Israel, offers commonplace phrases to help travelers order meals, make purchases, ask for directions, and more, easily and accurately in Hebrew.

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Platform: Mac OS, Windows 95 / Me / 2000 / XP / NT / 98
Media: CD-ROM
Features:

• Award-winning program selected by the U.S. State Department, the Peace Corps and NASA
• Over 800 real-life color pictures and phrases spoken by native speakers
• Curriculum with 12 activities in each of 22 lessons (ages 6 and older)
• Develops all key language skills: Listening Comprehension, Reading, Speaking and Writing
• Previews, tests and automated tutorials that "learn" where you need extra help

Now you can learn a new language with the award-winning method used by the U.S. State Department to train diplomats. Proven effective by NASA astronauts, Peace Corps volunteers, and millions of students worldwide, the Rosetta Stone Language Library teaches new languages faster and easier than ever before.

We all learn our childhood language by associating new words and phrases with the world around us. The Rosetta Stone method replicates this process by presenting vivid, real-life images to convey the meaning of each new phrase. Instead of translating, memorizing, and studying rules of grammar, you actually learn to think in the new language. Vocabulary and grammar are integrated systematically, leading to everyday proficiency. It's the natural way to learn.

The Rosetta Stone Explorer contains 22 lessons for beginning learners with nearly 900 real-life images and phrases spoken by native speakers. It develops all key language skills--listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing--while its systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. Includes previews, exercises, and tests for every lesson, with automated tutorials throughout the program. (Ages 6 and older)

System requirements
PC:

• Windows 95/98 or NT/2000
• Pentium 100 class processor
• 32 MB RAM
• 40 MB free hard drive space
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color display
• 16-bit Windows compatible sound card
• Speech Recognition feature requires a Pentium 100 class processor (or better) and a microphone

MAC:

• Mac OS 8.1 or later
• PowerPC processor
• 32 MB RAM
• 40 MB free hard drive space
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color display
• Speech Recognition feature requires a PowerPC 90 processor (or better) and a PlainTalk compatible microphone

This item can only be shipped within the USA.

Reader Review:
5 out of 5 stars Best pocket-sized phrasebook and dictionary for price, June 8, 2001
Reviewer: espressobean from Seattle, WA USA
This phrasebook is easily one of the best I have seen. It's small size will fit conveniently into a pocket, making it more useful than larger ones. Although it does not have a huge dictionary, it does have many common words and phrases. Since it does fit into a pocket, I found myself going to this book much more often than the larger dictionary that I had with me. It contains very useful sections on pronunciation and grammar as well as phrases arranged by topic. There is a dictionary in the back that is both English-to-Hebrew (with phonetic pronunciation!)as well as Hebrew-to-English. Both dictionaries contain the words in English, the phonetic pronunciation, and the Hebrew spelling. The English-to-Hebrew dictionary lists the English word, the Hebrew pronunciation, and then the Hebrew word. The Hebrew-to-English dictionary is designed for English speakers; the words are given by their pronunciation, then the English word, then the Hebrew spelling. There is also a good section that covers the correct wording based on gender. This guide is designed for english speakers, and unlike most of the Hebrew dictionaries out there, it does not require prior knowledge of the Hebrew aleph-bet. There are also interesting cultural anecdotes and tidbits sprinkled throughout the text as well as descriptions of all the important Jewish festivals and holidays.

This book gives the best bang for your buck; you can spend more money on a more extensive phrase book, but this one will get you through most situations.

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Reader Review:
You get what you pay for!, April 19, 2001
Reviewer: yll from Mountain View, CA USA
Don't let the price of this scare you. If you really want to learn to speak and understand Hebrew, get these tapes. You will be learning in much the same way that you learned to speak your native language -- through hearing and response.

Once you have finished this, you will be able to speak in present and a little past tense about several subjects, including food, getting directions, buying things, telling time, and talking about your family. After that, take a class or learn more formally, but this will really give you a leg up into actually using the language.

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The Oxford English-Hebrew Dictionary is a landmark in the description of modern Hebrew. Using principles developed in English lexicography but never before applied to Hebrew, it is an essential reference for serious English and Hebrew users alike, whether students, scholars, or translators. The dictionary reflects the development of Hebrew in the twentieth century, and with over 75,000 entries offers extensive coverage of current idioms and phrases, slang and colloquialisms, technical and scientific terminology, academic discourse, legal and medical terminology, American and Australian terms, a labelling system allowing easy identification of senses, contexts, and registers.

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This innovative dictionary makes the Hebrew language more accessible to students by eliminating the formidable barrier of the Hebrew alphabet. It's easy to locate words quickly with the Webster's New World Hebrew-English Dictionary, because the Hebrew-to-English section is alphabetized according to the transliterated English spelling. The English version is marked for correct pronunciation and followed immediately by the Hebrew spelling of the word. This breakthrough work of linguistic scholarship is packed with useful features that guarantee rapid progress, even for those with no familiarity with the Hebrew language. It contains:

• Extensive grammatical information including parts of speech, variant verb forms, and the formation of feminines and plurals
• Listings of idioms and compounds and indications of colloquialisms and slang
• Common variations in pronunciations
• Geographical, historical and cultural entries

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"This new introductory textbook is far-and-away the most interesting, innovative, and promising development in Hebrew education in America that I have seen. . . . Its strength lies in its integration of multiple modes of presenting Hebrew to the learner. . . . This variety in modes of presentation helps teach students the range of communicative skills they would need to function in everyday life in Hebrew."

Esther Raizen introduces the basic concepts of Hebrew through a wide variety of written and oral exercises in this text, many of which link to the website's computer tutorials and short original films based on contemporary Israeli life and society. She emphasizes the spoken language, while also paying attention to various aspects of normative grammar, of the written language, and of cultural elements associated with Hebrew. With this variety of materials and the capacity for continuous updating via the website, teachers and students will find this book endlessly adaptable and highly suitable for self-paced training.

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Or Buy in: UK or Canada

Sorry - this software can only be shipped inside the USA.

Media: CD-ROM
Platform: Mac OS, Windows 95 / Me / NT / XP / 2000 / 98

Features:

• Award-winning program selected by the U.S. State Department, the Peace Corps and NASA
• Over 800 real-life color pictures and phrases spoken by native speakers
• Curriculum with 12 activities in each of 22 lessons (ages 6 and older)
• Develops all key language skills: Listening Comprehension, Reading, Speaking and Writing
• Previews, tests and automated tutorials that "learn" where you need extra help

Sorry! This software can only be shipped inside the USA.

Media: CD-ROM

Platform: Windows 95 / 98 / NT / 2000 / Me
Features:

• Travel through Jerusalem and chat with its inhabitants
• Visit the Western Wall, the Mahane Yehuda Market, stores, and cafes
• Practice speaking Hebrew right away
• Appendices of vocabulary and the Hebrew alphabet
• Extensive help files

Arrive in Israel at the airport, catch a taxi, and take out your map to explore many colorful locales, including the Western Wall, the Mahane Yehuda Market, a street café, and a friend's house. Speak Hebrew! lets you chat with the inhabitants of Jerusalem, providing helpful subtitles. Buy fruit at the market, order the local cuisine, or join a barmitsfa. The dialogue is the practical, useful conversation of everyday interaction. The sights and sounds of the city come alive with hand-painted scenes and background noises. There are appendices explaining the Hebrew alphabet and providing definitions for a number of categories of vocabulary words, including occupations and parts of the body.

Reader Review:
Excellent - Not just another reference, July 19, 1998
Reviewer: A reader from USA
Anybody who has studied Hebrew is familiar with the standard books of verb tables which fully conjugate a small number of example verbs, and leave the rest of the work, thumbing back and forth matching numbers and lists, to the student. This book FULLY declines 501 verb roots, or several thousand verbs, in alphebetical order. Asside from the fact that the book presents answers rather than puzzles, my favorite part is the example sentances given for each verb, which go a long way to clearing up what the binyanim actually mean. I'd suggest this book to any Hebrew student.

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Reader Review:
Gorgeous artwork!, April 5, 2000
Reviewer: A reader from Los Angeles, CA
This is a very fun dictionary for kids (and adult kids)! The illustrations by Marlene Goodman are colorful and help reinforce learning the words for common nouns. Each entry is illustrated, with the Hebrew word (including vowels), the English word and a phonetic translation. The book is divided by sections ("At the Supermarket," "In the City," etc.) to facilitate learning the vocabulary for a specific topic. It includes an index in phonetic Hebrew and in English. I would definitely recommend it for both children and adults.

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This guide covers all the essential areas of modern Hebrew for today's student. Presenting a fresh and accessible description of the language, it is useful both for independent study and for classroom work. Explanations, presented in short, readable sections, are clear and free of jargon. The book emphasizes Hebrew as used by contemporary native speakers of the language.

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Reader Review:
Excellent., January 4, 2003
Reviewer: A reader from Enid, OK United States
This book is a truly effective method of learning Hebrew letters. It has the repetition needed when learning a foriegn language. In studying it, you are able to recognize letters many pages after you learned them. I recommend this book to anyone needing to learn to read Hebrew.

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Reader Review:
The best Hebrew text around, March 3, 2002
Reviewer: A reader from New York, NY USA
I used this book when I was a kid and thought that it was the best Hebrew book that I had. I am now using it to teach my own students. It is a very great book because it does not assume that you have outside knowledge. The texts build on each other like you would hope that a language text would. The series is aimed at adults however I would recommend it for any age group.

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Platform: Mac OS, Windows Me / NT / 2000 / XP / 98 / 95
Media: CD-ROM
Features:

• Award-winning program selected by the U.S. State Department, the Peace Corps and NASA
• Over 3500 real-life color pictures and phrases spoken by native speakers
• Curriculum with 12 activities in each of 92 lessons (ages 6 and older)
• Develops all key language skills: Listening Comprehension, Reading, Speaking and Writing
• Previews, tests and automated tutorials that "learn" where you need extra help

Learn a new language with the award-winning method used by the U.S. State Department to train diplomats. Proven effective by NASA astronauts, Peace Corps volunteers, and millions of students worldwide, the Rosetta Stone Language Library teaches new languages faster and easier than ever before.

We all learn our childhood language by associating new words and phrases with the world around us. The Rosetta Stone method replicates this process by presenting vivid, real-life images to convey the meaning of each new phrase. Instead of translating, memorizing, and studying rules of grammar, you actually learn to think in the new language. Vocabulary and grammar are integrated systematically, leading to everyday proficiency.

The Rosetta Stone Level I program offers a comprehensive course of study for beginning learners, leading to intermediate proficiency. The program contains over 3,500 real-life images and phrases in 92 lessons and more than 250 hours of mastery instruction in listening comprehension, reading, speaking, and writing. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills. There are reviews, exercises, and tests for every lesson with automated tutorials throughout the program. (Ages 6 and older)

System Requirements:
PC:

• Windows 95/98 or NT/2000
• Pentium 100 class processor
• 32 MB RAM
• 40 MB free hard drive space
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color display
• 16-bit Windows compatible sound card
• Speech Recognition feature requires a Pentium 100 class processor (or better) and a microphone

MAC:

• Mac OS 8.1 or later
• PowerPC processor
• 32 MB RAM
• 40 MB free hard drive space
• 4X CD-ROM drive
• 16-bit color display
• Speech Recognition feature requires a PowerPC 90 processor (or better) and a PlainTalk compatible microphone

Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S.