Why I buy this one ?
- PC Compatible, Pentium II 300 MHz or faster, Windows 95/98/Me/2000, 48 MB RAM (64 MB recommended), 20 MB HD, 1024x768 pixels, 16-bit high color, 4x CD-ROM drive drive, Internet Browser, Sound Card, Mo
- 20 MB HD, 1024x768 pixels, 16-bit high color, 4x CD-ROM drive
- Internet Browser, Sound Card, Mouse, Keyboard, Speakers
- PC - Shipping Newer 5 CD version.

AramediA offers this stuff with condition New, new for:

Price : $29.88 Usually ships in 1-2 business days

What our customer's say!

"good product", I was involved in sign language classes, and this helped get some
of the signs down. I have two hearing impaired at work that it comes in
handy everyday.
JL

"Older program", I had to return this program to the company because it would not work on windows vista

"This is from 1995 and won't run on XP", Needless to say I was disappointed in this impulse buy at a local store. Though it claims to be compatible with "Windows95 and above" and while the outside box lists a copyright date of 2003, the software in fact is from 1995 and doesn't come close to installing. Despite having the latest version of Quicktime installed, the installer says Quicktime is not detected and tries to install version 1.0 of Quicktime, and then once you run the program, you get a DirectorPlayer error on startup, preventing the program from loading, saying you need at least "3 MB of Virtual Memory." My virtual memory is at 1300 MB.

One of the discs, a dictionary, works, but the videos are so tiny and grainy that you can't see anything.

"No stars", What a poor design. Avatars, indeed! This "system" is
NOT to be recommended. The interfaces are small and rough,
the "Signing With Avatar Friends" is totally useless.

"There is a newer edition!", Part of the reason for the declining reviews for this product is the fact that it is aging.

While the ASL Deluxe product is probably the way to go, there is a new 5 CD ROM ASL edition out from TOPICS too at about the same (or lower) price as this old one, called TOPICS ENTERTAINMENT Total Immersion American Sign Language 2.0 ( Windows ) here on Amazon.

There is also a new basic 2 CD ROM package with selected new content.

The new versions have a dark-haired woman on the box.

It's confusing because they have called this outdated product 2.0 as well.

Check out the new edition(s) before making your decision!

Read this reviews before You buy...

"Wonderful for a beginner", I bought it a few years ago, and still I use it as my reference for many unknown signs or phrases. 4 CD's come in total. There's one that's called SignLink, and it's the best. It gives you a background on American Sign Language and it's so far the most helpful. The other 3 CD's are ok but mostly slow on my system (Windows XP). But try them first and see what you think. All in all, they're helpful if you're starting to learn ASL. I really recommend this program. And to you, reader, if you buy it, I recommend discipline to keep up with your learning program.

"If you're serious about learning ASL, pass this one by...", I've been signing for almost ten years, and my wife works professionally as an interpreter. I recently picked this package up as a handy refresher to keep my skills sharp. For under $$$, it seemed like a good deal. Unfortunately, this suite of "learning tools" left a lot to be desired. First of all, if you're using XP, expect a whole slew of compatibility problems. The few programs I was able to get working suffered from very poor interface design, and worse yet, presented the user with incorrect information. For example, the Personal Communicator lets the user type in English phrases to get a video ASL interpretation. What the program displayed for you was a literal English word-order translation of the phrase. Words that did not appear in the sparse word list were then fingerspelled. There was absolutely no consideration of ASL grammar or structure. Thus, a sentence like "How long have you been an interpreter?" was translated with the literal signs for "how" (as in, "how does this work?"), "long" (as in "that road is long"), "have" (as in "can I have some water?"), and so on. If you've ever taken a real ASL course, you know how wrong this is. A true ASL representation should have read something like "interpreter how-long (time) you?" In all fairness, creating a program advanced enough to do such an accurate conversion would probably cost much more, but by presenting new ASL students with this sort of misrepresentation is destructive to the language rather than constructive. Another program, the English-ASL dictionary, is nothing more than a copy of a University of Michigan ASL web site, not a carefully designed learning aid for home use.

Bottom line, if you're really serious about learning this wonderful language, do yourself a favor and enroll in a class at a local college or community center. It is the ONLY way to truly learn this language and begin to experience deaf culture. If you want to practice at home, I would recommend The American Sign Language Dictionary 10th Anniversary Edition. It's far more accurate and does a much better job of teaching ASL grammar, deaf culture, and sign vocabulary.

"Instant Immersion American Sign Language Deluxe", Why is this product not available in Canada???

this looks like just the product I need... so how does one simple canadian get his hands on this product???

i am not interested in specific warranties etc. please let me know, at my email address, how i can get this product (2copies) to my mailing address, please!

john

"Instant Immersion American Sign Language", This is a very good program. It helps you learn the proper hand formations and gives you a visual example of how to do each sign. It also has a conversations section where you can learn to read the signs. It's almost like having a study buddy. I recommmended it to a friend. I rated it a four because a few words are not in it, but I just looked them up in my sign dictionary.

"What???", Ok, I guess my main problem is that I have windows xp and only one of the four programs actually works with windows xp, the others I don't know what's going on with them. The one that does work isn't set up in a learning manner at all. It's more like a dictionary, in fact what I could see from all of them none of them are set up in a learn sign language type way, they're more like here's sign language see what you can remember. I feel like I've wasted time and money on this and it fell short, very short of my expectations which were low to start.