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- Pentium (166 MHz recommended) Windows 95 and higher, including XP
- 16 MB RAM (32 MB RAM recommended) 90 MB HD (110 MB recommended) 2X CD-ROM drive (12X CD-ROM drive recommended)
- 16-bit Windows compatible sound card 640 x 480, 256 color graphics card (1,024 x 768, 65,53f6 color graphics card recommended) Microphone and speakers or headset Internet access and e-mail address r
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What our customer's say!

"So Disappointed", I was really excited to get started in my quest for a second language, but this software really put a damper on that. I thought I was missing something, that there HAD to be more translations somewhere, but after reading all of these reviews, I see that most people are having the same problems. I know ZERO Italian, and it's obvious that this program assumes that is not the case. It seems to me that it is assumed you are quite fluent in the language and are only trying to brush it up a little bit. On top of that the software is really hard to get through. I'm sure eventually that part would get easier, but I'm not going to put any more time into this one.

"Terrible Software", This software is completely useless unless you already have some background in the language! I have tried so hard on multiple occasions to use this software thinking that if I just keep going I will start learning. NOT!!! I am so confused so fast that I get frustrated and give up! Within minutes it wants you to be able to fill in blank sentences and crossword puzzles when you have no clue of any vocabulary!!
There are word associations but it does not tell you anything about the words at all, it just wants you to match them. I end up just guessing over and over until it tells me I have it right.
Now I am reading a great book on Italian and am looking for some new software. I'm hoping that once I start learning the language I can go back to this software and it will be really great.

"bad for beginners", Listen to these reviews, because everyone is correct. DO NOT buy this product if you know no italian whatsoever. This product is only good for people who have previously studied italian for a few years and want to brush up on it. I took one semester of italian in college and although i know some basic words, this program is still difficult for me, because you are asked to complete activities, like filling in sentences, without having learned any vocab. I should have listened to these reviews in the first place and spent extra money on the Rosetta Stone program, at least people were happy with it.

"I wish I had read the reviews before I bought it", I wish I read the reviews because they are right, this product sucks! If you don't know any Italian or even a little, this product is useless. It is more like a word activity software, but oh yeah, you have to understand the language to use it. I don't think they have any English in there, so you can't really learn what is going on. If I were you, I would not buy this software if you want to learn the language! Don't waste your money.

"Instant Immersion Italian Deluxe", The name of the 8 disks is immersion; this is what you get. It simulates as if you are in Italy and you learn as you go. You literally get "immersed" into the language. For people who do not have the time to take the time-out in the country of their choice, this is a great way to study a foreign language.

You do not get confused with a bilingual format where more English is spoken than Italian (we also have Instant Immersion German Deluxe with English instructions.) After all we want to learn Italian and not English and want to become fluent in the foreign language a.s.a.p.
Each person according to their level is free to click on the American flag (in this case it shows the translation on the left in writing). Also if you follow the small booklet included, for each level one booklet, and study the vocabulary given for each lesson, you can do good work with the discs.

Too bad that there is no tape/disc in the world that will save you from have to study/learn the conjugated forms of verbs etc.

Read this reviews before You buy...

"terrible", Stay away from this product. Besides the software setup being very confusing, the lessons themselves don't seem to be organized properly. A good language software should build the next lesson based on the previous knowledge. However, this one didn't seem like that, it would throw new grammar, vocabulary without ever introducing it before; I found this very confusing, had to click on the dictionary button constantly to figure out the exercise. Because I had some background in Italian before, I was OK for the first few lessons, then I was completely lost. I can't imagine anyone with zero background learning anything from this software. Unless you are trying brush up on what you once knew, I wouldn't recommend it.

"A great way to learn Italian", This software is a great way to learn Italian.

The immersion method used is outstanding. Learning a language is never easy but I liked how the software works. First, you have to listen to the language, try to remember what you heard, see on the screen, then you are the one involved to actually talk to the computer, or do the activities. You come from being a passive learner (just listening and understanding) to active learner (talking, answering,..). It is way better than being in a class!

The progress chart to keep your progress is also very impressive and detailed, it gives you the percentage of activities you did right,and so on.

The activities are very fun and interactive: crosswords puzzles, fill-in-the blanks, word order activities, word ssociation...You learn in an interactive and easy way. I was amazed at how much I learnt.

I found this software very complete as well: there is an amazing speech recognition feature to help you talk and pronunciate right, also written activities, grammar,...

"This software is not user-friendly", I purchased this with high expectation but was disappointed from the beginning. I found this software to be extremely confusing and not at all helpful.

First of all, the set-up is not very good. The lessons are broken up into individual lessons and there are probably 15 lessons per "section" (date and time, etc.) on each cd (there are 5) The lessons are listed on a Progress Chart (grid-like chart) and its hard to keep track of what lessons were actually completed. Boxes that represent each lesson will be shaded in depending on how complete that particular lesson is. If you don't finish a lesson and click on it again, you will have to complete the whole lesson instead of just finishing where you left off.

Second is the lessons themselves. Its very hard to learn a new language when the lessons are basically various formats of lessons that throw phrases at you and expect you to figure them out. For instance, several of the lessons involve putting a mixed-up sentence (in Italian) into its correct format or matching an Italian word with its Italian synonym. Others involve crossword puzzles. These are all in Italian. If you don't know basic Italian, its very hard to figure them out. For a beginner this just doesn't work very well. I had no idea what these words meant to begin with, let alone try to figure out how to put them into correct sentence format and actually learn anything besides frustration!

Lastly, my help button feature didn't work. I couldn't ask for help if I wanted to. The software didn't include any instructions so lack of help was a definite issue.

Overall, I believe that the software is very confusing and didn't help at all with my learning the language. This software may be fine for an intermediate or advanced "student" but for a beginner very new to the language it just doesn't work.