Homeschool Chinese Level 1 & 2 (Mandarin)

What's Inside the Box?

• 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
• Headset with microphone
• Quick Start Activation Card
• Supplemental Education Materials CD includes printable files for:
  • Table of contents
  • Scripts for each lesson
  • An index to all words in the program

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 homeschooling parents, 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.

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.

About Chinese

Chinese is the native language of more than a billion speakers, more people than any other language. It is spoken in China, Singapore, Malaysia, and in many overseas Chinese communities.

Chinese Learning Tips

• Chinese is written with no spaces between words.
• Each character in Chinese corresponds to a single syllable.
• The meaning of Chinese syllables depends on the tone with which it is spoken.
• A tone may change slightly depending on the tones of its neighboring syllables. The most common example that you will encounter is when two third tones occur together; the first third tone will change into a tone similar to a second tone.
• Nouns in Chinese do not change between singular and plural. Instead, a number or counter indicates the noun’s quantity.
• Verb forms don’t change based on the person performing the action. This is one aspect of learning Chinese that is much easier than many other languages!
• Chinese has no exact equivalent of “yes”. Instead of affirming with one word, a Chinese speaker generally repeats the verb.

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.