Dutch Level 1 & 2 Set Homeschool
Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Students gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills in Dutch. Level 1 assumes no prior knowledge of Dutch. Building on Level 1, Level 2 helps students learn to talk about their environment such as giving and getting directions, using transportation, telling time, dining out, and enjoying basic social interactions. Administrative tools provide parents with the necessary tools to lesson plan, monitor, and report on student progress.
What's Inside the Box?
- Application CD
- Language CD
- Student Management System CD
- Illustrated User Guide - Provides complete instructions to help your child get the most from Rosetta Stone
- Curriculum Text - Contains a table of contents for each level, scripts for each lesson, and an index to all words in the program
- Handbook for Teachers: Homeschool Edition - A guide to lesson planning, student tracking, and effectively using the Rosetta Stone program in a home education environment
- Installation Guide
Level 1 Examples
Level 2 Examples
Sample Topics
A Sample of the Topics You’ll Find
- People and talking
- Directions: “How do I get to…”
- Affirmative and negative verb forms
- Food, eating, and drinking
- Family relationships
- Direct objects
- Telling time
- Numbers to 100
- Objects of prepositions
- Clothing and dress
- Vehicles, furniture, clothing, and instruments
- Shapes, colors, and locations
- Greetings and conversations
- Travel, transportation, and transactions
- Verb tenses in the passive voice
- Shopping and dining out
- The weather and clothing
- Office activities and terminology
- Subjunctive and subordinate clauses
- Common social conventions
- Calendar conventions
- The five senses; sickness and health
Student Management System
Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 2 Language program includes the Student Management System (SMS). The SMS allows parents to lesson plan, follow student progress and generate 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 because parents can create their own lesson plan or choose from two preloaded lesson plans. A simple setup wizard will help parents create student user names and passwords and enroll them into their desired lesson plan. The two lesson plans are as follows:
Comprehensive Lesson Track
Parents wishing to use Rosetta Stone as the core foreign language curriculum for their students may want to use the Comprehensive Lesson Track. This lesson track provides thorough instruction in Rosetta Stone content, guiding students through seven exercises and three tests in each lesson.
Accelerated Lesson Track
This lesson plan is intended for the student who wants to advance more quickly through the program, but still wants to have instruction in all language skills. The Accelerated Lesson Track contains four exercises and two tests per lesson
Testing
All testing is done on the computer with Rosetta Stone. Within the lesson plans, students automatically advance from exercise to tests. Once a student reaches a test, they must achieve a certain predetermined proficiency level on that test, 85% for example, in order to move on. If the student does not achieve that level, they must test again until that level is achieved.
Parents can adjust the proficiency levels set in the lesson plans to meet learning goals in both the Accelerated and Comprehensive tracks. Parents also have the ability to set proficiency levels when building their own lesson plans.
Reporting
The Student Management System gives parents the ability to view, print and export student results. Parents can create a report for one or multiple students. Information available in this report includes:
- Student's current lesson track
- Completed lessons
- Test scores
- Time on task
- Status of lesson based on proficiency level achieved
- Date and time exercises were completed
More information regarding lesson planning, testing, and reporting as well as sample schedules and cultural activities can be found in the Handbook for Teachers Homeschool Edition included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 2.
About Dutch
More than 20 million people speak Dutch as their native language. It is the official language of the Netherlands and its overseas territories, and is one of the official languages of Belgium, Suriname, and the European Union. Dutch speakers can also communicate with over 5 million speakers of Afrikaans, a daughter language of Dutch, spoken in South Africa and Namibia.
Dutch Learning Tips
- Dutch pronunciation and spelling follow logical patterns.
- In Dutch, a system of accent marks determines the pronunciation of certain letters. Rosetta Stone teaches you how to read these letters correctly.
- There are two main categories of Dutch nouns, common and neuter. Common nouns consist of feminine and masculine words.
- Almost all Dutch nouns can be turned into a diminutive, a word that denotes smallness, by adding a ‘-je’ ending.
- Dutch has strict rules for the positions of verbs, subjects, and objects. These rules determine when the subject is positioned before or after the verb.
- Dutch has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and the relationship to the person being addressed.
System Requirements
Requirements for Rosetta Stone User Workstations
- Windows (32-bit editions only) 2000 or XP, Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5
- 128 MB RAM
- 250 MB free hard-drive space
- 16-bit sound card
- 800 x 600 display resolution
- Speech Recognition feature requires a headset microphone (USB or analog)
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.