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Homeschool Dutch Level 2 with Audio Companion™

Navigate your surroundings in Dutch as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure in Level 1. Students learn to talk about their environment such as giving and getting directions, using transportation, telling time, dining out, and enjoying basic social interactions. Level 2 is a direct continuation of Level 1, and administrative tools provide parents with the necessary tools to create lesson plans and monitor and report on student progress.

Start learning with our software... and reinforce what you’ve learned on the go with Audio Companion™ CDs. Audio Companion supports everything you’ve learned with Rosetta Stone CD-ROM software, enhancing the experience anywhere you take your CD or MP3 player!

$279.00
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What's Inside the Box?

  • Application CD
  • Language CD
  • Audio Companion™ CDs
  • 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


Level 2 Examples

Dutch Level 2 Screenshot 1 Dutch Level 2 Screenshot 2

Sample Topics

Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 2 helps you to navigate your surroundings as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure you learned in Level 1. Level 2 provides instruction in such categories as:

  • Directions, transportation, and telling time
  • Past and future tenses, adverbs, and formal 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. They 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 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.

Full Year Curriculum

The Full Year Curriculum is intended to guide a student through one level of a language in a scholastic year. This curriculum integrates a comprehensive path through the software, suggested Cultural Activities from the Parent’s Guide and instruction materials to strengthen the student’s language-learning experience. Though students will progress at different paces naturally, this path is great for students who wish to use each level of Rosetta Stone for a one-year course.

Alternate Paths of Study

There are 11 paths of study to choose from, based on your student’s learning objectives. Alternate paths exist for different skill focuses, such as listening and speaking, or reading and writing. While students will progress at different paces through the program, students will generally progress through the program much more quickly with an alternate path than with the Full Year Curriculum.

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 require the student to 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 Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3.

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.

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.