Homeschool German Level 1, 2 & 3 with Audio Companion^™

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
  • Student workbook including a quiz for each lesson
  • Unit tests
  • Answer key for workbooks and tests

Sample Topics

Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 3 Level 1, 2, and 3 Set helps the student to navigate his or her surroundings while connecting with the world around them by continually building on basic language fundamentals, vocabulary, and conversational skills. The Level 1, 2, and 3 Set provides instruction in such areas 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 formal imperatives
• School subjects, months of the year, and social dialogues
• Emotions
• Sequencing with First/ Then/ Finally
• Ordinal numbers
• Spatial relationships
• Household items, physical activity, and animals
• Present subjunctive and present perfect
• What happened? What is wrong? “If…..then” sequences
• Portions, weights, and measurements
• Correct/ incorrect, remember/ forget, no one/ everyone, nothing/ everything
• Continents, life milestones, and compass directions

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.

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 German

German is an official language of Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Belgium, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg. It is spoken in many European countries as a second language and is the third most taught and translated language in the world. There are more than 100 million native German speakers.

German Learning Tips

• German pronunciation and spelling are regular and predictable.
• There are three categories of German nouns: masculine, feminine, and neuter.
• German nouns are always capitalized, regardless of where they occur in a sentence. For example: Der Mann läuft.
• Many verbs have two parts: one part that comes after the subject and one part that comes at the end of the sentence. For example: Der Mann hat einen Apfel gegessen.
• The German alphabet contains all the letters of the Roman alphabet and in addition includes the letter ß.
• The vowels in some German words have a mark written above them, a pair of dots called an umlaut ¨. This mark shows you how to properly pronounce the word, and it may distinguish one word from another, which is identical except for the mark. For example: ein Apfel – zwei Äpfel.
• German has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and her relationship to the person or persons 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.