Hindi Level 1 Homeschool

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

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
• Telling time
• Numbers to 100
• Clothing and dress
• Vehicles, furniture, clothing, and instruments
• Shapes, colors, and locations

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:

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 Hindi

Hindi is the official language of India. It is also used in many other countries, including Fiji and Nepal. There are over 400 million speakers of Hindi around the world.

Hindi Learning Tips

• There is no distinction between upper- and lowercase letters in Hindi.
• In the Hindi writing system, a character can stand for only one sound. You’ll never have to worry about a character having more than one possible pronunciation.
• Each Hindi vowel has 2 different forms: independent and dependent. In general, the dependent form is used when the vowel follows a consonant, while the independent form follows a vowel or is the first letter of a word.
• In general, when a Hindi consonant is not written with a vowel character immediately following it, it is automatically pronounced with a certain vowel sound called a schwa. This sound is very common in Hindi and because it’s not written out, it makes Hindi spelling much simpler.
• Some Hindi consonants may sound very similar to each other because they are pronounced with only slightly different movements of the tongue. Other Hindi consonants only differ from each other in the amount of air that is released when pronounced. Rosetta Stone will help you recognize and apply these different sounds through exposure and practice.
• There are 2 categories of Hindi nouns: masculine and feminine. Verbs and adjectives may change to match the category of the noun.
• Hindi has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and her 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.