Homeschool Italian Level 1 & 2
Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Students gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills in Italian. Level 1 assumes no prior knowledge of Italian. 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
- 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 1 Examples
Level 2 Examples
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.
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 eleven different 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 focus. While different students will progress at different paces through the program, generally by choosing an alternative path, students will progress through the program much more quickly 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 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 Italian
Italian is the native language of more than 60 million people, and is the official language of Italy, the Republic of San Marino and the Vatican. Italian is also one of the official languages of Switzerland and the European Union.
Italian Learning Tips
- Italian pronunciation and spelling are regular and predictable.
- You’ll notice that some Italian words use accent marks, which help you properly pronounce words. Sometimes an accent distinguishes one word from another that is identical except for the mark. For example, e and è.
- There are two categories of Italian nouns: masculine and feminine.
- Don’t be surprised if you see sentences without subjects. Rosetta Stone will teach you to identify who is speaking or who is being spoken about through the form of the verb.
- Italian has both formal and informal ways to address others, depending on the age of the speaker and her relationship to the person being addressed.
- Lei is the formal way to express the second person. You may notice that the word Lei and some pronouns associated with it are always capitalized, even in the middle of sentences and sometimes at the end of words.
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.