German Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion™

Level 1 Examples

Level 2 Examples

Level 3 Examples

What You'll Learn

This set will help you:

• Build your vocabulary and language abilities.
• Spell and write accurately.
• Speak without a script.
• Retain what you’ve learned.
• Read and understand your new language.
• Share ideas and opinions, express feelings and talk about everyday life.

Sample topics include:

• The basics, such as age and family relations
• Questions, greetings, introductions
• Times of day, calendar terms, the weather
• Directions, locations, telling time
• Present, past and future tense
• Apologies and polite requests
• How to order at a restaurant and give and receive directions
• Emotions, opinions and ideas
• Political, media, business and religious terms

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)

Additional Requirements for Online Products

• High-speed internet connection
• Browsers: Internet Explorer 6sp1, Internet Explorer 7, Firefox 2.0, Safari 2 and Safari 3
• Flash 9 plug-in installed on browser

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.