Customer Rating:  
Summary: Very Helpful
Comment: I thought this product was very helpful in teaching my whole family some basic german before our vacation to Switzerland. The graphics were fun and the video simulations were a great way to practice what we were learning. It really focuses on the practical application of the language, giving simulations for cabs, restaurants, shopping, etc. My kids loved hearing themselves on the playback and it even encouraged my teen daughter to take a foreign language class is school. I recommend this product highly.
Customer Rating:
Summary: Great for Beginners!!!
Comment: I bought this before my husband and I moved to Germany. I loved that I could practice my pronunciation and playback what I said. The simulations were great and helped me to practice my language skills in a conversational setting. When we arrived in Germany, I was amazed at how quickly I became conversant because I had already gotten a firm grasp of the basics of conversational german through this software. I also used it after we were already there, to brush up on vocabulary. I highly recommend this product.
Customer Rating:
Summary: extremely poor - a complete waste of money
Comment: If one knows absolutely no german, this product will not provide any structured methodical way to learn some, so it is useless to an absolute beginner. If one does know even a small amount of german, then one will already know more than the few phrases and the few very basic words which this package contains. The mulimedia section is a farcical - 10 songs and some pathetic games. The fact that the box stated that it is a 3 CD set led me to think that it would contain lots of multimedia - in actual fact the same video and audio is replicated on each of the disks. Very disappointing.
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