Instant Immersion French Levels 1, 2 & 3 [Old Version]

This item is easy and fun to use. It has a variety of ways to learn and games to test your knowledge. I would recommend this product to anyone that wants to learn French for vacations and travelling.

This is not a coherent language course. Rather it is a collection of random bits of old software, some dating back as far as 1996, thrown into a box. Not all of the disks work on my mac. The ones that do work seem to offer little more than vocabulary lists and quizzes. I didnt try all the disks because the ones that I did try seemed to be pretty much a waste of time. (To study vocabulary I would rather read a book than plod through clunky old software.) And the package as a whole seems to be a waste of money. There are much better french learning resources available for free online. Im giving it two stars instead of one because there might be something useful on some of the disks that I didnt try after giving up.

This product starts off fairly good, it offers you a game where you have to say, recall, and pick out basic french words from a given selection. This is a good idea, except that in the later stages the process tends to test your ability to win the games rather than the french language. To graduate from the first session, you have to score 100%. The hard game consists of six cards that have pictures on them. They are then flipped over and you have to remember where each of them are. If you make one mistake, the entire 5 minute game is pointless and you have to start again. If you have two symbols that have similar sounds, there is no repeat button to hear it again so you have to guess.

I bought the French Instant Immersion program from Costco. Level 1 disk 1 and 2 are OK. Now when I inserted the Level 2 Disk 1 and 2, they come as though the program is intended for Chinese speakers who would like to learn French. A total disaster because I intended to Learn more French as I am an advanced student. I think I would go for a higher end program such as Rosetta Stone. I would spend more money but will not be dealing with this kind of nuisance. I would not even place a claim or return it since I bought the program more than 30 days ago.

I got this as a gift for my girlfriend and she is hooked on it. Shes taken French in school and was brushing up on her fluency. Needless to say, shes hooked. Cant get her away from it. Plays for hours at a time. I also have Spanish and Chinese and find them to be extremely helpful and useful in learning the languages. Pennies on the dollar compared to Rosetta Stone and just as good.

I bought this product as a refresher for French learned in high school and college. It worked great for that. I popped the mp3 CD into the car stereo and finished all of the lessons before I even realized it. With the reasonably paced review, the French I once spoke came rushing back after many years of not using it. Counter to some other reviewers complaints, I had no problems with the discs in my PC and also easily copied the MP3s onto my portable player. Likewise I have my own computer headset/mic (I dont expect software to come with hardware like some of the reviewers apparently do), so had no problems there either. As to language courses in general, I learned French in the classroom and needed this product as a worthwhile review. Its well worth the money. I learned German on my own by being immersed while living in Germany and am fluent. Lesson learned: if you are serious about learning a language, get away from your computer/stereo and interact with real native speakers. This product will give you a valuable, reasonably priced intro until you can make that happen. For those not sure what to do but want to get started, I suggest you try this product first. If it works well for you, you can always go for the much more expensive Rosetta Stone after. (If youre able to pay the high cost of RS, you wont notice the little bit youve spent on Instant Immersion.) If this doesnt work for you, at least youre only out $30 instead of $500+.

I bought this because I am traveling to France for vacation.

I have a friend from France. She speaks several languages, and well, I only know one (English). I wanted to, yknow, impress her a bit, show her that Im more internationally minded than other people. I picked up this program and used it for a bit. I learned quite a bit of words that I didnt know before and was able to earn a smile from her, that was great.

Want to learn French fast....buy this product. Ive improved my French a lot.

I have been using this program for a week now and am totally into it. Its actually fun and amusing. I was debating buying Rosetta Stone for a few months but was nervous to spend that much money without knowing what it was like. I thought for $20 I will give Instant Immersion a try and can say now, that I would definitely pay more than $20 something dollars. It really works and is helping me remember a lot from the french lessons I took a few years ago. I have a MACbook and unlike the other review I can say that I have had no problem with this program. I have tried using workbooks and lessons and flash cards for quite some time and none of it is as effective as this has been in a matter of days.