#▷▷ Language Travel Software: April 2011

Saturday, April 30, 2011

National Geographic TOPO! USGS New Mexico Map CD-ROM (Windows or Mac)

TOPO! harnesses the power of authentic USGS topographic maps in an intuitive software product that recreation enthusiasts and professionals use to customize and print photo-quality topographic maps. TOPO! includes five levels of seamless mapping, including USA maps from the National Geographic World Atlas, USGS 1:100,000 scale mapping - perfect for back road navigation - and USGS 1:24,000 scale maps, also known as 7.5 minute quads. Users can custom-center the map in any location, add their routes, trails and notes. In addition, users can transfer waypoints and routes between TOPO! and their GPS units. TOPO! includes added content and features not on USGS maps: updated streets and roads, shaded relief, 3D views and fly-throughs and elevation profiles. Users can download map and software updates, and can print waterproof maps on their inkjet printers with Adventure Paper. The USA Placefinder locates more than a million places and natural features...

Features:

Print photo quality USGS topographic maps
GPS Ready - Easiest Way to tell your GPS where you want to go and record where you've been
Navigate in three dimensions with 3D fly-thru and instant elevation profiling
Customize maps with photos, notes and icons
Live Map Update ensures you always have the most current maps and software

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Instant Immersion Italian Deluxe v3.0

Instant Immersion is #1 in language learning software, with content reaching over 20 million users worldwide. Developed by international linguistic and language experts, each program is strategically designed to meet specific language learner goals and different educational styles. Key Features: The quickest way to learn a language, guaranteed - The world's most popular language system - Easy, comprehensive instruction at your own pace - Play audio on your Ipod..

Features:

With the help of a complete language learning system, Instant Immersion Deluxe v3.0 will help you achieve your goals in record time
Features instruction in all essential skills: vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and writing arranged from easiest to most challenging
Over 300 hours of instruction, complete with quizzes to test your learning and voice recognition to ensure correct pronunciation and accent usage
Exclusive Instant Immersion Bonus material--interactive Eurotalk DVD & interactive mystery solving CD-Rom game Who is Oscar Lake?
Additional bonus feature--includes 5 in-depth audio instruction CD's for learning on the move

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Garmin nüMaps Lifetime Map Update Europe Map Digital Download

Know where to go when streets change or new restaurants and other businesses open. With nüMaps Lifetime, you'll get the most up-to-date maps available — for the life of your individual Garmin GPS. This one-time, single purchase gives you access to the newest map information on streets, highways and points of interest as soon as new content is available. Then, you can download the new data to your device, retrieving up to four updates per year, for the lifetime of one Garmin GPS. It's the most comprehensive update plan you can buy. nüMaps Lifetime updates are available for the City Navigator NT street maps on one compatible Garmin device. To use nüMaps Lifetime, all you need is your Garmin device, your computer and a USB cable. There are no monthly fees or continuing maintenance costs; you pay only once per Garmin GPS. When you want to update your maps, connect your device to your computer and log into your myGarmin account, where the latest map data is ready to load to your indivi..

Features:

Coverage includes detailed maps of major metropolitan areas in Europe, including motorways, national and regional thoroughfares and local roads
Updates the street maps on your compatible Garmin GPS for the lifetime of the device; download the newest data as often as every 3 months
Sign up for email notification to receive an email when new data is available
Pay only once and update a single Garmin GPS for life: no monthly fees or other ongoing costs
Get updated information on street and highway changes, new roads, new points of interest and other features

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Rosetta Stone Vietnamese Level 1

Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Gain the confidence to master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping, and much more...

Features:

Interactive language software with proprietary speech-recognition technology
Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure
Master basic conversational skills; receive immediate and ongoing speech assessments
Audio Companion for CD or MP3 player; learning application for iPhone or iPod Touch device
Language-enhancing games; live online lessons; includes headset with microphone

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Rosetta Stone Homeschool Swahili: Level 1, Version 2 (includes Headset with Microphone)

Rosetta Stone Homeschool features a foreign language curriculum specifically designed to provide homeschool students with a rich, fully interactive and engaging language-learning experience, while giving parents the tools and resources needed to manage student progress without extensive planning or supervision. Rosetta Stone Homeschool is self-paced and designed to make it easy for parents to offer language learning even if they don't speak the language their students are studying. Students are instantly captivated by Rosetta Stone so they stay engaged. Plus, with positive reinforcement and quick results, their language-learning confidence soars!..

Features:

Rosetta Stone Homeschool teaches your student a new language naturally, the same way they mastered their first language.
Innovative solutions get them speaking new words, right from the start.
Rosetta Stone Homeschool moves forward only when your student is ready--you set the schedule and your student drives the pace.
Parent Administrative Tools allow you to formulate lesson plans, manage your student's progress and track their success.

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Garmin City Navigator for Detailed Maps of Canada (SD Card)

City Navigator Canada NT helps you travel Canada with road coverage and millions of points of interest throughout the country. City Navigator brings you the most detailed street maps available so you can navigate with exact, turn-by-turn directions to any address or intersection. You can also route to restaurants, gas stations, hotels, attractions and more. Powered by NAVTEQ, a world leader in premium-quality digital map data...

Features:

Displays points of interest including hotels, restaurants, parking, entertainment, fuel, shopping and more
Includes highways, interstates, business and residential roads in metropolitan and rural areas
Gives turn-by-turn directions and includes detailed information such as turn restrictions, roundabout guidance, speed categories and other navigation features
Includes postal code support
Contains traffic data for compatible devices that use traffic receivers

Friday, April 29, 2011

EuroTalk Interactive - Talk Now! Learn Yoruba

Talk Now! is the world's best selling language learning CD-ROM series for beginners, used by more than eight million people to date. Designed for newcomers to the language, Talk Now! is the perfect method to access a wealth of comprehensive fundamental vocabulary and accurate pronunciation in one user-friendly plan packed with useful words, a picture dictionary, and quizzes. Anyone over 10 years of age will find the program indispensable for improving listening, understanding and spoken language skills. Now you can listen to Talk Now! wherever you are with new iPod integration...

Features:

The "intelligent" software feature remembers words you get wrong and targets your weak points
Extensive basic vocabulary, from first words, food, colors, phrases, parts of the body and numbers, to telling time, shopping and countries
Each of the target languages for Talk Now! has help available in an additional 102 languages ? simply choose the flag of your native country in the beginning of the program & EuroTalk?s Talk Now! Program will provide instruction in your native language
Each topic contains listening practice, an easy game, a hard game, a printable dictionary as well as the opportunity to record your voice and hear how you sound in comparison to the two native speakers who tutor the user throughout the Talk Now! course
Each question that is answered correctly increases the user's score - get an answer wrong and points will be lost. There are 1800 points in total to gain from the disc. A full score earns the user a 'Gold Award'

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Garmin TOPO! 2004 Great Lakes/Wisconsin/Michigan/Illinois/Indiana/Ohio Map microSD Card

Outdoor enthusiasts: your adventure is waiting - in vivid detail. TOPO U.S. 24K - Great Lakes brings you the highest level of topographic detail available, with maps comparable to 1:24,000 scale USGS maps. These highly detailed maps include terrain contours, topo elevations, summits, routable roads and trails, parks, coastlines, rivers, lakes and geographical points - and they also display 3-D terrain shading on compatible devices. TOPO maps are ideal for hiking, hunting, camping, cycling and communing with nature. Coverage includes topographic detail of Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana and Ohio...

Features:

Provides detailed digital topographic maps, comparable to 1:24,000 scale USGS maps, for Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio
Contains detailed hydrographic features, including, coastlines, lake and river shorelines, wetlands and perennial and seasonal streams
Provides elevation profile on compatible Garmin devices so you can estimate terrain difficult
Contains many routable trails, rural roads, city neighborhood roads, major highways and interstates
Displays national, state and local parks, forests, conservation areas, wilderness ares, Bureau of Land Management (township, range, and section) information, and USGS quad locations

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Instant Immersion Japanese Deluxe v3.0

Your passport to language fluency!Let the latest linguistic features and user-friendly interface of this comprehensive software suite help you set the pace to language fluency. With over 300 hours of progressive instruction and over 20 engrossing games and activities, this program is ideal for travelers, families, business people and students.Developed by international linguistic and language experts, each program is strategically designed to meet specific language learner goals and different educational styles. With the help of a complete learning system, Instant Immersion™ Deluxe v3.0 will help you achieve your goals in record time. Instant Immersion™ Deluxe v3.0 features instruction in ALL essential skills, including vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading and writing. The unique Spoken Error Tracking System® (S.E.T.S.®) detects pronunciation errors and offers playback of corrected speech. You can also take your learning on-the-go! Learn on the move with the added co..

Features:

With the help of a complete language learning system, Instant Immersion Deluxe v3.0 will help you achieve your goals in record time
Features instruction in all essential skills: vocabulary, grammar, speaking, listening, reading, and writing arranged from easiest to most challenging
Over 300 hours of instruction, complete with quizzes to test your learning and voice recognition to ensure correct pronunciation and accent usage
Additional bonus feature--includes 5 in-depth audio instruction CD's for learning on the move

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Rosetta Stone Filipino (Tagalog) Level 1-2 Set

Build a foundation and navigate your surroundings. Learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure from greetings and introductions to simple questions and their answers. Gain the confidence to talk about your environment and enjoy basic social interactions – giving and getting directions, telling time, shopping, dining out, and more...

Features:

Interactive language software with proprietary speech-recognition technology
Learn fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure; navigate your surroundings
Build intermediate-level conversational skills; spell and write accurately; speak without a script
Audio Companion for CD or MP3 player; learning application for iPhone or iPod Touch device
Language-enhancing games; live online lessons; includes headset with microphone

Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) Level 5

Develop your command of the language as you refine the crucial communication skills you acquired in Levels 1-4. Effectively handle emergency situations. Discuss entertainment and culture, government, and the marketplace. Get to know the neighborhood. Discuss family and traditions. And celebrate success...

Features:

Interactive language software with proprietary speech-recognition technology
Develop your command of the language; make use of what you learned in Levels 1-4
Conduct advanced conversations; negotiate complex situations with confidence and accuracy
Audio Companion for CD or MP3 player; learning application for iPhone or iPod Touch device
Language-enhancing games; live online lessons; includes headset with microphone

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Rosetta Stone Italian Level 2

Navigate your surroundings as you build on the vocabulary and essential language structure in Level 1. Learn to talk about your environment and enjoy basic social interactions – giving and getting directions, using transportation, telling time, dining out, and more...

Features:

Interactive language software with proprietary speech-recognition technology
Build on the vocabulary and essential language structure in Level 1; navigate your surroundings
Learn intermediate-level conversational skills; spell and write accurately; speak without a script
Audio Companion for CD or MP3 player; learning application for iPhone or iPod Touch device
Language-enhancing games; live online lessons; includes headset with microphone

Thursday, April 28, 2011

Rosetta Stone German Level 4

Deepen your understanding of the language as you build on your success in Levels 1, 2, & 3. Negotiate complex situations with confidence and accuracy. Develop conversational skills to navigate the workplace, care for your health, arrange repairs, and move abroad. Learn language for driving, planning adventures, and much more...

Features:

Interactive language software with proprietary speech-recognition technology
Deepen your understanding of the language; expand on what you learned in Levels 1, 2 and 3
Engage in advanced-level conversations; share ideas and opinions; move toward fluency
Audio Companion for CD or MP3 player; learning application for iPhone or iPod Touch device
Language-enhancing games; live online lessons; includes headset with microphone

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Rosetta Stone German Level 5

Topo USA 8.0 West Region

America’s Most Up-to-Date, Feature-Rich Topographic Software. In addition to DeLorme’s up-to-date terrain, road, and points of interest detail, Topo USA 8.0 West provides access to downloadable aerial imagery, NOAA nautical charts, and authentic USGS 1:24,000 quad maps. Integrate your data downloads with Topo USA 8.0 West on your PC for unrivaled planning, routing and navigating. Unlike online map and imagery sources, DeLorme data downloads can be integrated with Topo USA 8.0 maps. Use the split screen editing capability to identify and mark structures, landmarks, navigation markers, new roads and trails, and other features with pinpoint GPS accuracy. Topo USA 8.0 West also enables realistic 3-D terrain views with flyovers, as well as the unique ability to create routes automatically over both roads and trails. The rich level of detail includes land use, land cover, public lands (e.g., BLM, national and state parks and forests), and more than 4 million places of interest...

Features:

Updated U.S. highway, street, back road, and trail detail
NavMode with 3-D GPS tracking and voice guided navigation for laptop PCs and UMPCs
Realistic 3-D terrain views, with flyovers and 360-degree rotation