• 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'

So why the so-so rating? I bought this same title for German and there are four CDs. It had a basic CD, a more advanced CD, a mystery game where you used your knowledge to solve the mystery, and a talking dictionary. I thought I'd be getting the same package, but apparently they haven't developed past the first CD for Croatian. And the one CD isn't much cheaper than what I paid for the whole German package.

There are nine lessons on the basic CD, each with about 15-20 words or phases. In two days, I've already aced six of the nine. Obviously, I'm still not quite ready to carry on a conversation. Contrast this to the German edition which lasted me several weeks despite my already knowing a good bit of German.

So while their method is a good one, and the presentation is very professional, I can't recommend this unless you'll be happy just knowing things like colors, food, numbers, etc.

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fun and easy to learn...  Jul 24, 2004 By N. C Wilde "The Mightiest of Mice"
However, quite basic, so once you've finished the first CD, you'll need something else to get to more advanced practice. Even so, this CD worked perfectly for me and did not require me to download any additional software in order to get it to run. I'm using Mac OS X, 10.3.4-Panther on a G4 iBook. The fact that I'm running a Mac version may explain the differences in my review from the other reviewers the same software, who are likely windows based users.

The games are quite fun and the graphics are crisp. We've not yet utilized the voice comparisson option, but look forward to doing so as soon as my microphone arrives--the program allows you to have your pronounciation/voicing compared to the native speaker's voices on the CD.

For the price (I purchased on sale for under 15$), it's darned good. Not sure what the other reviewers paid, but considering most shareware costs about that much, this is a solid performer. We supplemented this starter program with Pimleseur Croatian.

Imati velik dan! (have a great day!)

Nina

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do not buy this item  Mar 17, 2004
I have given this item 1 star because there is nothing lower. It might be a good product, I will never know. The first thing you will find is that in order to view the product you will need to download a software package costing an additional $15. The next thing you will find is that if you want a refund from Amazon, you will pay the shipping because this is not their fault (even though this is not mentioned in the description). The next thing you will find is that if you delete the program on your computer you will lose shared files.

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talk now croatian review  Jul 23, 2007 By M. Klisanin
This CD-ROM is a good beginning level product to learn Croatian with. It even has a record your own voice option to practice pronunciation! I have read other reviews that say that this CD-ROM makes you purchase other programs on the internet. Which so far is not the case. I have not done all the practices on the cd....yet. But so far I have not been forced to purchase anything. Oddly, they have another word for hand other than ruka... and claim that ruka is arm not hand. Which confused me a little. But that is to be expected I am from the mountain people of Croatia.