Rosetta Stone PowerPac, The

$59.95, Win 95, Win 3.1, Mac OS (CD-ROM)

Teaches: foreign language, French, Spanish, German, Russian, Dutch

CTR Review

This program takes the first 22 lessons of Spanish, French, German, Russian, Mandarin Chinese and Japanese from individual Rosetta Stone Level 1 CDs and provides access to all of the languages on one program. The program teaches beginning vocabulary for the six languages. While testers liked this program better than the Berlitz Think & Talk series, they were disappointed that only individual vocabulary words were taught, but not how to speak or use them in context. Navigation through the program was awkward initially but once they figured it out, testers enjoyed learning the words.