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| CaucusWolf Senior Member United States Joined 5300 days ago 191 posts - 234 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese | Message 1 of 5 20 August 2010 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering If anyone has used this program. It seems to be an interesting idea since it's a virtual simulation of real world situations. It's got a price tag of $795 for personal use. The military uses it as well albeit free. So I'm guessing it has to work at least as well as Rosetta Stone.(Although hopefully much better.)
The site is http://alelo.com/tactical_language.html. Right now they have The Iraqi dialect, Pashto, Dari and French(which is odd for this language combination. Heh.). The Iraqi course claims to teach somewhere around 1,300 words. The vocabulary list seems decent but you'd think for $795 you'd get more. I think the idea of having to actually reply back to the virtual characters quickly quit intriguing. If they'd drop the price down to $100 there'd be alot of language learners behind this. Alas, I can't see this happening anytime soon. Edited by CaucusWolf on 20 August 2010 at 1:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6409 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 2 of 5 21 August 2010 at 4:59am | IP Logged | ||
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French isn't that odd. The military operates a fair amount in Francophone African countries with advising roles and whatnot.
Or perhaps the long awaited invasion of France is at hand. Either way. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6261 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 5 21 August 2010 at 5:39am | IP Logged | ||
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You might look as Transparent Languages software. It is not a 3d interactive, but focused on average person vocabulary and not military language needs.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6039 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 4 of 5 21 August 2010 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Last time I looked at screenshots of Tactical, there was a lot of multiple choice tasks.
Unfortunately in many courses the choices are so different, you only need to understand one or two words in the sentence to select the correct one. Looking at the screenshots, the multiple choices in Tactical fall into this trap. I suspect you can finish the game without learning the language. I'm pretty certain that you will not learn 1300 words -- that will be the number of words used, but many of them will only ever occur in one phrase, and you don't "know" a word if you can only use it in one context. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| CaucusWolf Senior Member United States Joined 5300 days ago 191 posts - 234 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Written), Japanese | Message 5 of 5 21 August 2010 at 9:52pm | IP Logged | ||
Yea I didn't see that. I guess if there's no real vocabulary lists it would be harder to memorize. I really just wanted to see if anyone had any experience with this. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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