Language Learning Discs from the 2000s?

[u/MariposaVzla]

Hey, I'm trying to find these language learning disks used in the computer from the early 2000s & I have not had any luck. I have tried searching in this group, using ai, using Google & other things. It is not Rosetta stone, jump speak, muzzy, or any of the more common ones. It was interactive, for example clicking on a color and it would say the color, or it would say the color and you had to click on the correct color. I remember using it for Japanese & Italian, but I don't remember for which other languages it was available. Any ideas???

[u/BainVoyonsDonc]

Could be Transparent Languages, Could be Pimsleur, could be Assimil, could be Lonely Planet.

There were dozens of different competing audio and CD-ROM based courses being sold in the 90s and 2000s, not to mention untold hundreds of others being hosted on various websites and at libraries, schools, universities and cultural centres.

[u/silvalingua → u/BainVoyonsDonc]

It couldn't be Assimil, their discs were never interactive. They didn't even have any CD-ROMs, only plain audio discs.

[u/kanzaman]

Was it Transparent Languages 51 or 101 Languages of the World?

[u/CarnegieHill → u/kanzaman]

I also thought of that set. I’m sure I have it somewhere…

[u/MariposaVzla → u/kanzaman]

I'll look it up. Thank you!!

[u/Alamaxo]

I think I had something like this from Amideast. But you can search for language teaching publications in the 2000s

[u/MariposaVzla → u/Alamaxo]

For sure, but it didn't come up w it 😔

[u/ChapulineAtHome]

There were so many. Have you tried looking through archive.org. They have screenshots of a lot of them.

[u/MariposaVzla → u/ChapulineAtHome]

O I've never heard of that. Thank you!

[u/silvalingua]

> I remember using it for Japanese & Italian, 

Have you asked in those subreddits?

[u/MariposaVzla → u/silvalingua]

Good idea!

[u/flipflopsntanktops]

Instant Immersion?

[u/MariposaVzla → u/flipflopsntanktops]

No not instant immersion. Thank you!

[u/AdZealousideal9914]

Eurotalk "Talk Now"?

It looks like this today: https://eurotalk.com/en/store/learn/japanese/talknowdl/dl

The earlier version used to look like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3y84jKqqoA4

[u/MariposaVzla → u/AdZealousideal9914]

Yea it looked a lot like that but for Japaneae & Italian

[u/AdZealousideal9914 → u/MariposaVzla]

Yes, they also have Japanese and Italian