Product Features:

• The complete language learning solution, taking you from beginner level all the way to advanced
• Lessons covering almost 20,000 German words and phrases – more than any other language learning software on the market
• An easy-to-use Translation Dictionary that quickly provides English equivalents of over 65,000 words
• 30 virtual reality scenarios to give you an immersive flavour of Germany
• Rapidly build, master and retain a large German vocabulary base
• 5 powerful and flexible learning products in one affordable package
• Quickly develop confident speaking skills
• Learn to read and write in German
• Full-motion immersion video
• Develop listening comprehension
• Gain total control over when and how you want to learn
• Learn in your car, at the gym or even around the house with a complete audio course on CDs
• Practise your vocabulary using your iPod or other MP3 player
• Test yourself with games and quizzes
• Record your voice and learn how to improve your pronunciation
• Track your progress

Transparent Complete Edition is a powerful and flexible language learning solution that gives you five German learning products in one affordable package. It will take you on a journey beginning with the basics and take you as far as you want to go, all at a pace that suits you.

So whether you prefer audio courses, reading, immersion, or conversational practice, The Complete Edition will lead you to German proficiency in no time!

FLASH: Contains everything from the Transparent Premium Edition and much more!

5 LEARNING PRODUCTS IN 1!

1. Start by rapidly building your vocabulary base with the acclaimed Byki Deluxe 4.0, based on a proven flash card method.

Experts agree that the most important part of learning a language is rapidly building a foundation of word and phrase knowledge. Byki is the fastest, most direct path to that goal — it “hacks” into your memory and fills it with foreign words and phrases. Whereas traditional learning methods spread their learning out across a multitude of lessons and activities, Byki gets right down to business with a proven three step process:

• Byki guides you through a review of the German material you will learn.
• Byki teaches you to recognise the written and spoken forms of each word.
• Finally, you will be able to express yourself in German by speaking or writing it on your own.

In just your first session, the Byki 3-step process will teach you 100 critical Quick Start phrases for use in common, real-life situations.

How much German have you forgotten?

Maybe you've studied German or another language before. If so, do you remember everything you learned? Using Byki ensures that you'll keep everything you learn in your long-term memory, forever. As you use the three step process, Byki will keep track of what you learn and use its Intelligent Refresh system to help you review the items you might forget along the way. Lots of language products provide a means to learn German. Only Byki makes that knowledge permanent.

Byki knows what you need...

Most products take a one-size-fits-all approach to teaching languages. Byki provides a personalised path to success based on your own strengths and weaknesses. It recognises the material you learn quickly and takes note of those items that give you more trouble. Byki then maximises the time you dedicate to language learning by focusing your efforts on the items that you find more challenging, without wasting your time on those you learn with ease.

Record your voice and compare it alongside native speaker audio.  Play games, take quizzes and track your progress; Byki’s a language-learning powerhouse!

2. Take your learning on the road with audio lessons on CD.  Take advantage of “lost” time in your car, at the gym, or just around the house to speed up the learning process. English speaking instructors guide you through each of the 35 easy-to-follow lessons. Native German speakers provide examples of real-life dialogues that build your German speaking and listening skills. You simply listen and repeat. It’s as easy as that.

The Complete Edition also comes with dozens of Byki Pod MP3 files. Use these files on your iPhone, iPod touch, iPod nano, or any other MP3 player. Now you can practise your favourite languages wherever you are!

3. Develop your written and verbal skills with a full course including lesson plans to develop your conversational skills.  Native language texts, videos and stories immerse you in the German language helping you to communicate without having to think about it - just like you do in English.

4. Instantly access over 65,000 German words and their English equivalents. As you practise German, you may run across an unfamiliar word here and there. The Lexicon Translation Dictionary won’t let that slow you down!

The Lexicon Translation Dictionary includes all the words you need to communicate in everyday situations as well as technical terms for specific areas including:

• Arts and Media
• Business
• Science
• Law and Politics
• Transport
• and more

5. Explore 30 virtual reality scenarios. Travel around each scene and click on any object to see and hear its name in German. Click on the people you meet to learn conversational phrases. You can easily travel between different scenes to see how the words and phrases you are learning are used in different contexts.

Built-in word games, puzzles and pronunciation tools add even more fun to your learning!

WHAT WILL I LEARN

The Complete Edition will help you:

• Rapidly build and retain a large German vocabulary base
• Test yourself with games and quizzes
• Develop listening comprehension
• Learn to read and write in German
• Learn to express yourself freely in spoken German

You’ll begin by building vocabulary and phrase knowledge with Quick Start Lists. These are designed to get you up and running with the MOST crucial words and phrases so that you can become functional in your new language as quickly as possible. You’ll then learn thousands of other words and phrases, including the following topics:

• Taking a taxi
• Asking for directions
• At the restaurant
• Travelling
• Meeting and greeting
• Emergencies
• Asking the time
• Weather and seasons
• Shopping and bargaining

Once you’ve got the vocabulary you can progress to learn structured sentences and conversation. Sample lesson content includes:

• Fundamentals of German
• Definite and indefinite articles, verbs and personal pronouns
• Making a polite request
• Forming direct questions
• Idiomatic expressions of time
• A historic overview of Tübingen

As you progress you’ll be able to call upon the large vocabulary base you’ve built and your developing conversational skills. Suddenly you’ll find yourself communicating without a script.

In other words, you’ll be speaking German!

Screen Captions:

Language Fluency is a result of frequent practice and use.

The main program screen is modelled after a book for simplicity. The book interface provides easy-to-follow chapters and pages for lessons to help you find your way around the program.

1.     Start each lesson by learning key words and phrases.

2.     Now use your new vocabulary to build your reading and listening skills.

3.     Next participate in realistic dialogues. Record your voice and then play back the conversation.

Other language titles in the Complete Edition range: Arabic, Chinese, French, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.

About Transparent Language

Transparent Language is a leading provider of best-practice language learning software for consumers, government agencies, educational institutions, and businesses. Since 1991, Transparent Language has helped millions of individuals learn new languages quickly, easily, and effectively. More than 12,000 schools and universities, as well as top government language schools, use their products. Working with distinguished language acquisition experts and thousands of native speakers around the world, Transparent Language is committed to producing language learning solutions of the highest quality at affordable prices.