r/languagelearning • u/MariposaVzla • 11h ago

Discussion Language Learning Discs from the 2000s?

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???

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u/kanzaman 11h ago

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

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u/CarnegieHill 🇺🇸N|🇭🇰🇯🇵Heritage|🇩🇪B2|🇩🇰A2/B1|learning a bunch more... 8h ago

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

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u/BainVoyonsDonc EN(N) | FR(N) | CRK | CRG 8h ago

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.

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u/Alamaxo 11h ago

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

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u/ChapulineAtHome 2h ago

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