This Computer CD of Elementary Rarotongan Language Tuition
-"BEGIN SPEAKING RAROTONGAN" -
features the modern, multi-media, audio-visual approach
to the Maori Language of the Cook Islands,
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AS LITTLE AS TEN MINUTES A DAY WITH THIS
COMPUTER CD CAN GIVE THE USER THE CONFIDENCE ONE
NEEDS TO BEGIN TO COME TO GRIPS WITH THE JOB OF
LEARNING RAROTONGAN - THE MOST WIDELY SPOKEN MAORI LANGUAGE IN THE COOK ISLANDS!
TEN LEVELS OF PROGRESS - EACH SUBDIVIDED
INTO EIGHT NUMBERED STEPS, WITH EACH STEP PRESENTING A VERY SIMPLE NEW RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE LESSON - FACILITATE EASY
ACCESS, AT THE BEGINNING OF EVERY SESSION
WITH THIS COMPUTER CD, TO THE POINT AT WHICH
THE STUDENT ENDED THE PREVIOUS RUN.
THIS IS IMPORTANT, BECAUSE THE TEN LEVELS OF PROGRESS, WITH EIGHT STEPS PER LEVEL, PROVIDE ALTOGETHER 80 VERY SIMPLE LITTLE LESSONS ON THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE ; AND ON THE TOP STEPS OF LEVELS 2 TO 10, THE
CONTENT OF THE LESSONS CAN VARY SOMEWHAT FROM ONE RUN TO THE NEXT,
THUS MAKING THIS DISC USEFUL TO MANY BEGINNERS OVER A SOMEWHAT LONGER PERIOD OF TIME.
WHENEVER THE USER MAKES AN ERROR,
THERE IS ALWAYS A HANDY HELP BUTTON
TO LEND A READY HAND, SO AS TO MAKE
THE JOB OF BEGINNING TO LEARN THE
COOK ISLANDS MAORI LANGUAGE JUST ABOUT AS EASY AS POSSIBLE!
NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE
IS NEEDED TO START USING THIS COMPUTER CD FOR
ABSOLUTE BEGINNERS - AND ANY ADULT CAN USE THIS CD
TO HELP CHILDREN GET BUSY TEACHING THEMSELVES
THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE!
SUITABLE FOR JUNIOR STUDENTS OF THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE,
AND ALSO HELPFUL FOR SOME ADULT BEGINNERS WISHING TO MAKE A SIMPLE START ON THE LANGUAGE!
THIS IS THE COMPUTER CD TO USE TO EMPOWER YOUR CHILDREN TO MAKE A SIMPLE START ON THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE.
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LARGE PRINT - SIMPLE, INTERACTIVE TEXT -
CLEAR, INTERACTIVE SOUND -
VIVID, ILLUSTRATIVE GRAPHICS!
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If your work currently involves you in the teaching of Rarotongan to juniors -
be it in Classes conducted mainly in English or in Bilingual Groups - or even if
you are just trying to help some of your own children or grandchildren to
learn the Rarotongan Language at home, this new computer CD for beginners in Rarotongan could
probably be of use to you right now. Six very special features of
the BEGIN SPEAKING RAROTONGAN! computer CD which will readily recommend themselves
to the attention of most Rarotongan Language teachers are as follows.
- FULL SOUND THROUGHOUT TO GIVE LEARNERS THE OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN
HEARING, TALKING AND INTERACTING WITH THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE FROM THE VERY
START! WITH THIS HIGH-POWER COMPUTER CD, EVEN TEN MINUTES OF STUDY PER DAY
CAN ENABLE MOST BEGINNERS - BE THEY CHILDREN OR ADULTS! - TO TAKE SOME WORTHWHILE STEPS FORWARD INTO THE WORLD OF
TE REO RAROTONGA!
- THIS FULLY MACRONISED COOK ISLANDS MAORI LANGUAGE TUITION PROGRAM OPERATES AT TEN LEVELS OF PROGRESS,
AND THE EXERCISES ON THE CONCLUDING STEPS OF LEVELS 2 TO 10 CAN RUN SLIGHTLY
DIFFERENTLY EACH TIME YOU WORK WITH THEM; SO THESE EXERCISES CAN OFTEN BE
USED QUITE A NUMBER OF TIMES TO GOOD EFFECT.
- THIS DISC AIMS TO HELP LEARNERS TO START SPEAKING, READING, WRITING
AND REALLY LISTENING TO RAROTONGAN!
- HOURS AND HOURS OF FUN LEARNING! Use this CD to get the
children really making a start at speaking Rarotongan!
- With this Cook Islands Maori Language tuition computer CD, hearing, speaking, reading and writing Rarotongan go hand in
hand with beautiful graphics that serve as POWERFUL VISUAL MNEMONICS for
the meaning of the basic Rarotongan words inculcated by the program.
- This computer CD can be used to make a completely fresh start on the Rarotongan
Language of the Cook Islands. The CD uses vocabulary and structure drills similar to those
which have already made the New Zealand Maori Language disc "Sunlit Horizon
Approach to the Maori Language" so
very highly popular in schools and homes throughout New Zealand.
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The BEGIN SPEAKING RAROTONGAN! computer CD is at present priced
at only
AUST$25.00 in Australia / £10 STERLING in the U.K. / NZ$25.00 in New Zealand / CAN$20.00 in Canada / or 15 Euro in the Euro Zone Countries of the European Union / or US$20.00 anywhere else in the world!
The CD can be ordered by phone, fax,
post or Internet e-mail, while this offer
lasts, and the prices indicated are fully inclusive of postage, packaging, etc.
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E TUATUA NA ROTO I TE REO MAORI O RAROTONGA A TEIA RA!
TALK RAROTONGAN TODAY!
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YOU CAN NOW USE YOUR COMPUTER TO
LISTEN TO THE SOUND OF THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE - SENTENCE BY
SENTENCE, PHRASE BY PHRASE, WITH THE HELP OF
"TALK RAROTONGAN TODAY!"
"TALK RAROTONGAN TODAY!" AUDIO-LINGUAL
TRAINING UNITS 1, 2, 3 AND 4 ARE NOW AVAILABLE
ON ONE SINGLE CD
FOR ONLY AUST$25.00 IN AUSTRALIA, NZ$25.00 IN NEW ZEALAND, CAN$20.00 IN CANADA,
15 EURO IN THE EURO ZONE COUNTRIES OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,
STERLING £10 (TEN ENGLISH POUNDS) IN THE U.K.,
OR US$20.00 ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD!
And, yes, these prices do definitely include all postage and packaging costs for delivery
to your address anywhere in the world -
by airmail if your address is any country other than New Zealand!
To get your Rarotongan Language Tuition computer CD(s)
as fast as possible,
by using either MasterCard
or Visa,
JUST CLICK THE ABOVE GREEN BUTTON
to place your online order for the CD(s) you want.
All prices indicated on this page are fully inclusive of postage, packaging and delivery to the purchaser's postal address anywhere in the world!
And CDs are sent out by airmail to customers whose addresses are outside New Zealand!
To order by telephone, just phone:-
09 810 9519 (New Zealand).
(If phoning from outside New Zealand, just dial your local telephone exit code followed by 64 9 810 9519 .)
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THE FOUR AUDIO-LINGUAL TRAINING UNITS OF TALK RAROTONGAN TODAY
UNIT 1: ASKING THE WAY: PART 1. - TE UIUI`ANGA I TE MATAARA: TE POTONGA TA`I.
UNIT 2: ASKING THE WAY: PART 2. - TE UIUI`ANGA I TE MATAARA: TE POTONGA RUA.
UNIT 3: A DOMESTIC CONVERSATION. - `E TUATUA I ROTO I TE `ARE.
UNIT 4: SHOPPING. - TEI ROTO I TE TOA.
USING THE HIGH-IMPACT,
MODERN NEW HIGHWAY INTO RAROTONGAN-TALKING TERRITORY WHICH THIS
INEXPENSIVE TUTORIAL KIT OPENS UP FOR YOU, YOU CAN NOW BEGIN TO
LISTEN ACTIVELY TO USEFUL RAROTONGAN CONVERSATIONAL EXCHANGES
READ ALOUD, SENTENCE BY SENTENCE, PHRASE BY PHRASE, WHILE YOU
WATCH THE RAROTONGAN TEXT HIGHLIGHTED LINE BY LINE ON YOUR MONITOR SCREEN.
STUDENTS PLANNING EVENTUALLY
TO TAKE PUBLIC EXAMINATIONS IN RAROTONGAN WILL FIND THIS PARTICULAR CD A
REAL BOON AS PREPARATION FOR LISTENING TO COMPREHENSION AND
DICTATION TESTS!
YOU CAN EITHER HAVE THE
RAROTONGAN AUTOMATICALLY HIGHLIGHTED LINE BY LINE AS IT IS READ, OR
YOU CAN OPT TO HIGHLIGHT THE TEXT MANUALLY YOURSELF, USING SIMPLE
KEY-PRESSES TO DO THIS AS YOU LISTEN TO THE READINGS, THUS
MONITORING YOUR OWN ABILITY TO FOLLOW AND KEEP PACE WITH THE
SPOKEN RAROTONGAN. AS SOON YOU ARE READY TO TRY SAYING SOME OF THE
RAROTONGAN ALOUD YOURSELF, YOU CAN USE A SPECIAL INDIVIDUAL-SENTENCES
SOUND OPTION, WHICH EMPOWERS YOU TO HAVE THE SOUND HALTED AFTER
EACH SENTENCE, SO AS TO ENABLE YOU TO PRACTISE THE PRONUNCIATION
OF REALISTICALLY SHORT UNITS OF SPEECH. WITH THE
INDIVIDUAL-SENTENCES SOUND OPTION, YOU CAN ALSO - IF YOU WISH -
HAVE THE TRANSLATION APPEAR ON SCREEN SIMULTANEOUSLY.
LATER, AS YOUR UNDERSTANDING
IMPROVES, YOU CAN STUDY THE TRANSLATION SEPARATELY, AND THEN
CONCENTRATE ON JUST LISTENING TO THE RAROTONGAN WITH ONLY THE RAROTONGAN
TEXT ON SCREEN. WITH PRACTICE, YOU WILL SOON FIND YOU ARE ABLE TO
SAY LARGER UNITS OF RAROTONGAN AT A TIME; AND AFTER A WHILE, YOU WILL
NOTICE THAT YOU ARE BEGINNING TO UNDERSTAND MORE AND MORE OF THE
RAROTONGAN BY EAR WITHOUT EVEN LOOKING AT THE TEXT! BY THE TIME YOU
HAVE REACHED THAT STAGE OF PROGRESS, YOU WILL HAVE ALREADY MADE A
WORTHWHILE INROAD INTO RAROTONGAN-TALKING TERRITORY! THIS
ULTRA-MODERN TECHNOLOGY FOR DIRECT-ACTION RAROTONGAN STUDY IS
AVAILABLE TO YOU AS OF NOW! ORDER TODAY BY MAIL - OR BY PHONE OR
FAX FOR EVEN FASTER SERVICE!
Teachers of the Rarotongan Language will readily see how to make
good use of this CD as part of their classroom resources, but for
people who are aiming to learn some Rarotongan with the help of
their computer in the comfort of their own homes, the following
explanation of how to make best use of this CD may well be of help.
HOW TO MAKE THE BEST USE OF THIS CD
WHEN YOU ARE LEARNING THE RAROTONGAN LANGUAGE ...
The `TALK RAROTONGAN TODAY!' CD offers five different audio operating modes
plus three silent operating modes. The five audio operating modes are:
Sound AND Text with Automatic Text Advance, Sound and Text with Key-Press
Advance, Individual Sentences Without Translation, Individual Phrases With
Translation, and Interactive Questions.
The three silent modes of operation available are as follows:
Rarotongan Text Without Sound, Translation into English Without
Sound, and, Rarotongan Text and Translation into English Without Sound.
To begin with, the INDIVIDUAL SENTENCES WITH TRANSLATION Option
offers you the opportunity of seeing both the Rarotongan text and the English
text displayed simultaneously while you listen to the reading.
Use this purely to familiarise yourself with meaning of the sentences
being read aloud. Once you are familiar with the meaning, dispense
with the simultaneous translation display, and run the program in
AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode.
In AUTOMATIC TEXT ADVANCE Mode, only the Rarotongan text will be displayed...
Listen to the Rarotongan carefully, many times, keeping an eye on the Rarotongan text
and simply trying to understand as much of the reading as you possibly can.
If there are still some sections of the Rarotongan which you cannot fully understand,
keep selecting the TRANSLATED TEXT DISPLAY WITHOUT SOUND Mode to review
the translation of the whole passage at your leisure, again and again, until you feel you
understand everything in the written text.
When you can handle this with ease, check yourself out on the INTERACTIVE
QUESTIONS Routine, for UNIT 1. This will deliver a different set of questions
each time you run it. Keep working at these until you accomplish at least two
consecutive runs without errors.
When you have thoroughly mastered UNIT 1, use the mouse to select UNIT 2,
and begin the whole process again with UNIT TWO; and when you have thoroughly
mastered UNIT TWO as well, go on to UNIT THREE; and then when you have worked
your way through that too, go on to UNIT FOUR.
When you can accomplish two consecutive runs with zero errors on
on the INTERACTIVE QUESTIONS routine of ALL FOUR UNITS of this CD,
you will be able to begin to feel that you have mastered all or
most of the Rarotongan Language lessons on this CD.
If you would like to send us an e-mail right now to ask us something about this Rarotongan Language tutorial software, just click
the following e-mail address. The e-mail address is: educator@ihug.co.nz
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