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 COMPUTER CD 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 AS 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 COMNPUTER 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. 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