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| JasonUK Triglot Newbie United Kingdom learnalanguagein1yea Joined 5095 days ago 29 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Thai, Spanish | Message 17 of 30 22 September 2010 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I quite like Rosetta stone and it sounds like i'm the only one on this thread that does. I know that the price is too
high and it should probably be about £50 a level instead of £250. I didn't know that v4 was out. The RS website is still showing v3. I look forward to having a go on these. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5850 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 18 of 30 22 September 2010 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I don't even think it guarantees that. The phrases it comes up with are sematically pretty complicated, and I always end up analysing it consciously... in terms of English. I'm against the "no translation", because it always seems to me that the most successful students in a no-translation class actually do translate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5184 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 19 of 30 23 September 2010 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I like it too. It was my introduction to this wonderful world of language-learning, and now that I have some experience with this discipline I realize Rosetta Stone helped me a lot indeed. There are many paths to learning a language, and Rosetta Stone is by no means the shabbiest, particularly for a beginner. Specially valuable is the very solid foundation it provides in the sounds of a language and their written representation. One should be wholly aware though it will take you just one or two rugs up the ladder, and that the claims that you will "learn" a language from it are wholly misleading. What Rosetta Stone will teach you are the bare basics, but it does this well. I think also its price and usage conditions are unconscionable, a whole order of magnitude greater than what you get from it warrants. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| sheetz Senior Member United States Joined 6216 days ago 270 posts - 356 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Mandarin | Message 20 of 30 23 September 2010 at 5:52am | IP Logged | ||||||||
RS is more suited to classroom use than self-study, which is the focus of this community. In a classroom setting RS is most likely used in conjunction with both textbooks and teachers. In addition it becomes far more cost effective when considered on a per student basis. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Bill_Sage667 Groupie United States Joined 5044 days ago 62 posts - 71 votes Speaks: English* | Message 21 of 30 24 September 2010 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Kinda angry at RS at the moment. I know of some friends (well, they're rich anyway, but
I'm still mad since I'm sure a lot of people would have wasted their hard-earned money on this product, with dreams of becoming a hi-earning translator) who wasted money on buying it. Their skills actually got worse. They felt that their advanced level went down to intermediate, one of them was on an advanced-basic level, there was no improvement. Fastest and easiest way to learn a language? More like 'suck at'. My friends developed some bad habits in the language they were learning. They went through all the levels though, since they got addicted to it. They seemed to have confused effortlessness with effectiveness. The only thing that I'm grateful for is that I'm way ahead now compared to my friends lol. Thank you RS! Good for basics though (and for people who have a hard time visualizing). But could easily pave through it using a 10-dollar grammar workbook, and a lot faster too. I'd use livemocha.com, but I think my visualization is good enough anyway. Someone should set up a site that informs people that RS is good only for the bare basics. So many people wasting their hard-earned money and time. He sees red cup. You hold bottle. I hate Rosetta Stone. Edited by Bill_Sage667 on 24 September 2010 at 4:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| JasonUK Triglot Newbie United Kingdom learnalanguagein1yea Joined 5095 days ago 29 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Thai, Spanish | Message 22 of 30 24 September 2010 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'll have to disagree with that comment. As someone who has completed levels 1,2 and 3 of french (v3) would not count them as basic. In fact you really need to learn the basics before you begin using RS otherwise you will be completely lost. Also there now are levels 4, 5 out since the beginning of this year which will be a step up again in difficulty. I'm trying to get my hands on them at the moment at a cheap cost as I am certainly not rich like your friend. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Liface Triglot Senior Member United States youtube.com/user/Lif Joined 5697 days ago 150 posts - 237 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Dutch, French | Message 23 of 30 24 September 2010 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
That's not true at all. Rosetta Stone starts with NOTHING. There's no need to do any preparation work beforehand. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6960 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 24 of 30 26 September 2010 at 5:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||
It's not even learning the way a child learns (another overplayed gimmick in the world of language learning). On the version I saw each lesson had a grammatical title for the topic, in the target language. The reviews speak for themselves though. Take a look at the 1-star reviews of RS Korean on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Rosetta-Stone-V3-Companion-VERSION/dp/ B001GBLMMC/ref=sr_1_1?s=gateway&ie=UTF8&qid=1285469608&sr=8- 1 There are claims that what they are teaching is actually wrong. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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