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Cainntear
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Message 17 of 53

12 April 2010 at 1:33pm | IP Logged

rbbrum110 wrote:

I bought Rosetta Stone version 3 and the only complaint I have is I think it's too easy. I spoke with someone else and he really struggled with it though.

You found it too easy because there's practically nothing in it and you knew it all already. Your friend found it too hard because he couldn't work out what it was saying to him. This is Rosetta Stone in a nutshell.
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ilcommunication
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Message 18 of 53

12 April 2010 at 7:24pm | IP Logged

Here's an idea: head to Asia, work on an Asian language of your choice, and buy multiple bootleg versions of Rosetta Stone for pennies on the dollar.
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Cainntear
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Message 19 of 53

12 April 2010 at 11:43pm | IP Logged

ilcommunication wrote:

Here's an idea: head to Asia, work on an Asian language of your choice, and buy multiple bootleg versions of Rosetta Stone for pennies on the dollar.

Because those pennies would still be wasted... ;-)
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Message 20 of 53

13 April 2010 at 5:44am | IP Logged

ilcommunication wrote:

Here's an idea: head to Asia, work on an Asian language of your choice, and buy multiple bootleg versions of Rosetta Stone for pennies on the dollar.

Why buy? Downlaod bootlegs then delete (or use), just so you feel like you are protesting RS by stealing their product. Except you wasted your time and bandwidth downloading it.
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Delodephius
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Message 21 of 53

13 April 2010 at 11:17am | IP Logged

Johntm wrote:

Except you wasted your time and bandwidth downloading it.

Compared to how much just one RS course costs that's nothing. And please, a waste of time? It took me three days to download all of RS V3 courses and I don't regret a second of it. Time is irrelevant.
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habadzi
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Message 22 of 53

13 April 2010 at 1:02pm | IP Logged

I tried to see a review of Rosetta Stone on a berkeley website, and it had disappeared as well!!
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Message 23 of 53

14 April 2010 at 8:31am | IP Logged

Delodephius wrote:

Johntm wrote:

Except you wasted your time and bandwidth downloading it.

Mine took longer, but I had a ton of torrents going. I ended up deleting yesterday because it took up too much space on my external harddrive and I figured I'd never use it.
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Merowig
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Message 24 of 53

15 April 2010 at 1:20am | IP Logged

I have as well the Software Rosetta Stone - and from all the language learning software I have seen so far it is the best - especially for learning Vocabulary.

But it is completely overpriced and I doubt that you can learn a language only with the software.

Furthermore the possibility to learn Grammar with it is quite limited in my opinion.

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