iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5290 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French)
| Message 60 of 109 15 June 2012 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
One of the things I love about the forum is its usefulness to its members. This thread has ceased being useful, in my opinion, and nothing good can further come of this discussion. Let's close it.
Edited by iguanamon on 15 June 2012 at 5:01am
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Eumaeus Groupie Australia Joined 5632 days ago 75 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian
| Message 61 of 109 15 June 2012 at 5:29am | IP Logged |
David Hayter wrote:
Eumaeus wrote:
David Hayter wrote:
OK, tell me that "blowsetta stone" isn't a childish and idiotic little nickname, and
I'll admit that I was wrong in telling her that she was the first person to bring the
nickname to my attention. I didn't call her a child nor an idiot, merely the term and
whoever invented it (which she didn't take credit for, and said "many people call it
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Again, please don't faulsely accuse me.
Furthermore, living in a free democratic society as TerryW does, he/ she/ other is free
to gender identify any
way he/she/other pleases. Judging by the profile photo though, I'd say TerryW is a
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I didn't consult any photo before making the post, whoops. I don't know what I accused
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I'm not at all surprised that you don't know what you have accused me of. That's part of the reason you have
created such tension amongst members who've posted in this thread. You come on here and insult people to
the point where you have posts deleted, without apologizing. You make false accusations and laugh
whilst doing it, no apologies. You have accused us of only disliking RS in order be be part of some kind of
cool group, this is outrageous. When challenged on any of this, it's like hey guys c'mon I'm just trying to have
a conversation you guys need to calm down. Classic passive aggression.
As to your argument as to why RS is so good, well I can't even grasp what your argument is, but you are
hostile to, and dismissive of, anyone who doesn't like RS as if their opinions have no validity.
I don't like RS. I'm entitled to hold that view and I claim that right.
Apologies friends. I'm usually quite low key on this forum because I'm just a beginner and don't feel I have
much to contribute. But this guy has really got my dander up!
Edited by Eumaeus on 15 June 2012 at 7:30am
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Eumaeus Groupie Australia Joined 5632 days ago 75 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian
| Message 62 of 109 15 June 2012 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
The following is a post from David Hayter on the Rosetta Stone facebook page. It's a straight copy and paste,
I've made no alterations.
David Hayter I just wish they said in the article, "This confirms that Rosetta Stone is how to learn a language,
and all the dweebs on howtolearnanylanguage.com need to throw out their Assimil book/cassette packs from
the '50s and get with the times." Somethin like that :)
25 May 2011 at 09:32 via Mobile · 1
He's just been mugging us off and we fell for it!
Edited by Eumaeus on 15 June 2012 at 6:59am
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Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5373 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 63 of 109 15 June 2012 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
iguanamon wrote:
One of the things I love about the forum is its usefulness to its members. This thread has ceased being useful, in my opinion, and nothing good can further come of this discussion. Let's close it. |
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Eh, let people freely choose which discussions to read and contribute to.
About Rosetta Stone, I think it can be a useful complement to your main study regimen, however the expectations it raises for casual users new to language learning are greatly exaggerated bordering on misleading, and its price is unjustified based on what you get out of the investment and the opportunity costs represented by the number and quality of competing textbooks and manuals the student could purchase for the same amount. Furthermore the terms of use of the software constitute a real abuse against its customers.
I think the most valuable aspect of Rosetta Stone is the amount of audio you get and its effortless connection with its written form, along with a solid drilling of the most basic patterns.
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tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5219 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean
| Message 64 of 109 15 June 2012 at 8:22am | IP Logged |
iguanamon wrote:
One of the things I love about the forum is its usefulness to its members. This thread has ceased being useful, in my opinion, and nothing good can further come of this discussion. Let's close it. |
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Agree. The rosetta stone koolaid drinking and trollery is getting to be a bit much. Estoy harto de este tema.
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