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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5923 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 49 of 51 15 May 2013 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think the most likely scenario is this: A school district administration asks for, or is offered, Rosetta Stone software at a huge discount if the school district will buy many copies (at least 1,000, although I'd guess that a higher number is probably more likely) of the course for a particular language. Then the administration may tell their foreign languages teachers to include Rosetta Stone in the lessons on the grounds that 'We bought this, so you need to use it'. Rosetta Stone also used to claim that their software is used by the US Army, which is not quite true. The US Army offers the product free of charge to any soldiers learning a language as part of their specific training, but it is only a supplement to their existing language instruction program. Just because it's available for free doesn't prove that anyone in the US Army actually likes it or even uses it. I don't use Rosetta Stone myself and doubt I ever will, no matter how often people claim that the newest version is a marked improvement over previous versions, I just wasn't impressed with the free demo on the website and I believe that Assimil, Michel Thomas, Teach Yourself etc., are all a bit better. Having written that, I don't criticize others for using Rosetta Stone as some people do gain benefits from it, just be aware that it is probably best seen as a supplement to whatever other courses and methods you use. Edited by mick33 on 16 May 2013 at 7:41am 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 50 of 51 15 May 2013 at 11:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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When the copyright makes sense, I will respect it. For ideas of what does it mean, look for examples at
website of the open rights group (for example Neil Gaiman supports them). The thing as it is defies logic, doesnt protect authors but mostly the parasites,gives ungovernamental organisations rights to get taxes and in some cases twice for one production, damages the free market by regions and other nonsense and brings another load of corruption into the politics on global level. So no, I don't feel any bad about breaking it. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5574 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 51 of 51 16 May 2013 at 5:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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I actually I have it for Chinese and find it useful, granted I'm using it as a supplement
alongside Assimil, ChineseLearnOnline,PopUpChinese, Pimsleur and Fluenz. However it really helps the vocab stick, remembering the Chinese words is harder than in the European languages I've studied, the intuitive part actually works for me and a lot of things click...because I've already covered the concept in my other resources. It's a tool just like any other. I got a decent discount (1-5) and like it. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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