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| circles Newbie United States Joined 4612 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 1 of 22 07 April 2012 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Amazon has 20% off Rosetta Stone.
I always see their commercials but thought it was expensive. I am tempted to give it a try with the sale but is it worth it? Is Rosetta Stone a good tool? Rosetta Stone Edited by circles on 07 April 2012 at 8:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 22 07 April 2012 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Around here, the favorite courses seem to be (in no particular order) Assimil, FSI,
Pimsleur and Michel Thomas. The FSI courses are available for free, and Assimil is sometimes available for under $50: Assimil You can find lots of people around here who've used these courses successfully. As for Rosetta Stone, I would have two concerns: (1) I've heard only a tiny number of success stories relative to their huge marketing budget, and (2) there are extremely good courses available for a lot less money. But maybe somebody who's used Rosetta Stone v3 could tell you more. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5694 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 3 of 22 07 April 2012 at 10:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 4 of 22 07 April 2012 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you explore the search function of the forum, you'll find many juicy threads about
this. The "take home message" of most is: Rosseta Stone won't teach you much and it certainly won't bring you to the high level they claim. It may teach you some vocabulary but there are much cheaper (or free) ways to achieve that. The idea behind it sounds good (and is a wonderful topic for advertisements) but it brings more bad than good. If you look around here a bit, you will find many better alternatives for whichever language you may desire to learn. I'd advice you to get a real course (such as Assimil and FSI), a grammar book, perhaps a vocabulary book for the first 5000 or so words and a lot of fun material to supplement it all and develop your listening and reading comprehension (podcasts and graded readers in the beginnings, movies/books/radio/anything else later). :-) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6917 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 22 08 April 2012 at 1:57am | IP Logged | ||
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The problem I had with Rosetta Stone was that they used the same interface for all the languages. Learning, "the boy", "the milk" and then "the boy drinks the milk" might work for Spanish or French, but when you have an inflected language like Russian, you can get lost with all the endings.
Or does the new incarnation of RS include some basic grammar lessons specific to each particular language? I thought I read somewhere where you could pay a monthly fee and have access to all of their language programs. Edited by translator2 on 08 April 2012 at 3:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| circles Newbie United States Joined 4612 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 6 of 22 08 April 2012 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you all for the replies.
I'll look into the other programs you suggested 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| joesoefkalla Newbie Indonesia Joined 4710 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Studies: English | Message 7 of 22 08 April 2012 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Incorrect. The online subscription will only give you the language(s) that you choose to pay for. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Necronos Newbie United States Joined 4627 days ago 37 posts - 41 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 22 09 April 2012 at 5:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been using RS Spanish V3 for the last week or so. I borrowed it from another
person so I haven't paid for it, nor would I. It offers a decent secondary source of instruction for me at the moment but that is mainly due to the novelty of the program. I'm already beginning to find some of the exercises a bit tedious so I'm not sure how much longer I'll continue to use the program. I don't see how anyone could use RS to take them from basic to advanced fluency. I doubt it is possible, and for the price tag of the program it should be more than just possible. Due to the novel experience of RS I have spent more time with it than with Pimsleur (which is my primary source of instruction). I'd estimate that I have easily spent twice as much time with Rosetta Stone than Pimsleur. Pimsleur, however, has offered me more in regards to communicating with others than RS has. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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