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| Everything Diglot Groupie France Joined 4703 days ago 87 posts - 167 votes  Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 3 05 February 2012 at 3:45pm | IP Logged |
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Hi :)
I'm learning Korean with Rosetta Stone but sometimes, I can't fully grasp the underlying rationale. I mean, they introduce some new sentences and ask me to choose among some of the pictures. Often it's easy but sometimes I am forced to use Google Translate to understand. For example, there is a sentence that say : 물고기가 커요 and I would have had to click on a picture where there are a big fish and a scuba diver. How can I deduce from this picture the sentence ? Am I stupid or is it you ever ? By the way, the Korean sentence means : "The fish is big". Thanks. Edited by Everything on 05 February 2012 at 3:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5405 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 2 of 3 05 February 2012 at 4:16pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah, the fish in the picture is quite big. You'll also notice that objects in all the
other pictures are also quite big. I use Rosetta Stone a lot, in addition to other material. It's just good quality audio and pictures. I find it more fun rather than actually that good in teaching a language. But the more advanced levels I tried, for example with Russian which I already know, are quite difficult, but most people never tried RS beyond the first level so they don't really have a clue what it's about. In my experience the first level is just so you get a feeling for the language. I'm talking about RS version 3 here, not v.2 which really was crap I must admit. Edited by Delodephius on 05 February 2012 at 4:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 이희선 Groupie Australia Joined 4971 days ago 56 posts - 97 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 3 05 February 2012 at 5:04pm | IP Logged |
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I think Rosetta Stone in general is a bit rubbish, and its total rubbish for learning Korean, especially at the beginner
level. I would only use it as a supplement to other learning material. You are much better off relying on some sort of combination of language program, book, or website than Rosetta Stone for Korean. The biggest problem with RS for Korean is it doesn't do a very good job explaining the grammar. In Korean, its particularly difficult due to the usage of prefix/infix/suffixes, which is much different than English or Romance languages. Rosetta Stone could be ok as a supplement once you understand the basics of grammar and realize the word for fish isn't 물거기가 but just 물거기 (the 가 is a subject marker) which is something that isn't explained in the RS program. Also, I thought some of the pictures were rather vague, and t=the pronunciation is really not handled well in some situations. 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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