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| EmmaHewitt Newbie United States Joined 5036 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 20 11 February 2011 at 9:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello, this is my first post, and I had a question regarding Rosetta stone. I would be
using the program to learn Korean, and what I want to get out of it is to be able to have basic conversation in Korean, and be able to learn how to read in Korean. I’m not worried about grammar and such right now because I am going to be taking Korean language classes at university, but I would like to have a decent background on speaking and reading ahead of time. So I can get as much out of my classes before I study abroad in Korean. Thank you! ***edit if i did this i would complete levels 1-3. price isn't a problem, i actually already got the program and audio companion for free. Edited by EmmaHewitt on 11 February 2011 at 9:55am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 20 11 February 2011 at 10:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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Short answer: no.
If you want a longer explanation, search for Rosetta Stone in the forum archives. I don't think you'll find a single thread that isn't full of detailed criticism of the methodology. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| EmmaHewitt Newbie United States Joined 5036 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 20 11 February 2011 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hmm yeah i just looked through some old threads, it seems as though a lot of people don't
like it, but also a lot of people do. it appears that most of the people who didn't like it were using the version 2 (or just didnt like the price, but this isnt a problem for me because i get it for free). but yeah, i think ill search for some other methods before i actually start learning korean. i'm one of those people who likes to have everything planned out before i start something. something that is kind of annoying is that if i did decide to do rosetta stone is that they don't have level 4 and 5 for korean, and i asked their customer service chat if they would be getting level 4 and 5 for korean and they said they didn't know. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 4 of 20 11 February 2011 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Other than the dislike for RS that I've read here and other places, I have no experience with the product. But take your study preferences into consideration before you think of buying RS or any other strictly computer-based course.
Maybe you like to confine your learning to one place - namely the computer. Personally, I like all my study materials to be portable, whether they're MP3s or paperbacks (or combination). R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sanghee Groupie United States Joined 5069 days ago 60 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Korean | Message 5 of 20 11 February 2011 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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One of the first things I did when I decided I wanted to learn Korean was I purchased Rosetta Stone V3 [I don't have TOTALe so some of my problems may be addressed by the additional features of V4]. It's not going to teach you to read, but that's pretty easy to learn from free sources on the internet. When I first started using RS I was almost completely a beginner, I knew a few words and I could read 한글 but that's about it. I couldn't learn pretty much anything from RS. I stopped using RS for about a year after I was almost finished with Unit 1 of Level 1 since I hadn't learned anything besides the words for apple, woman, man, girl, and boy, and decided to build my knowledge in other ways before going back to it. After the year I had gained a better understanding of grammar and had a larger vocabulary and was able to complete Level 1 without needing to use a dictionary too much. However, very few of the sentences have stayed with me. I can recognize the meaning of a lot of sentences that I learned on RS, but can't reproduce most of them myself.
I started on Level 2 recently and had to quit after not learning anything due to RS using complex sentences and unclear pictures. [How would I have figured out the meaning of 기차가 지연됐어요? / Is the train delayed? just by looking at a picture?] I'm now gradually going through their pdf files and adding some slides to my SRS deck so I'll eventually learn the sentences well enough to be able to use the product and not be lost. I regret wasting money on it though. If your goal is to be able to hold basic conversations and get a decent background in Korean, I honestly recommend Pimsleur over RS. I was very skeptical before getting Pimsleur, but where I can't reproduce pretty much any sentence I've learned using RS, I can reproduce almost everything I've learned so far using Pimsleur [I'm only on Unit 19 of Korean 1 though]. I was able to find a website which has all of the words taught in Pimsleur Korean, so I know the correct spellings to put them in my SRS deck too. :) Edited by Sanghee on 11 February 2011 at 5:55pm 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| EmmaHewitt Newbie United States Joined 5036 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 20 11 February 2011 at 6:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
this was very helpful, thank you ^_^. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 7 of 20 11 February 2011 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
Do you mean you're one of those people who never starts? If you've got Rosetta Stone already, you may as well start now, and move on to better things when you've gotten hold of them. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| EmmaHewitt Newbie United States Joined 5036 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 8 of 20 11 February 2011 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
no, i get obsessed with things once i start them, thats why i wanted to make sure i had what i wanted :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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