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| Jmc1989 Newbie United Kingdom n/aRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5026 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 9 21 February 2011 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello
Im 3 months into my russian language course and now looking to buy the rosetta stone package to do some extra revison at home. Im looking for personal reviews from people who have found it to be helpful or a complete waste of time. the reviews i have read on the net seem to be written by other companys trying to sell there product rather than an honest review. thanks you 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5515 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 2 of 9 21 February 2011 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wouldn't bother with Rosetta Stone. I recken you'd be better off spending your money on a different product. If you can get it free that's different, then it might be alright for vocab revision.
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| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5576 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 3 of 9 22 February 2011 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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If you really want to use software to supplement your Russian consider using Anki and the
following programs instead: http://lexiconbridge.com/ 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| EmmaHewitt Newbie United States Joined 5036 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 9 23 February 2011 at 3:03am | IP Logged | ||
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hey i made a thread about rosetta stone before, and most of the reviews were negative,
but since i downloaded it for free i figured why not try it. i tried it and my honest opinion is that its not worth the money. even though i got it free im not using it, im using pimsleur instead. at first i was like "ok this is pretty cool, im learning a lot of vocab." and thats pretty much all you learn, is vocab. it seems like a lot of the stuff you learn you wont really need right away either. an example of this is most of the stuff i learned was like the boy is eating, the girl is eating, the man is eating, the women is eating. and you just kept learning stuff like that. i found that with the pimsleur program i can actually say useful things after each lesson. i am taking my time before i go to the next lesson and i feel like i have learned a lot more than i would have if i spent that time on rosetta stone. for example i have only finished 5 lessons and in korean i can do greetings, ask where someone is from, ask if they have had lunch, say thank you, ask about countries and languages and also ask for directions. there are some other things im forgetting. all is not bad in rosetta stone though. it is more fun that listening to pimsleur. if your planning on getting pimsleur and dont have things to do while you are taking lessons this could be an issue. for example i listen to lessons 3 times a day, they are all around 30 mins so far. my first lesson i listen to on the way to school, then one on the way back home, and then i go for a walk every night and i listen to a lesson then. i have only tried to listen to a lesson once without driving/walking and i found that i kept getting distracted by my computer and felt bored. so if you get pimsleur i would say plan on using it while driving or walking, or another activity like that. i would highly suggest checking out pimsleur, either torrent it, or if you dont like doing that you can always check it out on itunes, downloading 1 lesson at a time, so if you don't like it you have only wasted a few $'s. sorry, this is kind of long, but i really hope it helps. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5345 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 9 23 February 2011 at 12:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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EmmaHewitt, no offense, but you should really learn to use the shift key and use proper
captialisation. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| EmmaHewitt Newbie United States Joined 5036 days ago 20 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 9 23 February 2011 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
None taken, I knew it was going to be semi-long and didn't want to spend a lot of time writing it. 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 9 23 February 2011 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
The longer you spend writing it, the more likely people are to read it. It wasn't a long post, and I couldn't read it to the end. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Slacker Diglot Pro Member United States Joined 5454 days ago 62 posts - 99 votes Speaks: Spanish, English Studies: German, Italian, Russian, Portuguese, Arabic (classical) Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 9 24 February 2011 at 4:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Jmc1989,
I haven't used Rosetta Stone Russian (yet), but I've used it for two levels of RS Italian(1&2) and I'm currently working through RS Arabic-1. I would disagree with EmmaHewitt who said that "...thats pretty much all you learn, is vocab. it seems like a lot of the stuff you learn you wont really need right away either. an example of this is most of the stuff i learned was like the boy is eating, the girl is eating, the man is eating, the women is eating. and you just kept learning stuff like that. i found that with the pimsleur program i can actually say useful things after each lesson." I would strongly disagree -- if all you are after is vocabulary, I would recommend BYKI Russian, or your own store-bought/handmade flashcards. Knowing how Russian grammar works, there is no way that you could possibly get through Level 1 without learning a TON of grammar, as well as vocabulary (actually, if you've already been studying for 3 months, vocabulary will probably be less of an issue that grammar, especially with Russian's many cases (nominative, genitive, dative, accusative, instrumental, prepositional... is that it?)) I've used Pimsleur as well, including Pimsleur Russian 1, and I agree that you'll be more conversationally capable, speaking in the 1st and 2nd person, about basic topics (food, hotel, greetings, introductions), and with a lot of conversational repetition, than you would be with the same amount of time with Rosetta Stone; however, I think that using both of them in tandem could increase your speaking, listening, reading, and overall production/comprehension. Good luck! -Slacker ============================== TAC '11 - Slacker's Rosetta Stone Game Current: Arabic-1.2.0 Done: Italian-1, Italian-2 Total Hours: 42 ============================== 1 person has voted this message useful |
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