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Gusutafu
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15 January 2010 at 11:42pm | IP Logged

Cainntear wrote:

Yes, the original research into "discovery learning" has been badly abused by a lot of people. I think Rosetta Stone's problem is that you can work out how to give the correct answer without knowing why it's the correct answer.

Yeah exactly, since there are only four alternatives (in v3) it's often enough to see if it's a boy or a girl that does whatever they are doing. Also, I think that producing language is more much efficient than interpreting, or choosing from four alternatives.
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Deji
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16 January 2010 at 3:44am | IP Logged

Although RS can be refreshing after book after book, there are other drawbacks. I also don't like RS's Eurocentric
vocabulary approach when teaching hindi. One of the first vocabulary words turns out to be "horse riding" which
puzzled all the hindi speakers I knew. You couldn't get an activity that would be less appropriate in the Indian
world.

Indians also don't use thank you much and certainly not "you're welcome". Westernized Indians now do but I just
feel like it's language from a cookie cutter.

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16 January 2010 at 11:19am | IP Logged

Deji wrote:

Don't they use more or less the same images and sentences for all languages? Seeing that which constructions are difficult varies with target (and source) language, this approach is of course preposterous. They only do it that way because it's cheaper. An Italian learning Spanish should certainly not focus on the same expressions as a Japanese learning Swahili.

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