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| Tyr Senior Member Sweden Joined 5581 days ago 316 posts - 384 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish | Message 2 of 21 13 May 2009 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Its all a big con.
They overcharge you by miles for so simple a program and if you try to resell rosetta stone on ebay they complain, say it violates conditions and it gets removed. I've tried it in the past and its really not good, just teaches you semi-obscure bits of vocabulary in a very slow and rubbish fashion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tupiniquim Senior Member Brazil Joined 5882 days ago 184 posts - 217 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, Russian | Message 3 of 21 13 May 2009 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6702 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 4 of 21 13 May 2009 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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One thing is sure - they have great marketing :). I tried Rosetta Stone (version 2) for Dutch. I can't really say anything about the effects as I stopped learning Dutch because of going abroad for an immersion, but I enjoyed RS quite a lot. I used it together with Assimil, for me it was just a pleasant break (I like using software to learn languages, and most of the programmes are just crap - Rosetta is not). I was able to borrow RS, otherwise I would never buy it as I don't think it's worth its price. But it's not that bad, especially as a supplement to other materials. The big advantage of Rosetta Stone is the offer of languages: there're lot of great sources to learn German, Spanish or French (or even Dutch) but some of the available languages aren't that popular - and here Rosetta Stone can be especially helpful.
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6702 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 6 of 21 13 May 2009 at 9:48pm | IP Logged | ||
So far, I hate Pimsleur (which isn't cheap either). I find Rosetta Stone better. Does it make me a less serious language larner? It's easy to generalize... And there was a lot of critic about some of the above mentioned methods in this forum too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| qklilx Moderator United States Joined 5985 days ago 459 posts - 477 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 21 14 May 2009 at 1:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I can speak based on my brother's experience that Rosetta Stone does indeed bring results. How much? Not much. It took my brother almost half a disc of Japanese to notice that his Japanese was getting better, but get this: he was also using it at work with customers. At the repetitive job that we had it was very easy to get live drilling with slight variations.
Personally I hate Rosetta Stone. It's extremely tedious, and takes ridiculous hours to learn such beginner phrases as "she is smiling," and "the elephant caught the soccer ball." If you want to get a very basic grounding in a language (that is, you can identify which language you're hearing) using Rosetta Stone, pirate it and use it for only 2-3 hours before removing it from your system entirely. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5924 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 8 of 21 14 May 2009 at 1:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Rosetta Stone has some weird sentences. Sort of like "ボールは男の子の上”, with a very odd picture to match this. Pimmsleur to me feels a little bit lounge-lizardy. Kind of like, "You meet a young lady." "電話番号は何ですか” She seems friendly. "私の家で会いましょうか？”
Me, I liked Pimmsleur, actually. Rosetta Stone just came across as too weird. For Japanese, the free Japanesepod101 seem just about as good as either (except the slow speed Japanese just sounds like torture.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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