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| Jon1991 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5145 days ago 98 posts - 126 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian | Message 1 of 21 22 April 2010 at 11:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently learning Spainsh and Russian through self study phrase books. I was wondering if Rosetta Stone is rwally worth the money - the complete package being almost £400.
Have any of you blokes have expereince with Rosetta Stone? Would you recommend it? Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5476 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 2 of 21 22 April 2010 at 12:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Short answer: no.
Long answer: nooooo ooo ooo ooo ooo ooo. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Delodephius Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 5183 days ago 342 posts - 501 votes Speaks: Slovak*, Serbo-Croatian*, EnglishC1, Czech Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 3 of 21 22 April 2010 at 2:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Go download a torrent like I did. For free it's worth your money: |-)
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5233 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 21 22 April 2010 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | ||
But is it worth your time? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5365 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 5 of 21 22 April 2010 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can quite honestly say I HATED IT.
Reasons: No grammar explanations Pointless pictures where you could say 100 different things Low skill level reached by the time you finished it. Typical phrasebook things such as "The house is red." Pick up an Assimil course and the "New Penguin's Russian Course" off of Amazon. For $500 you can have EVERYTHING you could ever need for both of those languages. -A really good dictionary -Grammar Guide -Workbooks etc. I probably have around $250 in materials for ALL of my languages so far, close to 35 books. 9 languages! :D Use as much native material as you can, and check your local library for free material :) No sense in spending that much. Rosetta Stone is a complete lie in my opinion. Edited by datsunking1 on 22 April 2010 at 5:19pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5303 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 6 of 21 22 April 2010 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe it's good for learning a new syllabary
Other than that, way too much time for too little reward, not to mention if you pay for it... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5791 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 7 of 21 22 April 2010 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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As useful as a chocolate fireguard.
(I think I said teapot last time -- variety is the spice of life!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mountain Goat Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 5146 days ago 10 posts - 15 votes Speaks: Danish*, English Studies: Pashto Studies: Urdu | Message 8 of 21 22 April 2010 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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It gets boring. Fast.
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