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I purchased Rosetta stone french level 1-3 a month ago, and without a doubt it is the best method of learning a new language. I have several times over the last 2 years tried to learn French with living language, and the use of websites and none of them come even close.
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The way rosetta stone works is incredible it doesn't make you learn by translation and is immensely interactive. The level set-up is that its broken down into 4 units, and each unit has 4 core lessons(about 30 min each) with additional basic lessons in-between (usually about 5 or more each) and they are either set as reading, listening, speaking or writing.
But it is all connected visually. The software again is very interactive.
For the price of the content and what you get for it is great. Some may be skeptical about it, i was at first, but the pay back will be that by the time you finish with either lessons 1-3 or 1-5 you will be able to easily interact, communicate and quickly be able to immerse yourself in the culture who's language you've learned. Sample: The speaking parts will show you say a dog and will pronounce 'chien' at which point it will prompt you to say the word using the headset your provided and by how you pronounce it it will respond effectively whether you spoke it correctly. Even better if your having difficulty saying 'jaune' = 'yellow' their is a tab that when used will compare your speaking of the word with the 'author' and will show whether your pitch or pronunciation is off. The only comment i would say is that each lesson should have a library of words that you can go through and practice with at improving your accent and pronunciation.
I am at this moment back at school and i could not imagine sitting in a classroom with 20 other people trying to learn another language. The plus side is you'd have people to practice with but for the time and cost your getting a much better deal just buying Rosetta. I paid 485 instead of 560 from rosetta and am already comfortable and confident with my french.
One of the perks about it is if you have a family or spouse who also wants to learn it allows several users on the program ( you can only have it on one computer unless you buy several levels and install them separately. Overall if your looking at learning a new language this is the software for you. Try the demo version if you like but for costs sake it is worth the investment.
I would be completely dumbfounded if i were to have this on my resume and they would be critical cause i didn't learn it in school given that the government, fortune 500 companies and international organizations use it as their method of learning a new language. I hate this software for two reasons.
Nonetheless, I'm positive it will work wonders for certain individuals. At this price range you simply must know if you're one of those types or not. Otherwise you'll be wasting a lot of hard earned money. Rosetta's licensing makes it so that you cannot resell the software and their 'money back guarantee' does NOT cover Amazon purchases. I know because I asked and researched. You only get the six month guarantee if you buy directly from Rosetta - at an even higher price I might add. There are basically two schools of thought when it comes to language instruction.
Total immersion or non-total immersion. The former is like dropping you in the middle of a foreign country without a guidebook or translator. The latter is like having someone with you who can speak both languages and can answer questions in your native tongue. Rosetta is total immersion.
I didn't know that when I received the product. In the past I've used Pimsleur (Brazilian Portuguese) and found it to be effective both in teaching the language and in motivating me to continue. The motivation part is why I prefer Pimsleur.
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There's also a new company on the market with a similar approach called Fluenz that offers a bit more hand holding than Pimsleur which many users, according to reviews here, seem to like. For many people there's a very basic psychological principle in play when learning a new language. It's similar to those folks who resolve to exercise and lose weight after New Years.
They start with the best intentions, but many if not most fail to keep their resolutions. One of the reasons is a lack of positive reinforcement. If you start out too fast, for example, and get hurt you've just created a negative influence on your motivation. Some people, however, are quite successful right out the gate and keep going on their own. No need for a trainer, no need for hand holding or compliments. They just do it.
Are you the type of person who will feel stressed (demotivation) by not having the rules of grammar explained to you while you learn a new language? If yes you won't like Rosetta. Try Pimsleur or Fluenz. Or are you the type of person who welcomes the challenge (motivation) of figuring out the rules of grammar on your own by using your own observations? Then you'll like Rosetta. I am not one of those people who can stay motivated to do an extremely difficult task if I feel stressed out right at the beginning.
I have visited multiple countries and what I experienced only affirms my dislike of the Rosetta approach. While in South Korea, Thailand, China or Iraq, I found that people assumed I did not know the local language so they either spoke slower or tried to mix English in with their native tongue. Much less stressful albeit slower way to learn.
In Brazil there is no single ethnic group. People assumed I spoke Portuguese. It was the most difficult time I ever had in another country. I'm not saying I shouldn't learn the local language - no way. Just that when you're learning, at least for some people, they need things to go a little slower and with a bit more assistance in order to be motivated to keep learning the language. Rosetta's license is most restrictive that I have ever encountered. And they enforce their license.
Some users claim that other companies have the same license rules. That might be true, but they don't enforce those rules like Rosetta. If you buy Rosetta on Amazon you are subject to Amazon's refund policies, not Rosetta's. Amazon doesn't give full refunds on opened software.
And after 30 days you're probably out of luck for any kind of refund. You cannot get Rosetta's 6 month money back guarantee here. You only get it if you buy it direct from them at a higher price. The software can be used on only one computer.
No, you cannot use it on a laptop while you're away from your desktop. The software license requires that you register online in order to access all the exercises. Once you do this the software is then tied specifically to that computer. It cannot be registered on another computer. This means you cannot resell it anywhere.
Rosetta customer service told me that they would consider the needs of customers on a case-by-case basis should someone upgrade their system and get rid of their old machine. In other words, there's a tiny sliver of flexibility here. But it ain't much.
You simply must know what style of language learning you prefer before purchasing this very expensive piece of software. Some people, like me, are going to hate it.
Others who like total immersion love it. Know what kind of user you are. I purchased Rosetta stone french level 1-3 a month ago, and without a doubt it is the best method of learning a new language. I have several times over the last 2 years tried to learn French with living language, and the use of websites and none of them come even close. The way rosetta stone works is incredible it doesn't make you learn by translation and is immensely interactive. The level set-up is that its broken down into 4 units, and each unit has 4 core lessons(about 30 min each) with additional basic lessons in-between (usually about 5 or more each) and they are either set as reading, listening, speaking or writing. But it is all connected visually.
The software again is very interactive. For the price of the content and what you get for it is great.
Some may be skeptical about it, i was at first, but the pay back will be that by the time you finish with either lessons 1-3 or 1-5 you will be able to easily interact, communicate and quickly be able to immerse yourself in the culture who's language you've learned. Sample: The speaking parts will show you say a dog and will pronounce 'chien' at which point it will prompt you to say the word using the headset your provided and by how you pronounce it it will respond effectively whether you spoke it correctly. Even better if your having difficulty saying 'jaune' = 'yellow' their is a tab that when used will compare your speaking of the word with the 'author' and will show whether your pitch or pronunciation is off. The only comment i would say is that each lesson should have a library of words that you can go through and practice with at improving your accent and pronunciation. I am at this moment back at school and i could not imagine sitting in a classroom with 20 other people trying to learn another language. The plus side is you'd have people to practice with but for the time and cost your getting a much better deal just buying Rosetta.
I paid 485 instead of 560 from rosetta and am already comfortable and confident with my french. One of the perks about it is if you have a family or spouse who also wants to learn it allows several users on the program ( you can only have it on one computer unless you buy several levels and install them separately. Overall if your looking at learning a new language this is the software for you.
Try the demo version if you like but for costs sake it is worth the investment. I would be completely dumbfounded if i were to have this on my resume and they would be critical cause i didn't learn it in school given that the government, fortune 500 companies and international organizations use it as their method of learning a new language. I hate this software for two reasons.
Nonetheless, I'm positive it will work wonders for certain individuals. At this price range you simply must know if you're one of those types or not. Otherwise you'll be wasting a lot of hard earned money. Rosetta's licensing makes it so that you cannot resell the software and their 'money back guarantee' does NOT cover Amazon purchases. I know because I asked and researched. You only get the six month guarantee if you buy directly from Rosetta - at an even higher price I might add.
There are basically two schools of thought when it comes to language instruction. Total immersion or non-total immersion. The former is like dropping you in the middle of a foreign country without a guidebook or translator. The latter is like having someone with you who can speak both languages and can answer questions in your native tongue. Rosetta is total immersion. I didn't know that when I received the product.
In the past I've used Pimsleur (Brazilian Portuguese) and found it to be effective both in teaching the language and in motivating me to continue. The motivation part is why I prefer Pimsleur. There's also a new company on the market with a similar approach called Fluenz that offers a bit more hand holding than Pimsleur which many users, according to reviews here, seem to like. For many people there's a very basic psychological principle in play when learning a new language. It's similar to those folks who resolve to exercise and lose weight after New Years.
They start with the best intentions, but many if not most fail to keep their resolutions. One of the reasons is a lack of positive reinforcement. If you start out too fast, for example, and get hurt you've just created a negative influence on your motivation. Some people, however, are quite successful right out the gate and keep going on their own. No need for a trainer, no need for hand holding or compliments. They just do it. Are you the type of person who will feel stressed (demotivation) by not having the rules of grammar explained to you while you learn a new language?
If yes you won't like Rosetta. Try Pimsleur or Fluenz. Or are you the type of person who welcomes the challenge (motivation) of figuring out the rules of grammar on your own by using your own observations? Then you'll like Rosetta. I am not one of those people who can stay motivated to do an extremely difficult task if I feel stressed out right at the beginning. I have visited multiple countries and what I experienced only affirms my dislike of the Rosetta approach. While in South Korea, Thailand, China or Iraq, I found that people assumed I did not know the local language so they either spoke slower or tried to mix English in with their native tongue.
Much less stressful albeit slower way to learn. In Brazil there is no single ethnic group. People assumed I spoke Portuguese. It was the most difficult time I ever had in another country.
I'm not saying I shouldn't learn the local language - no way. Just that when you're learning, at least for some people, they need things to go a little slower and with a bit more assistance in order to be motivated to keep learning the language.
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Rosetta's license is most restrictive that I have ever encountered. And they enforce their license.
Some users claim that other companies have the same license rules. That might be true, but they don't enforce those rules like Rosetta. If you buy Rosetta on Amazon you are subject to Amazon's refund policies, not Rosetta's.
Amazon doesn't give full refunds on opened software. And after 30 days you're probably out of luck for any kind of refund. You cannot get Rosetta's 6 month money back guarantee here. You only get it if you buy it direct from them at a higher price. The software can be used on only one computer. No, you cannot use it on a laptop while you're away from your desktop. The software license requires that you register online in order to access all the exercises.
Once you do this the software is then tied specifically to that computer. It cannot be registered on another computer. This means you cannot resell it anywhere. Rosetta customer service told me that they would consider the needs of customers on a case-by-case basis should someone upgrade their system and get rid of their old machine. In other words, there's a tiny sliver of flexibility here. But it ain't much.
You simply must know what style of language learning you prefer before purchasing this very expensive piece of software. Some people, like me, are going to hate it. Others who like total immersion love it. Know what kind of user you are.
Purchased Rosetta Stone for my daughter in college. She liked the program but switched from French to Japanese after one year. I called the company about trading in the $500 product for a discount on another language - no such option. You have six months to return it and then it is yours forever.
If you try to sell this on ebay or similar sites, you can't, your auction will be cancelled by the auction site. So while the program is satisfactory, be aware that you can't get any money back after 6 months. This was my first venture, working with Rozetta Stone products. The product works from the perspective of exposing the student to the common words every student or child learns with a new language, such as numbers, colours, common verbs and nouns.
As you learn, the intermediate level begins to diversify on the quantity of verbs as well as conjugation. Different tenses (past and future) come later. As Rosetta espouses, learning is natural as the student's mind correlates actions with objects, the same way young children learn. Verb tense and adjectives are reinforced through iterative learning. What purchasers of this product must recognize is that no tool is all inclusive to raise a student to a university level education, vis-a-vis the actual language being learned. The product has its limitations in terms of a vast vocublary.
I highly recommend it as a learning supplement which accelerates learning for early stages. Students should set expectations that they will need to read additional material in this language (or any language) to expand their vocublary.
While it should be a standard to wait a long while before reviewing there are aspects that become more quickly apparent both for comparison and understanding. My previous French language experience came from two years of high school classes about sixteen years ago. I've had a few other language classes since then, establishing me if not as a thorough polyglot at least as a someone well versed in language training from a variety of different teaching styles, approaches, and contexts.
I've tried to keep up with a number of these languages I've studied, with various success, and with various software help. Mostly the inexpensive kind. I've picked up the Instant Immersion disks (a great, inexpensive, entirely un-thorough approach), the Learn to Speak series (about the same, though with a lot more content). Recently, to learn German for my studies I looked at more thorough programs and two stood out. The Rosetta Stone series and the Tell Me More. I noticed Tell Me More was getting great reviews and was less than half the price. Being a little financially strapped I skipped the trend and bought Tell Me More.
And I'm very glad I did. It's an effective program that has pushed me quite along in learning the language.
Still, there was a tickle in my brain. Is Rosetta Stone really better?
So, when it came time for me to start with French, also for my studies, I decided to make a contrast. And yes, Rosetta Stone is the better program. In some ways. Really, I'd have to say these are quite different programs, rather than one being substantially better. Tell Me More is a like a class in a box.
There is a mix of exercises that help to build vocabulary, sentence structure, writing, pronunciation, and other aspects. Each section has a large mix of short lessons that reinforce the learning without becoming dull or tedious. Save yourself taking language classes by using Tell Me More. Rosetta Stone is a lot less like taking a class.
It's more like finding yourself on an island with a group of people who all only speak another shared language. And if you want to learn how to thrive on this island, then you follow their patient, but focused, teaching. This approach sticks, and it is effective. My only quibble is I'm not sure it's quite worth the amount of money they are asking. Indeed, if money isn't an issue then by all means go with Rosetta Stone. There are qualities that do set it apart, and it helps a person feel much more involved in the language and less like taking a class. But, if money is an issue Tell Me More is comparable in quality, without being nearly as expensive.
That's not a slam against the product quality of Rosetta Stone at all. It really is an extraordinary software, and revolutionizes language learning. Color me impressed.
I came in with relatively high expectations for Rosetta Stone, but I write this review after working with it for a month, and now holding a higher opinion of the product than I did before. I spent over a year at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey as a young Marine learning Korean. All the services were present, and DLI was good for dozens of languages. The approach was structured, and largely immersive, which is to say that my classes were taught by native speakers. There's a huge advantage to that, inasmuch you have instant and intelligent feedback and instruction when you need it. If all you hear and (try to) speak is the language, then it's being drilled into your head consciously and subconsciously. Surrounding yourself with native speakers, either through such an environment, or within the country itself, is going to be (for most) the absolute best way to approach foreign language mastery - but what to do when that's not an option?
Or what to do to prepare before doing so? The software is intuitive, the approach is intelligent. You don't have that native speaker standing in front of you scowling because you're butchering the music of their language in the early going, but you do have the software giving feedback and similarly identifying where you might require a little more attention. The program constructs in the user a solid base of simple vocabulary, establishing a basic understanding of the mechanics of the language on which additional vocabulary and structure may be built.
With regard to the interface, the absence of a tutorial (as far as I saw, though I didn't look hard because it was so easy just to start using) was a bit surprising, though it took a very small amount of time to get into the swing of things. The earliest exercises range from matching phrases to their appropriate pictures to out-loud (through a microphone) pronunciation tests to proper spelling and grammar training. The pronunciation recognization ability of the software is pretty sharp - if you're off, it will tell you, but the program allows the user to improve before moving on to the next test. Best of all, this is fun. I did enjoy the lessons (I have yet to complete all three levels), and continue to enjoy the process. You always feel like you're making progress, you always have visual cues in regards to where you stand in the process, and it almost becomes a game to try and move through it.
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To be fair, I had a few years of French back in intermediate and high school, so I didn't come into this language pack completely unfamiliar. It would be very fun and interesting, I think, to try Rosetta with a language with which I have no familiarity, but that's neither here nor there. The overall point is that this is a fantastic way to start building a basic command of a language, it's fun, it's easy to use, and it's enriching. You're not going to be confused for a native speaker after completing this package, but you will be able to communicate, and that's the biggest and most difficult step towards mastery.
The rest is (mostly) use and repetition. Now I really want the Korean pack to brush up on all that's been lost in the 15+ years since I left DLI. And a new and unfamiliar language as discussed above to branch out a bit.
Rosetta has a new and enthusiastic customer and cheerleader.
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