I used it for Mandarin and I’ve got my toddler speaking it some as well. I really like the program, you jut have to be disciplined enough to go through the program daily and regularly.
Without knowing which language you want to learn, I’ll just say that there are a lot of free resources here. There are plenty of options besides Rosetta Stone, despite it being the only language course that ever has advertisements and thus the only course many people know of.
rosetta stone is shit. I don’t know how it is now but when I used it all it was was matching a phrase some voice said in another language to a picture without translation. I wasn’t taught the alphabet, grammar, vocab, nothing.
I basically learned English by surfing on the internet, watching movies with English subtitles (now I rarely use them), watching shows, working in a bilingual call center (here in Mexico), videogames ,etc… I took English classes as a kid too, also, recently I took like 2 courses of german, which I did pretty good (like 96 out of 100 in the grade), I think knowing English helped me a lot to learn a bit of German very quick
I studied German every night for 6 months before traveling to Germany with RS. I found that though I learned much, it did not teach grammar. It is entirely contextual learning and entirely in German. The gimmick is that you ‘learn like a baby learns its first language.’ I had to go online and look up rules and proper sentence structure lessons in English to help understand what I was learning. Results, I can get around quite well on the streets, order in restaurants, ask for directions, and hold moderately intelligent conversation. I can pick out words I don’t understand and ask what they mean I even learn new things listening to natives speak English and make errors because they’re thinking in German. People compliment all the time on how well I speak and pronounce the language. It only helps to get your foot in the door and you will need some outside help.
I’ve studied three languages at university level. I’ve also picked up fun language skills in a dozen or so other countries in my travels. The idea that you can become anything like fluent in any language without memorizing verb conjugations, noun declensions, grammar and sentence structure details is just a dream IMO. But I got Rosetta Stone Dutch and have been pretty happy with how quickly I learned enough to have a lot of fun. I’ve also used Pimsleur (boring) and Transparent (pretty good but has some annoying bugs). Rosetta Stone is definitely one of the better ones, but don’t set your expectations too high.
I used it for Mandarin and I’ve got my toddler speaking it some as well. I really like the program, you jut have to be disciplined enough to go through the program daily and regularly.
Without knowing which language you want to learn, I’ll just say that there are a lot of free resources here. There are plenty of options besides Rosetta Stone, despite it being the only language course that ever has advertisements and thus the only course many people know of.
rosetta stone is shit. I don’t know how it is now but when I used it all it was was matching a phrase some voice said in another language to a picture without translation. I wasn’t taught the alphabet, grammar, vocab, nothing.
The program is fairly simple and not worth how expensive it is. I suggest getting a torrent.
It was okay for starting to learn a language, but it really set me back on one I was already fairly experienced at.
I basically learned English by surfing on the internet, watching movies with English subtitles (now I rarely use them), watching shows, working in a bilingual call center (here in Mexico), videogames ,etc… I took English classes as a kid too, also, recently I took like 2 courses of german, which I did pretty good (like 96 out of 100 in the grade), I think knowing English helped me a lot to learn a bit of German very quick
I studied German every night for 6 months before traveling to Germany with RS. I found that though I learned much, it did not teach grammar. It is entirely contextual learning and entirely in German. The gimmick is that you ‘learn like a baby learns its first language.’ I had to go online and look up rules and proper sentence structure lessons in English to help understand what I was learning. Results, I can get around quite well on the streets, order in restaurants, ask for directions, and hold moderately intelligent conversation. I can pick out words I don’t understand and ask what they mean I even learn new things listening to natives speak English and make errors because they’re thinking in German. People compliment all the time on how well I speak and pronounce the language. It only helps to get your foot in the door and you will need some outside help.
I’ve studied three languages at university level. I’ve also picked up fun language skills in a dozen or so other countries in my travels. The idea that you can become anything like fluent in any language without memorizing verb conjugations, noun declensions, grammar and sentence structure details is just a dream IMO. But I got Rosetta Stone Dutch and have been pretty happy with how quickly I learned enough to have a lot of fun. I’ve also used Pimsleur (boring) and Transparent (pretty good but has some annoying bugs). Rosetta Stone is definitely one of the better ones, but don’t set your expectations too high.
all of you are undermining the importance of my temporary job
I bought Rosetta Stone and now I’m fluent in stupid. Thanks, Rosetta Stone!