Rosetta Stone?

Question

Language Disks

Answer 1

My daughter and her friend are both home educated and her friend has just started the Rosetta Stone French course which she enjoys.  I will also consider the Spanish and German ones for my own daughter.

I have heard that the RS courses are excellent, but it would be more helpful if their website gave a full demo of how the languages are taught as everyone has their own way of learning.

edit:Azathoth is right!!  My daughter is learning Latin and she is much better at paradigms than set phrases.  Wheelocks is OK, but we live in England and our case  order is different from the USA.  This is why I wanted to have a better demo of an RS course to see if it would suit her.  If it gives us some good old-fashioned grammar, then fine.  But if it doesn't then we'll forget it.  

As I said, however, it does depend on how your child wants to learn.

Answer 2

Never tried it but I may.  I want to learn German next year.  I have been trying to learn Spanish for about 30 years without much success, but have not tried Rosetta Stone for it.

Answer 3

I see what you did there, and I like it. =p

Answer 4

I heard that they worked.  I learned Thai in about three years, I speak it daily, with the help of my wife and random books.

Answer 5

I bought a Rosetta Stone for my girlfriend and had it mounted on a necklace and she said it was too heavy. So don't get one of those.

Answer 6

um, what was your question?

Answer 7

Here's a link:

Answer 8

sure, it works fine, but i like Pimsleur, they go by a different approach, i really liked it and it helped me to speak pretty fluently in Russian, now i can talk to these hot girls at my work!!!

Answer 9

Personally, I don't like RS very much. They don't give you any grammar rules, which are a pain in the *** but are really helpful. I started using Wheelock's Latin, and while I still don't really know what the singular ablative case of a word is, it's a lot easier to figure out than looking at a picture and trying to figure out what they're talking about. They're probably good for vocabulary review, or maybe for little kids, but as a standalone system, I'd stay away.

It seems like it would be a good supplement to a textbook, though. It's more interesting than memorizing verbs and nouns, but sometimes you just have to do the boring stuff before it gets interesting. I didn't want to memorize the perfect and major intervals -perfect prime, 4th, 5th, octave. Major 2nd, 3rd, 6th, 7th- but once I got that out of the way, I got better at faking my way through my piano lessons. Saepe nihil cogito- I rarely plan. Fun to memorize? h**l no. Fun to know? h**l yes.

Find yourself a good textbook of the language you want to learn and use Rosetta Stone to supplement it, but don't use it as your primary method.

Answer 10

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Answer 11

I don't understand the question.

If your asking if it works, than yes, it is very helpful in learning a new language. But like learning any language any way, it takes a long time. You dont learn languages overnight.