Have you taught yourself another language with rosetta stone ?

[MAJOR METAL]

Have you taught yourself another language with rosetta stone ?

[Barkless Dog]

No, but once possessing it, I will be able to perform human alchemy

[Mon Rominee]

I heard the programs themselves are very expensive, but work rather well. I wanted to try my hand at Japanese or Chinese (tho I realize there are many different regional dialect variants) I think it'd be cool and potentially useful.

Mon

[casualmadness]

I started learning Arabic with RS. Although I abandoned it after a few months (grad school got in the way) I found that it was much easier to learn that way as opposed to classroom methods. I actually learned a lot and what I learned actually stuck with me...for a while at least. After I complete my M.S later this year, I plan to return to it.
Coincidentally, my friend wanted to leanr Italian. So she got RS. She worked with it several hours a day for over a year and became quite fluent. However, her reading/writing ability is almost non-existent. She said that RS doesn't really develop the reading and writing part. I never got that far in my Arabic studies.

[Valerus]

I'm teaching myself Danish.

[tkozal]

ahh.. I bought the first two French volumes..for me it worked the opposite, I found my reading comprehension to become quite good, I could buy basic french books, etc..

I didn't spend enough time with the coolest feature, where you use the mic, and speak the phrase back at the machine, and then it compares your wave form to the native speakers, and then gives you a meter from red to green as to how you did.

Excellent training.

[Atoz]

I get any RS training I want for free through my job. Unfortuantely, I've been kept so busy that I haven't had the opportunity to give it a try.

[vene-nemesis]

What is this rosetta stone youre talking????

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

Originally Posted by vene-nemesis

What is this rosetta stone youre talking????

Google is your friend

http://www.rosettastone.com/

[vene-nemesis]

Originally Posted by Ívar Þórólfsson

Google is your friend

http://www.rosettastone.com/

no, google is your friend that why you make searches for me .

[Ívar Þórólfsson]

Originally Posted by vene-nemesis

no, google is your friend that why you make searches for me .

Pffff


But to answer your question MM, I have not tried Rosetta Stone but I really want to....
Just a matter to decide what language..... I'm leaning towards Spanish or French.....

[Marcus]

Rosetta Stone is flawed in that it simply plays back vocabulary hoping you'll remember it based on images. I tried Japanese (which I am learning at school), and Spanish (which I already know) and I thought that the program is not useful for beginners.

[DigMe]

I've considered buying it to help improve my mandarin. I'm a tad skeptical though...I just don't want to spend all that money and then be disappointed by it.

bc

[vene-nemesis]

Originally Posted by DigMe

I've considered buying it to help improve my mandarin. I'm a tad skeptical though...I just don't want to spend all that money and then be disappointed by it.

bc

6 months money back or the free possibility

[James_B]

All righty then, pictures this if you, will. No, I haven't but it is my fault, I just didn't use them. What you would expect from someone who didn't even graduate from high school?

[TehRoflCopter]

My dad had RS for several languages and then discovered Pimsleur, which is an audio tape series. He's now basically conversationally fluent (as fluent as one can be without speaking the language everyday) in Spanish, French, German, and Mandarin. His Arabic is also coming along.

(All this in about 3 years)

[Oxblood]

I plan on trying it soon. I have the Spanish version of RS.

[magnusdeus123]

I used Pimsluer (Japanese) for a while . Need to get back to completing it . If you want to get good at conversation , then nothing beats the simplicity and effectiveness of the Pimsluer process . You would have to learn to practice writing and reading through other means , but otherwise Pimsluer rocks .

[FL Knifemaker]

Nyet!

[brothernewt]

Igpay Atinlay...