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 Posted: Sat Oct 07, 2006 9:58 pm
At some point, there was a thread in this subforum asking about Rosetta Stone. I sought it out the other day, thinking that surely someone had responded with some more information on the program. The thread was gone. So I've been hunting the internet a bit. MacWorld Review is what I found, along with Rosetta Stone's Website. Rosetta Stone has on its site a free "demo", which is available in Spanish, French, Italian, and German. It has one lesson. I used German, since it's the language I know least in. It's not a bad program (in my opinion) for simple phrases, but if that's the primary setup (pictures with words), then there's only so much you can do with it. It's hard to do an "immersion learning" system without actually getting into the information a little more than photos. See MacWorld's comments on the photos as well wink Anyways, I have nothing else to say on it; I don't see myself shelling out $200 per section for this program. Once I get the basics, I can go by a book, but every time someone actually speaks Russian, I realize that my phonetic system I learned over and over covers only a chunk of the actual sound crying
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 2:07 pm
The government uses rosetta stone more than any other program when sending people to other countries. So it actually is worth it if it helps you.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 3:24 pm
(the goverment likes what it can get with a discount or gets a bonus of some sort for using...)
The thing is, I don't know how helpful it is. I remember what the words were, but the only ones I remember are Madchen (umlaut? I dunno) and Junge, [little] girl and [little] boy.
There was another program, called Instant Immersion Japanese (available in other langauges, though) that I used for a short while. It was useless to me at the time because it sort of assumes that you know the kana already... so I was horribly lost. But I think I'll go back and try it and see if it works knowing the syllabary. If it does, then I may get it for Russian. Its going price is about 40 USD, so it's way cheaper for a similar setup. It has the show&say word with a picture to chose (EXACT same system), plus vocab lists if you're so inclined to use them. It may not be as broad, but I bet it would give a good base to continue. Its pronunciation that I *really* suck at, that and just remembering vocab. So the audio/image would help a lot.. but still... My occupation is student, therefore I am pretty much *broke* most of the time. Potatoes > Rosetta Stone.
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:48 pm
Ｄｏｅｓ ｉｔ ｈａｖｅ ｙｏｕ ｍａｔｃｈ ｓｅｎｔａｎｃｅｓ ｗｉｔｈ ｐｉｃｔｕｒｅｓ？Ｔｈｅ Ｒｏｓｅｔｔａ Ｓｔｏｎｅ’ｓ ｓｅｔｕｐ ｉｓ ｌｉｋｅ ｌｅａｒｎｉｎｇ ｔｏ ｒｅａｄ ｏｒ ｓｐｅａｋ ｆｏｒ ｔｈｅ ｆｉｒｓｔ ｔｉｍｅ ｌｉｋｅ ｙｏｕ ｄｉｄ ｗｈｅｎ ｙｏｕ ｗｅｒ ｌｉｔｔｌｅ．
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Posted: Thu Oct 19, 2006 4:50 pm
Forgedawn (the goverment likes what it can get with a discount or gets a bonus of some sort for using...) Ｄｉｓｃｏｕｎｔ？Ｈａ！Ｉｔ’ｓ ａｂｏｕｔ ＄２００ ｆｏｒ ｏｎｅ ｌｅｖｅｌ．Ｙｏｕ ｔｈｉｎｋ ｔｈａｔ’ｓ ａ ｄｉｓｃｏｕｎｔ？
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Posted: Tue Oct 24, 2006 8:18 pm
Hermonie Urameshi Forgedawn (the goverment likes what it can get with a discount or gets a bonus of some sort for using...) Ｄｉｓｃｏｕｎｔ？Ｈａ！Ｉｔ’ｓ ａｂｏｕｔ ＄２００ ｆｏｒ ｏｎｅ ｌｅｖｅｌ．Ｙｏｕ ｔｈｉｎｋ ｔｈａｔ’ｓ ａ ｄｉｓｃｏｕｎｔ？ I don't think $200 is a discount xd I mean the company gives them the discount... ninja we need a :shiftyeyes: besides the ninja.
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Posted: Thu Oct 26, 2006 3:49 pm
Ok, maybe $150 for them. Still...Homeschoolers get discounts, too! We got two languages of the same level with two headsets at a cheaper price than most people can get them. I forget exactly how much.
My mom still owes me my books for using my money for the first payment! domokun
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 8:24 am
Hermonie Urameshi Ok, maybe $150 for them. Still...Homeschoolers get discounts, too! We got two languages of the same level with two headsets at a cheaper price than most people can get them. I forget exactly how much.
My mom still owes me my books for using my money for the first payment! domokun Nice 3nodding I just got some Russian cassettes. It's supposed to be basic travelling phrases, but I'm really mostly using it to help my pronunciation, since I suck. When I speak/listen, I have to "see" the word in my head... I do that in English all the time, in Spanish, even in French when I have a vague following of what's going on. In Japanese, I see romaji. But Russian has sounds much different from what I'm used to, plus the alphabet is generally better than transliteration (sort of), so I see "my transliteration" (ie, straswitchay for zdrastvuytye) instead of the word, and it screws me over rofl I doomed. Anyways... Pimsleur's got a "if you don't speak within 10 days, money back zomg!" thing (and it's $20 heart ), so I'm THINKING about it. The problem is, I can only order from somewehre where I have a gift card (B&N, that is razz ), and they don't have the one I was looking at, only the cassette version. I'd REALLY like CDs... if nothing else, then to put it on my ipod or something, y'know? My cassette player slightly sucks. My Japanese teacher gave it to me because our book came with cassettes, and I had two cassette players: The one in my mother's car and the broken one I've had since I was... -2? I think it technically probably wasn't mine. But I listened to The Lion King on it when I was little razz I silly. I must go now. Essays to write *dies*
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Posted: Sat Oct 28, 2006 12:48 pm
Those don't really work for me for some reason. I guess because it's all one speed whereas Rosetta Stone it matters how quickly you remember and click on the picture.
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 6:41 pm
They have another demo for all the languages and it's pretty indepth for a demo. I tried Turkish. It teaches you how to spell as well as say and understand the words. I loved it.
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Posted: Sat Jan 27, 2007 8:45 pm
Yes. It really good for an immersion. All other immersion programs I tried, sucked. I learned more Latin from the demo and much more Japanese from this that any other program.
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Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 7:53 pm
Great, I hope to try this program soon.
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Posted: Mon Apr 02, 2007 2:15 pm
I'm going to ask for the lesson 1 and 2 set for my birthday. I've been trying to teach myself Russian over the past few months (I have a grammar book, online tutorials, and Russian music I'm really into) and it's going much too slow for my likings. Supposively, you can learn it really fast and well through Rosetta Stone.
Although, I have a hard time paying 330$ for it. sweatdrop I don't have a job.
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Posted: Wed Apr 18, 2007 4:57 pm
I personally love the Rosetta Stone programs and wished they had them in more languages~
It's true, they don't have a lot of instruction words, but what they do is just DUMP you in the language..if you get a language with different writing, the instructions and everything will be all in the symbols..And you learn and pick things up by associating them with pictures, and it gradually moves into sentence structure and grammar and questions~
It may seem kind of shocking, difficult, and unhelpful at first..but when you think about it..this is how a baby learns its first language, by just being submersed in it and picking it up through repetition and pictures, so the concept behind Rosetta Stone makes sense. Sure, it may be a bit pricy, but it does work if you really try
Plus it comes with a voice recognition section, that grades you and helps get your pronunciation right, which is also helpful with tonal languages like Chinese and Thai 3nodding
I have the program for Japanese and my mom has for Thai (she's farang haha) and I hope to get the Mandarin one someday soon. I'll be the first to testify that the programs do work~
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Posted: Mon Apr 30, 2007 1:32 pm
That's really good to hear. Does the voice recognition need a certain computer to run on? Because I have a really old one...I can't even get iTunes or any of that crap, which makes me wonder if this'll run on it.
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