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Posts: 11669 (07/23/08 7:59 PM) Registered user |
Rosetta Stone
Language Learning
Just curious, has anyone used this? I was thinking of getting it to learn Spanish. If you've used it (any language), I was wondering what your experiences were and do you think it was worth the money? |
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 lilnubber |
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Posts: 9509 (07/23/08 8:02 PM) Registered user |
My boss who just retired this year bought it (Spanish) and had me install it on his home computer for him. It looked like an excellent way to learn a language.
I'll have to ask him how it's working out.
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Posts: 10484 (07/23/08 8:03 PM) Registered user |
I would love it but it's too expensive for me.
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El Bingo Gringo |
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Posts: 1156 (07/23/08 8:03 PM) Registered User |
....no
....not applicable however, I did see the stone at the British museum in London and stared at it for about 7 minutes good times |
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pussycow |
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Posts: 2766 (07/23/08 8:12 PM) |
¿Donde esta casa de Pepe?
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merkyl |
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Posts: 56371 (07/23/08 8:14 PM) Registered loser |
I'm still waiting for their Esperanto module.
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Katja Fallingstar |
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Posts: 476 (07/23/08 8:18 PM) |
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WiscBadger95 |
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Posts: 11670 (07/23/08 8:18 PM) Registered user |
Nubber: Thanks, any feedback would be appreciated.
NOIS: Yeah it is kind of pricey. But the other option -- taking it at the UW, where I work -- would cost nearly two grand a semester for tuition. Gringo: Cool! Pussycow: Como esta, Senor Beavis? Merkly: Despair not, I hear Shatner is just finishing up the audio files for them. |
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Posts: 56374 (07/23/08 8:20 PM) Registered loser |
Oh, and I've downloaded the torrents but haven't installed them yet, since they are tricky.
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pussycow |
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Posts: 2767 (07/23/08 8:24 PM) |
to rock a rhyme that's right on time?
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rolandofthewhite |
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Posts: 1191 (07/23/08 8:29 PM) Registered User |
Yeah, I would never pay that much for them ('specially since you can download them in torrents for free). They're better than the vast majority of
self-teaching language programs.
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Posts: 10485 (07/23/08 8:36 PM) Registered user |
I have created a form of sign language to speak with foreign tourists.
I have gestures in Japanese, Spanish, French and pretty much every other language. It looks like I am doing the hokey pokey but they get the point. |
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Posts: 8300 (07/23/08 8:37 PM) Registered user |
Badgie threatening me?
You will give me tp, bungholio! *pulls back of shirt over head and chants Titicaca over and over* |
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WiscBadger95 |
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Posts: 11671 (07/23/08 8:40 PM) Registered user |
Spanish Teacher: Dammit! Say something in Spanish!
Beavis: Heh, heh ... uh ... spaghetti? |
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Posts: 8302 (07/23/08 8:45 PM) Registered user |
 Oh shit, I forgot about that.
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Alexfangirl |
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Posts: 859 (07/23/08 8:48 PM) Registered user |
Here's a free language learning website. It's like myspace. http://www.livemocha.com/
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reddotsheriff |
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Posts: 1360 (07/23/08 8:51 PM) |
NOIS rocks in the tourism industry. Thanks for being there babe.
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Snuffy Smiff |
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Posts: 1408 (07/23/08 9:17 PM) Registered user |
The public library I used to work at had Rosetta Stone language kits, and they were very popular.
The good thing about getting them at the library is that you can try them for free for three weeks and decide if they're worth buying. The bad part is you might not be able to renew them, and your foreign language vocabulary will be truncated somewhere in the C's or D's. |
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Posts: 22567 (07/23/08 9:37 PM) Gadabout |
I got them on torrents a couple of years ago, started the French one and lost interest after a couple of levels. I think chien means dog.
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hersavvyness |
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Posts: 4618 (07/23/08 9:58 PM) Registered user |
I really like the Michel Thomas series. His pronunciation is meh, but I learned more using his courses than I did in 4.5 years of classroom French. Great and
easy way to get comfortable in the language. Do the Foundation, Advanced and Vocabulary Builders. This is all audio, but they come with little booklets that
list what's covered in each section. This will get you comfortable trying to speak the language, but you need more to be able to understand others when
they are speaking to you.
After Michel Thomas, try Assimil and/or Pimsleur. this is a pretty interesting site for people trying to learn languages: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/default.asp I try to watch French in Action on PBS and TV5Monde on cable. Still can only follow about half the news on TV5. Don't know if there's any Spanish equivalent to FIA, but Telemundo and Univision are good to get you used to hearing the language rapid-fire. I haven't tried the FSI courses, but if things ever settle down, i probably will give them a go. http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/default.aspx |
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Posts: 20551 (07/23/08 10:02 PM) Admin/Play-By-Play Guru
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FWIW, I did the Rosetta Stone Swahili - Level One about 5 years ago, and found it to be a great introduction to the language. Considering the expense,
I decided not to go for Level Two.
But I was also using Teach Yourself Swahili at the same time to learn grammar and sentence structure. Rosetta Stone was by far the most expensive basic level at about $99 and the next level would have cost at least that much again. Teach Yourself (book/cd combo) was more reasonably priced at about $30. |
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