Rosetta Stone V4 review
I have been trying this software Spanish (Latin America) and wanted to hear others feed back on V4 TOTALe. Here is mine.
I have not used the online services yet but have been repeating some sections in the first level where the speech recognition software in V3 would not recognize my correct answer no matter how many times I tried. It works much better in V4 and I passed all. Now they could have made the default setting easier so I moved it up to the most difficult and I still passed all and only had to try a few times on those sounds I know I have difficulty with. Thus, they have improved the software and corrected some glitches from V3.
Using the course software is similar to V3. The layout is better. The only thing is when you are done with a lesson; it does take noticeably longer to return to home screen but that is not a big deal.
If you have V3 on your PC then deactivate it first using their directions. You do not need to remove or delete the program. When you load V4, it will keep your user profiles and what you completed already with scores.
With V3, you could activate the product on 2 PC's. I was told by Rosetta Stone that you can only activate V4 on one PC. You can still have multiple users but the online service can only be activated for one user. So far I have not found out how you can pay extra for multiple users having online service. I am disappointed that you can't activate on 2 PC's but I thought they would charge $1,000 for what I got and it only lists for $750 which I think is reasonable. Remember you get 3 months of online service for each level you buy. I was told by Rosetta Stone the 3 months starts when you activate your online service account which is a separate activation from the course's software. You have 12 months from the date you ordered the software to activate it.
My history with Rosetta Stone is I had V3 Levels 1&2 and completed them this Spring. I was going to buy the rest then; but, from reading the company's quarterly report, I knew they were going to release V4 in the third quarter so I waited. I had a college textbook, ¡ARRIBA! COMUNICACIÓN Y CULTURA, 5th edition, and used it along with their online extras because I figured I would learn some grammar rules in the mean time. Understanding some grammar rules was helpful, but I found trying to memorize the new words and understand stuff I had not learned through Rosetta Stone was ineffective and boring so I lost interest after a few months. This is why I bought V4.
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Here is a pretty comprehensive of Rosetta Stone
It explains the differences between 3 and 4 as well.
http://geekmontage.com/texts/rosetta-stone-v4-totale-review-discount-demo/
Err having trouble with the link system.
Rosetta stone has been a fantastic aid to my language learning goals. It has only been a month, and I'm already able to have some simple conversations with my German speaking friends. Ich lerne Deutsch! Highly recommended.Link the website: http://www.perfectrosettastone.info/
Yo no gusta Rosetta Stone ehhh bleh
xoxo, SoyJamaica
Thanks for the info. 
I haven't used Rosetta Stone, but if you make a search rosetta stone
there has been quite a lot, presumably about the older version.
