Re: Rosetta Stone
Is there anyone that has first hand experience with the language learning program from Rosetta Stone? I wonder if any real customers exist that agree with Rosetta's marketing dept about how revolutionary the program really is.
Gracias
4 Answers
I cannot directly answer the question, but this has been discussed a few times here before, so you might want to check out a few of the old threads as well as waiting for other input:
I think that most customers who have used Rosetta Stone would agree on one thing: that it is very expensive 
I cannot comment on how good it is as I have never used it because is too expensive for me and I am not convinced that any one method is sufficient in and of itself to teach people any language except speaking with native speakers 
Nothing can compare with that experience
I have not tried it in Spanish. But a close friend of mine had bought and used the Rosetta Stone to learn Chinese, and it was not sustainable, because it got really boring for him. Also, after the first unit, the sentences became too difficult to understand. So he couldn't really learn much by repeating the sentences.
Expensive is an understatement, I agree! The more time I spend on SpanishDict, the more I think that it will do the trick for me, as long as I put forth the effort and practice, practice, practice. There are people around me everyday whose first language is Spanish and I just need to use those interactions to "immerse" myself, for free!
