How to practice

Question

Is Rosetta Stone better for practicing vocabs?

Answer 1

Personally I think our flashcard section is better than RS for practicing vocabulary.

I agree, we have 100 ways of reinforcing: games, chat, lesson followups, etc. - territurtle, Dec 7, 2011

Answer 2

Yeah I think the way SD teaches us grammar is second to none.

Answer 3

I have been using both and, in my humble opinion, both have their advantages.

RS is great for building vocabulary in a way that sticks in your memory. You are learning words the way a human brain is wired to learn them. SD gives you vocabulary and grammar, which is invaluable if you want to form sentences with those words correctly.

I am not very far along in either system... a true beginner. I have only been studying Spanish for about 10 months. The first 6 months I only used the first RS level with occassional hops over to SD for clarification if something had me confused. The past 4 months I have spent here and, honestly, I think I have learned more here but I am sure that without the basic vocabulary I absorbed from RS I would have progressed much more slowly.

To sum it up: While I think RS is superior in building vocabulary, if you want to actually speak the words you are using you must learn grammar also... be it through SD or some other program. Rosetta Stone is lacking in that department, in my opinion.