Is Rosetta Stone any good?
Inquiring students of spanish want to know (Los estudiantes inquisidores de español quieren saber)
Wow! a lot of great links here ... should have asked this question before (¡Caramba! ... un montón de enlazas excelente aquí ... debería he preguntaba esta pregunta antes)
Gracias todo
9 Answers
I purchased Rosetta Stone about 8 month ago. In the beginning I really enjoyed it but as I got further into the lessons I found that there is no support. There is no explanation to why verbs change. Whats a conjugation. I had to use my Ipad to translate words and google questions. In order to receive any feedback you have to pay a monthly fee for an online instructor. For the money I paid, I think that should have come with the program. My suggestion would be save your money and stick with Spanishdict...(that's just my opionion).
I personally tried Rosetta Stone and didn't like the method it uses. Yes, some methods go way overboard with grammar rules, but Rosetta Stone completely eliminates important grammar rules that can make Spanish more comprehensive.
There are many other ways to learn Spanish for free that are alot better Try Verbling
Most likely someone loves Rosetta Stone...
Regardless, anything you do is fine, as long as you do it.
You can do it by yourself or can go to a school.
Do something.
It's not worth the money they charge. You can learn a lot for free on the internet and for half the cost you can buy some really good products that will teach you more Spanish than Rosetta Stone ever will.
Look at this page to find plenty of stuff:
I started with Rosetta Stone 5 years ago and it was one of the best things I ever did. It is a tremendous tool for learning vocabulary, but more than that, because of the voice recognition it can help form your accent and pronunciation skills. I can{t tell you how many native Spanish speakers have told me "wow, your Spanish is very good" or "your accent is very good" etc. I owe all that to RS.
Just about every Americano I have heard speaking Spanish, they sound absolutely horrible, so bad it made my ears hurt. I always said to myself "Oh God, I don't want to sound like that!". Rosetta Stone helped tremendously in that area. Just because you "think" that you are pronouncing something correctly, RS can show you otherwise. I have used just about every computer program available, every web site I could find, including SD because at the end of five levels of RS, I realized I wasn't fluent or at the level I wanted to be, so I had to keep searching. If your goal is to become a fluent speaker, SpanishDict is not going to get you there, neither is Rosetta Stone or Pimsleur or any other web site or computer program, it just ain't gonna happen. Using SpanishDict and Rosetta Stone together and whatever else you can find is absolutely better than trying to use just one of them alone, and they are all just tools we use along this journey of acquiring Spanish.
FWIW, last night, this gringo taught a class on "church history and the reformation", in Spanish. They gave me a resounding applause at the end. I'm not sure if it was because it was the end of the class and I had to shut up, or because I did so well :~) :~)
hi not liked Roseta much! but "Tell me more" and "Rocket spanish" they are perfect!
I have been using Rosetta Stone for about four months. When an idea was represented, I had no way of asking questions. That is how I found this web-site. I started using it to translate new sentences introduced in each level. I asked a question on SD one day. It was answered in less than an hour. I started to browse this web-site. I discovered the "learn" section. This week I have been doing flashcards on SD. I did a lesson on Rosetta yesterday, and benefited with my new vocabulary.
