I really want to learn a few languages on my own and I see the most publicity for rosetta stone. The demo makes it seem good and so do reviews. However, I wish to hear how someone likes who really used it. If I have no previous knowledge of the language I want to learn (Italian and German) is it a good software to use? Also, how do you learn the verb conjugations for "you" and "I". In the demo, you learn he/her by seeing pictures of people. But how do you learn the conjugations for you do something and I do something?
2007-02-09 07:15:39 · 3 answers · asked by ihaveissues 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Other - Education
I tried Rosetta Stone for Spanish. It was effective to learn basic words and sentences. The 4 pictures that you see in the demo is the main activity of Rosetta Stone, so it got really boring for me afet a while as I wanted more thant these pictures. Rosetta Stone does not have any grammar or conjugation instructions.
My college uses another software called TeLL me More, by Auralog. I found it more complete and less repetitive. It covers not only the basics, but also intermediate or advanced level. My goal was to become fluent so it was perfect for me. It has a lot of different activities: picture/word association, videos, dialogues,..., includes also grammar and conjugation. It has also more content than Rosetta Stone as far as level and number of hours of learning. Their speech recogntion is great so you can have a dialogue with the computer. They have a free demo at http://www.auralog.com/.
I also found that site that lists the best language software http://learn-german-software-review.toptenreviews.com/.
The best way to learn a language would be through immersion, visiting these countries. Learning a language will require some time. In addition to software, you can have books which are useful as well. Audio CDs like Pimsleur for instance might help you out but you cannot get any feedback on your pronunciation so I did not like it so much.
2007-02-12 05:41:29 · answer #1 · answered by jparizona2007 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Supposedly its very very good... but also very very expensive.
2007-02-09 15:22:38 · answer #2 · answered by SlickNick 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's great.
(It's so easy even a caveman can do it)
2007-02-09 15:17:32 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋