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Rosetta Stone

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Has anyone completed any language of 1-3 with Rosetta Stone?

Is it viable? I read that since it doesn't teach you grammar it's a bit pointless. Any comments on this?
 
I'm not sure what you mean by "1-3.", but i'm using rosetta stone for my Korean studying. It's nice. It doesnt help that much with grammar, more with reading (audio + text) and building a vocabulary. I'm enjoying it. I can read Korean now thanks to rosetta stone and another book. Working on building my vocab. I'd recommend it.
 
illuminate said:
I'm not sure what you mean by "1-3.", but i'm using rosetta stone for my Korean studying. It's nice. It doesnt help that much with grammar, more with reading (audio + text) and building a vocabulary. I'm enjoying it. I can read Korean now thanks to rosetta stone and another book. Working on building my vocab. I'd recommend it.
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I meant levels 1 through 3 :) There are 3 levels for each language. level 1 teaches you basic words, two expends on that, and three expends on that further
 
i did german levels 1-3 and it helped quite a bit though I did have to learn through talking to people and stuff to work out kinks in grammar, i'd still recommend it tho probably only buying a 6 month subscription and powering through, after the 3 disc is complete you wont need it again
 
I think it depends on your own learning style---if you can pick up sound patterns easily and are comfortable with "copying" the voices and vocab on the program, then it'd be very useful. If you're the type of person who prefers learning things with/through a framework, not knowing the tiny grammatical distinctions between two phrases will drive you nuts, and you'll stress about whether you're actually learning things correctly.

I'm a little bit of both and have been using the Japanese program to brush up on the year of Japanese that I studied in college. It's useful for sure, but knowing some of the grammar patterns ahead of times helps a LOT. For me, anyway.
 
Does RosettaStone teach you to read by translating word-for-word or to directly comprehend the words read?
 
AVT said:
Does RosettaStone teach you to read by translating word-for-word or to directly comprehend the words read?
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Well, for example, in the Japanese, it will show you a picture of a boy, play the audio of someone (man or woman) saying "otokonoko," and then show you the Japanese script that "spells" the word "otokonoko."

After a while, you learn to associate the sound of "otokonoko" and the specific script/spelling with the concept of a boy. I would say that the program aims to bypass the translating part.

There are also different parts of the lesson where you learn the sounds that each "letter" makes through listening and repetition alone. This is how you can learn to read and still not understand what you're reading.

There's less of a word-for-word emphasis and more of a sound-to-concept-with-images emphasis.
 
My friend had it to learn German and one night we started it up and went through a couple lessons out of boredom. I think it would work if you went through all the levels. I think I would give it a try.
 
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