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Brand Rosetta Stone

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Type CD-ROM

Release Date 2008-06-16

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The comprehensive language-learning answer this fits your life.

Study Naturally
Study your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, listen to and comprehend not including translating or memorizing. You already have this capability. Rosetta Stone just unlocks it.

Engage Interactively
Get feedback to move forward. You study excellent by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your unique needs and skills, for the reason that you drive the program together with your progress.

Talk Confidently
Begin speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll talk. You'll initiate together with necessary basics, which shape the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll make new sentences on your own, utilizing words you've learned.

Have Fun
Excellent of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. Together with each entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll would like to use Rosetta Stone to have this next moment, this next breakthrough. So you'll keep utilizing it, and you'll study extra!

This's language-learning success.
This's Rosetta Stone.

No translation or memorization necessary.

The much efficient way to study a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words together with pictures. This's the ultimate language lab, but much language-learning programs fully ignore this.

Believe concerning all of the ways you've tried to study a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software this uses your native language as a base for your next one. What do they all have in common? Translation and memorization.

Instead of taking a "direct flight" from your brain to your new language, translation and memorization connects you to your old language. You always have to "fly" from your brain, to your native tongue ... and then interpret what you've memorized to communicate.

This might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to modify tenses? You're going to do a lot of "connecting flights." This's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail.

Enter Dynamic Immersion.
This method encourages you to believe like a baby. You'll pair words together with vivid, real-life pictures and do connections between things you recognize and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words mutually into phrases this you make.

Innovative technology.
Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software this works together with you to develop your skills. The neat, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the answer, while complex speech recognition technology makes certain this you're speaking correctly and accurately. Excellent of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident.

Communicate and connect together with the world: Altitude 1, 2 & 3 Set.
Rosetta Stone Altitude 1, 2 & 3 Set will get you on a journey from the basics to a whole new altitude of sophistication. You'll build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and necessary language structure. You'll shortly gain the confidence to engage in social interactions. Say "hello" and "goodbye," arrange journey, order food, go shopping and extra! From there, you'll share your ideas and opinions, express feelings and speak concerning your life, your interests and extra. You'll discover a voice. In a new language.

Audio Companion
Together with Audio Companion, you'll increase the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll study new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned together with Audio Companion. Just have fun the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Every Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your journey time into productive language-learning time.

Inside the box, you'll locate:

Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Levels 1, 2 & 3 (Windows/Mac)
Earpiece microphone
Customer's guide
Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to have fun or download to your MP3 player

Customer Reviews

Excellent tool for language learning 2010-06-17

By Larry Gandle (Tampa, Florida)

The Rosetta stone language programs make learning a language extraordinarily easy. Clear photos, repetition and enjoyable quizzes reinforce what has been taught. A headphone is used to make sure pronunciation is correct. It is quite an excellent tool even for those of us who struggled with languages in high school. Highly recommended.

It worked for me, but... 2010-06-16

By klavierspiel (TX, USA)

I bought this set to prepare for a two-week trip to Italy, wanting at least to know enough of the language to "get by." Bottom line is, the Rosetta Stone software (together with a couple of grammar books), which I used diligently every day for about ten weeks, did get me there.

However, I am convinced I started with a couple of advantages that many users of this package might not have: 1) As a professional musician, vocal coach, and opera fan, I had an extensive acquaintance with the sound and pronunciation of Italian before I started; 2) I'd had the experience of learning other languages the traditional way, particularly French. Italian and French have points of similarity which, although occasionally a source of confusion, helped me recognize and negotiate certain crucial grammatical points (gender and agreement, for example).

All this being said, I enjoyed the Rosetta Stone software and learned a lot from it. I feel its main advantages are, first, the immersion technique used, that is, not hearing English at all from the very beginning; second, the illustrations, fun to look at and mostly clear in their meaning; third, the constant repetition combined with gradual introduction of new concepts, which smooths the task of assimilation and memorization.

Drawbacks I noticed along the way, which might be improved in future editions: 1) the voice-recognition feature is inconsistent, being overly critical in the beginning stages (there were certain vowel sounds I could not pronounce to R.S.'s satisfaction, ever) and not critical enough later. 2) There is too much mechanical, exact repetition and not enough exercises that demand the more difficult but more useful process of recombining previously learned elements; 3) There is not sufficient preparation for the fairly demanding "milestone" exercises that conclude each level. All of a sudden the user is asked to invent questions to ask the virtual characters out of thin air, and I for one was not prepared to do this.

Some of these drawbacks might be ameliorated by going with the ultra-deluxe package which involves interaction and practice with actual people online; still, aren't we paying enough for the software?

A couple of final observations: 1) The included headset did not work with my MacBook Pro, but a cheap set of earphones which I had already did; 2) The audio companion CDs provide very useful practice in listening and should be used--despite having gone through the practice exercises, I still had to really concentrate to comprehend everything on them due to the rapidity of the native speakers.

It is a good well made software, but takes a long time 2010-03-29

By Dakar (Littleton, CO)

I've been using this now for 3 months, I don't spend as much time as needed on it. I think a person should spend at least 1 hour a day with it and I typically only do 30 min. Its exhausting to sit there and do it. Overall it is a good program and works. I've learned a lot in 3 months but not anywhere close to learning Italian well enough to have a conversation. As some reviewers have noted, everything is in Italian, there is no translation and you have to guess or assume what some of the words might mean. It goes frame by frame, module by module and too many times you have to just guess. I think if a person could spend more time on it would be better. But to really learn Italian or any language, I think you have to have someone or a group that you can talk with regularly. I was hoping I would be further along by now. I do think its overpriced, should be more in the $300 range. If you can afford it, then its likely worthwhile, but if you can't don't think RS is the only way you might learn a language. There's other quality products available.
EDIT - spent 3 months with this and learned and remembered several words, but when I needed to, I couldn't really say any phrases in Italian. I'm going to look for a different product.

Definitely not worth the price + Scientifically flawed 2010-02-28

By It's me (LONG ISLAND CITY, NEW YORK USA)

I was given this product by someone who bought it and couldn't stand it because they just weren't learning much so they gave it away. Unfortunately I also found it limiting so I decided to give it to my young cousin who's only 6 years old.

First off, the science behind Rosetta Stone is flawed. They work on the assumption that the reason why young children pick up on languages and retain them so much better than adult do is because they are taught differently than adults. Adults go to classes and learn grammer first etc...While children simply use the visual and audio ques around them and naturally absorb everything. However this is FALSE & it's been proven to be false yet the company still feeds this nonsense to it's customers.

Even children born blind who do not have the ability for visual ques such as the movement of the lips or seeing objects and facial expressions pick up & retain language at a far superior level than adults with all 5 senses do. The reason is that the Brain of a young child works differently than that of an adult. For the sake of not making this review too long, I'll merely state the facts simply & in laymen terms. When children learn 1, 2, 3, 4, or even 5 different languages growing up, the activity in the brain happens in one location- which is basically the main portion dedicated to language. However past a certain age (anywhere between the ages 11-19 depending on the harmonal development of the individual) that portion of the brain "freezes" or rather it stops being maleable. Kind of like the way a baby's skull is soft and eventually as it grows, hardens. So basically when a child of say 5 years old begins learning a new language the still maleable portion of the brain receptive to that grows in strength & activity- It's much like a muscle..when it's worked it grows stronger & becomes more useful. However when an ADULT learns a new language that part of the brain is done making changes, so the adult brain compensates for this by strengthening ANOTHER portion of the brain related to the main language portion to compensate. THis is great- except this extra part of the brain is not as efficient at language as the first main portion which developed during our early years. One of the major drawbacks of this new language section is that unlike the first one it atrophies very quickly. Like a muscle, if you don't use it constantly- you'll lose it. The first/main language section of the adult is more like bone- it's set for life so you don't have to worry about losing it if you don't work it daily. That's why a bilingual Spanish & English person who learned these languages while little can live in India for 20 years and then go back to Spain or England and suddenly start speaking those languages again. Unlike someone who learns a language as an adult- if they stop speaking or using the new language for as little as 2 or 3 years, they have to relearn almost everything again because they forget a great deal of what was learned.- Basically the extra muscle (language portion neurons) they developed atrophied. Children learning language use One part of the brain- Adults using language use TWO.- one set like bone and one like muscle that grows & shrinks depending on usage. So you see that the entire case behind Rosetta Stone is faulty. An adult can absolutely learn languages, but they CANNOT learn using the same method as children. Adults must be taught differently then children as our brains work very differently. You can't just show a bunch of pictures to an adult and have them pick up on nuances & context. Someone who's learned as an adult also must continue practicing- Even if it's only for a 10 minutes every 2 or 3 days so that they don't forget how to speak it. One program I recommend that realizes this is FLUENZ which is not only cheaper than Rosetta, but has a much higher satisfactory rate and it's the one I'm using now. Unfortunately their language choices are limited as I believe they only have 4 to choose from. I did give this program to my young cousin to see if their method would work better on her. It has! However she'll only do this program if her mother makes her. She says it's "boring". However there's no doubt that she learned more with this program in a few days than I did in 3 weeks. It's still up in the air whether I'd recommend this for kids, but for adults?- absolutely not.

Rosetta Stone Levels 1,2,3 Italian is the most fun way to learn 2010-02-03

By C. A. Stanton Hochstetler (Goshen, IN USA)

Lets face it, not all of us are scholars, readers, students. Some of us are visually oriented. We prefer color and vivid images to rote and other mundane methods of learning. This method is something easy to understand, multi-choice responses, which immerse you in the language, some of the learning is intuitive, and some of the interactive steps actually measure and encourage you with every screen. The framework is well communicated in each screen. And although the aspects of vocabulary, pronunciation, comprehension, reading and writing are all areas which teach the language. One feels the progress and the process goes smoothly from one lesson to the next. You decide whether you want to repeat a lesson, or move to the next. Rosetta Stone is the best way to learn a language. Governments train staff using this program as well. But for me, I just find it fun and easy to learn with this method. In my case, I am going to Italy in six months or so, I really plan to be able to read and write and best of all speak Italian when we are there. Years ago, Berlitz was the standard, today, its Rosetta Stone. Next year, France is our goal, I've alredy purchased Levels 1,2,3 in French to prepare for that adventure. You do not need to be a scholar, simply follow the lessons, and you'll be speaking and reading and writing in the language of your choice. I highly recommend this method above others.

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