is Rosetta stone an effective way to learn Russian or German?
Monday, May 24th, 2010 at
8:32 am
Ive been thinking about learning Russian or German and was wander if Rosetta stone was an effective way to learn one of those languages and is it worth the price? i also found a website for learning Russian but i'm not sure if i should try that either because i'm not 100% sure if its a legit site. is http://www.russian-accelerator.com/ a legit site for learning Russian or would i be better of going some where else.
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Hello,
Apparently not according to many reviews I have read. It waters down or eliminates the grammar far too much and big as a pain in the rear it is, grammar is essential in being reasonably fluent or mastering any language. So when all said and done you may be able to order a beer, ask for a dance or directions here and there but you will certainly not be able to have intelligent conversation, give a 30 minute oration on any subject let alone understand what is being said in a court of law.
Cheers,
Michael Kelly
Rosetta Stone is expensive but its backed by a guarantee that in just a few weeks you would have learned quite a bit. I really want to learn Arabic, but the price is really holding me back.
They offer a free CD to check their system out to see if you like it. Look them up and give them a call. Good luck.
It depends on where you are. In my case, I’m in Germany right now to study German just to enhance my German ability. But I don’t really know of the German grammar. In my concept, All things are difficult before they are easy. So I made up my mind to go to Germany and found out people who are in interests of Japanese (my mother language). That sounds like a supply and demand problem would settle in. Of course I actually did some preparations to avoid something opposed to what I hoped, which was to get to know people in Germany on the internet. In my case, she’s a student at University, and she’s really into studying Japanese. And she did almost everything needed to live in, for example, where I live, coming to the airport for me and such. Even now, she’s doing something helpful for me, in return I teach her Japanese. My point is, it’s pretty faster, easier, and even more fun to study a language with people than to do it all by yourself. My point is, if you have free time enough to study language, I highly recommend a study abroad as the way you study. Take my experience once again. I’m a student at university right now, and after a year has done I took a year off from school to put what I had been planning into practice. Study abroad for a year is mandatory at my department so I chose Germany as the country where I’m going to. Then my department officials said that "if you go to Germany, German Certificate would need." Thus, I decided to take a year off from my department. And now I’m studying German here in Germany. Everyday is pretty fruitful for me. I don’t offend you, but I can say to you that it’s really beneficial to go study abroad if you want to learn a language.
Rosetta Stone is very good for vocabulary but not so good in terms of teaching grammar. It bases learning almost completely on pictures.
I have 5 languages and I tell you the best way to learn is a "long haired dictionary"
I taught German at a major university years ago and I’ve used Rosetta Stone to learn some other languages. I thought it was a bargain for the price and I learned the target languages much faster. I think because it goes over the same concepts and vocabulary and grammar from so many different angles, in my opinion it certainly is the superior software for it and for trying to pick up a language in a short period of time, I find it superior to university (which I thought I’d never say). I also love the audio recognition portion where the software will recognize from your pronunciation and your intonation how far you are off from saying it correctly.
depends what you want really… if your a long term learner and want a more in depth study of the language and its inner workings, such as learning grammar then i would definately not reccomend rossetta stone. instead you should go with these books;
the new penguin russian course
teach yourself russian grammar
english grammar for students of russian
and these sites will be very helpful too (AND ITS FREE);
http://www.russianforeveryone.com/
http://www.russianlessons.net/
if on the other hand you just want to learn conversational russian and a short term learner. i.e you dont want to learn the grammar and all that… then i think you should go for it. however rossetta stone is very expensive and im sure there are much cheaper alternatives such as. *teach yourself russian conversation*… Oh and by the way, rossetta stone for russian is not highly reccomended by any review i have read so far.