Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to give the voice inside of you a new language. The method used recreates the natural way you learned your first language, revealing skills that you already have. This approach has won numerous awards, and has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world. Join the language revolution today. Only with Rosetta Stone. The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits your life. Learn Naturally
Learn your next language the same way you learned your first language. Dynamic Immersion empowers you to see, hear and comprehend without translating or memorizing. You already have this ability. Rosetta Stone simply unlocks it. Engage Interactively
Get feedback to move forward. You learn best by doing, and you'll apply what you've learned to get to the next step. Rosetta Stone adapts to your individual needs and skills, because you drive the program with your progress. Speak Confidently
Start speaking immediately. From the very first lesson, you'll speak. You'll begin with essential basics, which form the building blocks of the language. Soon you'll create new sentences on your own, using words you've learned. Have Fun
Best of all, Rosetta Stone is addictive. With every entertaining activity, you'll feel success. You'll want to use Rosetta Stone to have that next moment, that next breakthrough. So you'll keep using it, and you'll learn more! That's language-learning success.
That's Rosetta Stone. No translation or memorization required. The most effective way to learn a new language is to be surrounded by it. When you were an infant, your parents taught you this way, by intuitively associating words with images. That's the ultimate language lab, but most language-learning programs completely ignore this. Think about all of the ways you've tried to learn a language: classes at school, tapes and cassettes, even software that 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 translate what you've memorized to communicate. That might work for a few words, but what happens when you get to a sentence or phrase? When you have to change tenses? You're going to make a lot of "connecting flights." That's why those other methods are so frustrating ... and why they fail. Enter Dynamic Immersion.
This method encourages you to think like a baby. You'll pair words with vivid, real-life images and make connections between things you know and the new language. Soon, you'll be thinking in a new language, stringing words together into phrases that you create. Innovative technology.
Rosetta Stone places this Dynamic Immersion method at the core of a suite of software that works with you to develop your skills. The simple, intuitive interface helps to keep you engaged in the solution, while advanced speech recognition technology makes certain that you're speaking correctly and accurately. Best of all, Rosetta Stone never leaves you behind. You'll only move forward when you're ready, when you've become comfortable and confident. Discover the building blocks of a new language: Level 1.
Your journey begins with a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and language structure that you'll need to begin to think, live and breathe in your new language. Rosetta Stone's solution will give you the confidence to master basic conversational skills. You'll be able to introduce yourself, say "Hello" and "Goodbye," ask and answer simple questions, go shopping and so much more. Audio Companion
With Audio Companion, you'll enhance the Rosetta Stone experience wherever you go. You'll learn new skills on the computer, and then reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion. Simply play the CDs on a stereo or download them to a MP3 Player. Each Audio Companion activity corresponds to a lesson in the Rosetta Stone software, so you can turn your travel time into productive language-learning time. Inside the box, you'll find: - Version 3 Personal Edition CD-ROM software for Level 1 (Windows/Mac)
- Headset microphone
- User's guide
- Audio Companion, a multiple-CD set to play or download to your MP3 player
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 phenomenal language learning software |
| Review Date: December 28, 2008 |
| Reviewer: Martha Grace Reese, St. Louis, MO USA |
I am an American native speaker, was a Spanish major in college, lived in Madrid for about a year and a half and am (well, WAS) fluent in Spanish. I love Italy and have faked my way through Italian trips with my Spanish for years. And then my husband ordered Rosetta Stone. It's wonderful! I'd heard about it for years, but had no idea that this system was so intuitively exciting. It's more fun than playing Freecell, or other addictive games on the computer!
The system (an immersion approach, with picture recognition and hearing native speakers) is so natural, I couldn't believe it. I've done about half the first level and I find myself out on a walk and making up fun-sounding little italian phrases and sentences in my head. The teaching system is logical, gradual, progressive, challenging, exciting, quickly paced, never boring, and plain fun. I love the tapes for the car. My husband and I are both using it and we both love it.
There are several negative reviews for the Rosetta Stone software (here and on the level 1&2 software), none of which I find substantial. The first here complains, in essence, that you can't steal the software and give it away to your friends! That's fine with me. It's licensed for one computer, but you can have lots of users using that one machine. If you're honest and respect intellectual property rights, that won't be an issue for you.
A second negative review asserts that there isn't much material for level one. First, if you want to buy more levels at the same time, you can get levels 2 & 3 for a reduced price. If you're pretty clear that you want to learn Italian, you might want to start with at least 2 levels. (Amazon has the other packaging options, too.) Second, I suppose you could zoom through all the lessons in level 1 in a couple of weeks, but it's possible that the person who went through the lessons very quickly is skimming over all sorts of built in layers. The software adjusts for increased subtlety in pronunciation & layered appropriation of grammatical structure. Review is critical to the learning process - learning language is like learning to play an instrument. The practice layers available on the software are impressive. This software is constructed as if it were written by Bach! There's a LOT here, even if you just buy the first level and not one of the packaged versions.
The final critique is that the set-up is difficult for MAC users. I have a two iMACS (and am a 25 year PC user who just switched, so I'm completely PC oriented) and have just installed it on one of my machines. The installation was easy, flawless and the software works beautifully. The person who complained had a very sophisticated system and had trouble with some of his intricate settings. I am an Apple neophyte and trust me, for those of us with plug-and-play systems, this is a plug-and-play program. MAC users - don't worry!
Final word: Get the software and start having fun. It's truly amazing stuff. |
Effective Italian language learning
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| Review Date: April 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Terry J. Ligocki, Pinole, CA, USA |
| I have found this product easy to install and use. Installation and set up were straightforward. For me, RosettaStone's language learning technique, immersion, is effective. I am trying to gain a basic understanding of Italian and the ability to listen and speak simply. If you take all the instruction seriously, don't guess without some attempt to understand, and speak most of what is said (even when not asked to), I think you can learn a lot using the RosettaStone method and software. |
Exceeded highest expectationa
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| Review Date: August 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Isaac L. Thorp, |
| I thought Rosetta Stone was all hype. After trying Berlitz (huge disappointment), I decided to give it a try. It is remarkably intuitive, progresses very logically and, most important, is a lot of fun. I normally hate getting on the computer when i get home (after being on one all day), but I look forward to doing 30 minutes of Rosetta Stone. |
Challenging fun
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| Review Date: January 6, 2009 |
| Reviewer: easter funny, Vestavia Hills, Alabama United States |
| This was more expensive that we would like but my daughter (14) loved it. Actually the whole family tried it and enjoyed it. I think we will buy the next two levels soon. |
Great help for learning a new language
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| Review Date: December 10, 2009 |
| Reviewer: Busy Executive, Long Island, NY |
I purchased Rosetta Stone in advance of a trip to Italy I was planning. I'm the stereotypical American in the sense that I sometimes think the world starts and ends with US English, but at the same time I worried about traveling places where finding English-speakers might be difficult. While I have a great mind for math, science and so on, languages have always been difficult for me.
I'm happy to say that I found the software easy to install and run on my modest Dell laptop. Ten minutes after opening the box, I was up and running with no surprises. The product is fairly lean and ran well without cluttering my disk with tens of gigabytes of data the way some other applications do.
The approach is "immersion" style - you start learning words and phrases immediately. Although I'm no wizard at languages, I picked up the first few lessons quickly, and then built up steam as my confidence grew. Within about 30 days, I felt like I could hold my own with some very basic vocabulary. The Italian comments in The Godfather even started to make sense. I don't know whether there are better solutions out there, but I know that if I had used a more traditional approach, I probably would have never done it. Now, mostly in my spare time over the course of several weeks, I've managed to pick up the beginnings of a new language. In my book, that's worth four stars.
Only negatives I might cite are that the user experience feels a little dated to me - hasn't kept up with the look and feel of today's systems. That, and for the type of software you'll probably just use once, the price seems a bit high. I also think it might be the sort of thing you run in your Web browser "software as a service" style, rather than traditional software you install and run on your PC. If Intuit can do this with Turbo Tax, no doubt Rosetta Stone can, too.
To the comments of another reviewer complaining about not being able to resell the software on eBay, realize that a lot of software companies aren't really selling you the software per se - they're selling you a specific and limited license to use their software, and only under certain conditions. Many of these licenses prohibit transferring the software, which means you can't resell it on eBay or anywhere else. I haven't read the terms and conditions of the Rosetta license in detail, however if you agreed to these terms (typically using the software implies consent), then there's nothing wrong with Rosetta Stone enforcing the agreement. Microsoft and many other vendors do similar things, registering software to a specific user and/or computer. Moral of the story is to read the license. Of course, that's not easy to do before purchasing the software, so perhaps Amazon should consider posting software license terms and conditions online so customers can make an informed decision prior to purchasing.
Otherwise, I think Rosetta Stone is uniquely valuable if you need to learn a language quickly. Highly recommended. |
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