Customer Reviews
Rosetta Stone English 1&2 Review
Our Oak Grove UMC,Decatur,Ga, has a Refugee Family Support Ministry. We purchased this to help our Mesketian Turk family(from Krasnodar,Russia) learn English. We have church members that go to their apartment and assist them. In a very short period we have seen remarkable progress. They have learned how to use on their own time. Husband and wife,both employed and their assimulation into their new country is excellent. Their 3 kids are doing great. Money well spent. Hank Woolard,Chair, Oak Grove UMC, Refugee Family Support Group
Excellent for Beginners to Low-Intermediates
We use this in our language lab for our ESL students. The students who put forth the effort to work on Rosetta every week get higher TOEFL scores than those who don't. The software focuses on most aspects of language learning--speaking,listening, and reading. It also has a neat feature called Speech Comparison, where it shows a wave form of a sentence and, after recording the student's voice, compares the two wave forms, which gives a visual representation of how close the student's pronunciation is to the native speaker's.^M
Rosetta methods
I also use Rosetta for Russian and find that the system works for me because it offers a totally different type of learning. The immersion method uses interesting pictures, progressions, at least 4 different methods or combinations of ways to learn to attract visual learners, auditory learners and those who learn by writing. I had a chance to update my Rosetta system and found that the next version was even better than the first as some small details got greater attention. For me, it is like playing one of the complicated computer games - it is exciting and interesting to advance through each successive level of each unit. The technology never gets in the way of the content.
