Anybody used it? Is it just good advertising? Does anyone know how to get a free copy of the spanish one? I took 4 years of HS spanish and am still not fluent but I would really like to be....
Torrent it, I did a few years ago. Had 20+ languages in the download, never got the motivation to use it.
Same here. Its the same kind of language learning system they used at the first college I went to. It really is all about repetition and motivation. But yeah, they are there to make money.
hey canna i am almost positive you can get it at the library....i think my daughter tried it and it was spanish...might be worth a call anyways...good luck...i have enough trouble with american english..
I've used their Russian sample version. It's word-association x repetition... in other words, I wasn't impressed. Nothing about proper grammar, sentence structure, word placement etc... basically just memory. I think you'd be happier with "Spanish for Dummies", I've got that for both Spanish and Russian and they seem a lot more helpful than Rosetta Stone.
Thanks, that first paragraph is what I needed to really know. I know the words for the most part, it's the putting them together I have real trouble with. Thank SW and everyone else too!!!
There are a jillion of those systems out there for sale and from what I've seen they all make promises they can't keep. Like "learn Swahili in just 6 weeks!", etc... Books and cds are good support materials, but the only way to achieve proficiency in a second language is through using it to interact with native speakers of that language. We learn by doing.
Good thing I live in California....no shortage of native speakers of that language for sure Ur totally right. I did several mission trips to Mexico and learned more in those months than the 4 years in high school.
