![]() Bonding with Great Aunt Lydia can happen more quickly when Rosetta Stone provides phrases that you'll actually use. Taking an ancestry test to discover you have long-lost relatives in Italy, one of the most beautiful countries in the world.that's the dream. With their patented AI-driven speech recognition technology, you're scored on 0-100 for every pronunciation, so you can easily track your progress. ![]() To avoid making an international faux pas that your coworkers will never let you forget, TruAccent allows you to instantly compare your voice to native and non-native speakers, so you get real-time feedback to master pronunciation. I found the product to provide a quality learning experience.Flying out to Germany to finally meet your biggest client? Study on the plane with Rosetta Stone, so you can work a room even better than those meatball hors d'oeuvres. But, in my opinion, you get what you pay for. With prices beginning at $229 for a level one course, the learning is a bit pricey. Courses may be purchased individually or as combination sets. ![]() The software system is compatible with Mac OS X 10.4 or 10.5, Windows 2000, XP or Vista. Rosetta Stone courses come with CD language software, USB headset with microphone, User’s Guide and an Audio Companion, a multi-CD set to play on your computer or download to a MP3 player. I would have been less frustrated if I could have accessed a hint or help guide. I guess that’s what they mean by intuitive learning. Eventually, I realized that I hadn’t capitalized the first word in each sentence. On one session, I knew that I had spelled it all correctly. When I entered the wrong answer, I couldn’t find any clues as to what would have been the correct response. As the difficulty increased, I found the writing segment to be the hardest for me. If I missed too many answers, I was encouraged to repeat that segment. Several times, I didn’t understand how I was supposed to proceed, but eventually, the response became obvious to me. I zipped through the first session but soon slowed down as the learning became more complex. With no English translation to guide me, the words and phrases became instinctive rather than terms I translated in my head before speaking. Each session included a core lesson plus segments on pronunciation, listening, speaking, grammar, review, reading, writing and vocabulary. Images, paired with Spanish words, appeared on the screen as native speakers pronounced them. I knew it was finally time to begin those Spanish lessons.Īfter logging in and choosing Spanish (Latin America), the lessons began. Recently, Rosetta Stone offered me a 4-week demo of their online learning course. ![]() When I moved to Tucson almost ten years ago, one of my goals was to learn Spanish. The computer software program relies on words, pictures and the voices of native speakers rather than dictionaries and grammar books to teach the language. Specializing in language immersion techniques, Rosetta Stone offers over 30 language courses with a varying number of levels depending on the language. Now that we have the time and desire to learn a foreign language, who’s going to teach us? Rosetta Stone. Sure, many of us took Spanish, French, Latin or maybe German in high school but if your experience was anything like mine, it didn’t prepare you to speak the language. Unfortunately, if you’re a baby boomer who was educated in the United States, competency in a foreign language wasn’t emphasized. Baby boomer travelers, visiting a foreign country is a better experience when you understand the language.
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