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| From: Rosetta Stone
List Price: $219.00
Buy New: $197.00
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Rating:  8 reviews
Sales Rank: 295
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Operating System: Windows XP
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.3
Dimensions (in): 9.8 x 8.1 x 2.2
MPN: 1580228402
UPC: 794678205828
EAN: 0794678205828
ASIN: B000P0WSXM
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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| Customer Reviews:
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 Rosetta gets the job done! February 8, 2008
Shields Stutts (Prescott, AZ)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
Easy to use. Not intimidating. Gets you up and running quickly. Versatile for different levels of language experience. Definitely one of the better language learning products--perhaps the best.
Rosetta Stone Deutsch February 8, 2008
Airman's Girl (Indiana, USA)
5 out of 5 found this review helpful
I absolutely LOVE this product. I feel like I'm learning more German through this program then I did of my Spanish "learning" for 3 years of high school. I HIGHLY recommend this program to anyone to learn any language.
 Mostly Adequate, but Overpriced July 6, 2008
Juan Carlo
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
This is a great tool for learning the language via immersion. Rather than teaching through a structural method in which the mechanics and vocabulary of any given language are laid out in an organized manner, with Rosetta stone you learn mostly through pictures and figuring things out on your own.
This works really well as a means of forcing you to confront and use the language based on hearing, rather than reading, but I personally have found that it still works better as just a supplement to a more traditional structural textbook approach to learning the language. The Rossetta stone approach works great for stuff like learning vocabulary and basic phrases that any "beginner" to a foreign language will need, but when it comes to teaching more general rules of the language(i.e. things like conjugating verbs, feminine/masculine/neuter nouns and pronouns, etc, etc) the method is kind of lacking. There were many times that I found myself having to consult textbooks to figure out quite a few of the language's nuances in a much more direct manner than Rosetta Stone's method is able to provide.
Which doesn't mean that it's a bad program, but for the price I was hoping that it would be comprehensive enough on its own that you wouldn't need too many supplements. I think it would be better if they would integrate the "immersion" approach that they use here (which is very effective in its own way), with the more traditional structural method of teaching foreign languages. This would allow you to move back and forth as needed and adjust the program to your own learning style. As it is, it's definitely a valuable tool, but I don't think its comprehensive enough to justify the price.
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