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Gaucho
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Rosetta Stone
Happy New Year Everybody!
Has anybody ever used the Rosetta Stone software to learn Spanish? I can get by with the Spanish I know but I really want to get proficient this year.
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DENNIS
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Gaucho
Happy New Year Everybody!
Has anybody ever used the Rosetta Stone software to learn Spanish? I can get by with the Spanish I know but I really want to get proficient this year.
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Rosetta Stone is a good program. Of course, it's only as efficient as the student is diligent and dedicated to learning.
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shnookey
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My husband got it for us a couple of weeks ago- but I'm not having much luck with it. It goes from really, really simple to expecting you to be able
to converse with not much in between. It is all done in Spanish, so there is no explanation when it comes to verbs and conjugations and tenses. So it
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hard to know why you would use ser instead of estar and vice versa.
It's lots of pictures and lots of Spanish, lots of parroting.Some people learn
that way,but I'm not one of them. I'm using visual link Spanish right now and it seems to work a lot better.
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karenintx
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I suggest "Visual Link Spanish" www.spanishprogams.com
We had purchased R/S and it was not working for me...then my husband found Visual Link Spanish online. After trying the free lessons we purchased the
program. It is so easy! Wish we had found it before getting the R/S.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by karenintx
I suggest "Visual Link Spanish" www.spanishprogams.com
We had purchased R/S and it was not working for me...then my husband found Visual Link Spanish online. After trying the free lessons we purchased the
program. It is so easy! Wish we had found it before getting the R/S. |
I bought the Spanish R/S (the Latin American version- they also offer a european version) last year. Didn't work well for me for pretty much the same
reasons as the other posters said. JMHO though.
If I were to try R/S again- I would use the cheaper on-line version before investing more in the CD version though.
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Thats good info.
I am tired of Leslie always asking "what did he say?"
I mentioned that I was going to buy RS so she could learn and I could expand my vocabulary.
All you have to go on is the ad hype on stuff like this.
Glad to get consumer input.
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ckiefer
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iTunes has some "free" podcasts for learning spanish called coffee break spanish. We have 76 podcasts to date. We also have the Berlitz Learning
System for Spanish which is pretty fun.
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capt. mike
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visual link!! thx for the tip!
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bajabif
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you can also just take rosetta stone online. i thought it was easy, not boring, and a pretty good price
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I tried the link but was received "Sorry, we did not find results for "www.spanishprogams.com""
www.spanishprogams.com
is there a different link?
I did find VisualLinkSpanish.com is this the same
thanks in advance
[Edited on 1-2-2009 by AcuDoc]
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There are two programs that are very effective and reasonable in price for conversational spanish.
http://www.learningspanishlikecrazy.com
and
http://www.rocketspanish.com
[Edited on 1-2-2009 by Pescador]
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CD courses
I have had Pimsler's leasons for a couple of years now. I burned up up my first set over playing them on my CD player. Have a new 14 lesson set and
love it. Have it on my Zune.. The best. Got a copy of "speaking Spanish Like Crazy" for my last drive to Loreto to listen to, and a little bit
differnet. Some differnet angles but I have had Pimsler's for a while and was ready to catch on to it..... Pimsler's...... tops.
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Gaucho
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Thanks for the input everybody. R/S is sending me a free cd to try out before I committ. I'll look into the other options as well.
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I used Rosetta Stone when I was first learning Spanish. I consider it the best. Its fun to use, so you will actually spend the time practicing. It
uses the 'imersion approach' so you're learning spanish as its spoken instead of wasting time conjugating verbs.
Ebay has good prices for RS.
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I have the Rosetta Stone and I like it however like others have said there are some issues, sometimes I don't know what the picture is trying to
portray which creates confusion. Also the computer evaluation of how well you are pronouncing the words, even on easy, can be very frustrating the
mexicians can understand me but the program doesn't. But I do think for learning the basics irt has worked well for me.
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hey Martin -
| Quote: | Originally posted by msawin
I have had Pimsler's leasons for a couple of years now. I burned up up my first set over playing them on my CD player. Have a new 14 lesson set and
love it. Have it on my Zune.. The best. Got a copy of "speaking Spanish Like Crazy" for my last drive to Loreto to listen to, and a little bit
differnet. Some differnet angles but I have had Pimsler's for a while and was ready to catch on to it..... Pimsler's...... tops.
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is Pimsler's the one the foreign service uses? and other gov't branches that need quick study and results?
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tjBill
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| Quote: | Originally posted by capt. mike
is Pimsler's the one the foreign service uses? and other gov't branches that need quick study and results? |
No, Pimsler is a special approach developed by Paul Pimsleur, like the Rosetta Stone and the foreign service its based on actually speaking the
language rather studying grammer rules.
The foreign service courses are sold by lots of publishers including Barons.
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Are learning spanish like crazy or rocketspanish audio-only programs? I would prefer not to use a method that forces you to sit at a computer to
learn.
Also, I took three years of spanish in high school and seem to have retained alot of it. I've also augmented this with practical use in Mexico. Where
I am deficient is in vocabulary (nouns, verbs, adjectives) and remembering verb tenses beyond present and past tense. My pronunciation is fine.
Any recommendations on which one?
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Many Foreign Service tapes can be downloaded free at:
http://www.fsi-language-courses.com/
Click on Spanish on the left.
Some of them are pretty slow - be patient.
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Try livemocha.com...itīs fun, itīs good, and itīs free!
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