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Rosetta Stone

Course Resource · Language learning · 63 mentions · 8 subreddits · discussed in r/languagelearning, r/duolingo, r/ChineseLanguage, r/German

Reddit take

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Pros

  • Ive heard good thinga about Babbel and Rosetta Stone.
  • I happened to see that my library offered Mango, Rocket, and Rosetta Stone access.
  • other popular paid ones are Babbel, Pimslier and Rosetta Stone.
  • the bulk of my portuguese knowledge comes from duolingo, rosetta stone, portuguese music/tv/films, and speaking spanish at the C1 level.
  • Yes, they all help. At a certain point you will reach a limit and require more specialized resources in order to advance, but most people never get that far (even in their own native language).

Cons

  • If your ONLY two sources are Duolingo and Rosetta Stone, yeah, that's not going to be very efficient, and it's not very natural.
  • I remember trying a copy of Rosetta Stone more than a decade ago where I found out that the courses are basically translations of one another. ... Totally irrelevant to the culture whatsoever, I just find it disrespectful that the compan...
  • Before I settled on that I tried out Rosetta Stone and Babbel and was quite disappointed by how sparse the content was
  • It's the Rostta Stone logo, a different language learning company.
  • I remember playing around with a Rosetta Stone software when I was like 6 and finding this out and being appalled.

Sentiment

16 positive (25%) · 27 mixed (43%) · 20 negative (32%)

Trust + time weighted score: -12% · raw score -6%

What redditors said (10 of 63)

If your ONLY two sources are Duolingo and Rosetta Stone, yeah, that's not going to be very efficient, and it's not very natural.
negative · u/T****1 · r/French · comment · Jan 30, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I remember trying a copy of Rosetta Stone more than a decade ago where I found out that the courses are basically translations of one another. ... Totally irrelevant to the culture whatsoever, I just find it disrespectful that the company doesn’t take into account the local idiosyncrasies that are relevant to each particular language.
negative · u/k****s · r/languagelearning · comment · Nov 30, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Before I settled on that I tried out Rosetta Stone and Babbel and was quite disappointed by how sparse the content was
negative · u/T****e · r/duolingo · comment · Aug 26, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
It's the Rostta Stone logo, a different language learning company.
mixed · u/M****s · r/duolingo · comment · Feb 10, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I remember playing around with a Rosetta Stone software when I was like 6 and finding this out and being appalled.
mixed · u/p****y · r/ChineseLanguage · comment · Dec 11, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Ive heard good thinga about Babbel and Rosetta Stone.
positive · u/d****e · r/duolingo · comment · Aug 24, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Apart from that, Rosetta Stone is a mid-tier app that is more expensive and lower quality than most of its rivals.
negative · u/K****2 · r/languagelearning · comment · Nov 28, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
I happened to see that my library offered Mango, Rocket, and Rosetta Stone access.
positive · u/j****8 · r/languagelearning · comment · Jan 21, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
Parent context: Yeah but then you have to use Rosetta Stone. Completely flavourless stock photos are like the next worst thing too. Reply: Yeah but then you have to use Rosetta Stone. Completely flavourless stock photos are like the next worst thing too.
negative · u/N****g · r/languagelearning · comment · Aug 12, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗
My opinion is that it is not worth any mount of money. Even if they gave it to me and handed me a stack of cash, I would not use it.
negative · u/I****n · r/languagelearning · comment · Nov 29, 2025 · open on Reddit ↗

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