Rosetta Stone
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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.
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.
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.
Ive heard good thinga about Babbel and Rosetta Stone.
Apart from that, Rosetta Stone is a mid-tier app that is more expensive and lower quality than most of its rivals.
I happened to see that my library offered Mango, Rocket, and Rosetta Stone access.
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.
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.
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