Anyone ever use....

haleighallen
haleighallen Posts: 209 Member
Has anyone ever tried using Rosetta Stone before? If so, how did you like it? Did it work well for you? I know this isn't exactly a "health" related question but none of my friends on facebook have ever tried it and I didn't know who else to ask :)

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  • haleighallen
    haleighallen Posts: 209 Member
    Bump bump bump :)
  • haleighallen
    haleighallen Posts: 209 Member
    Aww man :(
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    i never used it but I learnt conversational cantonese from pimsleur and a cantonese girl. waking up next someone who speaks it works wonders.

    what are you trying to learn?
  • melaniecheeks
    melaniecheeks Posts: 6,349 Member
    Is it a book? A DVD? An online course? For which language(s)?
  • randomtai
    randomtai Posts: 9,003 Member
    I want to try it to learn Cantonese.
  • Kyrosh
    Kyrosh Posts: 238
    One on my friends uses it in Spanish and she says it's amazing!!
  • ihateroses
    ihateroses Posts: 893 Member
    If you want to get a free head start on vocab try www.memrise.com . I'm learning Korean, Japanese, and Spanish on it. Once you get a good vocab base its easier to learn sentence structure.
  • I learned it to speak French. It's a pretty good program. I speak Spanish much better only because I use it daily.
  • nikilis
    nikilis Posts: 2,305 Member
    If you want to get a free head start on vocab try www.memrise.com . I'm learning Korean, Japanese, and Spanish on it. Once you get a good vocab base its easier to learn sentence structure.

    wow. you are amazing. i need more vocab! <3
  • grizzlymaze
    grizzlymaze Posts: 185 Member
    I learned alot of German from hanging around the amish. They would talk crap about you to your face but in German. I began to pick up on it and than would return the favor. You should have seen the looks on their faces. PRICELESS!
  • haleighallen
    haleighallen Posts: 209 Member
    I want to use it to learn to speak more spanish. I work as a bartender in a mexican restaurant and i have picked up a good amount of the language but i want to increase my vocabulary and learn sentence structure so i can become fluent and go out to the spanish clubs with my latino friends :p
  • SeaChele77
    SeaChele77 Posts: 1,103 Member
    Yes I think it would've worked better if I was more consistent with it and stuck with one language at a ttime. I was trying to learn 2.... very difficult
  • mrpurdy
    mrpurdy Posts: 262 Member
    One more vote for Pimsleur!
  • KerrieJane86
    KerrieJane86 Posts: 75 Member
    I tried it... for French, it never liked my pronunciation (but neither did my sister). I gave up many times.
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    old thread I see but I bought one 2 years ago and am finally installing it NOW. wish me luck (oh, Italian!)
  • blah2989
    blah2989 Posts: 338 Member
    I want to get that n see. Right now I know a bunch of little phrases in like 4 languages other than english. " Ichi beeru, kudosai!" ( one beer please - japanese) "Gem formage" ( I like cheese) Beard! ( ****) both french. Then I can read Mandarin a little from north china. I can write chicken and lemon. Say a few words like nuo ( beef) su lao dai ( plastic bag) sheh sheh ( pronounced shh- eh, shh eh) it means thankyou- but a more gracious thank you. Shrey ( water) and a few others I know a little spanish. Enough to take an order ( food order) but I can understand more than I speak. I speak very very basic spanish. ( proper spanish not mexican street spanish lol- I would get laughed at) But Id really love to learn another language or two. Preferably mandarin, spanish, and japanese. I hear japanese is an easier language than mandarin as far as annunciation goes.
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    on second lesson... loving it...
  • Kanzaki3
    Kanzaki3 Posts: 656 Member
    One more vote for Pimsleur!
    I remember using Pimsleur a long time ago. It was great!
  • jerber160
    jerber160 Posts: 2,607 Member
    now that I'm using it, I have to wonder why people spend time on candy crush...