How good is Rosetta stone. I am considering using it to learn polish, but at £200 for each level, im dubious?
Sunday, May 16th, 2010 at
3:30 am
I got a few questions
1 Is it easy to use?
2 Will it teach me everything I need to know to hold a decent conversation with a group of polish speakers?
3 Will it just teach me pronunciations, or does it do spelling, grammar and pronunciations?
4 Is it accurate? I have heard of people who have used Rosetta Stone to learn a language before, and it teaching them wrong words
Thanks a bunch, and any other information would be AWSOME!
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In 2008 the University of Maryland was commissioned to evaluate for the USA government the Rosetta Stone language software. It was evaluated as not at all effective in teaching a language.
It seems that Rosetta Stone is best at marketing itself and because it is so expensive people think it must be superior. It is not. It is simply marketed extremely well for us to think that it is excellent software. Beware.
Details here
http://www.casl.umd.edu/node/907
Better and lower cost alternative to consider is Byki. I use it for Arabic and it is easy and fun to use. Polish is one of 70 languages on offer with Byki. Download free trial and get started.
http://www.byki.com/
Hope this helps.
It is amazing! Rosetta stone is extremely easy to use (I am learning Spanish) and you will be able to quickly pick up on the language. You will soon be able to have a conversation in Polish, and it does teach pronunciations, spelling and grammar. There are so many different "settings" per se, so you can hear, see, spell, speak and type. It is very accurate, but it depends on what language you are using. I know Spanish is different in Spain and Latin America, so that is the only problem. I think it would be the easiest way for you to learn Polish