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Where to buy. Vocabulary and grammar are integrated systematically, leading to everyday proficiency. This comprehensive program provides up to hours of mastery instruction in listening comprehension, reading, writing, and speaking. Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists or drills. Previews, exercises, and tests accompany every lesson, and there are automated tutorials throughout the program.

Graphical speech recognition displays your voiceprint and compares it with the native speaker to help improve your pronunciation. Good program for memorizing and reviewing , May 28, Every program has some advantages and disadvantages, strengths and weaknesses, so I have found this program most useful for associating words with ideas - after all it does contain pictures. The complete beginner in Chinese may initially make good progress, but then get stuck because the program doesn't contain any grammatical explanations.

I have found Pimsleur Chinese better for developing conversational proficiency. Ultimate Mandarin Chinese book and CDs would provide great addition to new learning because that course fills in the gap which deals with some essential grammar that takes out confusion.

A little bit of understanding can greatly accelerate one's progress with Chinese. Rosetta Stone Chinese has only "pinyin", so if you wish to learn how to read and write Chinese, you'll have to get some other book. I do think that Rosetta Stone programs could be greatly improved with at least some basic grammatical explanations.

For Chinese, it would also be nice, if the Chinese characters were provided. Nevertheless, in spite of all the missing elements that would be very helpful, I have still found this program very helpful for learning Chinese. Excellent approach, but needs adaptation for Chinese , June 7, I will say up front that I have not used this entire CD.

I have only done the first lesson from the program, which I downloaded for free from the RosettaStone. The learning style presented in the Rosetta Stone series really is as good as they say it is. I like the direct presentation of the Chinese and the concept, without English text explaining the grammar, usage, and so on. I also like the amount of repetition that is built into the exercises. Somehow that approach seems to place the language deeper into your brain, if that makes sense.

The "game" like style is also fun. While I was working with it, my one year old son was learning English, and it was quite clear to me that the Rosetta Stone style really is just like a child's first language acquisition. In fact, I felt that working with the program helped me to understand and help my child with his English learning process.

Although I like this learning style, I think it would be an improvement if there were an accompanying guide showing the meanings in English, Chinese characters, and pinyin. A guide would also come in handy if you wanted to work separately with a tutor.

Then you could show the tutor a list of phrases and sentances you know so they could practice them with you. For what you pay for this software, it would be nice. I do have one major complaint about the program - it is not adapted to Chinese. It also has immediate translations and a lot of other teaching methods that I find very good. Good with other resources, but can't stand on its own , January 19, I've been using a number of different language software programs as research for a thesis.

I have lived in Japan and I had studied Japanese for a number of years before I came across this software. It was my first time studying German and Arabic. My biggest problem with Rosetta Stone software comes from the complete lack of any explanation of the basics of the target language. The theory here is that you will learn the language as a child does by seeing pictures, hearing the words and making the connection.

This idea in practice can be a lot of fun and you should be able to pick up some vocabulary and sentence structures in a very short time as long as the language uses an English alphabet.

However, without a few basic pointers on the writing systems of languages like Japanese and Arabic, good luck figuring anything out. For example, if you did not know that Arabic is written and read from right to left with the letters joined together as in cursive English, you stand little hope of ever being able to break words and phrases down into the 28 Arabic alphabet's characters. It wasn't until I went to another source outside the Rosetta Stone software that I realised my massive error in trying to decipher the most basic script.

This could have easily been avoided had the software offered a few pages of explanation, or even just the alphabet itself spelled out with English letter approximate equivalents and an arrow pointing from right to left. And Japanese? The same problem times 3 the number of written character styles in Japanese and just as confusing.

Final review then? The Rosetta Stone software by itself can be quite useful as long as you are after listening and speaking skills only AND you don't think you'll ever need to see and read the word as you hear it. However, if you were hoping to learn reading and writing in a target language that uses a writing system other than the English alphabet, be prepared to go hunting for additional resources as a primer before you start banging your head against this Stone.

After an hour or so of basic tutorial from an Arabic alphabet website, I got back on track with Rosetta, but I was quite annoyed that I ever had to make that extra journey in the first place.

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