I just got the Rosetta Stone language program

[michaels]

For Spanish, has anyone here used these or know anyone who has?

 

[MichaelD]

I'm curious to see what your experience with it is. I mulled over the idea of getting one of their courses; but the $250 asking price per course (two, in my case) was a little steep for me.

They are supposed to be the best course out there...short of actually learning the language from someone who speaks it properly. Castillian (sp?) Spanish vs. Texican for example.

 

[michaels]

Got aim?

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: michaels
Got aim?

No, sorry. IM programs make me nervous from an IA standpoint. Thanks though. Good luck w/the course.

 

[Rip the Jacker]

I like the Pimsleur series...

 

[Gunslinger08]

The company that makes it is based out of Harrisonburg, VA, the town I attended college in. Their building is awfully small (basically a brick house) for such a well known business.

 

[notfred]

Originally posted by: MichaelD

Originally posted by: michaels
Got aim?

No, sorry. IM programs make me nervous from an IA standpoint. Thanks though. Good luck w/the course.

WTF is IA and why do IM programs make you nervous?

 

[Lazy8s]

I really thought of getting it for french. I am taking 2 years worth in college but I'd like to know more than I do. nfortunately it's waaaaaaay too expensive. Tell us how it is please!

 

[Phoenix15]

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm curious to see what your experience with it is. I mulled over the idea of getting one of their courses; but the $250 asking price per course (two, in my case) was a little steep for me.

They are supposed to be the best course out there...short of actually learning the language from someone who speaks it properly. Castillian (sp?) Spanish vs. Texican for example.

I'm in the same boat. For $250 I can hire 5 mexicans to hang around my house all day untill I just absorb the language!

 

[Hammerhead]

Speak spanish by spelling SOCKS. (Eso Si Ques Es)

 

[z0mb13]

looking to get some feedback as well...

<-- want to learn mandarin

 

[aswedc]

It's awesome. Completely effortless.

 

[Lazy8s]

Originally posted by: Phoenix15

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm curious to see what your experience with it is. I mulled over the idea of getting one of their courses; but the $250 asking price per course (two, in my case) was a little steep for me.

They are supposed to be the best course out there...short of actually learning the language from someone who speaks it properly. Castillian (sp?) Spanish vs. Texican for example.

I'm in the same boat. For $250 I can hire 5 mexicans to hang around my house all day untill I just absorb the language!

I took spanish in highschool and befriended the spanish foreign student in my CS department and trust me mexican and spanish are 2 totally different languages. It's like calling ebonics english.

 

[purbeast0]

I have used the spanish 1 and 2 ones. they are pretty cool but some of the stuff you can learn pretty easily through process of elimination on some of the lessons.

for instance, they will have 4 pictures and a woman will speak a word in spanish. then you click on the picture corresponing to the word or sentence she just said.

then the next one will be the 4 same pictures, but in a different ordering, and the woman will say another word or sentence.

it happens 4 times in a row like that w/the same 4 pictures, and usually the pictures are all very similiar, like 4 pictures - 1 white boy, 1 black boy, 1 white girl, 1 black girl. those types of pictures.

but then again i haven't used it too much.

 

[Hammerhead]

Originally posted by: Lazy8s

Originally posted by: Phoenix15

Originally posted by: MichaelD
I'm curious to see what your experience with it is. I mulled over the idea of getting one of their courses; but the $250 asking price per course (two, in my case) was a little steep for me.

They are supposed to be the best course out there...short of actually learning the language from someone who speaks it properly. Castillian (sp?) Spanish vs. Texican for example.

I'm in the same boat. For $250 I can hire 5 mexicans to hang around my house all day untill I just absorb the language!

I took spanish in highschool and befriended the spanish foreign student in my CS department and trust me mexican and spanish are 2 totally different languages. It's like calling ebonics english.

So, which one was the ebonics version? Spanish or Mexican?

 

[dr150]

Try Michel Thomas (language trainer to the stars). Universally regarded as the most effective way to learn languages....


http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/007138...1/103-4212937-7323837?%5Fencoding=UTF8

 

[aswedc]

Originally posted by: purbeast0
I have used the spanish 1 and 2 ones. they are pretty cool but some of the stuff you can learn pretty easily through process of elimination on some of the lessons.

for instance, they will have 4 pictures and a woman will speak a word in spanish. then you click on the picture corresponing to the word or sentence she just said.

then the next one will be the 4 same pictures, but in a different ordering, and the woman will say another word or sentence.

it happens 4 times in a row like that w/the same 4 pictures, and usually the pictures are all very similiar, like 4 pictures - 1 white boy, 1 black boy, 1 white girl, 1 black girl. those types of pictures.

but then again i haven't used it too much.

Uh, that's the whole point. There's no memorization. You pick up all vocabulary and grammer through deduction, and each section builds on the last.

 

[mrkun]

Just listen to the radio in Spanish: Cadena SER, Cadena COPE. Those Madrileños talk quite fast, so it can be kind of hard to keep up at times.

Also, be careful when listening to Spanish stations in the U.S. because it's not uncommon for them to use Spanglish terms.