Rosetta Stone Spanish Cd

[Melia Hazinski]

ihave tried many different ways to learn spanish and will be taking a course next year, maybe what i want to know is does loretta stone really work ? the tv always is saying how amazing it is and i don't have time to waste, i would like to learn spanish as soon as possible.what works the best?

I used VisualLink spanish progam to start a couple of years ago. It was good for beginning. Then I used Michel Thomas CDs which I really like and continue to use. I have Rosetta and find it somewhat boring however, it is effective because it is so repetitive. Now I am in my third semester of Spanish at a community college--taught by a native Argentine--and I am learning much more quickly. (I was able to skip the second semester with the help of a LOT of self-study using materials from this site and from numerous grammer books.) I also us Lomas TV to help with getting better at hearing it spoken naturally and for building vocabulary. Next year I hope to take a few weeks and do an immersion course somewhere in Mexico or Latin America. I find that READING helps a lot too. And finally, I am helping a native speaker learn English (ESL) and he helps me some with Spanish. This is a long-winded way of saying, use multiple resources. No one resource will magically work alone, in my opinion. Time and commitment are also required.

Hi Spanishgirl, I've tried a few of the programs out there.. and Rosetta Stone gave me the feeling that Marianne so aptly described. They have a huge marketing budget, and suck people in all the time.

Their approach is flawed, the program is boring (and cheap, they do the same stuff for every language), and you don't even get the basics when it comes to learning grammar. My advice is to try something else.

The two programs I used a few years ago was "Spanish with Michel Thomas" and "Pimsleur Spanish". The first one uses a good approach with regards to grammar, though you'll see the shortcomings after a while, but it's still a nice intro - and the second one I still recommend to anyone, but buy a basic grammar book as an additional tool.

I think that they both can be useful tools but will not, in themselves, get youwhere you want to go with the language. Having a good Spanish-Spanish dictionary and thesaurus as well as a good Spanish-Spanish grammar book is also probably a good bet, and echoing what Lazarus has already said, to really get the most out of learning, you are going to have to find someone (a native speaker) to talk with and listen to.

Yes,It is really working.I absolutely love the Rosetta Stone language learning software. Currrently I am learning Spanish as I travel to Mexico and South America frequently. I cannot wait for next Rosetta Stone purchase. I want to learn Italian. Thank you Rosetta Stone. I got the software at

My wife bought me Rosetta Stone for Christmas . . I've gotten more out of Berlitz listening to it in my pickup. I've gotten more out of this web site than both of them combined so that sums up my opinion.

Agree Rosetta Stone is all marketing. If people knew that it was only a flashcard based method that teaches vocabulary but NO conversational skills, the company would go bankrupt. It's really worthless if you don't already know the basics of the language. Try Pimsleur, which is really the best method for a beginner. Michel Thomas comes close but learning a non-native accent is a disadvantage imo. Your ear gets used to hearing a foreign speaker speaking the language so when you actually encounter a real native speaker, it gets really confusing. That's my experience anyway. But yeah, Rosetta gets the big thumbs down.

Go through the lessons at this website. Each lesson has a video and several flashcard/listen exercises. The exercises seem very like Rosetta Stone's course (from what I could tell by looking at the jacket on the software).

yes rosetta stone really works it is the best computer teacher for spanish online and on the cds to order if you order them it will be kindof expensive for it or if you buy it at a store but trust me its all worth it and also there is the funny video series that you can order to learn spanish its called quak its also very well to order all of the spanish teachers i know have quak and rosetta stone and we mostly learn out of that

"Spanish with Michel Thomas" is amazing at getting you to start creating sentences almost immediately BUT there is no book with it; it is all listening and repeating. He also does French, Italian and German.

Like any other of these methods, it might work more or less... but it will never be a substitute for a proper teacher and living in a place where the target language is spoken, so don't expect a miracle.

Right now all I know in Spanish is how to ask if there is any pain, did they go to the bathroom, or how to say a few numbers in Spanish. I really want to learn enough to carry on a bit of a conversation with them at least.

Check with your local library--many of them offer language learning programs (including Rosetta Stone) that library cardholders can access for free, either in the actual library or through the library website/virtual collections.

Luckily, language is not a problem for me. I speak four languages fluently. (English, Spanish, Hangul and Russian). I am looking to learn Madarin next. Languages have never been a problem for me. I have a knack for them like some people have a knack for math.

great thread! i never heard of rosetta stone, but i will certainly look into it after this. i've always wanted to learn spanish because as a medical assistant, it's difficult to get a job if you aren't bi-lingual. i'm thinking it would be beneficial as a nurse.

In my experience, you get out of those programs what you put into them. The best way to learn whether you take a course through a bookstore-bought program or through a university/college is to actually USE it. You will do this at work because you have many spanish-speaking patients. Having both taken high school and college spanish courses as well as purchased MANY books to continue to learn on my own, here is my personal advice:

Take a college course to learn the basics. Not just the conversational hi, bye, how are you, but also verb conjugation, sentence structure, etc. THEN, purchase medical-specific books to broaden your vocabulary. I think that is the way to be best disciplined when starting out... you will remember the basics, and you will be able to read and say anything, even if you don't know what it means!

I took 3 yrs of highschool Spanish and a semester in college. By then I still knew enough to get in trouble but not be able to get back out. Once I had the basics, the best thing for my learning was being out there in it, day in and day out, in a sink/swim situation. I did an internship working with Hispanic migrant farmworkers one summer. I met my dh there (he's Mexican). Between the internship and my on-the-job Spanish and my Mexican family, that has helped me far more than formal classes. Formal classes are just that - formal. They don't teach you how to carry on a conversation in the real world...at least mine didn't.

I've tried a few different Spanish programs, including Rosetta Stone. I didn't find that it was very helpful because the vocabulary was too general. I don't need to know how to say "The boy is under the airplane." I need to be able to say things more specific to nursing.

I found two very good products for improving my Spanish communication. The first is a set called Spanish for Health Care (Spanish at work series) by Patricia Rush and Patricia Houston. The set I got came with a text, a workbook, and some great audio cd's. I used the cd's the most.

3a8082e126