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Rosetta Stone Version 3: Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion | Extremely high quality product

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	Rosetta Stone Version 3: Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion Windows, Mac OS X \| Rosetta Stone, 2008 average customer review:based on 70 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

Absolutely a pleasure

I have studied French, German and Russian the traditional ways: in classrooms and using books and tapes. I decided to tackle Spanish with Rosetta Stone even though I find the cost a bit high. In less than two weeks I have learned more and am more comfortable speaking Spanish than after months of studying the other languages the traditional ways.

This is absolutely the best way to learn a language. It keeps your interest, as it simultaneously gives you aural, spoken, written and visual activities and imagery. I think Rosetta Stone needs to find a way to reduce the cost without compromising the quality of the program.

I don't want to mislead; the program alone won't give you complete well rounded language. You have to be motivated to use it and study it outside of the program, as is true in any learning method. But Rosetta Stone does indeed give the immediate immersion it advertises, making me feel comfortable actually using Spanish from the very beginning.

I am truly impressed with this program, but reluctant to shell out the big bucks for the next levels. Perhaps the increased advertising I see is an effort on Rosetta Stone's part to greatly increase sales volume which would allow them to bring down the price. I hope so, if they do I will be buying Levels 2 and 3.

The only problem I had with it was that I used my own headset at first, and through that, the program had trouble recognizing my voice. It kept telling me I say saying it wrong no matter how I tried to get it right. When I switched to the headset supplied with the program that problem was solved.

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Extremely high quality product

This is, without question, my longest term review. I have been using this software on and off for about two months. I really wanted to hold my review until I had finished the software. I wanted to be able to tell potential buyers how far this package, alone, had gotten me toward becoming an actual speaker of Spanish.

However, it has become clear to me i will never finish reviewing this software. i don't have a truly compelling reason to learn spanish and without that i find that my motivation has simply failed 2/3rds of the way into set 1 of 3. I suppose one could wonder if my boredom with the software is a sign of a weakness in its design. it is a question I've asked myself many times. Yes, the lessons are repetitive but they probably NEED to be.

So far the key strength of the program has been to teach me new spanish words. The program itself never translates anything into English so you wind up "thinking" in Spanish. This is what they mean by immersion. However, as i have gone through chapter after chapter i have found my ability to form sentences not improving at all. This has caused me to become discouraged. I really think that the people at Rosetta Stone should include some early confidence builders that drill making the user get whole sentences correct as much as they drill individual words and parts of words. I know that is jumping ahead but it would have helped to hold my interest.

If I do get back to it I will, of course, revise my review. I subtracted a star because the voice recognition portion of the program is not very good. Even when I bumped up the level on the voice recognition it still accepted as correct words I had intentionally pronounced incorrectly. It is, however, clear to me that this is a rigorous and serious software package that truly attempts to TEACH you to read AND write Spanish.

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Rosetta Stone a good way to learn a language

I have always been terrible at learning languages. Although I am still in the early stages of learning Spanish this method seems to be working very well.

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