Has anyone used Rosetta Stone to learn a new language?

[Maisie]

I did really well at French in school (long time ago now!) and I would love to take it up again.

Does anyone have any experience of learning with Rosetta Stone?

 

[Indylady]

I''ve used Pimsleur and I thought it was alright. It will certainly help re-jog your memory since you have already taken it before.

 

[LadyBlue]

I have rosetta stone for english, french, chinese and spanish. The first 6 months I was studing a lot. I learned some chinese, I refreshed my french and my DH started studing spanish. The only problem is that after 6 months we lost interest and I have not used it for about a year. Now my DH is taking spanish classes at school.

It''s really good if you want to learn. You just need to be constant.

 

[Lestat]

I''ve tried both Rosetta Stone and the Pimsleur series, I found that Pimsleur made much more sense and I retained much more information. Rosetta Stone quickly got boring for me with it''s "show a picture, repeat the word" approach, while Pimsleur was quite interesting. The fact that because Pimsleur is mostly audio-based means you can do a lesson in your car, or on the bus, anywhere you have your mp3 player or stereo. I like the way Pimsleur starts with a complete conversation spoken by naitive speakers of the language, and then breaks it down so you can learn each part. I followed their advice and did only 1 lesson per day, and I did the full Hindi course. It''s been over a year now, and I can still remember it quite well even though I don''t use Hindi in my day-to-day routine.

 

[Maisie]

I will be committed because I really want to learn. I loved speaking french when I was younger. It seemed to come very naturally to me. I bet my ancestors were french - I am a neighbour of France after all

I will check out Pimsleur too.

Thanks everyone!