Rosetta Stone Version 3: Spanish (Latin America) Level 1, 2 & 3 Set with Audio Companion
 | Average Customer Rating: Recommend Rosetta Stone Personal Edition contains everything you need to start learning a language. It's built around our award-winning Rosetta Stone curriculum, which has been adopted by organizations around the world including the U.S. Army, NASA, major corporations such as Deutsche Telecom, IKEA, Royal Dutch Shell, and over 10,000 schools worldwide--and is available in 31 languages spoken by over 90% of the world's population. The comprehensive language-learning solution that fits… Product details and pricing info |
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77 Customer Reviews Posted
- Enjoyable Program of Learning Spanish
- Rosetta Stone represents an easy and fun process of relating words and speech to images....without any English translation at all. Learning Spanish is fast, effective and as fun as playing a game but, you are also learning the language at the same time!
It is the same way you learned your language as a child.
Calling it "Dynamic Immersion" with four dynamic strategies, which are: intuition, interactivity, instruction and images.
All aspects of learning the language is by simple activities. Beginning with the nouns, verbs and other basics.
Pronunciation, through speech analysis and recognition. Using repetition and correction until the pronunciation of words and phrases are perfected. There is even an advanced speech analysis graph that you can compare your speech to the "native speaker". The speech recognition software is an outstanding accomplishment.
I started with level 1 course "speaking and listening" and I was off learning Spanish. Under each level there are many "units" to practice and learn. There are 3 levels altogether to work through. After completing the course work there are 3 levels of audio companion (4 cd's each level) to help you practice what you have learned in Rosetta Stone version 3 software.
Through The Rosetta Stone, learning a new language is not a heavy task. Anyone can and will learn just by following the program.
I highly recommend this for one who needs to learn Spanish in a short amount of time. - 2008-08-20, 3 of 3 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Absolutely awesome!
- First, because a lot of reviewers here seem to have some background in Spanish, I want to mention my own experience with this language. Basically, I have next to none!
I mean, as an American, I've of course encountered words like "grande" and "hombre," but I've had almost no Spanish instruction in my life. (I did have a semester of Spanish in sixth grade, but I am 99.9 percent sure the instructor didn't actually speak Spanish, and I certainly didn't learn anything. Plus, that was two decades ago.)
I'm still working on Level 1 of this program, because I'm the mom of a very busy toddler and I also don't want to go so fast that none of what I'm learning "sticks." But so far, I am absolutely in love with the Rosetta Stone program.
The software (which I run on a Macbook, with absolutely no problems) is very intuitive and easy to use. There's almost no English -- just pictures and Spanish words, phrases and sentences that you quickly come to associate with one another. For example, the software says, "Es rojo" and you select the picture of the red object, as opposed to the blue or green or yellow one. It's almost like being in Latin America and having a very patient Spanish-speaking friend point out everything you see, again and again and again, until you learn to associate the word and the concept or object.
This method works surprisingly well for verbs and other grammatical constructions, I've found. I was really amazed at how quickly I picked up things like subject/verb agreement just from the photos and from repetition.
There is definitely a lot of repetition. Some people may find this frustrating, especially if they pick up on something very quickly and then remember it well, but it's worked well for me. I tend to grasp a concept very fast and then forget it almost immediately. But working through this program slowly seems to really be pounding Spanish into my head.
The audio companions, while probably not strictly necessary, are nice. I listen to them while I'm driving. They're mostly of the "listen and repeat" variety -- at least the ones I've encountered so far are -- and it helps me to try to visualize what the speaker is talking about, as a way of refreshing what I've learned. - 2008-08-20, 0 of 0 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Works Well
- Have Spanish version 3 level 1,2&3 installed on a Vista laptop and it works well. The program uses repetition of words matched to pictures to reinforce learning. I like the feature of being able to speak into the system to test your accent. The software will let you know if your accent matches what it believes is correct. The program starts off easy but quickly becomes harder as you move through the different lessons. The key thing to remember is that learning any language takes time and a lot of work. To think that you are just going to go through the program without a lot of effort and learn a language would be incorrect.
The program is very expensive but seems to work well and if you are interested in learning another language it is a valid option. - 2008-08-20, 3 of 4 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- I'm Learning Spanish, I Really Am
- Rosetta Stone calls their language method Dynamic Immersion. Vocabulary is introduced to you through pictures and word associations and the grammar is introduced the same way along with more pictures. The program also works on your pronunciation skills with their system of speech recognition. You listen to words and phrases and write them down or practice staying them. The program also focuses on sounds common to Spanish, further improving how you sound when you speak.
The program is very easy to use and it's very intuitive. I had two semesters of Spanish in high school and though I've only been using Rosetta stone for a month, I feel like I've already surpassed what I learned there. I like the way the program shows you four images at once and lets you figure out which picture goes with what you're hearing. It's pretty easy and it seems to burn the words and phrases into your memory.
If I stick with this program, and I plan to, then I imagine I'll be speaking Spanish in record time and wouldn't that be something if Rosetta Stone succeeded where my high school failed. - 2008-08-17, 4 of 5 people found this review helpful, Rated:
- Dynamic Immersion is Working for Me
- I've been using Rosetta Stone for about a month now and I have to say that it really does simplify learning a language. Actually, it teaches you like you learned your crib language. Well, not quite, but it tries, sort of.
There are no English words in these lessons, you learn your new language by associating words in your new language you don't know (yet) with photos of things you know. The new word for run with the spoken phrase, pictured with a boy running for example.
You learn through Rosetta Stone's speech recognition system. You work on reading and pronouncing your new words and you get feedback immediately, which helps to make the new language sink in.
Rosetta Stone calls their learning method Dynamic Immersion and it seems to work. At least it's working for me, in two languages. - 2008-08-17, 5 of 6 people found this review helpful, Rated:
