How effective is the Rosetta Stone language program at teaching English?”
The slogan “The Fastest Way To Learn A Language. Guaranteed” may sound like a gimmicky promise, but none of the other “language lessons in a box” that you can get without joining the military, NASA, or the US Diplomatic core even remotely compares to this computer-based immersion program. The genius of the process involves using pictures to teach you how to listen, speak, read, and write, rather than teaching by translation, as virtually all other language programs do. So as you learn your new language you associate the new words, phrases, and grammatical structures directly with the pictures rather than mentally translating through your native language. Using this method, most people can use a Rosetta Stone program regardless of native tongue, cutting out a major limitation of the translation-based language programs. After a salesman at a mall gave me a demo for Vietnamese (which I’ve never studied before), I ordered a three-month subscription to the Russian program. I studied Russian
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