Which Italian language software should I buy?
Thanks everyone. Not that anybody’s still reading this far down, but for the benefit of future thread archeologists. I hadn’t come across Pimsleur because I was searching for software and it didn’t come up, but they are indeed highly recommended. I think what I’m going to end up doing is getting her some software and either buying these or checking them out from our local library, which does indeed have a few copies, as an adjunct. As for Rosetta Stone vs. Tell Me More, I managed to find the online demos for both of them and Rosetta Stone looked like the clear winner to me. I found Tell Me More awkward (icky flash application) and far, far less intuitive to use. But this is all based just on a few minutes with the demos by someone who got all his Italian from gangster films. Rosetta appears to have its strengths and weaknesses. It looks really good at building up basic vocabulary and “survival usage” in a really intuitive way that seems like it should just wire the new language right i
