Rosetta Stone

Yadacity recently got a chance to try out the popular language learning program Rosetta Stone. Here’s our brief review on Rosetta Stone’s Spanish for Latin America.

The program is quite user friendly and teaches the user with their trademark Dynamic Immersion™ method which pairs words spoken by native speakers with vivid, real-life imagery to recreate the natural way you learned your first language.

When you first start using it, it seems a bit easy (maybe because basic Spanish words are so ingrained in our culture now, that it doesn’t seem foreign anymore) but once you get started it starts to get more challenging. The start of the program uses pictures and spoken words with text, you then select the picture that goes with the words. SEEMS EASY ENOUGH… Which is exactly the point of Rosetta Stone, they want you to learn it the way you learned your first language when you were a baby – by repeated pattern recognition.

As you advance in the program they integrate writing, grammar and pronunciation as well as advancing words into phrases then full sentences and concludes each unit with an interactive “milestone” chapter where the user was given a chance to have a conversation using the words and phrases taught in the chapter which soon became one of my favorite features.
Overall I found that the program was designed well kept me engaged. It gave me a good grasp on the language but as with most language learning programs the only real way to utilize and improve on the skills that you learn is to immerse yourself into the culture that you are attempting to learn.

Find out if Rosetta Stone is right for you at http://www.rosettastone.com/.

Yada City has spoken. Happy Obama years to come!