Rosetta Stone takes pride in its once unique approach to let you learn a language like a small child would: by repetition, imitation, variation - with no translation or explanation whatsoever.
According to who you ask, Rosetta Stone either “remains the best premium software for building a foundation in a foreign language” (the UK’s PCMag) or is “the biggest scam ever!!!” (several semi-anonymous online commentators). The former CD-ROM software suite has progressed reasonably well into the online age but it is no longer the only game in town, which makes its steep prices and lack of stripped-down free versions seem either confidently classy or a bit behind the times. Rosetta Stone, named after an ancient relic with multilingual writing on it, has been there since before the internet. Since I shy away from the commitment of joining another class, I set out on a journey: To find the best app or online resource to get me from “that’s yummy!” to talk-show-ready without leaving my couch. I am of the conservative mindset that everyone should be moderately proficient in the language of the country they live in, or at the very least try their best. I expected my language skills to improve exponentially on their own after relocating here. Mine wasn’t the most demanding school and I was never top of the class, but at least one night a week I was forced to say more than ‘excuse me’ and ‘thank you’ in Japanese. When I still lived in Germany, I took regular lessons. Since I moved to Japan five years ago, my Japanese has been in decline.
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