French Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]
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Software Reviews of French Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition [Old Version]
Customer Review: Great Software
Summary: 5 Stars
Rosetta Stone is a great vocabulary builder, but doesn't teach grammer or sentence structure. Good for beginners.Customer Review: Not Nice
Summary: 1 Stars
A month after I purchased this, Rosetta Stone comes out with a new release. Not nice.Customer Review: Good as an introduction, not much beyond that
Summary: 3 Stars
In the first lecture of his intensive course in Russian at Harvard, Professor Horace G. Lunt used to compare different methods of language learning. His comment on the "learn a language as a child does" was, "Do you really want to spend five years of your life learning to speak like a five-year old child?" His point was that an adult has several advantages in a language learning over a child. The two most important of these advantages are: (i) the adult already knows one language, and can compare the working of the second language with that and thus master the second easier; (ii) the adult can grasp grammatical concepts (which explain the structure of the language) and thus learn the structure of a language and how to manipulate it without having to infer this from an endless repetition of instances-- the adult can learn more efficiently.
These observations apply to the Rosetta Stone series. They are very good for teaching (relatively painlessly) basic vocabulary and the elementary working of a language. They don't go much beyond that. If you want to teach yourself how to manipulate a language and to produce responses automatically, the Foreign Service Institute courses, although a bit tedious, are far superior.
Customer Review: A good start, but not much more
Summary: 3 Stars
Rosetta Stone is decent product for learning the basics of French. It's advertising says it will allow you to learn a language the same way a child learns. That's true as far as it goes; the process introduces you to the basics to give you a familiarity with the language. I believe that someone who just uses the Rosetta Stone might be able to gain a basic proficiency. But it doesn't go beyond that.
For example, a child learning language can learn what she needs to be understood before she ever goes to school; the same applies to Rosetta Stone. However, at some point the child will to go to school to learn more. French in particular is a formal language and those who are interested will need to find some means of learning beyond the basics if they want to progress to a higher level.
The best thing about the program is the flexibility of modes - hearing, reading, seeing, speaking - which allows you to structure the process to best fit what works for you. The worst thing is it's too expensive for what you get, particularly when there is so much out there that is free.
Customer Review: Immersion Therapy
Summary: 4 Stars
This is an excellent immersion type language course. No English is used. It is picture based, and well designed. It lacks grammar instruction, however.