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Rosetta Stone Rip-Off

by Kyle
(Ohio)

I have been very interested in learning Japanese, so I bought a Rosetta Stone Level 1 and 2. After 10 minutes of using it instantly after getting the CD's through the mail, the quality was not pretty and it instantly went into words I had to guess. It went into sentences where I had no idea how to put grammar together. I am outraged. This is a scam... I learned better from Japanese for Dummies.

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WOW
by: Morris

after 10 minutes you have assessed the whole program as useless. I see a lot of people complaining that RS doesn't teach grammar when it actually does, just not the lock step rote drills you got in high school or colledge. If that is what you are looking for then you bought the wrong program to begin with. I cannot understand why a person buys something that describes itself as one thing then they complain when it's not something else.

Worthless
by: Anonymous

I don't know why it took Kyle of Ohio 10 minutes to figure out how worthless this program is. 5 minutes is more than enough. Weak content with silly stock photos combined with lots of student guessing is supposed to teach you a new language. I don't think so.

If you are supposed to retract your adult mind to that of a child to learn a language via their methodology, then maybe you won't feel you've been ripped off.

Rosetta gets an A for marketing and an F for inadequate delivery.

Rosetta Stone REALLY IS worthless
by: W.

The problem with Rosetta Stone is the horrible design and inability of the program to recognize very basic speech patterns. Quite often RS will cut you off in the middle of a sentence, giving you an error before you have even had a chance to practice a sentence.

The program is also terrible at recognizing speech patterns, even with the RS microphone. It will constantly give you errors for pronunciation regardless of how well you pronounce a word. Pull up the programs voice wave recognition, watch your wave file match the native speaker's nearly perfectly, get it correct, then go back into the actual training program and repeatedly be given error after error. It's idiotic and pointless.

@Morris
by: Anonymous

yea im sure you learned a lot in colleDge

I get why you might hate it, but it is you.
by: Anonymous

The only reason it would cut you off is because the mic settings. I set it correctly with just the right amount of input and it was fine. as for grammar, it really wasn't that difficult for me to understand. so it's just you. the program isn't matched to be fit for everyone.

RosettaStone is scam and garbage
by: Anonymous

the rosetta way is to not show you words in your language. interesting that is the CHEAP way to create the program and the page turning flash cards are simple and not worth the $500 rip off price.
I have seen free software and low cost language learning software that is much much better than rosetta. Make sense with the rip off price because they must pay for the ads on tv and magazines and the crazy salaries of the executives.

Fraud
by: Anonymous

They sell you the over priced software and then they won't support it right out of the box

Wankers galore!!
by: Anonymous

Almost every military body in the world uses this software, over 7 million schools and many more millions of personal user purchases.

What is wrong is your minds are closed to the true learning abilities that children take for granted.

I highly recommend that all of you who wrote negative comments, give this PROVEN language phenomenon software a real chance........you silly closed minded Wankers......

:-) No Really.........do it.

jus a lil bit
by: Anonymous

To be honest I'm not too familiar with the program but it seems like they try to mimic real life scenes and natural language acquisition which is an improvement from standard phrase books or classroom drilling.

I don't think though that it's worth $500. For that amount of money you could go travel to a place that speaks the language you want to learn. The people there will be your teachers without them even knowing it.

Sometimes I compare languages to riding bikes. You can't really learn either just by reading and studying it. I think many Americans would benefit from traveling more. Kinda crazy how people generally pay $4,000 + each year just to get around their town in car but yet have never once been to Europe or some place they'd like to go because it's 'too expensive.'

Of Course It's Popular
by: Anonymous

The complaints about Rosetta Stone are obviously valid. I did their free trail, and it is useless! But I should have gotten a clue from the (clever?) name, and the fact of its wide popularity. People are lazy and naive, and will believe anything that claims to be a shortcut - so of course it's popular! But learning a language is very difficult, and there is no shortcut or clever device one can use to defy the workings of the brain. It simply can't do what it can't do! You can't learn to play the damn guitar or learn a language overnight, which is what these hucksters would have you believe. The visual technique is absurd on its very face, and making us guess the meanings of words, and not explaining what the hell we're supposed to do in a non-intuitive presentation is frustrating and useless.

Also, Why is there a Rosetta Stone ad on your web page?

http://www.language-learning-advisor.com/rosetta-stone-ripoff.html

About the Rosetta Stone Ads
by: Ron

I don't control what ads appear on the site, that's up to the ad servers. I could exclude Rosetta Stone ads, or any other, but I allow it because people can make up their own minds. There are a lot of pro-Rosetta Stone reviews here as well, so some people do like it.

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