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[sanantone]

LOL oh come on. "A Guy" has interviewed every student who has completed all 4 levels of every language offered through Rosetta? Furthermore HE is fluent in every language too (how else can he judge their fluency?) I'm not saying Rosetta is a homerun, but that can't seriously be considered a credible counter-point?

He didn't claim that he interviewed every student; he just claim that he has never met anyone who could hold a conversation after completing Rosetta Stone. I think he was also only referring to one language...probably Spanish.

That's great news about your progress!

I have used Rosetta Stone for homeschool Spanish since I was your son's age. I think it is a good program for that age. What is lacking in Rosetta Stone is probably what makes it a good idea for children. I don't think grammar textbooks would have been the best way for me to learn Spanish at a young age.

Now that I am in high school, I do think that if I wanted to be very proficient in Spanish, I should add something else. But I don't want to get very proficient. I honestly just want to be done with Spanish.

So having used it, I agree with Sanantone's assessment that Rosetta Stone is deficient in some areas, but I still think it is a good start in a language for children.

I hope this helps, and I wish you great success with your future years of homeschooling.

That is another problem with Rosetta Stone, but it might be more of an issue for adults and some children who don't do well with those kinds of things. You have to infer what they mean by the pictures. I haven't used the newer versions, but the version I had didn't tell you the meaning of anything. What was worse was when I tried Farsi/Persian. They don't use the Latin alphabet, and Rosetta didn't present the words in the Latin alphabet. All I saw was a bunch of squiggly lines and couldn't find a feature to switch to the Latin alphabet. Again, this was an older version, but I don't see how they would expect someone to learn how to read Arabic script that way.