Homeschooling Success!

[sanantone]

The packaged versions may be different, but I had access to Rosetta's TOTALe Spanish (Latin America) through work last year, and it seemed fantastic. I only completed the first module before my schedule got away from me and I let the license go to someone else at the office, but I felt like I picked up quite a bit from the brief exposure, and to date, have retained a bit of it. Still...the pacing of the TOTALe seemed a little fast for my kiddo, and the need to make inferences from context clues may be something of a stumbling point for him. That's typically his weakness, but that is what the program is based around.

Do you know if the Rosetta boxed sets are more self-paced or are they driven by the module pacing as was the case in TOTALe?

I'm asking for another crack at the Rosetta TOTALe for myself through our Training office to give myself a leg up if I'm going to play the role of Spanish teacher, and I'm thinking of biting the bullet and buying the first section of Visual Link. Little bug does well with a multimedia approach; some computer time is his favorite so I definitely want to find something with a computer component, but reinforcement with text-based seems to drive it home for him. We use Time4Learning to supplement some of his lessons and it helps him quite a bit, but he takes notes in a notebook so he can have something on paper to reference when memory fails him if he does not already have it in a textbook. I like the idea of a program for him that has both computer and text for supplement/reference.

The version 3 of Rosetta Stone that I used was self-paced. I don't know personally if these are any better, but I've heard good things about Rocket Languages and Fluenz. I really like Pimsleur, but it's all audio. You won't get any writing and reading practice.