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Customer Reviews of Rosetta Stone Russian Level 1 Win/Mac Personal Edition

Is Rosetta Stone useful?
I bought the program in late November 2006. The program is set up well and the translations and dialect used is accurate. I have the one set in Russian and my Russian friend said that it was a good program to use. Before taking the program I took a free one online at [...] This site helps you learn all the basic words when interacting with someone. I found it quite helpful when using Rosetta Stone afterwards. If you purchase this product you will have to get a very good Russian/English dictonary. Once you get into chapter 2 the pictures and phrases won't make sense without a dictonary. Unfortunately the best dictonary to get is the one Oxford makes; I say unfortunately because it costs around $40. Also, if you are really interested in learning Russian you want to get a book called "RUSSIAN COURSE a complete course for beginners." This book explains plurals, nouns, and how to know when something is feminine, masculine, or an it. This book costs around $10 dollars. Rosetta Stone is good at getting you to memorize words without repetition. I thought that that wouldn't work but it works and better then I thought. Rosetta Stone doesn't explain how to tell if something if masucline or feminine. It only has one lesson covering plural words but doesn't explain how they should be pronounced for a variety of words. If you purchase the book, dictonary, and program you will truly master this language. The more I understand it; the more beautiful it is.

Early experience with the Russian version
I've been in Russia for two weeks and I've had three sessions with Rosetta Stone. I'm a very poor language student, and Russian is not coming easily to me. However the repetitious (but not boring) nature of the program has you moving through the exercises at a fairly fast pace using generic photos and a comination of the spoken word and Cyrillic text. It's too early to tell if I'll soon be able to converse with a Russian beyond the most basic words and phrases, but I'm going to press on. <
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>There is a feature that I can't use yet because I don't have a microphone. It allows you to record your own speech and compare it to a native Russian's. I'm going to try to buy one. <
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>I have one problem.....in the typing exercise, there is an on-screen Cyrillic keyboard, and you have to click on each letter with the mouse in order to enter Russian words on-screen. Unfortunately, all I get is English......no Cyrillic. I've contacted Fairfield Language Technologies, and they haven't encountered this problem before. They think there is a problem with my computer. I've toggled Windows between English and Russian, and both give me English. <
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>If it's possible, I'd be happy to write another review when I've completed the program. I'll be here for another two months, so I'll have plenty of time.