Cheap Rosetta Stone Turkish Level 1 Win/Mac Personal Edition (Software) (Mac OS X, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP) Price

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rosetta stone turkish...
rosetta stone was great for building vocabulary and comprehension. but as other reviewers have said, a book explaining turkish grammar is essential to have in addition to rosetta stone. because rosetta stone is an incomplete turkish course, $200 is a bit pricy, but if you have some spare money, it makes getting familiar with the turkish language and building vocabulary worlds easier. books are tedious and hard to remember, but the audio and visual parts of rosetta stone help so much, and the sound quality and rate of speech (not too fast) is excellent. after reviewing a few chapters in 'teach yourself turkish', for example, i review some sections of rosetta stone, applying the grammar i learned from the book, and the grammar sticks in my head MUCH better. in sum, if it wont hurt your wallet too much, rosetta stone is a recommended supplement to turkish language books.

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Good, but not on its own
I've used Rosetta stone to learn french, and the product was wonderful. With languages such as french and spanish, you can use your own english skills to infer the meaning of some sentences when confusions arises, but with languages like arabic, turkish, japanese etc., this process is much less useful, and even impossible for some. <
> When I first got this Turkish program, I was frustrated by the confusing sentences with just a picture to understand its meaning... basically i couldnt understand the details of grammar and could only proceed because I recognized some nouns, though not the suffixes attached to them which is a common practice in Turkish. By itself, this program was almost a waste of money, but then I picked up the turkish course from the "teach yourself" series, and together these two programs are amazing... use the rosetta stone for vocab, and when you're confused use the teach yourself book (the turkish course is one of the best in the teach-yourself series). If you're going to spend about $200 on this program, pick up the teach yourself book for another $15 or $20 and you'll find that learning turkish will be MUCH easier than using either program by itself. <
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Pimsleur
Folks: the reviewer that mentioned Pimsleur was comparing the way the two companies APPROACH LESSONS. The language is irrelevant. And the reviewer was correct- Pimsleur's approach for language study is more like being in a high school class where you act like a parrot and simply learn memorize structure rules. The Rosetta products are much more effective because there are decision processes involved (among other things) that help you immerse yourself in the language vs repetition.