Cheap Rosetta Stone English (US) Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition (Software) (Mac OS X, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows 2000) Price

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Customer Reviews of Rosetta Stone English (US) Level 1 & 2 Win/Mac Personal Edition

Excellent for Beginners to Low-Intermediates
We use this in our language lab for our ESL students. The students who put forth the effort to work on Rosetta every week get higher TOEFL scores than those who don't. The software focuses on most aspects of language learning--speaking,listening, and reading. It also has a neat feature called Speech Comparison, where it shows a wave form of a sentence and, after recording the student's voice, compares the two wave forms, which gives a visual representation of how close the student's pronunciation is to the native speaker's. <
>The software isn't for everybody--mainly beginners who have a solid foundation of the romanized alphabet and minimal grammar awareness. However, level two is useful for intermediate students, especially the listening aspects. This does not appear to be an intensive study of vocabulary, rather, it gives the students practice listening to native speakers and solidifies grammatical concepts they may be having trouble with. <
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>The only reason I didn't give it 5 stars is because of the price. You can find similar programs for much cheaper. However, since students can spend well over a hundred hours on one program, it is ideal for language labs in that it can be used over the course of a year. If you're looking for something more intensive, try something else. If you're in it for the long haul and want to do the most good for the most students, go for Rosetta Stone.

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Rosetta methods
I also use Rosetta for Russian and find that the system works for me because it offers a totally different type of learning. The immersion method uses interesting pictures, progressions, at least 4 different methods or combinations of ways to learn to attract visual learners, auditory learners and those who learn by writing. I had a chance to update my Rosetta system and found that the next version was even better than the first as some small details got greater attention. For me, it is like playing one of the complicated computer games - it is exciting and interesting to advance through each successive level of each unit. The technology never gets in the way of the content.

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not for improving your English
If you are looking to improve your English, don't try it, this just some of the basics for the beginners