Review by MJ23447

This is a review of the old version. I’d recommend getting the new version.

Rosetta Stone uses language recognition and a series of levels to make sure you are learning the language as you move forward. If you complete all three levels you will be able to at least stumble your way through very basic conversations. If you need to become more fluent you can simply repeat the sets multiple times. If you complete set 1-3 multiple times you’ll be more and more comfortable speaking entire sentences.

In short, you get out of this product what you put into it. I don’t think that completing the set once will provide someone with fluency. However, if you complete the entire set 5 times you’ll definitely be much closer to fluency. The benefit of the program is that is is well structured and it never gets tired of repeating things that you got wrong. if you are truly committed you could complete the set 10 times and I think by then you would be able to hold entire conversations in German. Is that a lot of work? Yes, yes it is but it does get easier each time you do it.

There is no magic here but it is a really impressive piece of technology. With work anyone can learn a foreign language well enough to converse in it. That is pretty impressive. I took off a star because the speech recognition isn’t always spot on.