Review by Simon Cleveland

For those of you who are seriously determined to learn more than just the basics of French in a short amount of time, well this is your chance. This product is not cheap at first glance, but when you add up all the costs for books, language lessons and time you’ll spend in a community college or with a private tutor, you’ll quickly realize the value of owning The Rosetta Stone.

The product itself contains several useful tools to help you get started. There are the three levels of CD-ROM software that can be installed both Mac and PC, a microphone (that can be used with many other applications), the guide and then the multiple CDs that you can play at home, in your car or anyplace you carry your MP3 player (I particularly enjoyed these).

Functionally, this product is exceptional as it allowed me to learn how to spell and write, speak without following a script, strategies to learn and retain what I learned for a long time. With simple practice, I learned how to ask what is your age, simple greetings, finding directions, telling the time of day and using correctly past, present and future tense. If you are as diligent as I am, you’ll learn in no time how to order food in restaurants, express ideas and comprehend terms from the daily life, such as the news from the media.

I highly recommend this product and personally guarantee that you can walk away with a lot more knowledge of the language than you presently possess.