Review by Mindcrime

I’ve tried a couple of the Rosetta Stone products and the German level 1,2,3 doesn’t disappoint. The product installed fine on Mac OS 10.5 or you can install on Windows XP/Vista. Although the product wasn’t developed for MAC platform it does perform well but doesn’t offer any of the MAC like interface setup.

As far as the language learning, the product performs well. It starts off easy with matching of words to pictures and quickly builds to speaking and matching more complex language sentences. I like how the product feels up to date with the images and the over all look and feel. I really like the ability to speak back to the system so that it can verify how I’m pronouncing the words and sentences. I also like the audio companion feature that allows you to take your learning on the road with an MP3 player.

As far as learning a language by using the software, well….that takes time and commitment to going through the software and practicing. Its easy to think that you can just go through the software and speak another language but learning a language is hard work but the software makes it more manageable.