Rosetta Stone Software

Rosetta Stone is a rather remarkable program of interactive software and online resources to help you learn just about any new language you’d ever want to learn.

You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Rosetta Stone somewhere. There seem to be Rosetta Stone ads in just about every magazine on the planet right now. I caught my first one several months ago in the American Airlines magazine during a flight back east, and I’ve since seen them popping up everywhere. When it became a certainty that I would be traveling to Spain in a handful of months, I decided I’d take the opportunity to finally learn Spanish, and guess which program I bought?

Whoever said advertising doesn’t work was clearly not very bright. I’m a pretty finicky consumer most of the time, and the high price tag on the Rosetta Stone package was a little daunting, but they sold me with their ads. ‘Fastest way to learn a language, guaranteed’ is a pretty priceless slogan.

The great thing about Rosetta Stone is they actually do live up to that guarantee, and you can return the program within 6 months for a full refund, no questions asked. However, I’m not returning anything. Even though I feel I could easily learn all the Spanish I’d ever want in 6 months with their program and send it back, I’m finding the Rosetta Stone program to be extremely effective and strangely a lot of fun. Really, it’s a small price to pay to learn a new language and have the resources on hand to make sure you don’t forget it.

I remember taking Spanish in high school and just hating it. Long charts and memorization exercises, sitting there trying to remember when to conjugate and how, it seemed like such a waste of time because I never had any measurable progress. I spent 3 years taking Spanish in high school and never really learned more than how to say ‘where is the library?’ and ‘have you seen Juan?’. I’ve had Rosetta Stone for two weeks and already I feel like I’ve learned more than I did in all my high school classes combined.

Rosetta Stone takes a different and a less painful approach, combing imagery with text and orally spoken words to help you form connections without memorizing or translating anything. If you’ve ever taken a language class, it’ll seem a little strange at first, but it’s very intuitive and before long you’ll be asking yourself why all language classes don’t work this way.