subject: Rosetta Stone Version 3 Spanish Review [print this page] Rosetta Stone is a comprehensive computer-based tutor for learning a foreign language. It requires no previous knowledge or experience in learning your target language, or even in languages in general, instead relying on a purely visual stimulus approach of discovering vocabulary and grammar - just the same as we all did when we learnt our mother tongue as a infant.
Rosetta Stone Language Software has come into the marketplace since 1992. It covers about 30 languages learning, total of Three Versions are available now. The newest Version 3 are applied in 25 languages, including all the major European languages, and others as Chinese, Japanese, Russian and Polish, etc.
In Rosetta Stone Version 3, the installation is not entirely straightforward for the company has locked down the program. Unlike previous versions, you now do not have to keep a CD disc in the computer to authenticate. But you do need to get the installation authorised via an internet connection before it will start.
2 Teaching
The course starts very simply by teaching you simple nouns such as boy' and girl' by showing relevant images on screen, accompanied by the name in the language's script along with a voice reading it out loud. USB-connected headphones are included with a boom mic, which is pivotal to the Rosetta Stone goal in teaching you to speak in Spanish.
With the new Version 3, you not only get to repeat back words, phrases and complete sentences on prompt, but you can see a visual waveform of your voice on-screen. This helps you to master the exact pitching and intonation required to get authentic pronunciation. Repetion exercises start simply, with just a single word or simple sentence comprising a noun and verb and soon builds up to create sophisticated sentences.
We had to think carefully why we were scoring wrong answers on one exercise before we realised that Rosetta Stone Spanish was already introducing the concept of perfective and imperfective verbs of motion, a thorny topic in Spanish, depicted with subtly different visual stimuli to differentiate.
Later in the course, full challenge and response situations are created, at Milestone points, based on potential real-life scenarios you might encounter when meeting native speakers in their home country.
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