Pro: the focus on listening & repeating. They have both men & women with different accents and tones to their voice so that you can hear different variations on different phrases and things.
Pro: the repetition. The repetition of the learned words and phrases & grammatical structures really settle in over time. There are also periodic "Review" sessions to keep these things in mind.
Pro: the microphone. The microphone helps you to really get the pronunciation right and it generally doesn't settle for "close enough." I kinda think that this would have been nice for French & Spanish, but most especially French which has all sorts of different sounds that I didn't really learn about until I was abroad! I like how Rosetta Stone emphasizes this from the very beginning.
Con: the microphone. Sometimes I would say the word several times and it would take multiple tries to get it to accept it, and I really said it pretty much the same way each time, so...yeah. glitch?
Con: I miss learning rules! I don't know why they say certain things certain ways (like why they add "an" or "ein" to the end of some of the phrases. Without knowing why, I won't remember to say it and who knows how that changes the meaning). I also did eventually have to look up whatever was going on with the definite and indefinite pronouns. I still don't fully understand.
Well, on the whole, I liked it, but I do miss having a class & learning rules. I think that maybe if I continue I'll keep a notebook as I go because that will help me to get the best of both worlds: I'll be able to take notes to review, look up things I don't get on the Internet later, and have the Rosetta stone listening-visual focused learning.
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