Rosetta Stone Software Review

Rosetta Stone software uses highly advanced way of learning, which will help students learn a new language as quickly as possible.  The software is available for over 28 different languages, from widely spoken languages such as Spanish to obscure ones like Swahili.  The Rosetta Stone software helps to quickly and effortlessly get a grip on every facet of a language including tenses, verb forms and more. The software is very popular and is used in many major corporations and schools.

The approach of the Rosetta Stone Software is to teach languages the way children learn them.  The software  (which is made by Fairfield Language Technologies) makes the learning a new language both easy and fun.  It has won a number of awards from software magazines and language like the Gold Awards for Best CD-ROMs Used in School and the Best Software in Second Language Foreign Language Learning Program annual awards by ComputED magazine in 1994 and 1996.

Most Rosetta Stone software packages contain two CDROMs, one with the application software and another with the instruction.  The speech recognition software that comes with the package is good, it does a does a decent job if you pronounce the words exactly like the voice you hear.  The manual that comes with the Rosetta Stone software is pretty basic, but help section of the software is pretty good: every screen has a help button that helps you out if you get stuck. There are no grammar guides or instructions included with the software.

The Rosetta Stone software uses images, text, and sound, in order to teach he student vocabulary terms and grammatical functions naturally, without excessive drills or translations.  Using the Rosetta Stone software is enjoyable. It can be used to learn any language you like: German, Arabic, Japanese, you name it.  However, if you are a person who needs to see and read the words as you hear them this software may not be for you.