We have also had success with various books for German, so there is a lot our there. I liked the fact that there was a variety of exercises to complete, loads of levels, and also grammar. My daughters found Rosetta Stone boring and I found it incomplete (I speak almost fluent German) so I contacted the people at Tell Me More by phone, and they were wonderful in demonstrating their program by hooking up my computer to theirs and answering all my questions. There website is: – we have found this program absolutely brilliant. We use Auralog, Tell Me More computer program for learning German, we did not like Rosetta Stone at all. When I get stuck for a word it comes out in French.
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(I do still remember how to say “Put on your bib!” LOL) It also didn’t help that I was the closest thing our household had to a Spanish speaker, and I’m really not very good. I do have one of these kits and we enjoyed it but after the little one got bigger, I just didn’t seem able to keep it up and transition to older conversation topics. I do know of one product line that is designed to help the non-language-speaking spouse help raise young children bilingually. 🙂Īnyway, the other problem was that I had a hard time keeping on top of what vocabulary they were learning–I could try to reinforce with a little conversation if I knew, but since it was just each child and the computer this was very difficult. Not very helpful if what you really want to do is TALK to a real person. It talks about its “speaking” components, but all that really means is it gives you something to say, you say it, and you get a weird readout on your pronunciation. There is no way for there to be–it’s a computer program. RS “mentions” some of that in passing, but on my kids it just did not stick! And there is no conversation practice at all. I found this very, very frustrating! Also they just rarely picked up on verb conjugation–they simply used third person singular for everything. But there is no explicit grammar teaching–after more than two years of work, my sons could not even do something so simple as figure out when to use “ser” and when to use “estar”.
Rosetta Stone can do well if all you want to do is pick up some vocabulary. Well, two of the things that Rosetta Stone does NOT provide are conversation practice and grammar! You’ll get precious little of either.
My oldest son, who has spent a fair amount of time studying Spanish, French, Latin, some German, and has recently added Indonesian, says if you have any doubts or questions about foreign language study at the high school level, he thinks the most “bang for the buck” or the best thing to do with limited time is to put the time into Latin–if he had to pick just one, that is the one he would want to focus on. 🙂 Because IMO you’d still need to find at very least someone to converse, and the conversation exercises in the Barrier books are a very good place to start. I have the demo of Tell Me More, and while it does seem somewhat more complete than Rosetta Stone, I still think it a less attractive option than the above book/CD/conversation combination, not to mention you can get all 3 years for the price of Auralog. I recommend these highly, the only caveat being that I consider it a MUST that there be someone who can converse with the student for the conversation exercises. Spanish and French–Breaking The Spanish Barrier or Breaking the French Barrier. I’m not happy with Rosetta Stone as a high school choice either.
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