Rosetta Stone

xmacro · August 2010

Goldy · August 2010

I have been thinking about getting it (spanish) so I can work in South America but it just seems sooooo expensive.

zoom6zoom · August 2010

My company actually makes it available to us as a benefit since ultimately it helps them. It's an online only setup. I was trying to do it, but one of the program rules is you have to complete a certain number of hours study each month... and I just didn't have the free time to keep up with it. Budgeted cost to the company was $117 per user. There was also an employee accommodation plan where you could buy a year's subscription for yourself or a family member (unlimited languages) for about $125 a year. So yeah, they do have an incredible markup on the product.

wwhwang · August 2010

Or you can join the military :P It's free then.

xmacro · August 2010

wwhwang · August 2010

I have a bunch of Spanish books from my DLI courses in Monterey, CA when I was in the Army training to be a crypto-linguist. There's really no substitute to actually immersing yourself in the culture and the language. Unfortunately though, no one really has that kind of free time.

xmacro · August 2010

Yeah, from what I've heard, you can pick up any language if you live in the country/total immersion for 6mo to a year

wwhwang · August 2010

I'm sure not many people have this experience, but when you start dreaming in another language, you're starting to get the hang of it lol. I had nightmares in Spanish when I went through the Defense Language Institute. Being chased by Mexican cowboys and Poncho Villa with La Cucaracha playing the background. Now that I think of it, I had nightmares in English when I was growing up. Chinese was my first language growing up lol.