Anyone learnt a language through Rosetta Stone?

Buddy

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I've used the trial and it looks promising - to be honest I'm tempted to dive in and pay a couple of hundred quid for lifetime all-language access, but just wondered if anyone had any personal experience of the full version?
 
Well, the medium term plan is to improve my not-horrendous French and my basic Spanish and Italian, but I'm particularly interested at the moment in Urdu. And there don't seem to be any decent courses in that, but from what I understand if you can do Hindi you can do Urdu - except the scripts are entirely different. Hence veering towards Rosetta Stone, which is noises and pictures, over Duolingo which has a lot of text.

Hence the question - not really "are there any other apps?", but more "has anyone had success with this particular one?".
 
Well, the medium term plan is to improve my not-horrendous French and my basic Spanish and Italian, but I'm particularly interested at the moment in Urdu. And there don't seem to be any decent courses in that, but from what I understand if you can do Hindi you can do Urdu - except the scripts are entirely different. Hence veering towards Rosetta Stone, which is noises and pictures, over Duolingo which has a lot of text.

Hence the question - not really "are there any other apps?", but more "has anyone had success with this particular one?".
I honestly haven't tried rosetta stone but it seems a much more comprehensive learning tool than most. I find doulingo good for keeping up with a language, I use it to stay sharp in my spanish but I couldn't use it to learn new language, in m case Swedish. In my opinion, you need a varied approach to learning language so it sinks in. I think rosetta provide that more than anything else so I would go for it.
 
I’ve used Rosetta Stone to learn Portuguese, its very good for learning words quickly, I’m very good at naming things in the supermarket and ok with numbers and salutations. I did find that I struggled with sentence construction and grammar, but I probably gave up too soon as I ran out of time before I travelled to Brazil.

I picked up more useful phrases whilst I was travelling around Brazil, but a lot of that is a confidence thing, my Portuguese improved immensely after a couple of bottles of Brahma.
 
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