Maybe you've heard great things about our language-learning method from friends. Or perhaps you've seen our TV commercials or stopped at one of our kiosks. No matter how you learned about Rosetta Stone, if you still have questions about why we're the best way to learn a language, we have answers.
Q: How does Rosetta Stone teach you a new language?
Q: What makes Rosetta Stone more effective than traditional learning methods or language tapes?
Q: What does the "Adaptive Recall" feature do?
Q: I understand that Rosetta Stone is software. Are there books or tapes?
Q: How do I share my story of language-learning success with others?
Q: What is Rosetta Stone?
A: Rosetta Stone is revolutionary software that teaches new languages by complete immersion in the language, without translation or grammar explanations. With Rosetta Stone, you learn and practice your new language entirely on the computer. And when you're away from the computer, you can reinforce what you've learned with Audio Companion? CDs, which come with your purchase.
Q: How does Rosetta Stone teach you a new language?
A: The Rosetta Stone method for learning new languages is called Dynamic Immersion?. By eliminating translation and grammar explanations from language learning, Dynamic Immersion activates your own natural language-learning ability. You begin to think in your new language from the very beginning, the same way you learned your first language. A carefully designed sequence of words and images conveys the meaning and structure of the new language.
You interact constantly with the program, connecting words with images to confirm their meaning, and build grammatically accurate language structure step by step.
Throughout your study, innovative speech technologies prepare you for real-life conversations. Each lesson advances your listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and each unit concludes with an opportunity for you to simulate a real-life conversation.
Q: What makes Rosetta Stone more effective than traditional learning methods or language tapes?
A: Traditional methods explain the meaning and structure of a new language through translation and grammar rules in your native language. As a result, you can't understand or use your new language without thinking in your native language. This extra step slows learning and makes speaking a new language intimidating and laborious. Rosetta Stone is more effective because it eliminates native-language translation and explanations from the language-learning process, allowing you to think exclusively in the new language.
Unlike tapes, videos, or books, Rosetta Stone is interactive. At every step, you have to
actively demonstrate your understanding. And Rosetta Stone develops all your language
skills-listening, speaking, reading and writing-from the beginning, using your own natural language-learning ability. Doing what comes naturally makes it effectiveĦand fun!
Q: I've heard that "you learn the same way you learned your first language" with Rosetta Stone. What does that mean?
A: When you learned to speak your first language, you learned to speak fluently without grammar explanations, and you learned the meaning of new words entirely through context, without relying on another language. Rosetta Stone uses the Dynamic Immersion method and advanced technologies to re-create the immersive environment in which you learned your first language. From beginning to end, you learn exclusively in the new language without relying on word-for-word translations or explicit grammar instruction.
In this way, Rosetta Stone unlocks the natural language-learning skills you already have.
Q: What does the "Adaptive Recall" feature do?
A: Adaptive Recall brings back the review activity for each lesson at intervals that are determined by your performance in the review. Exceed the program's expectations for you and the review gets pushed out farther. Fall short and you'll see it sooner. The program gives you a likely date and automatically notifies you when it's time to take the review again. These Adaptive Recall sessions help you transfer what you have learned in previous lessons to your long-term memory.
Q: What is Audio Companion??
A: Audio Companion? CDs, which are included with all of our Version 3 products, reinforce the lessons in Rosetta Stone software. Practice what you've learned by listening to Audio Companion anytime, anyplace on your MP3 or stereo.
Q: I understand that Rosetta Stone is software. Are there books or tapes?
A: Rosetta Stone develops computer-based programs for learning new languages on CD and online. The program includes a user's guide, but no additional instructional materials or reference documents are required.
Q: How do I share my story of language-learning success with others?
A: We'd love to hear from you! Visit Rosetta Stories to share personal stories detailing how learning a new language has changed your life and helped you connect with the world around you.
