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Thank you for your Rosetta review. I, too, am learning French (hopefully) at age 59 for increased travel to Europe. Rosetta was on sale and has LIFETIME access to other languages. Good luck with your channel (please work to remove "like" from your vocabulary asap) 🙂

I am finishing up my general classes. I saw I just need a certificate for ESL. I want to do linguistics and languages in general, but would teaching ESL during school be a smart idea?

The reason why in the modern world PNG has more languages is because we were never conquered by one group of people. Thank you, Becca, for highlighting my country. NZ has become the first country in the world to embrace PNGs' linguistic diversity and gazetted a full week in recognition of this fact.

Becca so happy i found this channel! I can 100% relate! I completed 5 levels of Mandarin Chinese in 2 and half years and literally changed my life! I will admit though that Rosetta Stone i think is more for learning how to speak than reading and writing! Just my experience!

Wonderful video! I bought a bunch of the boxed versions on eBay during the pandemic for really cheap. I now have a collection of GER, SPAN (Latin), FREN, CHIN, KOR, JPN. I bought them because, I knew that at some point RS would go totally digital subscription based. And turns out, that's exactly what ended up happening. The boxed Ver. 4 came with digital downloads (that are no longer available), but during the pandemic, as long as you had at least one Ver 4 Totale software, you'd have access to ALL the digital setup installs for EVERY language. The only thing you needed was a software key. So, I downloaded most of the languages I knew I wanted to learn and then went on an eBay buying spree, ha! I am learning German (Lvls. 1 - 5). I'm having so much fun! And I love it. Rosetta stone really forces immersion. Which truly is the best way to learn, IMO. I also HATED Duolingo. Even tried the paid version (the trial only, of course) and canceled the trial before it was over. For me, Rosetta stone is a much better fit. Because I have the disc versions, I never have to worry about losing access to the material. And languages don't change, pretty much. So--It doesn't matter if Rosetta Stone updates its program as the material won't be any dramatically different. I do regret not having downloaded RUS and ARAB installs at the time they were available, however. :-( Yes, the lessons in each Unit can feel repetitive, but I also like how they all build on each other very fluidly. I supplement with watching media in German to improve my listening and understanding. Also, will be in grad school next year and hoping to be very advanced by the time I join up with the college German club. I was born in Germany (to American parents) and did take German (and French!) in my undergrad. Once I really master Deutsch, I want to learn Mandarin/Chinese. I definitely feel more confident in my speaking and understanding with Rosetta Stone than I ever did with Duo. The only thing I wish Rosetta had was a way to do quick drills of each lesson for extra study. But since I got the languages at a steal, I really can't complain. Even when you finish the program and all the lessons, it doesn't have to end, you can continue daily if you like as Rosetta Stone (Ver. 4, at least) makes you do lesson reviews in perpetuity. Very happy with this program and being able to learn at my own pace. I'm also going to look into working with virtual tutors (not via Rosetta Stone - tried that during the pandemic and thought that was just okay) really to get more practice and build greater comfort with speaking. Glad to see RS getting a positive review--for once, ha! Sorry for the long post, ha!

Congratulations! Super cool that you tracked your hours!! Wish I had done that. Yes, with the hours you did you're probably in solid B1 territory when you did this video. That's actually a highly commendable number of hours for 1 year. Yes, B2 should take around ~600-700 hours which I consider "basic fluency". So youre around 1/3 of the way there. Note reaching C1(which I consider near native fluency, although with an accent) is more like a 1,200 hour endeavor (i.e. around twice as long as B2). So, you're about 1/6 of the way to C1. Yes -- it takes a ton of hours to get good at a language. 🙂 On my end I started learning Brazilian Portuguese about 1.5 years ago. Didn't track my hours but estimate, ~300 hours (so not quite as good as you in terms of hours). I consider myself a solid B1 and I can speak at B1 level -- which some people can't do at B1. I estimate my vocab right now is ~5K passive words -- with maybe ~2K of those words in my active vocabulary. So, getting there... -- at my current rate of study I estimate I should be a ~B2 in ~2 more years. Super nice video! Rare to see someone actually have "time" data, which was super interesting.

Love your enthusiasm!! Is having that many languages a good thing? Diversity yes -- efficiency... 🙂

I'm planning on a CS and Linguistics double major, and eventually a masters in NLP/CL. I hope I can survive CS lol

I have always wanted to learn about linguistics but I did not take any linguistics courses while I was in uni and sorely regret it now! 😢 It may be too late for me

This is not true in my case. For me, Slavic languages have been close to impossible to acquire.

I suspect the US State Department is right in that Japanese is the hardest language to learn _diplomatically._ I started to learn it and gave up when I realized that to speak it properly, the words you use depends on _who_ you are talking with. For instance, a child speaks to an elderly person differently from that elderly person to a child. That I concluded I could never learn. As a result, while a Japanese would understand my literal meaning, the way I spoke would make me seem crude and impolite.

2:46 The Japanese use thousands of English loanwords so this is not necessarily accurate. Embassy workers can't just throw in some katakana Eigo, but it usually works for street Japanese.

Negative Nancy

You suggest to get Rosetta Stone for free from the library. I guess I would have that opportunity as well. But can you tell me the formate of that programme? Is it a CD, which means that you need a computer? Or is it just a link? I ask because I am not willing to work with a computer. I want to learn by Smartphone. My question is: Is the free library version compatible with any Smartphone?

I do agree with you that the Rosetta Stone course is probably equivalent to two college courses -- maybe let's say 1.5 college courses -- if you supplement it a little like you said (yes maybe a little grammar and some more reading) -- yes easily two college courses.

Rosetta Stone is GOLD. The reality is learning a language is all about "efficient hours" (active learning hours) -- so almost anything will work if you spend the time. But Rosetta Stone got me maybe beginner level A2 with a vocab of maybe around 1200-1500 words. My only issue with Rosetta Stone is no second (advanced) course in Portuguese (like they do in Spanish, French,...) . My problem with Rosetta Stone is that I finished the course and just wish there was more.

It is an old language

I really appreciate your review. I don't understand why people seem to hate Rosetta Stone so much. It kinda feels like most of them are just jumping on the bandwagon as some kind of validation, as if hating Rosetta is some sort of requirement to be a self-proclaimed polyglot 😂 I watched a RS review by this french guy. He roasted RS for its repetitiveness, high price and whatnot. The same guy recommended Babbel, in a different video, and said it was ok for Babbel to have that much repetion because there is no way to avoid it in language learning 😶 I bought a lifetime subscription for about US$45 (Rosetta is cheaper in my country, otherwise a regular person would not be able to afford it. $45 is still a lot, considering that minimum wage is around US$258 and people can barely pay the bills). Babbel costs exactly 3 times more over here, and they have fewer languages.

I'm learning 3 languages in Rosetta Stone. One of them is Arabic. It's super hard because it doesn't sound like anything I already know. I learned the alphabet in 2014 just for fun, and forgot most of it, but that's about it, I didn't know a single word. I have chosen Arabic as an experiment to see how well I can learn a language (even a very difficult one) mostly using RS. I'm not supplementing my studies with anything else, and I just look up stuff when I'm really curious about it. I'm enjoying it a lot to figure out how the language works by myself. I'm 2 weeks in, and so far I noticed Arabic differentiate between dual and plural, both in noun and verb conjugations, verbs also change according to gender, etc. I think this is a great exercise for the brain.

I like Rosetta Stone, but there's no way you got enough vocabulary from it to read articles. Your supplemental material must have provided tons of vocabulary.

Wish could’ve heard you speak French to show what you’ve accomplished

I'm taking the Tagalog part because my wife is a Filipina so I have alot of practice with her

It is not a dead language!

I like that it's purely in Spanish no English words however when a new word is added there should be English pop us for a short time as you have to keep checking on a transator 12:08

Hello si vous avez appris le français que c est facile parler français non anglais et voir comment vous le parler

this encapsulates everything I've learned for the past three years in my undergrad hahahaha

Why not do this podcast in french

People spoke Latin most of the time it was taught, it is only as it fell out of regula use that it became taught as a read-only language (from 17-1800 onwards, depending where you were) So this is a return to tradition, rather than something wholly new.

Becca, woowwww, I too am a Maryland resident. I’ll look into the public library option you noted.

They say you always hate something if you are forced to do it, I was forced to do Rosetta for my Portuguese class as part of the grade, at first it was like yay easy grade, but it became tedious real fast. Might try it later with another language but I burned out on it

I'm also combining linguistics with economics

Am totally agree with you. Thanks Rosetta stone, now I am a fluent Russian speaker !

By what metric is Noam Chomsky the most well-respected linguist in the world?

Really? The people at L’académie française aren’t linguists? Prescriptivist linguistics is a kind of linguistics. It’s bad and harmful, but it’s linguistics.

Wow! I’m fluent in Argentine Spanish. I learned Spanish in my 20’s, going to language school and studying when I got to the country. I spent eight years in Argentina. I want to learn Italian, French and Portuguese. Your review was very helpful. Thank you.

as a chinese people i should tell you there's no vaule to learn chinese at all in nowdays world, because japan is the future in east asia , we all learn japanese and english as harder as possible, china has no future because of ccp

interest is the best teacher for learning

😂 try learning cantonese

Well the good thing about Japanese it actually does have a lot of loan words too. I would say there are a lot of european countries that have less english loan words. But yeah there are allso a lot of words that are entirely different in Japanese where as many words in other languages then english often are at least a tiny bit similar.

Loved this video, it its so helpful. Thank you so much!❤

It teaches you how you learn as a child - so you have to just trust the process and and learn through association which I absolutely love as then you don’t convert from your mother tongue you learn to think in the language you’re learning

I think the reason why Japanese people don’t speak English is that the order of English words is completely different.

For me(Japanese), Learing English is hard. Even if we learn it at least for 6 years, Most of us have difficulty speaking it. I think this is because English is completely different from Japanese,so English for Japanese and Japanese for native English speakers is almost the same. It's interesting to compare different languages!

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In fact, it depends not only on the simple difficulty, but also on the abundance of teaching materials English is the most abundant, and Japanese is probably the most comparatively abundant too

You actually badmouthed Duolingo? You went there?

I don't really have time to properly study yet another language right now as I've got my hands full with Japanese, but I've dabbled a bit in Mandarin and Korean using Rosetta Stone. Originally I was just supposed to test the Mandarin course in Rosetta Stone for the company I was working at (alongside some other apps), but ended up liking it so much that I bought the lifetime access. What I think is crazy about Rosetta Stone is the retention rate: I feel like I can still remember like 70% of the Mandarin I learned over a year ago. Vocabulary, pronounciation, grammar - the whole package. Granted, the similarities with Japanese help a lot, and I've had some outside exposure to Mandarin since then. If I was going to get started on a new language, or get serious about Mandarin or Korean, I'd most likely start with Rosetta Stone first to get a good feel for the language, and then probably move on to LingQ. It doesn't necessarily do great in every aspect, however. Since the lessons build on previous lessons to introduce new concepts, it can be hard to skip ahead even if you have pre-existing knowledge. In fact, I think it become an utter snoozer if you already know a fair bit of the language but just want a refresher for example. The content in exercises are just super repetitive and unengaging when you're not trying to figure out new words and patterns. Also, their stubborn stance of no translations and explanations can be just hilariously ineffective sometimes. For example, they give you the Korean phonetic alphabet with example sounds and just expect you to figure it out like it's a puzzle. If you start with no idea how it works, you could probably spend weeks or even months figuring it out on your own, when it could be taught in about 5-15 minutes. Or something like throwing irregular verbs at beginners because they just happen to be the same verbs they use in every language, with 0 mention or explanation of the irregularity, which can be really confusing at the start when you're trying to figure out patterns. I'm also not necessarily a huge fan of them pushing speech exercises at you straight from the beginning, before you get a good idea of how the language sounds and how the words are pronounced. Maybe after the 3rd lesson or something would be better. But you can just turn them off or skip so it's not that big of a deal.

Qué buena review.

I was hoping to hear a sample.