I bought the lifetime membership during Covid because I’ve always wanted to learn Italian. I don’t have the best short term memory and I’ll quit for like a few weeks here and there, but I feel like I’m doing ok because I always come back to it. I don’t care how long it takes me, I’m going to do this! Thanks for the video!

Most reviewers of Rosetta Stone are "Try the first lesson in Rosetta Stone and then try the first lesson in product X". But you can't judge a product by its first lesson. Obviously the most important question is "Where is the bathroom?" But just because that is not the first lesson does not mean the program is bad. For any program, you actually need to finish the program. So whatever program you think that you will actually finish is the one to use. My two favorites are Rosetta Stone and Pimsleur for different reasons.

This is awesome I'm MD and just applied for a library card and I'm already logged into my first lesson. Took less than 5 minutes! Thank you!

Go Becca! Great job on your placement test. I just started 11/30 & am also studying French & am enjoying the experience so far! I too am doing an hour + per day. Merci pour votre vidéo!

Estaba buscando videos en Inglés para poder aprender y me apareció tu video. Felicitaciones 👏🏼 por tu canal. Saludos desde Lima-Peru

Ive been doing Spanish on Duolingo for over 2 years and I feel like im not getting anywhere now, trying to find out more and this was helpful

I just started polish today and I learned alot more then. Also north jersey library has it for free just library card required.

Rosetta Stone is aweasome! I' m brazilian and I bought the lifetime subscription and it's very efficient and cool!

Thank you so much!

Thanks for the tip on going through the library. Im also in MD, close to Moco. What’re the chances? Anyways thanks again!

Becca thanks for the video. I have two questions I will greatly appreciate it if you could please give me your opinions. 1. Have you ever done any Pimsleur? I’m at level 4. It’s been like a magic for me. I have never been exposed to French before in my entire life and I couldn’t even repeat a simple sentence in French if was asked to. 2. I think you said you are at level 16 of Roseta. How is your listening skil after completing this level. I understand that you knew Spanish and English and that they might have contributed to your French journey! I agree absolutely. But how do you feel about your listening skill after completing 16 levels of this program. Are you able to clearly understand French speakers?! I have done a lot of pimsleur and Duolingo and etc (self learning only) but my listening skill is horrible at this point. I’m really really disappointed at myself. I have spoken to some French professors and they said it’s kind of normal and it takes about 2 years to get the listening skills right. So I feel that they kind of encouraged me to keep going and i will but I just want to know about your level of confidence in your listening skill. Thanks for reading my long and boring comment. Best regards.

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.

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

I wish I saw this sooner. I’m aware of another language program free at library. I should have checked to see if library had Rosetta Stone. But that ok. I ordered lifetime subscription. Just started. Love it.

Great video, Becca. Im portuguese language native and I use RS to learn other of 'em. I use 5.0.37 (build 43113), but if you guys want how to update it Id appreciate a lot ;)

Hi Becca! I agree with your review. I'm a native spanish speaker. I started 9 months ago to use rosetta stone (I get a free full "jack sparrow" version on the internet), and now I'm learning the level 3-4-3 (or unit 12, lesson 3. Depending the version). Personally, it really works well for me. I feel I'm progresing a little bit every day. But requires consistency day after day. I can say that I understood 70% of what you said in the video. It's so satisfaying for me. I really apreciate your review. Y que bonita sonrisa tenés! Saludos desde Argentina!

Making this video was a very good idea! I love the fact that you actually were sticking to what you are talking about (it doesn't matter what your verdict is!). I personally found RS too boring - but I always play with the idea of "what if".

Hi Becca, this video is very helpful for me, I've always wanted to learn Italian but I lack in commitment... I was afreid that the Rosetta Stone Program it no going to work but you show me that with commitment and will its possible to be fluent after finish the program. Thank you! Saludos desde Venezuela :)

Thank you, great review

I love your energy!!what state are you from? california here!!

thanks for posting this, super helpful! New sub❤️

Thank you. Buying today.

I think it's too expensive but I love it. It just fits my style of learning. You have to guess and click on the right answer. There is a lot of audio and I repeat every sentence so you get a lot of pronunciation practice that way.

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.

I was so mad at the Rosetta Stone iPhone port that I haven’t used my lifetime membership at all. They didn’t redesign it at all when they ported it to the iPhone even though the screen is tiny compared to a computer. But I am inspired by your video and I think I will try it on my iPad. That said… if you speak Spanish and English… I think you should almost be able to speak French without studying 😂

Thank you so much for telling me I could get rosseta stone for free from my library. I was just about to buy it ❤❤

Great video - question - where are you at with it now? I am also doing the French module and I am on unit 5 of 20. It takes a while to get through and what I am finding is that while I am much better at French, I'm not quite sure yet what level I am actually at.

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

Hi, I think Rosetta is good enough to learn languages. As you have said, it has much content. And what is more, the content is accompanied by audio. The course is supposes to get you to some level from zero. And the faster you finish the course, the faster you will get to that level. The more time you do Rosetta every day, the better. The faster you move, the better, because the more intensive the process will be. I think even if you live in some country in order to learn the language in the fastest way, some other person can progress even faster, if he or she practices on Rosetta all day long. But you need to supplement Rosetta with some other material that Rosetta lacks: instructions on phonetics and pronunciation and grammatical explanations. So before you begin the course, you learn how to pronounce the sounds of the language so that you realize what sounds exactly the material you learn on Rosetta consists of. And you revise the phonetics from time to time.

Working really well for me! I’m actually hearing spoken Japanese well now! My speaking is still a little slow and clumsy; however my reading has significantly improved! I’m on week 5

Can I set up my level depending on how expert I am in every language in this Rosetta Course? If I am intermediate in French and Beginner in Arab for example, is there a way to clarify this difference in the course?

Sooo funny, I only did 1 module and thought it was the full course.. hahaha. Yeh the thing about rosetta is if you only spend a few days on it , people-oriented realize how effective it can be it all fits together eventually

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

hello there I am in MD too Jessup so I can have RSt in library too?

I am studying Russian... I really like Rosetta Stone as well.

I just started the Rosetta Stone German course (received for free), and so far, there are some things I find annoying (eg., there is no weighted repetition, over stressing of grammar, etc), however I really appreciate the intuitive nature of the learning - they don't have any translations which makes learning way more organic rather than forced and contrived. It causes you to pick it up in a mock natural setting through osmosis rather than forcibly translating your native language into the target language - the problem with translating is I find I tend to over-replicate the structure of my native language. Rosetta Stone basically eliminates that problem.

Actually there has been some studies that suggest that moving abroad is a good way, just NOT the osmosis approach, by forcing yourself to only speak the foreign language and selecting a language partner or tutor to help assist you

I used RS in the past to help me get better at French. It does work to say the least. The downsides with the program I think is that RS is not a complete beginner's program and you HAVE to supplement your learning with outside material. In the defense of RS, I've done other software language learning programs and they weren't beginner level programs either and you had to supplement you learning with outside materials too. For any person looking to start learning a language with Rosetta Stone and any other language learning app, take some classes, find a tutor, watch some KZfaq videos or buy some grammar books before you start those programs. I want to mention as well that I'm currently learning Spanish with RS. I didn't buy the software this time around and bought the subscription. The only complaint I have with the subscription is that they've gotten rid of live tutoring. Now they only have the live video sessions with one of the tutors. They never mentioned this to the older, continuing customers for some reason. But RS is not so bad if you go into it realizing that it's mainly an interactive way to learn vocab. nuff said.

Awesome, I totally appreciate your amazing video! I just wish I would've ran across it before I download babble lol. I will definitely keep Rosetta Stone on my mind. Thanks for making this video cheers

Qué buena review.

I was not leaving my house! 🤣🤣 i felt that

I'll finish it maybe in 3 months

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I’m currently using Duolingo for French, but it seems to gloss over grammar and listening comprehension (it’s rudimentary at best). Definitely gonna move onto Rosetta Stone.

i actually wonder the way u studied like did u take notes or did u watch lessons on youtuba with u did rosetta stone

Becca, when you say "all of rosetta stone" in your French program, how many levels are you talking about?

It works for Russian, too.

I was hoping to hear a sample.

Thanks for sharing this. Is this a paid promotion or are you totally unbiased?

french language is a mistake, dont contain yourself 😭😭😭, jokes aside I love your energy, your video is informative as it is entertaining 👏🏽thanks for this video. new subscriber

im from dominican republic now i investing which is better lenguage lear plataform. i think your video will be useful for me. thanks becca Levy.

I tried Duolingo to learn Hebrew and the app just throws words at you

What's your native language ?

the first time i see uu i falling in love hhhhh

"Ped uh gah gee" just fyi

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erm, internet maybe?

You actually badmouthed Duolingo? You went there?

Didn't speak tho, soooooo. ? What language did you learn. I clicked through your video so idk.

This is not really a review video, but more like a loosely organized vlog. I would have liked to hear you demonstrate your spoken French, or some of your ability to communicate with real people in text. I appreciate that you can understand ~60% of Netflix French with subtitles on, but you didn't say how many hours you've put into Rosetta Stone. It's also not a complete testament to Rosetta Stone, considering you have previous experience from school and Duolingo. It would have been more representative of Rosetta Stone if you tried it with a fresh language. Maybe video sections would have been nice, but overall I think you repeated a lot of stuff and I didn't get a sense of how effective Rosetta Stone actually is for a 16 minute video.

voice recognition in rosetta stone is just absolute garbage. That alone makes me not want to use it (I have to for my course). Further more, I've never experienced worse lessons for language learning. It's literally more efficient and effective to create your own schedule by doing research on a language and that's without paying anything

Why you didn't do it with French then 😂

If your not B1 up level in English....don't watch this......

It's too damned boring.

3 reasons why RS don't work: Reason 1: At the end of the course you can't talk Reason 2: At the end of the course you can't talk Reason 3: At the end of the course you can't talk

This is used for my mandarin class and its terrible, all they do is shove words in your face and expect you to know what they mean without actually teaching you first,you only really learn if you get all the answers wrong and that gives you a bad grade

Duolingo sucks.

I'm sorry but you talk so fast that listening is very exhausting.