Anyone used Rosetta Stone to learn a language?

Rosetta Stone and Duolingo are great tools to help you learn; however, there is no substitute for immersion.

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Thinking about making the investment

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Your library may have a copy. Try that before paying.

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i learned Mandarin in 2 weeks!

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Not the software, but having already mastered ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs, I used the actual stone to teach myself Greek one summer. Beautiful country, but I wore patches over both my eyes during that time. Ya know, the whole immersion thing.

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Uncle Stu

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Anyone used Rosetta Stone

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Muzzy FTMFW

Neither Rosetta Stone or Duolingo will make you fluent, but they will give you a pretty good start to the language. Duolingo is free and basically the same thing.

The next best thing to immersion is youtube. A lot of french language stuff on there to help you learn.

Immersion is overrated. I took French for 3 years in high school and a semester in college, got all A's, and couldn't carry on a conversation with a French person to save my life. A couple of those teachers were the type that only want to speak French in class. What's all this have do with immersion, you ask? French people speak way too fricking fast. Even if you could understand most of what they are saying if it were written, you won't catch a single word when they speak it - especially when you throw in the accent. It's like when you watch a James Bond movie and say to yourself, "I really need to watch this with subtitles, cause I can barely understand a word this British fuq is saying," but multiply that by 1,000 for the French. So even with immersion, you won't pick up a single word. The final answer is that it is impossible to learn to speak French unless you're born and raised in France. If you want to learn to read and write in French, that's another story. Rosetta is probably the quickest.

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. A couple of those teachers were the type that only want to speak French in class

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That's not full immersion. By immersion, I mean go to the country where it is spoken and live there. Having someone teach French to you a few times a week only in French is simply that: It's a class not immersion. I went the the summer camp in Nova Scotia when I was a kid. For 2 weeks, we only spoke French. I learned more in 2 days than I had all year in class.

Get the Muzzy system instead.