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Again, that goes back to creating a stress-free environment, rather than a realistic one. Luckily they were patient with me if I went off on tangents, so you can be somewhat flexible if you have the right teacher.
To me, this was the greatest justification of a higher price than the reasons listed above. You can hire teachers to get online lessons much cheaper elsewhere. But it would be hard to find people so integrated into such a complex system like this.
And I did honestly find each spoken session to be very helpful. This was my most favourite part of the whole application and what I got the most value out of. Without this to work towards, I would have given up on using the program due to frustrations at the slow pace of learning. As well as the core course and live tutoring, there are other features of the program. Within each lesson module and unit, it breaks it down into further mini-lessons based on the core lesson:.
So, it does aim to cover all the major aspects of language learning. Take the grammar lesson, for example. The grammar is shown within sentences with no explanation, which I found a bit frustrating. For every unit, there are stories like a mini-podcast with a native speaking more consistently than the rest of the program.
It helps you get used to reading and listening at the same time to associate spellings with sounds. That made it a good resource for finding material to read within what you currently know a struggle for many. These had replaced the previous gaming aspect of Rosetta Stone. This wasn't mentioned as a major reason for the price. But I suspect that taking professional photos, hiring models, and finding the right places and lighting, etc.
Rosetta Stone said that while taking the photos, very precise care is taken to make sure that everything is perfect. The photos are very well done, and you do get a good feeling for the action they are performing. This is where you really see how they applied their research.
The care they took for how to represent a word without using your mother tongue in just images is obvious. But I did have one or two cases where the photos weren't helping and I had to go find a dictionary to figure out what the word meant. So I can't say that four or more images is a great way to present every concept in the world. Once again, this highlights my frustration in how they used experts from so many fields, who don't have experience specifically in language learning.
I don't doubt that images are fantastic learning tools, but they are not suited to language learning when used in this way, in my opinion. Learning a language through multiple-choice options is not even remotely close to an immersion learning environment. There are many ways the software presents images to you. Sometimes it asks you to repeat phrases.
Sometimes it explains one photo and gives a similar one with slightly different context you have to guess. But the vast majority of your work is based on multiple-choice usually just options and process of elimination. I find it hard to express how unnatural this feels to me for language learning. But apparently Rosetta Stone's linguists disagree. This photo-centric presentation is a fundamental aspect of the learning system which I can never agree on.
Since my original review, I can say that Rosetta Stone seems to have updated their photos and removed the poorly photoshopped pictures. And this is key, especially since photos are the foundation of the Rosetta Stone online program.
I'm all for political correctness. Presenting a varied cultural set of people in photos is great, especially in multicultural environments. I'm not learning Arabic right now. This doesn't help me at all and is part of the copy-and-paste use of all images across all languages.
But even forgetting this for a moment, most culture presented in the photos screams U. I want to learn their body language and their smiles.
Even the culturally sensitive ones seem to be from an American perspective. For example, in one image I saw, someone is presented with a big pitcher of water in a restaurant. It's the same with learning to speak another language.
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