Rosetta Stone Spanish

Advantages:  Rosetta Stone Spanish is one of the best CD-Rom courses on the market and integrates audio, text and images.  It is a learning tool that can make learning a language both simple and entertaining.  Lessons are short and simple.  They feature native speakers, real life images with beautiful graphics and big fonts.  Rosetta Stone Spanish also has a speech recognition feature to help you say the words correctly.  You will need to have a good head set to have this work the best.   

Rosetta Stone Spanish is easy to use and install.  The software course is very thorough and covers all language core skills, oral, aural, writing and reading.  It focuses on vocabulary as its strong point and is one of the best ways to acquire vocabulary quickly.  Be sure to determine if you are a visual or audio learner before buying this course.  An audio learner would not like it.  The sound quality is very good and Rosetta Stone offers great support.  It is offered in a CD-Rom format or you can use an online subscription option.  Before buying you can see a free demo to try it out.  A 100% money back guarantee is offered in the first six months of use.

Disadvantages:  Rosetta Stone Spanish may best be used in conjunction with another language course that teaches you to speak the language with its grammar and verbs.  Many feel that Rosetta Stone would best to use after you have completed another course such as Pimsleur Method Spanish.  It is difficult to learn how to speak a language looking at a few pictures and repeating phrases that you hear.  If you are a beginner then it would be better to start with another course.  The cost of Rosetta Stone Spanish  is on the expensive side.

Comments:  Rosetta Stone Spanish is a great way to improve your Spanish vocabulary quickly.  It is very difficult to really learn how to speak a language with software alone looking at pictures and repeating phrases.  This does not help you in the real world.  You need to learn to think in Spanish.  This may be a better course for a child or pre-teenager than for an adult.  Rosetta Stone Software has 3 Levels in the Spanish language and is available in either Latin American Spanish or Spain Spanish.