Does the Rosetta Stone program work good for Latin American spanish?
Im hispanic and my parents didnt raise me to speak spanish . I know a lil bit but not enough to carry on a conversation . I really want to learn spanish becuase i feel left out when we are with family and im the only one that dosent know what they are talking about . Please help me .
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Ask your family to teach you, this will be the best way!
I tried rosetta stone for Spanish. It does not have any translation, grammar or conjugation instructions so it will be very hard to go beyond the basics with it. It is good for the basics as it is pure memorization. There is no way to be fluent with it. Their program is based on the same thing where you see these 4 pictures over and over again. I was disappointed especially for the price I paid. If you already have a strong base, you will know most of the content. In your case, it won’t be very useful.
My college uses another software: tell me more. My goal was to become fluent so it was perfect for me and I bought their individual version. It has a lot of different activities: picture/word association, videos, dialogues,…, includes also grammar and conjugation. It has also more content than any other language software. Their speech recognition is great so you can have a dialogue with the computer. You can contact them to get a free demo and also ask for a Rosetta Stone demo to compare, visit independent reviews websites(About.com, …).
The best way to learn a language would be through immersion, visiting these countries. Learning a language will require some time. In addition to software, you can have books which are useful as well. Audio CDs like Pimsleur for instance might help you out but you cannot get any feedback on your pronunciation so I did not like it so much.
i have no idea if rosetta stone works or not. but i wonder what exactly they mean by latin american spanish…spanish in argentina is entirely different to the spanish spoken in mexico (pronunciation, choice of words, partly even grammar). so i’m not quite sure if it is going to help you with your family. why don’t you just ask your family for help?