<p>How effective is Rosetta Stone? I was thinking of self-studying a language with it. Have any of you used, if so, do you recommend it or not?</p>
<p>Read the reviews on Amazon. That's what I always do.</p>
<p>I downloaded the trial version about a yaer ago and it lwwas a little confusing with the whole immersion thing.</p>
<p>I was thinking about that too, i love diffrent langugaes. If anyone has any ideas on that tell me.</p>
<p>One level is supposed to be the equivalent of less than a year of high school study, despite their claims.</p>
<p>I read the review on Amazon and they were okay. </p>
<p>Someone recommended Spanish Now and it's only $30 and it looks great.</p>
<p>Spanish Now is really good if you're talking about the one by Barron's. It's supposed to be first year Spanish, but it really covers more - maybe it's more like a college first year book?</p>
<p>Haha, I thought you were talking about the real Rosetta Stone.</p>
<p>My son worked for Rosetta Stone last summer, and stands by the effectiveness of their programs even now that he no longer gets paid to do so.</p>
<p>I have it. If you're doing it, say, so you can take an AP test or skip a year of a language and move on, definetely don't do it! It's more of a spoken language based program. You learn phrases that you would need if you were going abroad or something like that, or enough to talk to an exchange student or whatever. It's really good, just not if you're going to be writing or doing anything that requires grammatical skills.</p>