Is Rosetta Stone worth it?

[EW]

Your customers don't speak french, Eric.

[idrivea4banger]

English?

Qu'est que vous na parle francaise??

[talisman]

You guys are just jealous that Paul and I can freely play brother and sister holocaust survivors in the sack without the slightest bit of shame.

[idrivea4banger]

Your customers don't speak french, Eric.

He just pm'd and told me to tell you: Nique ta mere!!

[Pokulski-Blatz]

Or more to a point, does it work effectively? Looking at buying all 5 levels of French, but it's a nice chunk of change. I would imagine that if you stick with it, it shouldn't be harder than learning anything else. Anyone on here used it to learn a language with success?

I started the Spanish a while back and kinda stopped. It seemed like it would work well if you stuck with it. I think I have all 5 levels of French at home. Shoot me a PM and I will check later, I am sure I can figure out a way to give it to ya.

I'm sure there is a torrent out there with it...

There was at one point ... not sure about currently. Many of the torrent sites have removed much of the stuff that infringes on copyrights.

[Ratt]

It works well for Romantic languages (not sexy romantic, but etymological Romantic), but does not work so well for Asian or Germanic languages. There's just too much of a learning curve for the latter two types.

[SlowLX]

Just pack up and move to French Canada. Sink or swim ninja

[Frank]

Never been to Breaux Bridge have ya??

haha, been there!

[no4njnk]

I thought about trying Rocket Spanish because its a little cheaper. The problem is you can't trust the reviews online. Anyone want to sell me their Rosetta Stone for spanish?

[46Tbird]

If you're planning to speak French in France, be sure you speak it well. They get very aggravated at Americans speaking their language poorly.

In classic DFWMustangs oneupsmanship, I've seen the actual Rosetta Stone on display at the British Museum. Pretty awesome.

[talisman]

Fuck you, Danny!

[mstng86]

If you're planning to speak French in France, be sure you speak it well. They get very aggravated at Americans speaking their language poorly.

In classic DFWMustangs oneupsmanship, I've seen the actual Rosetta Stone on display at the British Museum. Pretty awesome.

Why is it in a british museum if it was discoverd by Napoleon?

The french can't even keep their own artifacts?

[red95gts]

I took 6 years of Spanish in Middle/High School and never became even remotely fluent. I would always try to translate to English in my head first and then process or speak it. As a result, I never could pick up any speed.

Rosetta Stone really works the same way a child learns a langauge - you see a picture and you associate the picture with the word. I don't try to translate German to English in my head. When I see "Der vogel ist rot" (The bird is red) I actually picture the exact fucking red bird from Rosetta Stone. Same for all the other vocab. Kind of creepy, but it works.

With that said, I didn't pay a dime for it so I guess anything free is impressive.

[46Tbird]

Why is it in a british museum if it was discoverd by Napoleon?

The french can't even keep their own artifacts?

If you can Google who discovered it, you should be able to Google how they lost it.

"Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found."

[mstng86]

If you can Google who discovered it, you should be able to Google how they lost it.

"Soldiers in Napoleon's army discovered the Rosetta Stone in 1799 while digging the foundations of an addition to a fort near the town of el-Rashid (Rosetta). On Napoleon's defeat, the stone became the property of the British under the terms of the Treaty of Alexandria (1801) along with other antiquities that the French had found."

Haha So I was right, fucking french couldn't keep what they found.

I didn't know they took it from him.