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Learning a New Language with Rosetta Stone Software

Rosetta Stone is a language learning publisher and retailer of language learning programs on CD-ROM and through online versions of their software that you can subscribe to on a monthly basis. Their catalog features learning programs covering 29 languages and they all feature Level 1 & Level 2, with Level 3 available for Latin American Spanish and American English. Over the course of about 100 lessons these programs teach the language interactively through multimedia exercises that immerse you into the language by Listening, Speaking, Reading, and Writing.

Rosetta Stone addresses key factors that researchers believe must be present in order for successful language learning to take place. By merging interactive technology with listening comprehension, structure and sequence, deduction and problem solving, and readiness to talk, Rosetta Stone provides a sound framework for persons acquiring a new language. The approach to learning a language with Rosetta Stone is quite different from other language courses, or the way you learnt or didn’t learn languages at school. It claims its “Dynamic Immersion” is similar to the way you learned your native language when you were a baby - that is you picked it up, including script, syntax, speech and writing by context.

Rosetta Stone will help you build vocabulary and confidence, but it’s best used alongside traditional tools. Rosetta Stone seeks to emulate a child’s learning, but it’s possible that the brain has changed to make this much harder as an adult. In The Language Instinct, Harvard psycholinguist Steven Pinker guesses this is because learning language was evolutionarily necessary only in childhood. Children have a supple language instinct. Adults need to rely on their advantage in cognitive horsepower.

Learning a foreign language opens up a whole new dimension. It has a positive effect on intellectual growth and it enriches and enhances mental development. Learning a foreign language is especially effective at an early age. It greatly benefits reading and writing in one’s own language; there’s evidence that, like musical education, it contributes significantly to the development of individual intelligence.

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