Rosetta Stone: Learn Languages

Let me know when you add Norwegian. Find kinda silly Swedish is an option and the other two Scandinavian languages are excluded.

In the age of AI, it’s amazing to have a hand crafted language teaching platform with real, professional voices, using a thorough learning method where you always stay in the designated language instead of constantly translating to and from English. My only critique is that the app feels designed for iPad, and is not very handy on iPhone. Photos are small, and the layout is not very phone friendly. It doesn’t even work in vertical orientation at all, which is a huge minus for phone users. I’d love to see a phone revamp of the UI addressing these points, and making it faster with more snappy transitions. The voice recognition is pretty hit or miss to begin with. And if you’re in a somewhat noisy environment, like on a street, don’t expect the voice recognition to work at all. I’d love to see voice recognition modernised.

The language learning quality is high, and feels professionally produced. Great recordings with proper pronunciation. Always staying in the target language helps staying in the zone. The iPad app is good. But kinda slow. And it is showing signs of aging. It’s not very efficient by todays standards. And the voice recognition often misses completely, or performs poorly. I’m finding impossible to use voice recognition in any other place than a silent room. This should be possible with todays technology. With the iPhone app not much has been done to adapt the learning experience to a smaller screen. It’s basically the iPad screen scaled down. That makes most images very small, and there’s no support for vertical orientation either. This is unfortunately making the iPhone experience rather bad. To the point where I simply choose to not use it. If the iPhone experience was faster, and had UI optimised for handheld operation, with better visibility on smaller screens, I think I’d use it significantly more. And with machine learning today, I feel like speech recognition should be possible in even noisy environments. Please improve!

I have heard a lot of mixed messages about Rosetta Stone over the years but it wasn’t until i tried it myself when i realized it works really well for me! It has a translation feature for if you’re stuck, but it encourages you to use the knowledge you already have to solve the lessons on your own. I reccommend :)

Best editing of language learning

I bought the full, unlimited version in-app. I’m trying to learn Spanish. The app is decent enough, but I after using this and Duolingo for a week, I will be dropping this and going with Duolingo from here on. Rosetta does not give any translations during the course, so you are forced to guess or use Google translate to be sure what a sentence means. This really hampers your progress, and it feels less intuitive to use compared to Duolingo.

Har prøvd lydbok, og Andre programmer for språklære. Men denne har definitivt fungert best for meg. Tommel opp

Waste of money. Use free tools as 50 languages in stead.

This is an amazing app probably for Japanese or the other languages people but NOT for beginners! They don’t explain the words they just say it and assume you know what it translates to it’s really annoying.

Læremetoden er enkel og effektiv. Men appen når ikke helt opp. Sliter med lang loadetid, samt at syncing av progresjon mellom enheter er et mareritt