Rosetta Stone: Learn French Fast

Owen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 11:09:57 +0000

Image from WikipediaRosetta Stone has really helped me continue learning French fast. I took a few French classes at the Alliance Française in Toulouse, but now I am on my own. Using Rosetta Stone, I can keep practicing and learning French.

Today I worked on Level 1, Unit 6, Lesson 10: Tout seul, plusieurs, une foule, des amis, la voix passive. My favorite part of Rosetta Stone is the typing and dictation part. The other elements are easy for me but the typing section really makes me think and learn. It will not mark something correct unless there is gender and plural agreement, accents are in the right places, capitals are correct, punctuation and spacing, and a whole host of other things that often language learners think of being outside of the actual process for learning a language.

The hardest part about Rosetta Stone is when a word is dictated and it sounds the same as many other words, for example gens, jeunes, jaune. It is hard to determine which French word to use just by sound so you have to think about the context. Even the context doesn’t give it away sometimes. Then you have to look for plural and gender agreement because, even though they are spelled differently, they often sound the same. This is what makes it hard to learn Frenc, many words sound so similar.

I will keep at it and I’m sure I’ll make progress. Ill try to keep track of the good and bad about using a language learning program to learn a language so you can decide if it is right for you.

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Rosetta Stone: Learn French Fast

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