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Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software

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What is Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software?

Rosetta Stone says it offers innovative, technology-driven language, literacy and brain-fitness solutions are used by millions of individuals and thousands of schools, businesses, government organizations around the world.

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What users are saying about Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software.
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Gold Standard In Language Learning Software.

Michael Roberts
Lab Technology Coordinator in Information Technology at SUNY ATTAIN LAB @ Drew Hamilton Community Center (1001-5000 employees employees)

Pros

  • Integrates speaking, listening, reading and writing in teaching the target language.
  • Short 10-30 minute learning sessions.
  • Truly excellent support staff that works with organizations, schools and individual to make to the best use of the program.
  • HUGE resource library of support materials (teaching guides, written tests/quizzes, best practices, etc.) that can be downloaded and used by teachers and students.
  • An online social media platform called The Bridge that provides ongoing support to teachers and administrators that support the use of Rosetta Stone in their organizations, schools and classrooms.

Cons

  • One has to have a high speed Internet connection to use Rosetta Stone. Not everyone has that.

Return on Investment

  • Adding Rosetta Stone to our list of free training/learning resources that adults can access for free from our community computer labs further supports our mission of providing underserved communities in New York State with high quality training that will better prepare them for the workforce or continue their education.

Other Software Used

Microsoft Office 2016

Usability

Learning English with Rosetta Stone can bring success in ALL your learning!

Incentivized
Kathleen Hall
Teacher at Marrero Middle School (51-200 employees employees)

Pros

  • It helps ELLs to identify and spell English words.
  • It helps them to learn the correct pronunciation of English words, so they can be understood by English speakers.
  • It increases their confidence to interact in the content classrooms.

Cons

  • One area that would be helpful in the educational application of Rosetta Stone would be to have lessons that promoted content vocabulary for the various subjects the students encounter in their classwork.
  • Another area would be to provide grade-level increased vocabulary, that would help the student to become more familiar with academic language at their grade level.
  • Easier access/wider variety of ways to print out the learner data, so that the cite administrators and teachers are able to provide learner data that reflects the goals of the school/district.

Return on Investment

  • The program has enabled the students who had no English when entering the class to be able to communicate and begin to grasp what is being taught.
  • Students have gone from silent bystanders to valued participants in the classroom.
  • The students who work with fidelity in the program become English proficient with more confidence and more quickly than those who dabble.

An immersion learning tool

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee in Marketing (51-200 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Our company is located in QC, which is French and English bilingual. I never learned French before, and also English is not my first language. I thought it would be very hard to learn French by English, but it turns out not. I've been enjoying Rosetta Stone on my phone for more than one year after previously using another app. I've found Rosetta Stone to be head and shoulders above the other apps, I do like they provide animes and cartoons to show you how it works in real life.

Pros

  • It provides real pictures, cartoons and illstrations to creat an actual scene.
  • It has different levels of lessions, good for we beginners.
  • Analogies help me understand the word better!

Cons

  • Please adjust the UI, the "play" button really needs to be better.
  • Sometimes the exercise freezes, i have to quit and restart again, i'm using iOS15.1
  • Most of the time, the mic is good, but sometimes it can't specify what i'm saying.

Most Important Features

  • For me, it helps me learn how to use French in real life.
  • Rosetta Stone contains lots of analogies which helps me understand!
  • It also forces me to learn by paying the fee.

Return on Investment

  • Positive: It helps me have a better communication with colleagues.
  • Positive: It helps me understand our projects better.
  • Positive: It will potentially add more possibilities to the promotion in the future.

Other Software Used

Adobe Premiere Pro, Adobe Audition, (EOL) Cisco CloudCenter, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365 (formerly Office 365)

Rosetta Stone- Great Learning Software!

Incentivized
Verified User
Account Manager in Customer Service (201-500 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

i have used Rosetta Stone Language Learning Software in my personal and professional career. i first started using the software when i was in the hospitality industry, as a way to learn spanish to communicate not only with our spanish speaking staff, but also our spanish speaking clients. the software really helps you learn another language at your own pace and provides you the tools to succeed

Pros

  • gives you a large amount of learning languages to choose from
  • well defined curriculum
  • contains a feature where they can also help you pronuciate the words properly to speak the language better

Cons

  • the price is a little expensive. could offer better group discounts for multi users
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Most Important Features

  • ability to use it on many devices
  • truaccent feature where you can learn how to pronounciate properly is a big win
  • the large pool of languages to choose to learn from

Return on Investment

  • increases customer base due to employees more well versed in different languages
  • better customer support scores, since we can now tailor to our different clientle

Other Software Used

LinkedIn Jobs, Salesforce Lightning Platform (formerly Salesforce App Cloud), Zuora

Rosetta Stone in Schools

Incentivized
Verified User
Employee (11-50 employees employees)

Pros

  • Tracks user interaction
  • Customer service availability
  • Accessibility

Cons

  • My students get furiously angry with the poor quality of voice recognition.
  • The target language structures, scope and sequence of the program is not comprehensible. The program does not offer explanations for how to properly create phrases nor does the program accept varieties of an expression (so you have to be word for word rote in order to be granted credit). For example, the program would not accept equivalent phrases like "On Wednesdays I run" and "I run on Wednesdays" which would be OK in typical communication. Additionally, the program was initially deemed desirable because students could learn at their own pace, but I never really saw take away learning as a result of using Rosetta Stone but instead students were able to mimic sounds and click the "hint" button for answers to get through modules.
  • Students don't find the curriculum particularly engaging, which may not be as much a reflection on the product but rather how it is being used in it's application at my school.
  • It would be nice if it could run in some sort of "lockdown browser" capacity because I find students open various web tabs for music and google translate just to get through the program. They're more worried about completion than the practice toward learning...and the poor speech recognition will pick up utterances that aren't even close to the target phrase while often not accepting genuine attempts at the phrase, so there isn't a lot of fidelity from students to trying to use the program.

Return on Investment

  • I do not know what expenses my district has incurred in using this program, but I know that generally user approval is not very high, and for that reason I feel that the use of the program has been very detrimental to our World Language program.