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Rosetta Stone seems like a good concept. But for Korean, it is awful. Do not waste your money on this. I bought the online version of this when I first started learning Korean. I assumed (wrongly) that Rosetta stone was the gold standard of language learning software. I bought some books along with it but I figured I would be relying most heavily on the Rosetta Stone. It was the complete opposite.
This is how Rosetta is setup. It shows you a picture of a cat, while saying the word cat in Korean, and sometimes spelling it in Korean as well.
Then, not very far into the program, it will show you a picture of a cat next to a table lying on a bed with the ceiling fan on and a door in the background. Then says a sentence, in Korean, with NO English translation. So, sure, I can repeat the sentence into the microphone, get it correct, and move on. But- I have NO IDEA what I said! I found myself many times having to pause it, Google translate the Korean sentence, and figure out what I'm actually saying.
Which was usually totally different from what I thought. In addition, it does not teach you to read Hangul. It teaches you a LITTLE bit as you're moving along, but not in a way that you will remember and not quickly enough at ALL. And since there are no romanizations (a breakdown of pronunciation using English letters that you know) there are STILL words that I thought I knew from Rosetta that it turns out I've been pronouncing wrong all along. You can learn Hangul in two days maybe three by downloading any free app.
I've been learning Korean for half a year and I can tell you absolutely learn Hangul first, no matter what method you decide to learn Korean. Bottom line: It's confusing, doesn't teach Hangul, and I feel like it actually hindered my leaning of Korean.
It truly set me back a couple months. Plus it is very expensive. I feel robbed. It was a complete waste of money to me. Somethings that have worked for me: TenguGo Hangul is an app for learning Hangul. It was extremely useful in learning proper pronunciation of Korean letters and is very thorough. Hangul Test is an app that sounds like exactly what it is-it tests you on the letters at a quick pace.
When used in conjunction with the TenguGo app above, there is no reason you won't know Hangul very well within a week. By far the best book/CD set out there is Living Language. Study the book then use the online resources to hear the pronunciation and quiz yourself. I use the CD's in my car to brush up. It is also VERY reasonably priced considering it is a COMPLETE course.
I was extremely happy to find this. Talk to Me in Korean is the best way to study Korean online. The website, PDF's and podcasts are all free, and entertaining. Made by Koreans in Korea so the information is accurate and helps you to sound like a native Korean speaker-not a talking textbook. They also have books and Ebooks for purchase and I have bought a few which I find incredibly useful.
There are also many Memrise courses at Memrise.com for this website to help you practice the information on the lessons. This website is an absolute GEM.
Best wishes to everyone learning Korean. And let me reiterate, buying Rosetta stone will not help at all. Rosetta Stone seems like a good concept. But for Korean, it is awful.
Do not waste your money on this. I bought the online version of this when I first started learning Korean. I assumed (wrongly) that Rosetta stone was the gold standard of language learning software. I bought some books along with it but I figured I would be relying most heavily on the Rosetta Stone. It was the complete opposite. This is how Rosetta is setup. It shows you a picture of a cat, while saying the word cat in Korean, and sometimes spelling it in Korean as well.
Then, not very far into the program, it will show you a picture of a cat next to a table lying on a bed with the ceiling fan on and a door in the background. Then says a sentence, in Korean, with NO English translation. So, sure, I can repeat the sentence into the microphone, get it correct, and move on.
But- I have NO IDEA what I said! I found myself many times having to pause it, Google translate the Korean sentence, and figure out what I'm actually saying.
Which was usually totally different from what I thought. In addition, it does not teach you to read Hangul. It teaches you a LITTLE bit as you're moving along, but not in a way that you will remember and not quickly enough at ALL.
And since there are no romanizations (a breakdown of pronunciation using English letters that you know) there are STILL words that I thought I knew from Rosetta that it turns out I've been pronouncing wrong all along. You can learn Hangul in two days maybe three by downloading any free app. I've been learning Korean for half a year and I can tell you absolutely learn Hangul first, no matter what method you decide to learn Korean. Bottom line: It's confusing, doesn't teach Hangul, and I feel like it actually hindered my leaning of Korean. It truly set me back a couple months. Plus it is very expensive.
I feel robbed. It was a complete waste of money to me. Somethings that have worked for me: TenguGo Hangul is an app for learning Hangul. It was extremely useful in learning proper pronunciation of Korean letters and is very thorough. Hangul Test is an app that sounds like exactly what it is-it tests you on the letters at a quick pace.
When used in conjunction with the TenguGo app above, there is no reason you won't know Hangul very well within a week. By far the best book/CD set out there is Living Language. Study the book then use the online resources to hear the pronunciation and quiz yourself. I use the CD's in my car to brush up. It is also VERY reasonably priced considering it is a COMPLETE course.
I was extremely happy to find this. Talk to Me in Korean is the best way to study Korean online. The website, PDF's and podcasts are all free, and entertaining. Made by Koreans in Korea so the information is accurate and helps you to sound like a native Korean speaker-not a talking textbook.
They also have books and Ebooks for purchase and I have bought a few which I find incredibly useful. There are also many Memrise courses at Memrise.com for this website to help you practice the information on the lessons. This website is an absolute GEM. Best wishes to everyone learning Korean.
And let me reiterate, buying Rosetta stone will not help at all. Good while you use it but there are so many better resources for free. I really want to learn Korean and I looked here. Bad idea for a very beginner, but I already knew Hangul and some pronunciation.
It helped me for a while, but then I never came back to it so I deleted my subscription. Now I just use a free app called Drops, but I bought the package that allows you to play it for an unlimited amount of time and gives you other features and it was a one time purchase. Along side with drops I've also bought books, workbooks, and I watch YouTube videos. The Total-Immersion/No-English method worked ok in the beginning but I would think something meant one thing and then they would test me and I couldn't pass. I'm no idiot but the pictures can be very misleading. I'll give you an example. They had pictures with various people holding their arms at different positions.
I thought this was what they were talking about. Nope found out they were talking about something else entirely. I'm learning Korean which utilizes something called particles (think part-of-speech suffix identifiers) which is something English doesn't have.
I got so lost with the words that I had to look up what was happening elsewhere and that's when I learned about particles. Rosetta Stone can't use the same teaching template for every language. It's more than a word to word translation when you are learning a new language. There's syntax, particles (for Korean), and other aspects that make the see and say too confusing.
I did research on this before buying. I read reviews, had tried other methods like Pimsleur, watched youtube reviews and had very high hopes. I am going to try my own method now.
Also, the community, games and other bonus online resources I found to be pointless or non-existent. There was never more than four people in the whole U.S. Who where logged in at any one time for my language. This means talking and 2 person games were never an option for me. I'd play games on my own but either found them to be too easy or ineffective at progressing my learning.
The studio sessions only let you speak in your new language so I can't ask questions. What's the point of that?
I can just redo the lesson and get the same result. I got as far as unit 2 lesson 1 before I just crashed. I hope I can still return it.
Rosetta stone is not some 'learn a language in 10 hours' thing. However it is effective.
The trick is to keep with it. Work gets in the way and my progress has been slow, but each time i'm able to get in a solid week of about an hour a night, i and my fiance see huge improvements.
I'm not going to win any contests, but i'd say i can speak about as well as a 2 year old in not to terribly long. Keep with like an excersize program and I think you'll do great with this. Much more effective then the last one i used. Downside: FRUSTRATING.
The immersion is effective, but you'll often find yourself answering questions with no idea what you are saying. You'll want to quite, but eventually it just kinda clicks on what you're supposed to be saying. This is my first Rosetta Stone purchase, and with my experiences so far, it will not be my last. The big disclaimer should be that I lived in South Korea for several years, and sporadically studied the language, albeit for very short durations.
As previous reviewers have noted, the program does a remarkably horrible job of explaining some basics of pronunciation. For example it will mark your listen & repeats incorrect if you don't know to 'carry over' the last sound of the prior syllable. With some trial and error, even newbies should be alright, however I'd imagine it's more useful for someone with even limited exposure to the language. I began using Rosetta Stone quite some time after leaving Korea. It helped refresh the basics and I'm getting to the point now, after several weeks, where it's now advancing my (previously quite limited) knowledge. I don't consider myself a natural language learner, and therefore the plethora of free - i.e.
Non-interactive - offerings online never did much for me. Typically I need to be with peers and an attentive instructor, and Rosetta Stone has lived up to its reputation insofar as providing the next best thing. I read and try out quite a bit of language books. I really enjoy this Rosetta program, a lot. I actually suggest doing prior studies (like reading characters, basic sentence structures, and maybe a few words) before considering this program. It starts straight into reading and listening with no English explanations (which I love!
I get confused with English translations, I always get stuck using English structure). The Rosetta objective (I assume) is to place you into the language(in other words 'immerse' you into the language). There is also a free 3 month subscription to games (solo or interactive, though, I haven't seen any people online), itouch or iphone application that shows flash cards, and you can even make appointments with native speakers to help you practice what you learned. When the 3 month trial is over, you will be charged $25 each month.
I believe Rosetta Stone is worth the price, being taking college classes cost way more including the books and making time to make it to each class. If there are cheaper classes out there, I still haven't found any in my area. My suggestions: My Korean collection consists of children's work books, story books, flash cards, text books, audio books, picture dictionaries, and online websites. Pimsleur courses are good to listen to practice accent and to have words and sentences stuck in your mind.I suggest a trial version first. Not many people like it. Andrew Sangpil Byon's 'Basic Korean: A Grammar and Workbook' is also a good choice. I especially like the teachings of sentence structure.
If money is an issue, check your local public library and decide from there. Some libraries may also have free online language programs. A local used book store may also have books you can flip through.
If you have a Korean speaking friend/relative/spouse/etc., that's even better! The best way to go on your favorite search engine and type 'Learn Korean' or something to that similarity. There are many language sites out there, and Rosetta Stone is a good consideration after your studies.
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I wish I'd went month to month at this point though rather than pay for two years. It is the buggiest app I've ever used. In fact, it's so buggy the uncommon word 'hate' comes to mind. I went all the way thru module three recently and got to the last lesson. I get a pop-up that says, skipping ahead? You didn't finish all the lessons. I go back and look and sure enough, the Review lesson I'd done said I'd not done it.
This particular one I knew I'd done.8 times! You see, for the Review lessons, you can't retake and fix one card, it makes you retake the entire lesson! I wanted a 100% so I retook it until I did.
It apparently lost all progress. I ended up taking it two more times, finally getting everything right. When I finished, it said I missed one anyways. I have another Review that I know I'll never get right because despite voice set to easy and having taken a year in college of German from a native German, it says I cannot pronounce one word. In some lessons I can use the wrong word entirely when I'm trying to guess the dialogue and get a 100% but in the Review, which you must fully retake if you miss something, it won't get the single word right. In short, if you are a perfectionist or have limited time to waste on bugs, this is not the app for you. There are better ones for free that won't make you cuss in front of children or want to throw your phone.
Developer Response. Hi RussellSteven, Sorry to hear you have been having issues with our app. Great news - we have a fix in place to solve the issue you had when you completed it and it was still showing as one not complete. This will be released soon! On the other item of the app not remembering your progress at all during the review path, we’d love to get more info from you so we can troubleshoot this for you. Please contact us and we’d love to help resolve this issue. Open Rosetta Stone tap the Menu go to Settings tap on Feedback, to send us a message.
I got this because I have the actual PC version of the Japanese Rosetta Stone, and I thought I would be able to access it through the app. Instead, it’s acting like it's a completely different thing?? In the app I can see all the progress I’ve made from where I’ve done it on my computer, but I can’t continue anything and the only option is a huge green button that says “unlock full access” which asks if you want to buy a subscription when you hit it. I already bought the program (which was very expensive), so why in the world would I want to pay nearly as much as what I already purchased for the SAME THING I already purchased when I already have it?? This is just as bad as when Adobe switched from selling full real CD copies of their programs to being subscription-based. Very very disappointed that you can’t get free mobile access when you have already bought the darn thing; it feels like they’re punishing people who prefer buying complete versions instead of subscriptions.
I could have sworn back when I bought my RS that it said there was a mobile option for people who bought the physical copy, but evidently this isn’t it. If they’re going to treat this like a totally separate thing you have to pay for, it seems like the progress from your physical copy shouldn’t even be there at all. Developer Response.
You can download the app for free, and even do a lesson. Then it asks you to sign up for a subscription. If you wait a day or so, you get an email with a special offer of $5.99/month. Turns out though, it's not $5.99 a month, it's $147, paid all at once, which gets you a subscription for 24 months. Yes, that comes out to $5.99 a month if you don't understand finance, but it's a lot different if you don't want to pony up that much all at once.
Worse, after the term is up, they'll automatically re-subscribe you at their full price, no discount. I hate this underhanded method of taking money from anyone who's not paying attention, and a bunch of people are going to pay a LOT of money for something they don't want. It's close to thievery, and it makes Rosetta Stone nearly dishonest. EDIT: After using this for a couple of weeks, I still think it's pretty good at teaching language. However, the speech module, where it listens to you and grades how well you say things, is completely useless.
It doesn't understand you at all, no matter how clearly you say it, and no matter how low you set the bar. I had to turn off the Mic to be able to get through those chapters. The program complained that my Mic was bad, but it works just fine on audio notes and FaceTime, so it's not my Mic. Developer Response.