Rosetta Stone V3: French, Level 1, 2 & 3

List Price: $499.00 Discount Price: $449.00

Features:

• Learn French with Rosetta Stone's proficiency-based listening and reading activities.
• Pronounce French words correctly after practicing with our proprietary speech recognition and analysis tools.
• Speak French without a script in no time! Rosetta Stone's Contextual Formation™ makes sure you have the confidence and the cues you need to get the words out on the spot.
• Use Rosetta Stone Milestone activities to gain confidence quickly in French so that you can engage in real-life conversations.
• Track your French language learning progress to reinforce your strengths and revisit needs with our Adaptive Recall™ Language feature.

Customer Reviews:

French Newbie [Posted on 2008-06-21]
I have recently decided to learn French, and at 50 years old it's harder to learn new things. But, with Rosetta Stone's easy to use program, I've found it works quickly. I especially like the sound review, it's quite helpful in learning the pronunciation of the words.

Rosetta Stone rocks! [Posted on 2008-06-26]
I was leery about the advertising for Rosetta Stone, which makes it sound like a painless, fast way to learn a language. I bought it for my partner, who loves the flexibility of studying whenever he wants. And his French has gotten a lot better, even after just a few lessons!

Best learning course [Posted on 2008-06-27]
I found this French course interesting and fun to use ... and not as hard as i would have thought . Having the pictures of items and then being taught the word makes it easy and i find i retain it better . Worth every penny , Steven Robertson

Worth the investment [Posted on 2008-06-29]
I hesitated for a long time purchasing these, but is well worth it. In the short time I have had it I have learned more than multiple years of 'traditional' language instruction. This teaches you how you learned your first language, it does get repetitive and sometimes you are not sure what it wants (it will prod you along). I find that I think in the other language rather than trying to translate in my head which is much easier.

Caution - Defective Disks - No Support [Posted on 2008-07-15]
Devoid of Manufacturing Quality :
I purchased all 3 levels for the $500 and tried to install it over the weekend. The Language Level 1 disk would not install - my computer drive made horrible noises. The other levels installed just fine along with the program disk so it wasn't my computer.

Surprise - Rosetta Stone has NO human support on the weekends!! I sent an email via the web site & then called Amazon. Thankfully, AMAZON does. The replacement product arrived today.

Unfortunately, the same problem occurred again. (There must be a bad batch of disks.) Called Rosetta Stone this time & tech support said that a new disk would be sent out in 3 to 5 days. I asked for it earlier because of a deadline. Plus starting in the middle didn't seem to be a good idea.

Rosetta Stone Customer service advised that since I did not purchase the product from them I would have to go back to the retailer. I tried to explain to this person that this was a defective product & covered by manufacturers warranty to no avail. I asked to speak to the supervisor and was told that they all go home at 5:30 PM - there was no one there.

I've spent the $500 to get a defective product that the manufacturer will not honor. The customer service of Rosetta Stone is some of the worst I have ever encountered! While Amazon has been great, it is still my time spent trying to get what I paid for.

Content:
In between all of this, I did try a few of the level 2 lessons. I'm not sure why everyone is raving how good this is - if I hadn't taken French in high school (many, many years ago) I would be totally lost.

I have purchased a CD based course locally, Barrons Mastering French, Level 1. So far I really like that. Also, it was only $80.

I think the Rosetta Stone fails to deliver on all counts - content & quality. This would be a definitely NO recommendation.

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