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3 of 4 customers found the following review helpful:
 rosetta stone spanish 1&2, 2008-01-13
This is a very good product. It has helped my wife and as we try tolearn spanish.
47 of 52 customers found the following review helpful:
 Too long to get to basic conversational level, 2007-12-30
I really wanted to love this product. Perhaps at some point, one could get to a proficiency level. The great thing is that the software teaches you like one's parents would teach a child. The problem is that after 40 hours of instruction with Rosetta Stone, you have the language abilities of a three year old. I put a lot of time into the software (maybe 50 hours) and did not have the ability to speak even broken Spanish at a restaurant to order a meal. My friends wondered what the problem was given that whenever they called me, I was doing Rosetta Stone lessons. My friends who are fluent in Spanish, suggested that I take a conversational immersion class; I think that I'll take their advice.
16 of 22 customers found the following review helpful:
 a software note, 2007-12-27
This product is sold as licensed software. Users will NOT be able to load it onto more than one computer. This aspect of the product is not clear from the blurbing on the Rosetta Stone website. It is a "single-user" product.
Don't think that you can share this with friends, or that it is appropriate for a lending collection.
9 of 13 customers found the following review helpful:
Works Fine With Windows Vista, 2007-11-28
Some recent reviewers have claimed that Rosetta Stone software is NOT compatible with Vista.
It is true that you can't just put the CD in and install the software..
Here are the instructions for Installing Rosetta Stone on a Vista equipped PC...plainly posted on the Rosetta Stone Support Site..
1. Insert the Application CD
2. When the "Autoplay" window opens, close it by clicking the red "X" in the upper right corner
3. Click your Start Menu then click Computer
4. In the window that appears, right-click the CD-ROM drive labeled "RS_App"
5. In the menu that appears, click "Explore" to browse the contents of the Rosetta Stone Application CD
6. In the Explore window, right-click on "Setup" (or "Setup.exe")
7. In the menu that appears, click "Copy"
8. Go to your desktop and right-click on any empty place
9. In the menu that appears, click "Paste" to copy "Setup" from the Application CD to your desktop
10. After "Setup" is copied to the desktop, right-click on the icon for it
11. In the menu that appears, click "Properties"
12. In the Properties window, go to the Compatibility tab
Select the checkbox for "Run this program in compatibility mode for:"
13. In the drop-down box, choose "Windows XP Service Pack 2" (may already be showing)
14. Click "OK" to save the changes and close the Properties window
15. On your desktop, double-click "Setup" to start the installation process
16. Click "Allow" to continue the installation
17. On the screen where you see the words, "The fastest way to learn a language," Click "OK" to install with instructions in English
18. Follow the remaining prompts to complete the installation.
19. Once the installation is complete, insert the language disk and launch the program to begin your study.
20. If you are having trouble starting Rosetta Stone, you may also need to change the compatibility mode of the program to "Windows XP"
71 of 73 customers found the following review helpful:
Here's how I compare this to the other top Spanish courses on Amazon, 2007-11-26
Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R1R6KJW73XNTYL Here's how I compare the three top Spanish courses on the market.
1. Rosetta Stone Spanish V3 -- still the best method out there for the visual learner but using this software by itself will only take you but so far. 5 Stars.
2. Spanish I - 2nd Rev. Ed.: Learn to Speak and Understand Spanish with Pimsleur Language Programs (Comprehensive)
This is great for the traveler. You will learn monetary vocabulary terms such as "pesos" and numbers so that you will be able to count your "dolares" when travling to a Spanish speaking country. There are other courses that cover more vocabulary for the traveler but their method isn't as effective as the Pimsleur method. This method teaches the formal Spanish that you are likely to encounter in formal speech or formal writing. 5 stars.
3. Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1 (2 volume set) This is the course that I would recommend for someone that needs to immediately learn how to speak Spanish in order to communicate with Spanish-speakers that have recently arrived in the U.S or for someone that expects to be speaking to people in familiar situations in Latin America. This course comes closer to teaching the colluquial or familiar style of conversational Spanish that you will hear native speakers use among themselves. 5 stars.
If you really want to see your Spanish take off, I'd say use all three of these courses. Which course you decide to use first or the order that you select to use these Spanish courses really depends on the type of learner you are and your needs for learning how to speak Spanish.
I hope that my review has been helpful to other Amazon shoppers.
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