[HaganeChan]

My thoughts on Rosetta stone vary to be fair.

Advantages - visual and audial aspects are fanastic, and a variety of learning applications help a lot.

Disadvantages - it fails to translate words to you. it purely shows pictures and presumes u can translate it yourself. for example i remember the first time i noticed this, in level 1, there was a picture of some rice and a feather and the word to learn was "shiro". What could you get from that? after a while i figured they were both white, and shiro would probably be white. There have been much more problems like this afterwards...especially on non-noun words...gosh. and dont even get me started on collective nouns haha

overall its a great course. much better than the pimsleur series...though i'm not putting that down at all. it was good too =]