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Originally Posted by Quailboy
I've tried the original Rosetta Stone software..which costs' about $500 for the 3 courses on Japanese..and it works very very well, in fact..I should start using it, I only fooled around with it for about 30 minutes.
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If you only used it for 30 minutes, how do you know it works very well?
It seems like people that use nothing but Rosetta Stone rave about it, but people that have used other things and then tried Rosetta Stone have a lot of complaints when it comes to learning Japanese. My sense is (having never tried to use it) that it uses a lot of picture association, which might be nice for vocabulary, but it doesn't teach hiragana, katakana, or kanji and it doesn't teach grammar. From what I understand, sentence structure in Japanese in never explained, so you have to figure out how a sentence is structured on your own. That's a lot of work for $999.
Having studied multiple languages, I get suspicious when a program says it can use a single system to teach any language. That makes me think "oversimplification" as every language is its own system and doesn't necessarily fit into a universal teaching method unless it is just boiled down to vocabulary words.