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[Kamisama]

Alright, so I tried a little bit of Rosetta stone.
What do I think?

Well number 1, they do teach you the japanese language, but not as great as I would think they should.

Number 2. They didn't really introduce particles nor explain them...
(maybe it's the program i have)

number 3: It relies on the user to teach themselves...


The program provided sounds it also gave you a 3 step process from romaji to kana to kanji when relating to words.

It also provides font characters from romaji/kana/kanji.

pictures are associated to words so they sound it out and you click the picture the phrase/word represents.

How would I rate this?

I would rate this poorly because it did not meet my expectations of a langauge teaching program.. Best thing i've seen around is the ASL Browser (http://commtechlab.msu.edu/sites/aslweb/browser.htm)
where all a person has to do is : Monkey see, monkey do.

I would rather see a webpage that explains and teaches me the language instead of pictures and a bit of font.

Any comments?

[TwistedMac]

I tried the rosetta stone.
Good for learning words I'd say...

But as I still can't even have a normal conversation in japanese, I can't really judge what's good and what's bad in learning material. I think that should be left to those that know.

[Kamisama]

By the way, i think they say that NASA and all these important people use it for study.. pshhh... must be some baka astronauts..

[TwistedMac]

atleast they use the russian version of it, that much I know.. why the astronauts would want to know japanese is beyond me :p

I think they just use the russian rosetta stone and rosetta might wanna brag about that on all their cases.