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| Rosetta Stone V3: Spanish (Latin America), Level 1, 2 & 3 | 
 enlarge | From: Rosetta Stone
Category: Software
List Price: $499.00
Buy New: $449.10
You Save: $49.90 (10%)
New (2) Used (2) from $199.99
Avg. Customer Rating:  58 reviews
Sales Rank: 61
Format: Cd-rom
Platforms: Windows Vista, Windows 2000, Windows Xp, Mac Os X
Media: CD-ROM
Edition: Level 1, 2 & 3
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.5
Dimensions (in): 9.9 x 8.2 x 2.4
MPN: 1580229174
UPC: 794678291746
EAN: 0794678291746
ASIN: B000P85CUK
Release Date: August 28, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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| Customer Reviews:
 Good, but not Great March 22, 2008
4 out of 5 found this review helpful
This is a reasonable tutorial for (my choice) Spanish, but I think the designers focused too much on flash and not enough on pedagogical content. The presentation is fine and you can learn much from it. It's just that it isn't as good as some people seem to believe. I think that the Pimsleur audio tapes (3 volumes), although old school in approach, are still the best Spanish learning tool available.
 Extremely frustrating March 13, 2008
31 out of 55 found this review helpful
I purchased this product because I wanted to brush up on my Spanish. As a graduate student I passed a fluency examination in Spanish. However, I found Rosetta Stone extremely frustrating to use. One, many of the lessons are repetitive on a level that is just too simple. They could be given to a person with zero knowledge of the language and they would pass with flying colors, but have no idea how to speak or write the language. Second, the program has you repeating very basic sounds and often the sound response the user speaks is rejected by the software. It quickly becomes a game, where the point is NOT to speak the language with the best possible accent, but just to get past the Rosetta accent gateway. Also, so many of the sounds are just too basic. I learned nothing after hours of painful repetition. I know that I have at least a very decent accent, because of my past education and my travels in Latin America, but time and again, the software stopped me, until I just had to skip the lesson and once you start skipping lessons, the application has you re-doing earlier lessons, if you follow its internal logic.
After trying it for about three weeks, I just became too frustrating for me and I'm returning it. I'm also rather amazed at the plethora of good reviews this product has received. My experience cannot be unique and it makes me a little suspicious of the veracity of the other reviewers.
 Pretty good product March 10, 2008
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
The product is the best I've used but it can be a little confusing. One part of the program is matching words or sentences to pictures and in some of them you can't always figure out what they are saying. The program I have is all in Spanish and there is no place to get a translation if you want it. Other then that it is a great product. I have only had it for a month and have learned a lot.
Works Perfect with Windows Vista March 9, 2008
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I just wanted to say that Rosetta Stone works perfect with Windows Vista. Don't listen to other reviews, they may refer to previous versions but the version 3 works great & I had no problem setting it up & using it on my computer.
 Rave for RV3 running on a Mac March 6, 2008
11 out of 13 found this review helpful
I recently purchased Rosetta Stone V3.02 French and have found it practical, fun, easy to install and addictive.
Contrary to what was stated in an earlier review, the installation on a Mac running the Leopard OS was painless and as simple as what one would find with any other Mac application. There were no accessory files or extra steps: simply dragging and dropping an icon into the Application Folder.
After moving through the first 3 units, I've found myself internalizing a surprising amount of vocabulary, grammar and structure in a way that is natural and unlabored. We're going to be traveling to France in a few weeks and In effect it has allowed me to immerse myself in the language in advance, initially at a very simple, but increasingly more advanced, level. It's a fun and effective way to prime the language neurons before embarking on a trip. Three members of our family are using it so we're finding it is far more cost effective than taking a formal class and because of the immersion and repetition we're finding it incredibly effective.
Many thumbs up.
Andrew
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