Is Rosetta Stone Spanish worth the cost? I am looking to speak Spanish fluently.?
I already have 4 years of spanish in high school and 2 yrs in college. I can understand it and have an excellent vocabulary in it. I am looking to be able to speak it in 4 yrs by the time I graduate from Chiropractors school. With this program is speaking Spanish fluently obtainable?
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Honestly, no. Rosetta Stone does a good job in giving you the basics and getting you to think in their way of grammar. However, you should check on craigslist or somewhere else for a private tutor that can just converse with you every once in awhile. Once you start conversing with another Spanish speaker, since you already have a good foundation, you will be able to learn more this way than with Rosetta Stone. That program only gets you so far.
Since you seem to have already built yourself a good foundation in Spanish, paying for overpriced software such as Rosetta Stone wouldn`t seem worth it to me. All you would need is probably just a bit of practice to polish your language skills, and that is best done in the presence of a native speaker, not a computer monitor.
Websites like http://www.livemocha.com
http://www.myhappyplanet.com
Help connect you to native speakers who you can practice with. You don`t have to pay for anything, plus it`s the best way to learn (next to immersion) imo.
Speaking Spanish fluently comes only from speaking to Spanish speaking people a lot.
This is the cold hard fact of the communication process.
You can get on Yahoo Instant messenger with someone from Spain and have a conversation. You will get more from that than any language program available for any number of dollars.
Rosetta Stone is hyped for people who purchase based on price.
As if something that is the most expensive has to be the best. There are so many people in the wold that think this way. You can cut a hamburger in half with a plastic knife or a two thousand dollar German piece of handmade cutlery. Those Germans sell a lot of knives.