Rosetta Stone Gaelic?

[Canuck of NI]

I see that on Amazon there's a Rosetta Stone (TM) Irish language DVD set available- on Amazon.com (but not the Canadian version, which exists mostly to annoy Canucks who compare the two ) . Anyway, has any Rabble-ite used R Stone for the purpose? Also, can anyone explain the A.com reviewer who complained he was only give a few months to learn Irish levels 1, 2, and 3 before his set of all three expired? Do they go up in a puff of smoke like on the old Mission Impossible tv show?

[CaseyB]

I have the Rosetta Stone level 1 for Russian and I have never seen anything about an expiration date! I have no idea what that guy is talking about!

[Canuck of NI]

Thanks Casey. I was sort of assuming that reviewer misunderstood something- but these days they can do wonders with microchips and plastique... But did you find the Russian worth the extra cost. I know civil servants etc who rave about Rosetta Stone but they don't have to pay for it.

[Riverkilt]

Would also like to hear more about the realities of Rosetta Stone...saw the Irish Gaelic too and curious what one gets for the money.

And...Rosetta Stone in Navajo is being released in October...

[Piper]

I realize it's second hand information, but several years ago Uncle Sam sent my son for foreign language training to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA. Once I started seeing the ads for Rosetta Stone, I asked my son if he'd had any dealings with it. He told me he'd looked into it on his own, but was kind of underwhelmed with what you got for the money, it's not a cheap program.

[Guinness>water]

I've been using the Rosetta Stone Irish off and on for a couple months now. It agravates me alot, they want you to learn it like we did english. The dont want you to translate it in your head. You have to use the process of elimination alot and make educated guesses. There is no translation tool, you get it or you dont. Diurit(sp?) means hello (I guess) but they never tell you that, you have to figure it out on your own.

If you have ALOT of time to work with it, I'd say its worth the money. A few minutes here and there doesn't work very well.

[castledangerous]

I realize it's second hand information, but several years ago Uncle Sam sent my son for foreign language training to the Defense Language Institute in Monterey CA. Once I started seeing the ads for Rosetta Stone, I asked my son if he'd had any dealings with it. He told me he'd looked into it on his own, but was kind of underwhelmed with what you got for the money, it's not a cheap program.

Rosetta Stone is appropriate for a DLI student, since the cap badge has a representation of the actual Rosetta Stone on it. I went there for Russian

[MacBean]

I have trouble with language programs that treat adults as children. It is absolutely true, that to learn a language one must switch to the other side of the brain, like a child, and learn through osmosis. Once this is achieved, one learns amazingly quickly. However, I personally can't get to that happy osmotic state without passing first through the rational, organized language training with grammars, verb conjugations, etc. But then, I'm not very good with language; I speak only two, though I can read five or six.

[Burly Brute]

I don't know how true this is, but I have heard you can check out rosetta programs or something of the sort from public libraries. Food for thought I suppose.

[castledangerous]

I don't know how true this is, but I have heard you can check out rosetta programs or something of the sort from public libraries. Food for thought I suppose.

My library system had an on-line version you could use, but now they have Mango