Rosetta Stone Gaelic?

[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.

[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

[Burly Brute]

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

The fruit or the burly guy from Blazing Saddles? ;-)

[castledangerous]

http://www.mangolanguages.com/

[macshorty]

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.

It's too bad they don't teach Gaelic at DLI, otherwise I would have told my recruiter to send me there.