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PostPosted: Wed 04 Jul 2012 6:56 pm 
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Sassy Lassie wrote:
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Unless they've changed it since we reviewed it at the old place, Rosetta Stone uses a Munster pronunciation, though not a pure Munster dialect.

I've not used it personally, but based on the many (often frustrated) questions we used to get about it at the other place, and on my daughter's experience with Rosetta Stone for Japanese, I have strong reservations about it (especially given the price) and would consider it, at best, to be a learning aid rather than a full-on teaching program. The advertising stresses the idea of learning a language in the same manner as a child learns his first language, but the reality is that adults aren't wired that way -- they really do need to know the "hows" and "whys" when learning a new language.

What my daughter found useful about the Japanese program is it did help with her pronunciation, and with making an automatic link between an image and the words describing it (we bought it for her when her Japanese class at school was dropped due to funding issues...she'd had about a year of Japanese instruction before that), but she also found it frustrating in many ways (particularly the lack of explanations regarding grammar).

From what I've seen, there are programs out there that will do what Rosetta Stone does at a fraction of the price.

Redwolf


I have Rosetta Stone. I called the company a few years ago and was informed that it is Munster dialect that they used. The program is easy to use. One of the problems I have had is that my brain doesn't always make the correct connection between the word/phase and the picture. Also, one needs a good Irish grammar book use with it.

Sassy


We had a Munster speaker once tell us that they use Munster pronunciation, but that they don't necessarily use other distinguishing features of the dialect. Whether that's the actualy case or not, I can't say, as I can't remember who it was that said that.

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I've used Rosetta Stone for a number of years in a number of languages and I've always found it to be relatively user friendly and pretty. The greatest drawback to it is it's price in my opinion, I've always gotten the use of it for free because of my job, but I don't know that I wouldn't rather find a nice speakers club or group that meets and just work with them; which is actually going to be my approach for the gaeilge. That way you can ask questions and get feedback.


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PostPosted: Thu 30 Aug 2012 2:57 am 
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Seán wrote:
I've used Rosetta Stone for a number of years in a number of languages and I've always found it to be relatively user friendly and pretty. The greatest drawback to it is it's price in my opinion, I've always gotten the use of it for free because of my job, but I don't know that I wouldn't rather find a nice speakers club or group that meets and just work with them; which is actually going to be my approach for the gaeilge. That way you can ask questions and get feedback.


Interacting with people can be a great way to learn a language. I believe you pick it up a lot faster, it makes it useful as you are speaking it, it overcomes peoples phobias about speaking languages they are leaning, which is a big factor with Irish and being in a group of friends that have the same interest as you can keep ya motivated. :good:

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