First of all, you need to consider what YOUR learning style is and match it to the program.
Rosetta Stone uses the immersion method, which works very well for some people. It basically just means being thrown in at the deep end, hearing it as if you were in that country, learning by example with very little rhyme or reason, let alone a system.
However, if that style doesn't suit you, you'll hate it.
I am the other type of learner. I need rules, I need grammar lessons, I need structure. If I don't have those, I'll never get it.
Thankfully I learned English the structured way, as well as my little bit of Italian.
I have tried doing Spanish the immersion way, but I just can't make sense of it that way. |