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Until now I resisted writing a comprehensive review, because I always found their product incredibly bad. It was expensive, boring, and not very effective.

Has it changed since then? Let's find out.

Updated January, 2021.

I first tried Rosetta Stone about 15 years ago.

It came in this big, yellow cardboard box, and with a hefty price tag of around $500 for a language.

And it was truly awful.

Has the product improved since then? This is what this updated review is all about.

Contentshide1Summary of this review:2What is Rosetta Stone?3Which languages can you learn with Rosetta Stone?4First Impressions5Course Contents5.1The Lessons5.2Tutoring Sessions6Other content6.1Games6.2Talk6.3Stories7Mobile Application8What does Rosetta Stone Cost in 2020?8.1Rosetta Stone Cashback: 11% Discount with Quidco8.2The REAL price of Rosetta Stone9How Good is Rosetta Stone?10Conclusion10.1What I like10.2What I don't like11Rosetta Stone Reviews12Rosetta Stone Alternatives

Summary of this review:

Going back to Rosetta Stone after more than a decade away from it, was a bit like opening up an old lunchbox, but discovering that you left some bread in it which has now gone completely mouldy.

It's a very basic way to learn languages with, that does not warrant paying $15-$20 a month, or $300+ for lifetime access for.

It has not aged well, with the many new courses, apps, and technology that is now available.

Skip Rosetta Stone, and just download Duolingo. You won't regret it.

What is Rosetta Stone?

Released in 1992, the Rosetta Stone Language learning software was ahead of its time.

One of the founders, Allen Stoltzfus had learned German using an immersive method, and when he attempted to learn Russian in a class-room setting he found the latter much less efficient and boring.

Unfortunately, in 1984 when he got the idea to use computers to aid in language learning, the computer was simply not powerful enough to even show images to the user, which is why Rosetta Stone wasn't publicly released and available until 1992 when CD-ROMs had become mainstream and capable of storing larger amounts of data.

Due to its first-mover advantage, and the initial success of making language learning abundandently available Rosetta Stone became a huge company, which allowed it to pour millions of dollars into advertising.

Not long after, there wasn't many Americans who hadn't heard of Rosetta Stone, and for many years this was the ONLY language learning method/software/solution that anyone had heard of.

Since then there has been a lot of developments in software, technology, and education and Rosetta Stone has slowly faded into the shadows of other big language learning companies like Duolingo.

Evidence of its former glory

If you take a look at the Rosetta Stone Wiki page, and the company wiki page you'll see a long list of awards:

But, notice one thing: The last one was received in 2014, and the latest awards were received based on app design, user's choice, and general user experience evaluations, none of the awards since 2011 praised the actual educational content.

We're now in 2020, so the last time Rosetta Stone was awarded any recognition was 4+ years ago.

That's ages in software.

But, a well-renowned company, with a lot of income and lots of language experts can surely improve their offer from 28 years ago?

Let's jump in and see exactly how Rosetta Stone looks today.

Which languages can you learn with Rosetta Stone?

Rosetta Stone is available in 27+ languages, with the following 24 of them available with the new online subscription model:

Castillean Spanish
Latin-American Spanish
French
German
Italian
Japanese
English
Arabic
Chinese
Dutch
American English
Filipino
Greek
Hebrew
Hindi
Irish
Korean
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Russian
Swedish
Turkish
Vietnamese

The following courses only made it to version 2 of Rosetta Stone, and is currently not offered for sale anywhere:

Danish
Thai
Welsh

First Impressions

I jumped on to test the Swedish and Spanish versions.

As they graciously give you a 3-day free trial, I didn't have to donate any money to Rosetta Stone to produce this review today, phew!

But, unfortunately that's where my joy stopped as I was met with an instant flashback to 15 years ago.

It's exactly the same!

Yes, the user interface is a little more refined, and the graphical side is updated to reflect modern standards.

But, it's still match this word or phrase with a picture.

Over, and over, and over, and over again.

You can see this video for my initial reactions, where I also summarise some thoughts about Rosetta Stone in General:

Course Contents

The Lessons

Here are the contents of a typical Rosetta Stone course.

The recommendation is to do 30 minutes a day, for 6 weeks to complete each unit.

Inside each unit the training is exactly the same.

You're shown a word or sentence in the target language and you have to match it up to the pictures shown below.

Sometimes you have to speak the word / sentence, and the software will evaluate how well you performed.

I'll talk more about that in a second.

Other times you simply match by clicking the correspondin image.

Target Language Only

One important note about Rosetta Stone is that it used to have a policy of absolutely no English or translations in the software.

Whilst it seems to be making certain updates to limit this rule around the courses, most of them are still target-language only.

As I recently talked with an English teacher working in Russia about, there are times where it makes a lot more sense to use people's native language (or English) to quickly explain a concept rather than spending 10-15 minutes having to explain it in basic target language that the learner can understand.

Besides, some really useful pieces of vocabulary are really hard to explain to beginners, which is why I think having a zero-tolerance policy on translations and english is a bit dumb.

I don't mind it too much, it doesn't take a lot of points away from Rosetta Stone, but I think it's worth mentioning here anyway.

Voice Recognition

A significant part of Rosetta Stone has always been the voice recognition, which prompts you to speak the vocabulary out loud as you are learning it.

I never liked voice recognition in language learning, because they are just not very good, so overly relying on them are bound to give false positives, and a false sense of confidence, when you deep-down know that you are not pronouncing the word correctly.

Plus, in my limited test, I was able to fool the pronunciation checker multiple times in Swedish.

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