Name: Rosetta Stone
Rating: 4.4

LAST UPDATED: January 25th, 2022

Founded in 1992, Rosetta Stone is a language learning software company offering instruction in more than 25 languages. This is one of the most famous language learning programs in the United States. Many people will recognize its marketing within the last 20 years. It was even sold in mall kiosks.

Rosetta Stone's learning method is based on interactive language immersion, rather than an English explanation of each new word or concept. This immersion style program introduces new information through sights and sounds, phrases, and in-context conversations. The program uses a lot of image association and deductive reasoning to teach you how to react to grammatical patterns. It uses instant feedback (right/wrong), speech recognition, and repetition to teach languages. For a price, you can add online tutoring in a webinar with a live instructor.

While you used to be able to buy Rosetta Stone via CD-Rom sets, this option has been phased out for a more subscription-based system, but may be available for some languages. Subscribing gets you access via your web browser, as well as mobile apps, which offer the option to download lessons for times when you don’t have internet access. However, you subscribe to just one language. Adding a language to your account requires a fee.

If interested, you can start a free trial with three full days of access, without even entering a credit card. There are several membership options:

3-Month — $79
6-Month — $119
12-Month — $179
24-Month — $249

Rosetta Stone also offers special options for businesses and schools.

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Brooklyn Jensen Provo, UT

This app asks you what your language abilities are (Beginner, intermediate, proficient) and what your goal is. It then matches you to lessons according to your skill. The lessons I did are essentially matching sentences to pictures by reading and listening to the sentences. It is a good way to practice understanding a language while listening or reading.

5 years ago

Saylor D Herriman, UT

Rosetta Stone was very easy to use and helped me learn German quickly. I picked up new vocabulary and was able to put together sentences fairly easily. I liked the lessons; they were the right length and offered good feedback on my pronunciation.

4 years ago Edited January 13, 2022

Mindy Smith Smithfield, UT

I have been really impressed with the costumer service at this company. We purchased this program for my mom to learn Spanish and she didn't love the idea of it all. We ended up canceling it but they were fantastic to work with us, knowing it was a gift!

Rocio Diaz Tallahassee, FL

I have used Rosetta Stone since the days when you needed to insert a CD to use it. I feel that Rosetta Stone has a great method in teaching people languages, however I feel that it has been taken over by free apps such as Duolingo.

6 years ago

Kogan Powell West Valley City, UT

While Rosetta Stone IS an incredibly efficient format for language learning, I feel like you NEED at least some supplementary instruction in your selected language to go along with it. The "immersion method" just goes too fast and you get lost easily if you don't have an outside source in your native tongue to practice and verify concepts with.

Mickey Mangum Long Beach, MS

I was gifted Rosetta Stone for Japanese for a planned trip to Japan. I found the cords to be quite good, well organized and easy to navigate. Like anything the key to success is persistence. The program itself is great but you have to do the repetition to learn.

Jacks Friend Riverton, UT

We got Rosetta Stone Chinese for Christmas. I was excited to learn but found it hard to always go put the disk in for the program. Maybe times have changed and it's digital now.

4 years ago

Erna Valcin Tallahassee, FL

This was a great learning tool for my mother when she was learning English after arriving from her native land. It helped me guide her through that process to now a fluent woman I know.

Gabe Burton Riverton, UT

Worked really well for me, a little expensive, and kind of hard, but that's exactly what I was looking for. It's easy to go through the lessons and retain the new characters I have memorized.

Shawn Cortes Salt Lake City, UT

I really enjoy using Rosetta Stone. My favorite feature is how it will listen to your pronunciation and grade you on it. Though this feature at times doesn’t work.

JR Suguturaga Orem, UT

Rosetta is a well established company and provides a good, easy process to learn a new language. The program was simple and fun to participate and learn.

Bryndie Managua, MN

Super awesome way to learn another language. There’s a lot more “real life” practice which is nice and it prompts you to say things out loud which is very helpful.

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