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Rosetta Stone Spanish is a popular course that has been around for many years. They claim that it has been used with great success by venerable government agencies such as the US State Department and NASA. It is a unique learn Spanish software program that can teach you Spanish without the need to write anything down or take any notes. It uses a teaching technique that I believe is unique to Rosetta Stone….

Rosetta Stone refer to their teaching method as dynamic immersion. Most people agree that immersing yourself in a language is the best way to learn. Saturate yourself in the language and over time it will stick.

Humans are wired to speak and connect objects, people and things with some kind of sound.

The Rosetta Stone Spanish program level 1 is a software program. It is compatible with PC and Mac computers. It is listed as the beginner level and will get you to a basic conversational level. On the surface it would seem to be a very simple piece of software.

You are asked a question and shown 4 pictures. One of the pictures is the best answer to the question you have just been asked. Click the picture and you get a tick. This moves you onto the next question/picture set. If you get the answer wrong, you get a cross and have to make another guess.

Rosetta stone teaches reading, writing, comprehension and even speaking. Based of the skill that you are learning the question will be just text, expect you to write text as an answer, just be sound or you repeat a sentence to get your pronunciation tested.

In terms of speaking, you are supplied with a microphone and headset. There is a voice recognition component to the program which overlays your spoken words with that of a native Spanish speaker. If it is close enough to the native Spanish speaker then you get a tick and move to the next question.

The entire course (apart from the voice recognition software) is a series of questions and pictures. In some cases there are 4 pictures and at other times there are 6 pictures. The quality of the pictures is excellent and the meaning of the pictures is not confusing. In other words, the selection of pictures is very well thought which is essential for this teaching method to work. See how Rosetta Stone works.

The teaching method is called dynamic immersion and the principle behind it is similar to how you learned your native or mother tongue. As a baby or child, you learn your new language by building a  connection with an object and a word.

For instance, you are given a banana by your mother. She says banana. This is registered in your brain. Over time, your mother and other people around you add  extra words to banana – yellow banana, eat banana, etc. As you grow, you meet new objects, people and things and they are given a name or a word.

Over the first year of  a baby’s life, he/she is taking in words and forming connections between these words and objects. After about a year, the baby starts to voice these words. First he/she might try simple words or words that are particularly dear to him. So ma, mummy, dad, daddy may be the first words he/she says.

From this point the baby will try to speak more and more words until he/she is speaking. At this stage you could say that he/she speaks a language. Of course it will take years to master the intricacies of the language but he/she is on the road to learning and speaking a language that will take him/her through life.

Rosetta Stone uses this approach to learning a language. It is a painless process that doesn’t rely on the student to write things down or memorize things. The point of the teaching is for it to become intuitively learned. You just know what the word or sentence means because you have made a connection in your head with some object, person, thing or even sensation. It just works, but it does take time.

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