Readers Preference Reviews

Rosetta Stone has done a media blitz of recent months.  To address your comment about their product being used by government take a look at every software, audio cd, and audio cassette version of foreign language programs.  They will all say that.  For most of the government offices they produce a list of products that they approve for members to use to learn a foreign language.  These are products that are good enough that if the employee is required to learn another language then they will provide assistance in purchasing the course.  Pretty much every foreign language program is on the list.

The next time you are in a software store take a look at the packaging for Instant Immersion or Power-Glide, they all say the same thing.  Even the old Berlitz program makes the same claims to be the program selected by the Government for language training.  To be technical they are all correct, to be realistic, it is not much of a claim and I would be really concerned about anyone who could not make the claim.

That being said, I have not reviewed Rosetta Stone for one simple reason... I requested a review copy and they did not provide one.  Perhaps they felt their company to be too large to need the review, perhaps they did not want an independent review.  And, of course it coudl be any reason between those extremes.  The only thing I can say for sure is that they did not provide product to review.  To date the most effective one I have received and tried out has been Instant Immersion.