Customer Reviews

Rosetta Stone V2: Latin, Level 1

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The Rosetta Stone Latin is fabulous. My daughter often completes more than one lesson at a time. It is great the way this approach teaches like a person learning a first language--getting familiar with how things sound rather than cumbersome rules (and Latin has plenty). Think Latin is a "dead" language? It is alive in all the Romance languages and in English. In addition to helping understand grammatical structure, this is going to help my daughter on her SATs as well as learning additional languages.

I can't stop once I start with this product. I will most likely contintue with French, Spanish, and Portuguese. You will not be disappointed. Its worth the money.

Overall this has expanded my Latin vocabulary but the dialect drives me crazy. Rosetta Stone needs a separate program for ecclestical Latin (which is actually spoken as opposed to classical.) Other than the dialect issues this is a good program.

This product is not that great, from my point of view. The problem is that it teaches Latin "naturally", i.e., the way children learn their native language. It sounds like a good idea, and it sort of works. However, there are just too many instances when I've had to break out of the program and search the web to gain complete understanding of what I'm learning. Yes, occasionally I get an "aha!" moment, but there are many times when I just want to click on an icon and have grammer and vocabulary help pop up relative to whatever screen I happen to be on.

There is also far too much repetition; how many times do I have to learn the word for "fish"? And the end-of-chapter reviews, they simply repeat the earlier lessons, and do not measure what has been learned.

All this is related to version 2, so maybe version 3 is better. Since there don't seem to be any competing products, Rosetta Stone may be the only game in town.

In the meantime, I've purchased a copy of Wheelocks Latin. Maybe I can work the two products together.

This product works as claim. Loaded up and works perfect. I have the Hindi and my daughter the Latin. Fantastic; don't brother with any other product. Rosetta Stone is the best. It really is.