Why I buy this one ?
- This powerful 2-CD set of learning tools adapts to your personal needs and imparts a strong foundation in a new language
- With this award-winning method used by NASA and the Peace Corps, you'll learn the way children do -- by associating words and phrases with the world around you
- Participate in over 200 lessons where you'll interact with fluent Spanish speakers to build speaking & vocabulary skills
- Get a full tutorial in speaking and syntax skills
- Graphical speech recognition displays your voiceprint and compares it to native speakers to help improve pronunciation

What our customer's say!

"In Mayland - no longer available at libraries", From Montgomery County Maryland Public Library website:


Effective January 31, 2008, Rosetta Stone is no longer available via the Montgomery County Public Libraries' website. Rosetta Stone has made the business decision to discontinue providing this resource to all public libraries as current subscriptions expire. We are disappointed by this news and we regret the inconvenience that it may cause our customers.

"Does not meet expectations - try Pimsleur", I spent a lot of money on this program, and, so far, all it's doing is MAYBE teaching me to RECOGNIZE what is being said - not to speak it. There is absolutely no English translation (in Level I anyway), no breakdown of pronunciation, and no opportunity to construct NEW sentences with words I've already learned. All you do is look at pictures and repeat what is already written or spoken to you. I've already made it through Pimsleur Spanish I and I'm into II and I've learned so much more. Pimsleur is slower on vocabulary, but when you learn it, you learn how to conjugate and incorporate it into an original sentence. The bottom line is, I feel Rosetta stone can only be used as a supplement to other programs I'm studying - a very expensive supplement.

"Where is it?", I would love to do a review a product I've heard so many wonderful things about, but it never arrived. Called customer service (somewhere in India apparently) only to have their computers either "broken down" or "updating". All this for a week straight. Also, they would say their systems are down and just hang up on you on a few occasions. There is another language I'd like to use....

"Decent But Do Not Use This While Driving. Use Behind the Wheel Spanish Instead!", Rosetta Stone is clearly overrated but solid.
The problem with the overall approach is that it requires that you spend your learning time in front of a computer, which is where you do everything else. Lot's of competition.
I prefer to do my language learning during my otherwise wasted downtime while I drive. If I study a language while driving, I win because I use otherwise wasted hours. I, like most Americans, spend more time driving than ever before. When I get home, I want to do other essentials.
My favorite car Spanish course is Behind the Wheel Spanish 8 CD. Free up your computer and learn Spanish while you drive is my recommendation.Behind the Wheel Spanish/Complete Illustrated Text/Answer Keys/8 One Hour

"Rosetta Stone Spanish ", It is simple to use and makes learning Spanish much eaiser and you can progress at your own pace

Read this reviews before You buy...

"What's the quickest and easiest way to learn Spanish?", I bought this product after reading the many reviews at Amazon (good and bad) and seeing countless ads in the media. This seems to be a pretty decent piece of software for learning Spanish. But with one caveat:

You must already have a basic knowledge of Spanish. This software is more of a vocabulary builder for someone that has already achieved a basic understanding of the language. What you do with this software is see pictures and repeat phrases. You are not taught any grammar from this course. And much of the vocabulary is not useful for conversation. This course does a very thorough job teaching vocabulary while using the present progressive tense in Spanish. But there's a problem with that. Spanish speakers don't use the present progressive tense as frequently as we do. I often hear them use the present tense where we like to use the present progressive tense.

From the graphics and the software's interface, I get the impression that a new version of this software has not been created in many years. The graphics are from the 1980s. Possibly, the 1970s. If I was involved with this company's management, I would invest more into upgrading the software and spending more money on Research and Development and less money on advertising. If customer's think the software is great, the customers will do the advertising for the company through simple word of mouth. With that said, I did learn more from the Rosetta Stone Software than I learned before I started with the software.

I won't say that I am a connoisseur of Spanish-learning products, but I will say that I have spent enough money and time on language-learning products to know something about what it takes to learn Spanish quickly and easily. After spending so much money on learning-Spanish products that I am embarrassed to tell anyone how much I spent, this is an outline of the method that I found to be the fastest and easiest:

I advise getting a good phrase book like Easy Spanish Phrase Book: Over 770 Basic Phrases for Everyday Use (Dover Easy Phrase) Get a good dictionary Merriam-Webster's Spanish-English Dictionary And verb conjugation book The Big Red Book of Spanish Verbs: 555 Fully Conjugated Verbs and an audio Spanish course Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1. Be careful with the audio based Spanish product that you buy because many of them don't teach the Spanish that Spanish speakers in the U.S. and Latin America use today. The audio Spanish lessons that have done the best job for me teaching me the Spanish that Spanish speakers use in the U.S. and Latin America today is
Learning Spanish Like Crazy: Spoken Spanish, Vol. 1. I can appreciate the Spanish that I have learned from other courses, but the Spanish that I have learned from LSLC has been the most useful and practical Spanish that I have learned.





"Awesome Product", I bought this for my mom and she loves it. It's the best program she has ever used and she would recommmend it to others. Very user friendly and comprehensive. It is challenging which is a huge plus.

"excellent", I took Spanish in high school and bought this to review for my college classes. Very helpful. If you have never had Spanish it's wonderful. My mom uses it and is learning a lot.

"Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin Americ) Level 1 & 2", This really works, but you must stick with it. Not as convenient as CD's that you can play in your car, bur definately the thing if you're serious about learning the language.

"AWESOME PROGRAM!", The program can be hard to follow if you don't know how it works. Many of the negative reviews seem to be from people who don't completely understand the purpose and method of the program. If you don't get it, go to your local mall and ask the rosetta stone employees to show you a demo. It clears everything up 100%. The program is an immersion program so there is absolutely no english in the program. Therefore, you are learning like a child again through picture and sound recognition(without translating back and forth from English into Spanish). I love the program and everyone should try it out. Beware! If you buy it from amazon you do not get the 6 month return policy.