Rosetta Stone Hindi Level 1 with Audio Companion
$206.10
- Rosetta Stone teaches you a new language naturally, by getting you to think, live and breathe the language
- Innovative solutions get you speaking new words, right from the start
- Rosetta Stone moves forward only when you’re ready–you drive the pace, you set the schedule
- With Rosetta Stone, you’ll discover a foundation of key vocabulary that you’ll use to build into a whole new language
- Audio Companion lets you take the Rosetta Stone experience anywhere: in the car, at the gym, or on-the-go
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Rosetta Stone Hindi Level 1 with Audio Companion
Rosetta Stone is the best way to build a foundation for the language of your choice. I used to recommend Pimsleur instead to folks who like to study in the car, which is a great way to make use of a commuting time. But with Version 3, Rosetta Stone has closed the gap, offering companion CDs so it can also be used on the road.
I am not sure how this product would be for someone with no Hindi at all because I started with some ability to read the script and basic vocabulary. I found this to be the very best way for me, a visual learner, to acquire language.
The interface is highly intuitive, and you can track your progress. You can also focus on the type of exercises that meet your needs. If you just want to speak, you can pretty much ignore the writing and still learn.
I find I recall the things I learn in Rosetta Stone better than I do with other packages like Teach Yourself. I would recommend completing Rosetta Stone first, and if you want to advance further, then get a book/CD combo like Teach Yourself, which will be a lot more useful if you have already completed Rosetta Stone.
Rosetta Stone is not going to give you “near native fluency” or anything at that level. But it WILL help you become conversant quickly. You can also use this program to gain a foundation for Urdu, which is closely related (but has a different script).
Rosetta Stone sub se achaa hai!= Rosetta Stone is the Best!
Rating: 5 / 5
The listening comprehension is quite effective and each level is always a few steps ahead of my comfort zone, which definitely mimics the real world. I gave this program only 2 stars for the reason that the written portion of the program is completely useless unless you know how to read Hindi. The program does not teach you how to sound out the characters so I skipped that whole portion.
Rating: 2 / 5
RosettaStone always touts itself as being the BEST way to learn a foreign language. I purchased this to learn Hindi because I frequently travel to India. While it is good teaching how to say words (you must repeat them like a parrot), and the grammar is okay, it does not teach you at all how to write in the Devanagari script. For me, it is much easier to learn a language when I know how to read what I’m looking at. If you do not know the Hindi alphabet, you will not know how to discern the differences between the words raha and rahe.
The speakers are good, but there is one particular speaker with whom I had trouble understanding. The Hindi language is spoken much faster than English, so listening was difficult. Also, there is no way to pause while in the middle of a lesson. With software that costs this much, there should be a clickable icon to take you to the next lesson (or to at least pause) without proceeding automatically. If you miss something on a screen and want to review it after the lesson, you have to stop what you are doing (because it takes you to the next section of the lesson automatically), go back to the navigation portion of the lesson, choose where you missed the question, and start all over again with that lesson. This is EXTREMELY cumbersome when you want to review some things if you have not logged on for a week or so.
Overall, I am still on the fence about this software: on one hand, I am hoping that it will help me learn Hindi (not a whole lot of software resources are out there), but on the other, it was quite expensive seeing as how it is not easy to navigate through the lessons. Rosetta Stone Version 3: Hindi Level 1 with Audio Companion
Rating: 3 / 5