Name: I Tested ROSETTA STONE JAPANESE | + 5 Hacks I Use to Speak
Uploaded: 2020-05-08T19:20:43.000Z
Duration: 14 min 18 s
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Hey! Hello everyone! It's Kemushi-chan Loretta.

so many of you have asked me to give my personal review of Rosetta Stone.

I speak Japanese, and in the video where I explained why, I mentioned that

I grew up down the street from the Rosetta Stone offices.

the one table that I was always really excited to go check out was the Rosetta Stone career fair table.

I mean honestly, Rosetta Loretta, Rosetta Stone.

How about Loretta Rocks? I've been juicing that joke for over two decades.

talk about five steps that helped me learn how to speak Japanese.

So, this video is actually in collaboration with Rosetta Stone

because you may have noticed I'm not holding any big yellow box with CD ROMs inside.

They actually have a new app, and they asked me to test it out,

and share my honest review with you guys.

You probably know the name of Rosetta Stone,

but from what I checked looking at the service already—

If you're like me and you've been trained in text books,

you're going to notice that this is a little bit different.

Rosetta Stone is a software, and now an app as well, that focuses on

language immersion through images and sound.

You're supposed to basically work through the language and get used to it more organically that way.

So when you first open it, you notice that there are a couple kind of core lessons.

Language basics, greetings and introductions, work and school, shopping, friends and social life.

It immediately asks you to start speaking.

The thing about Rosetta Stone Lifetime is that not only do you have the target language that you purchased,

but you also have access to every other language in the program.

Can the app actually handle writing and reading in different scripts that are not just romanization?

it actually started putting in hiragana in between the actual image and sound cards.

For "inu" (dog) there would be an image of an inu, and then い would show up

You can change it down to hiragana and katakana,

or if you're not trying to learn how to read and write at this exact moment in time,

and you just want to learn the sounds, you can still use just romaji.

I also peeked at the Mandarin Chinese as well,

and I saw that you could toggle in between—

you could choose between simplified or traditional Chinese as well.

There's a section called audio companion.

You can basically download the lessons beforehand and keep practicing.

There are stories that go along with every single unit.

"Ryouji works at a post office in Okinawa."

It checks your pronunciations, and you'll get this little green circle if it was okay.

By the very end of the lessons, if you work your way all the way through,

you're looking at a lower- to medium-intermediate level.

I think this is a good starting point if you are a beginner

or a lower-intermediate, and you're still getting used to the language,

but you want to learn to actually force yourself to speak, and to have your pronunciation checked.

But I think if you're trying to actually learn to read and write,

that's something that you're going to have to do outside of the app.

I think there are basically two types of people who could benefit from this app.

The first type is people who really want to travel. If you're anyone like me, for example,

and you want to travel and go to a bunch of different countries,

the Vietnamese, Mandarin Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese, etc.

When I travel to places, I want to be to speak a little bit of the language,

and I want to be able to pick up what I'm hearing.

That's part of the fun of traveling for me.

But I don't necessarily want to learn how to read and write textbook college level.

If you are an advanced tourist who likes to travel and be able to enjoy your time at the bar at the restaurant, etc,

using an app like this is something that could actually help you get speaking

and listening more quickly than if you sat down with a textbook.

if you're the type of person who's actually trying to learn

how to read and write and academically learn this language

so that you can go to school and/or get a job,

this is going to help you with your speaking and your listening,

I think that's something you'd still have to supplement on the side.

I would recommend first learning kana, hiragana, and katakana

so that you can use this app without having to use romaji.

Working through the lessons would be a lot more fun,

and you would be ready to travel a lot more quickly

if you use an app that focused on speaking like Rosetta Stone.

I honestly wish if they added like a JLPT course,

or if they added in something  like that,

I think that would be so cool because then you could actually focus on like the listening section.

Just my two cents from Loretta to Rosetta.

Personally, I'm actually excited about the lifetime app

because there are so many languages that are on this side of the globe.

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