by Richard Cluderay
(Berkshire UK)
after studying rosetta stone for 2 1/2 years I find the vocab repetative (in a limited way) and it just doesn't immerse you in the way you need. If you estimate the number of words you need to be reasonably fluent and control a conversation, you can bet that after a couple of years you could hear two people speaking in their native language and you may pick up 1 in 20 words. you really have to do a lot of study outside rosetta and in that respect it is lacking. I think the product is largely serving it self and not the customer.