Rosetta Stone: Learn Languages App Reviews

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Fast and engaging way to learn, especially for beginner and intermediate learners. I’ve used Rosetta Stone off and on for years now. When I first traveled to China, I had powered through level 1 mandarin a few months before the trip and everyone I met said my accident was SO good, even though my vocabulary was still at beginner level. Still, I had the skills and confidence to try living and socializing in China. I attribute Rosetta Stone with this early success. Since then, I’ve gone on to study mandarin in graduate school and in a semester in China, and I still use mandarin level 4-5 to brush up on my skills. The combination of engaging visuals, plus authentic chinese audio and the option to use real Chinese characters plus pinyin (written Chinese for English speakers) also gave me confidence jumping into the wild world of written characters. Once you get to advanced language levels, you will definitely want to supplement Rosetta Stone with advanced book learning (think formal classroom textbooks) and plenty of conversation with real speakers, but even then Rosetta is still useful for brushing up on key vocabulary with good visuals. Especially for the beginner and intermediate learner, I can’t speak highly enough if Rosetta Stone. If I could suggest one improvement, bring back the games and make more of them!! This was a fun way to keep learning the language when maybe I was too brain-drained after work to do a full lesson.

Love the immersion!. I found my way to this app after I had done some Duolingo.I am learning french and if anyone is learning french they also know how particular it can be. When I got to a certain point on Duolingo they made it difficult for me because all they want you to do is translate things into your own language. While I understand their point, it didn’t work for me and maybe Duolingo is good for a language that you just want to brush up on. Once I got Rosetta Stone though I made more progress and I continue to...I am also close to a native french speaker so that’s kind of an unfair advantage but with Rosetta Stone’s immersion technique you don’t see any of your first language in the lessons (other than things like pause and the names of the units and lessons of course) and that helps me stay focused and learn in the best way possible. I do plan on reading books in French after and finish a workbook (as I would recommend anyone do) because (at the moment) with my version of Rosetta Stone I don’t ever get to type out sentences as a mean of practicing grammar. Hopefully I will be able to come back and write a review in French :)

Glitchy app, decent program. Rosetta Stone is way better on the computer, the app doesn’t do it justice. This app isn’t bad- I wish that they had a portion of the Greek class go over the alphabet, because if I didn’t already know most of how it sounds then I would be kind of lost. But I guess that’s part of the immersion, so it’s not a totally bad thing —but the main thing that’s frustrating is the audio clips, as they tend to glitch out for me. So for the questions where they speak a phrase, almost every single time I can only hear a portion or a word of the phrase. Other times, I hear like a syllable. A weird noise and then that’s it. I’m not sure if this is only for Greek or not, I haven’t tried the other courses yet. This is why not having the alphabet part can be frustrating, because if I forget how a letter is pronounced, the audio clips can’t help. The app is also pretty slow. There are long delays between selecting an answer and having it register, and it’s crashed several times. I’m not too impressed with it. Overall, despite these bugs it’s not terrible. The lessons themselves are decent I guess- but even though the program is great on the computer, for an app you’re way better off with something like Duolingo, which is free and wayyy less buggy.

Terrible! use Duolingo. This app is weird, stupid, obscure and terrible. I think the reviews that are positive are fake. Deliberately confusing seems to be the modus operandi. I have learned much, much more from the free version of Duolingo. One thing you need to know about Duolingo is you can get health back by practice. This app seemed good during the small free part, it’s no surprise they want you to pay for the whole thing upfront, no one would continue if it were a monthly plan. Save your money! Ridiculous scenarios are given with vague pictures and you’re supposed to supply the dialogue, I couldn’t provide the dialogue in my native language let alone in a foreign language. Stupid stupid stupid deliberately vague aggravating, and they know it and don’t do anything about it. The microphone works only intermittently sometimes the speakers don’t work either, supposedly the app is saying something but you don’t hear anything and it Marks you wrong when it’s never said anything. Incredibly aggravating makes my blood boil. I don’t know why I ever spent any money on this app. It pisses me off to read all the reviews and they tell you to go inside the app and report the problem. I took the time to tell you what the problem was- go fix it don’t tell me to go report it somewhere else!

level two mandarin, and I’m already smarter.. I’m only on level 2 mandarin and I feel like I learned so much already. The lesson throws you right into short sentences and basic objects. Which at first was very intimidating. It doesn’t translate the meanings for you like one would learn in a traditional class. You just have to figure out what is going on or being said. But that’s the best part! After the end of level 1 you I was able to grasp one or two words in the phrases, enough to understand what the picture was describing. I.e. I know the word Apple, I see the word Apple in the test question, so I’ll match it with the picture of an Apple. Once you lean one or two key phrases or words they continue to reinforce those teachings and build off them in future lessons. It felt like I was leaning at an accelerated rate. But it wasn’t easy at first, failure was a close friend. Some time the pictures didn’t match what I thought. I.e. “Is the old payday the grandma, the aunt or the mother?...oh it’s the sister.” I would highly recommend Rosetta Stone.

Finally Learning French. My adult daughter purchased a family subscription to DuoLingo so that she, her teenage daughter, and myself could all learn French together. Since I live distantly, this would be a fun way to learn AND have something that just the women of the family did. After almost a year of daily use of the application, I had a book of handwritten notes, three different French-English dictionaries ( one is in order of word most used which is really cool), print outs of verb conjugations….get the picture? I was frustrated that I still did not feel comfortable approaching a fluent speaker of French at work. I had no confidence in spending, writing, or in any way USING the language I was putting so much time and energy into! Then, my wonderful husband, who has been present for the majority of my D.L. Lessons, gave me a subscription to Rosetta Stone for my recent birthday. He lived in LaRochelle, France as a child and I truly believe he had forgotten less of the language than I had up to that point learned. After three weeks with only five days a week classes that are at MY pace, I am using French! I have posted on social media using French. Had a rudementary exchange at work en Français. Have to correct text and typed words for American versus French spelling. I am retaining the phrases because they are applicable to daily life. I hope I am offered the opportunity to leave a review again…I’ll include some of the crazy phases DL had me practice.

Somewhat satisfied. The app is very easy to use and I love how it teaches you different ways to learn a language. I did not purchase anything on the app and I still learned a lot. There are two things I want to address, which I hope can be changed sooner than later. I specifically chose Mandarin as the language I wanted to learn. I understand Rosetta Stone wants us to fully immerse ourselves when learning a different language. However, I often felt as if I was learning pronunciation and phrases, but not really learning what it translates to. This would definitely help me use the language outside of the app and give me more confidence if I knew the exact English translation to ensure I’m using the term/sentence correctly during a conversation. Another thing that was addressed in the FAQs but still had problems with is the speech portion. I had to redo the speaking lesson a few times due to it stating I said it incorrectly and picking up words I didn’t say. For example, when I spoke into the phone to say “bao”, the app mistook it and put “guo.” It was extremely frustrating to have to redo a lesson multiple times due to the mic picking up a different sound.

Rosetta Stone understands how the human brain works with regard to language acquisition. Rosetta Stone is still the only program I know of which effectively teaches languages from the very beginning to an advanced level entirely in the target language. They leverage images in lieu of translations. They understand neuroscience and the human memory. Any good memory expert will tell you that to remember a word, you need attach to an image, not merely another word ie a translation. They start slow moving quickly from single words, to phrases, to sentences to conversations. They also teach grammar naturally. Remember when you learned your native language, you already knew intuitively how to conjugate verbs before you ever knew what “verbs” or “conjugations” ever were. Rosetta Stone is like gym membership. Just like a dumb bell, if you pick it up often enough you WILL strengthen your biceps, if you sit down with Rosetta often enough you WILL work your brain and you WILL learn well. It’s not a matter of if it will work, it’s a matter if whether or not you are willing to invest the time and the money. It’s a fabulous and wildly underrated and misunderstood softwares of all time. I give it my highest recommendation. David Dapron MA in Spanish

Horrible subscription service. I am not trying to hate on the app, what I’m saying is that… well, just what the title says. Recently I got “kicked” from my account and lost my subscription. And it literally says that it was a Lifetime subscription! Hey, stop trying to mislead people into getting this “lifetime” subscription, it’s stupid, and offending. My father knows that these are tactics to steal money from pockets, and if that is true, then I won’t forgive the subscriptions. I will continue to use Rosetta Stone, rebuy the pass, and know that that I will be logged out and do this over and over again. What a fun endless cycle of subscriptions this is. Oh, and some lessons are horrible, offering duplicate answers and “repeat after the sentence” is bad, so I switched it off. Wait! I have one more complaint. Want to learn to be truly fluent in a language? Well, you have to be a corporate person. The advanced language skills are for business use only, so good luck. And in my opinion, they are unreasonably age rated, and it just looks dumb. So how about the developers move all the advanced skills to the main app? Would be a relief. Sorry for being a “I want to talk to the manager” person but I am being honest. Well, I am still using the app and enjoy it, so these are only red flags. Hopefully people will see this and get it with a word of caution.

App is a little frustrating & confusing layout. I enjoy the app, but it has an odd setup. I want to redo some of my old lesson plans on the Home tab, but see no option to do so. I’ve been out of the app for a bit, so wanted to redo the older lessons as a refresher but when I click on it, it only shows my previous score. It also says I’m on week 3 but then in the plan overview, it says only week 1 is completed. Perhaps I can redo on the Learn tab, but locating the lessons I did on the Home tab is impossible. It doesn’t line up at all, so I have no idea where to find the specific lesson I wanted to redo. Also, the pronunciation /story read back parts are the most frustrating. I love reading and hearing the stories in German. It is a nice idea, but most times the speech recognition doesn’t work properly. I’m clearing saying the words correctly, but it keeps marking it as wrong. I’m not sure why. It’ll say it’s wrong, then I will say it the same way and it’s right. Often times it doesn’t seem to pick up that I said anything, so I’ll have to say it twice. Sometimes I find myself shouting at my phone in frustration having to repeat myself 5 times for it to register. Just now I disabled the microphone at this section, because it was just too offputting. It also crashes & signs you out a lot if you go outside the app for a translation (since they don’t offer it in the app) I purchased the lifetime membership, so if these issues get fixed I will come back and update my rating.

Serious learners- it’s really the best!. I do love Rosetta!! I’ve been learning French on Duolingo for a year. I truly want to learn, and I also have books I practice writing and reading. But Rosetta really helps me overall with speaking especially, and memorizing words and phrases. I wouldn’t say it helps a lot with grammar, it’s important to practice learning grammar rules with books or Duolingo teaches a little, but Rosetta is enhancing my learning! Only con is it is VERY repetitive and BORING!!! I always do it on the computer so I wear headphones and focus. I repeat a lot of phrases and vocabulary, but I am actually containing them this way. Sometimes it frustrates me because it shows various photos and you have to figure out what time of day it is or some fine little detail that’s not quite clear, but overall it’s wonderful and I recommend any serious learners to take it because it’s like a course! Also, I especially love reading the poems or monologues because it gives me a chance to speak a good amount of French. It speaks first to you and then you can practice saying the poem as many times as you like. Downside, it doesn’t always process everything you say when it’s more than a few sentences. But still I love it!

Why is it different??. I got this because I have the actual PC version of the Japanese Rosetta Stone, and I thought I would be able to access it through the app. Instead, it’s acting like it's a completely different thing?? In the app I can see all the progress I’ve made from where I’ve done it on my computer, but I can’t continue anything and the only option is a huge green button that says “unlock full access” which asks if you want to buy a subscription when you hit it. I already bought the program (which was very expensive), so why in the world would I want to pay nearly as much as what I already purchased for the SAME THING I already purchased when I already have it?? This is just as bad as when Adobe switched from selling full real CD copies of their programs to being subscription-based. Very very disappointed that you can’t get free mobile access when you have already bought the darn thing; it feels like they’re punishing people who prefer buying complete versions instead of subscriptions. I could have sworn back when I bought my RS that it said there was a mobile option for people who bought the physical copy, but evidently this isn’t it. If they’re going to treat this like a totally separate thing you have to pay for, it seems like the progress from your physical copy shouldn’t even be there at all.

Great program. I have been using Rosetta Stone for over a decade now. I have been so impressed with how it is laid out that I’ve purchased lifetime access to all languages. As a linguist, I get a lot of benefit from that. The program’s biggest strength is the visual connection to the words that it gives the user. Every card, every phrase, every word, has a picture, and that really helps cut down on translation time. The program is strategically set up so that you can use the process of deduction to figure out what new words and phrases mean without consulting a dictionary. This is especially helpful as it gets further into complex phrases and grammar. This program is helpful for people who are new to a language as well as those who have been studying a language for a while . It starts out very basic, but the upper levels are quite difficult. I highly recommend this program, and if it is used in conjunction with other programs (like Pimsleur) that focus only on listening and speaking, the results are amazing.

Don’t buy it- TOTAL SCAM. I bought the lifetime access ($200) through the App Store and after a few months the app stopped recognizing my login. Ok, fine. But no amount of trying to reset it worked and the website didn’t recognize my account either. After numerous emails and conversations with Apple and Rosetta Stone, they could no longer find my account- it apparently disappeared! And since it disappeared after the refund date, they would not refund my money even though I had the paperwork/receipts that proved I bought the app and lifetime access even though they could not find it. So basically, they lost the account but refused to give me my money back and they can’t figure out why it no longer exists. I have continued to try and work with Rosetta Stone but they have not resolved the issue nor just create a new lifetime access for me. It has been MONTHS of trying to get this fixed or get my money back. And now their customer service is no longer responding to my emails when I ask for an update as they try to “troubleshoot” the problem (been over a month since the last request for an update has been ignored). At this point I feel scammed out of my $200 and am disgusted with Rosetta’s “customer service”. I’ve switched to using Duolingo and find it works just as well and is free with ads or you can upgrade to one without.

Rosetta Stone Spanish. I had been studying Spanish for a few months when I decided to try Rosetta Stone. It took me a few days to get used to the pictures and and the way the system works but after that I started learning pretty fast. I also find that this system is helping me speak better. I am pronouncing my words correctly because they seem to have an advanced system for hearing what I say into the microphone. I need to use my ipad when I do it because it is easier to see the pictures. I don’t recommend using a cell phone. Also, the lessons are pretty quick, about 10 minutes each. You do need to be ready to stick to it for the full 10 minutes as it doesn’t stop during that time, but you can repeat it as many times as you need to. It covers Listening, speaking, gramar, and a core lesson with lots of review. One thing I do is use a notebook to write down words and sentences that I find difficult. It helps me recognize and spell words. I highly recommend this program if you are serious about learning a new language. It does get you speaking the language faster than some other programs.

No longer helpful and still very glitchy. PT. 1: Helpful but glitchy I have been using Rosetta Stone for about 2 weeks now. I bought the onetime unlimited version, and it’s great for helping me learn new languages. However, the app is very glitchy on my new iPad Pro; it seems like it’s not syncing properly. I have to refresh the app many times during one session, and occasionally when I click on a lesson that I haven’t yet looked at, the app says that I have already completed it without even giving me a score for it. I think it’s a wonderful tool to help you learn, but there are definitely some bugs that need to be fixed. PT. 2: No longer helpful and still very glitchy I just opened the app after the most recent update, and I am still having the same syncing issue. Lessons that I have completed are shown as incomplete on the plan schedule, but when I click on the lesson it opens as completed. Additionally, lessons that I have never done are showing up as completed on my “Plan Schedule” but incomplete on the overall Rosetta Stone Course. I don’t know what lesson I’m on anymore, and now it’s a hassle to try and do the lessons without a plan. I can’t learn because none of the lessons are marked correctly as completed or not completed. Overall, the latest update did not help at all.

¡Sensacional!. I have been using Rosetta Stone for almost a full year now. I want to become a doctor and do Doctors Without Borders, and so I started learning Spanish first. Rosetta Stone caught my eye because I hate learning through translation, and this app only uses association. I was gifted a 6 month subscription for Christmas and finished 17 of the 20 sections in the time allotted. Ahora, esos seis meses han pasado, ¡y casi soy fluido! I progressed so rapidly through the program that my brother ended up buying a subscription as well, which I am using too to finish the last 3 sections. Now, I’m learning Chinese! The customer service is easy and quick, and I have only had to call them twice, which both times I have had short and concise experiences. My only complaint with Rosetta Stone is the billing system. The “x dollars a month” is borderline false advertising. You have to pay all up front for the subscription - there is no option to pay monthly. Other than this complaint, the app itself is amazing, and I highly recommend it. I would suggest to anyone wanting to learn a language as fast as possible with as many associations made rather than translations made as possible to get a subscription.

Good way to learn a language.. As a teacher, and polyglot or multingual speaker, I am very happy with this program and the manner it goes about teaching languages. You are not learning by lists or memorization, per se, but by being immersed in the language and learning through association. I used to teach several subjects to gifted and talented children and they learn information best in this manner, as do all children. My husband and best friend are learning Italian for a trip we are all taking to Italy in the further. I learned Italianan as a child much in the way this program teaches, I am working on learning the formal italian so I will not appear rude by giving the familiar when I should be addressing people formally; I am doing this because otherwise Italians think I am just a rude Italian. Italians (and people of other cultures) are very forgiving when they know you are a non-native speaker and are trying to speak their language, so my husband and friend will be treated well when we go. Don’t worry about being perfect, just do your best, and you can always do the lessons over to become more proficient. I’m very happy that I am going to get to improve my language skills and perhaps even learn a bit of a few new languages as we finally travel since we retired. Remember, that you are above the curve of most people, because you are actually trying and working on a language to improve.

a review of the free program. Last year around the time of the onset of Corona Rosetta Stone released a 30 minute, 5 days a week, six-week long free program for about a dozen languages to be learned using the mobile app. I have a couple of minor grievances about it (like some small design errors and the fact that it’s limited to mobile), but for the most part the fact that it’s free trivializes all of them. The app is an incredible language program. Rosetta Stone’s reputation is not misplaced. For a free program there is a ton of space for personalization, and the program itself gives off a very psychologically well thought out feel as you go through it. It’s exactly the type of design that makes you feel like it’s working on you subconsciously through heavy repetition, meticulous pronunciation, and strict grading on your own pronunciation, to the point where even an eccentric accent will register as a verbal shortcoming, forcing you to tweak your pronunciation into the true sounds of the words and sentences. I haven’t spent anywhere near as much time with the app as I would have liked, but so far I am very impressed and excited to continue.

😕😕. I’m going to keep using this app to brush up on my Russian and 4 other languages I’m familiar with BUT, I’m definitely going to get my refund after because Rosetta Stone isn’t going to work for me. This app is good but, I don’t like that it doesn’t provide translations(I’m aware it does offer translations for SOME languages) or any explanations on how to pronounce certain words or phrases. Fortunately for me, I’m fluent in Russian but, I can’t even try to learn another language. It’s easy to put the phrases and pictures together but, it’s annoying that It doesn’t offer translations for each word, I feel like it’s such a simple thing to do. I want to know what I’m saying.. I get that if it says “девочка” and shows a picture of a girl, it clearly means “girl” BUT still, there are more complex images and it’s hard to know what the word means sometimes. I’m not saying Rosetta Stone is bad, not at all, but it 100% is not a standalone app. If you’re starting from ZERO, this app is not for you. Overall I gave it a 4 star rating because it’d be unfair to give it a lower rating tbh, it’s a great app that just needs a couple of things.. honestly if it at the very least had translations on all the languages, then it’d be good enough for me.

Easy and effective. If you’re a perfectionist like I am then this is perfect for you. I love how user friendly the app is to use and I feel it’s easier to learn something when the app tells you a section of the lesson you messed up on. You can easily skip it and just pass the section but if you’re OCD is like mine then you won’t let yourself move forward until every section is green. I know a bit of Japanese and I definitely feel like this is great to refresh what I’ve forgotten and build upon what I know. I’d say my biggest issue with the lessons is that it asks you why you’re learning the language (basics, travel, etc.). I’m using this for travel purposes and it gave me lessons based on that but I want to learn the language entirely. I feel it would benefit the app more if it just started you at the very beginning then built upon that. It’s not a major issue so my rating will remain 5/5 but I would’ve liked it to start me at the beginning and went from there as opposed to me picking travel and it starts me from maybe half way through a semesters worth of lessons and it’s already speaking sentences to me. All in all, perfect app, slight imperfection but not enough to cause major damage.

Overpriced and outdated. This review applies to trying Rosetta Stone for Japanese. Rosetta Stone is simply a solution of the past. There are way too many modern language learning applications that have been proven to work better than this one and are far cheaper. Rosetta Stone is a relic that focuses on rote repetition of out-of-context words and phrases; it was designed back when people studied language using cassette tapes while driving to work and they have never updated their methodology. The intent is that you learn by being “immersed” in a language, however to Rosetta Stone, immersion means “here is a rather ambiguous picture, now figure out this sentence using words and grammar you haven’t been taught.” This isn’t how to truly learn a language, it’s how you memorize outdated phrases and look like an idiot when you try to speak to locals. As for the app itself, the voice recognition feature is indescribably bad: I literally started to say “blah blah blah blah” and was marked as correct half the time. The play back of phrases is clearly English-speakers reading from phonetic scripts, so the pronunciation is horrid. On top of all this, the price is ridiculous for such a poor tool. The great reviews here must be from old timers who don’t know better options exist. There is no reason for this to have more than two stars.

Great app but needs some fixes.. The app’s content is great. I am really happy with how it works and how easy it is to learn. The only problem with it is that the app has a few bugs that need to be fixed. Sometimes randomly when you’re asked to speak into the mic, for some reason it doesn’t work unless you exit the unit or sometimes even the app. Also, sometimes when you click on a section in a unit, it shows a loading screen that never goes away unless you refresh the app. Also, sometimes when you finish a section in a unit, it takes you back to the beginning of the unit instead of the next section that you’re up to (this one isn’t such a big bug). My only other problem with the app is that it is sometimes way too slow. It’s not a bug that makes it slow, it is the way the app was made. I personally tend to be a fast learner and it is very frustrating when a section says that it takes 10 minutes when I could finish it in 3 minutes if it didn’t take so long to process your answers and go to the next slide. The animation of matching the answer to the correct box is unnecessary and I think there should be an option to turn off the animation and replace it with a simple and fast check mark or x. Again, I think the app is great and I am only criticizing it because I really enjoy using this app and I use it quite frequently.

Ok but glitchy. I just started using this app to try it out. Using the free version right now. I’m in my first lesson and everything was going fine then sudden on section 3 the app stopped hearing my voice. It would hear one word but not the other. Nothing I did helped. I tried to get in the queue to speak to someone and was 1 in like for about 20mins and never spoke to anyone. I tried reconfiguring my mic, reducing the speech to easy, getting closer to the mic, talking louder, and nothing worked at all. I’ve reset the app, made sure it was updated, made sure my phone was updated, and tested my mic on voice to text in a text message and the mic works just fine picking up my voice. It’s ONLY in this app. Secondly, the app will automatically rotate screen anytime you are typing or in a lesson. It’s extremely hard to type with the screen rotated. I also found the use of the navigations in the lesson clumsy and difficult to use. I couldn’t go back to a word in a lesson. I had to exit and start again. Biggest issue if the app not picking up my voice at all. These two things really make it difficult to use the app and I really don’t want to pay for this if it’s that glitchy. I know I can go without repeating the phrases but the point of making sure I’m saying the phrases correctly is pointless if the app will not pick up my voice.

Pretty neat. I have been using Rosetta Stone for about 2 months now, with the purchase of the lifetime subscription that was on sale a while ago for $199 +tax. I am studying French & Spanish simultaneously and I have to say I love the way Rosetta Stone slightly adds on to the experience without losing the learner. Slowly introducing new sentences and words that correspond with the pictures that makes it easy for you to remember and catch onto pretty fast. I’ve used other apps like Duolingo, and though I do like Duolingo, it felt less serious and more like a children’s app for learning a new language. I wanted to reach for something a bit more challenging but engaging. I felt like I was just trying to keep up with the streaks rather than learning the material to master the language as a whole, ‘‘twas pretty distracting. I was very hesitant with Rosetta Stone because of the expense, but once I purchased, I didn’t regret it yet. Very pleased with my experience and would recommend to anyone who’s interested in learning a new language. Oh and you can start at different levels as well - Beginner - Intermediate - Expert

Good in theory, but it’s not good on iPhone. The program itself seems great. I have been learning Russian on DuoLingo for a few months, and am progressing quickly, but wanted to expand and try different approaches. I do think the Rosetta Stone language recognition from the mic is much better, meaning I can work on my pronunciation more. However, in the short time I have been trying it, every exercise includes several photos. On an iPhone screen, these photos are so small and the action the people in the photos is doing is so unclear that I’m getting at least 50% wrong just because I can’t tell if someone is eating or drinking, or in some cases if it’s even a male or female, girl or woman, boy or man. DuoLingo solves this issue by using only cartoon drawings that are VERY clear as to what you’re looking at. Unfortunately, I cancelled my subscription because I can’t learn this way, but if you use an iPad or laptop I would imagine it’s a better experience. I’m not willing to use a different device when DuoLingo works just fine on iPhone. Edit: the developer response to this review shows that they did not read my review at all and are just responding with generic fluff. I actually said the speech engine is good. It’s the user interface/photos that are bad.

Worst learning system. I’ve learned Chinese with Berlitz and Spanish with Pimsleur programs. In the time it took to learn with those programs, I’d say I learned about 1/4 as much with Rosetta Stone. Their flawed system has absolutely NO DEFINITIONS to the pictures they show you, so you don’t know if the foreign word means sugar, salt, or the color white. Their customer service is useless and is also incapable of answering questions regarding the flawed teaching program. Basically you are paying for a guessing game, not a teaching system. I tried it for 6 months and was extremely disappointed in how useless it was in helping me learn a new language compared to previous programs. I learned less with Rosetta Stone than any other language program. Response to Rosetta Stone’s generic, cut and paste response: “pedagogical”??? Why don’t you just say ”teaching”? That’s all the word means is “teaching”. And “Dynamic Immersion” means A technique used in bilingual language education in which TWO languages are used for instruction. Thus, if you don’t know the word in one language, then the definition should be present in the other language. ROSETTA STONE DOES NOT OFFER THE DEFINITIONS IN THE OTHER LANGUAGE. I called your India based “support” countless times for help on this. Their favorite response is”I am sorry we can not help you” So please stop lying to people about your “pedagogical dynamic immersion” techniques, THEY DO NOE WORK.

App is Disappointing & Unusable. With the amount of money that you’re paying for this service, you’d expect that the app would be better built. It’s clunky at best, and unusable at worst. RS touts that it has a unique speech recognition service built in - but it doesn’t always work which can lead to some VERY frustrating experiences. I also dislike that though there are multiple ways to answer questions verbally in a language, RS requires you to answer it their way, or you can’t proceed in the lesson. It’s just not dynamic like they make it seem. Pair that with the other voice recognition issues, it can leave the user scratching their head on what’s causing them to fail. Is it a mic issue again? Am I not saying it the right way? Am I not saying it the RS way? SO FRUSTRATING. Other issues include the terrible user experience/UI. Why is the translation/help button so finicky, especially when I need to review words that we’re learning? Also, why are the playback buttons so small on a mobile device? There were so many times on multiple choice questions where I accidentally selected sentence instead of hitting the replay button, prompting an incorrect answer. You can definitely tell that the product was not created with a mobile-first approach. I just expected better. I suggest everyone looking into purchasing the product, and Rosetta Stone themselves, to look at feedback on Reddit / other forums to see how widespread this situation is. Unfortunate, really.

Good But Needs Improvement. Update: Updating my review because I have seen marked improvement with the speech recognition and I feel like that deserves to be recognized. However, I’m still leaving my review at three stars as I’ve noticed other buggy things, like when you go to the learning section I have to click two units above the unit I want in order to select. Also, the app will randomly log me out and then say I am already logged in and cannot log in again. I continue to think Rosetta Stone is a great product and a great model, but I really wish they would put more effort into their app. I haven’t been using this app long, but I can tell it’s a good format. The one thing that really frustrates me is the speech recognition. This does not seem to work at all, and is surprisingly worse with headphones. I have to say things multiple times and mostly it just doesn’t recognize that I’ve said anything at all or takes far to long to process. I constantly get the “there’s something wrong with your audio, check your settings message,” although outside of Rosetta Stone the audio on my brand new device is fantastic. This would be a great feature if it worked consistently.

Language Immersion Through Critical Thinking = Success!!!. I’m learning Japanese. Not a word of English has been spoken, and yet, I am already three weeks in and feel confident about my progress!! At times it can be difficult to understand what the images are eluding to, but eventually, understanding develops. I highly recommend this product if you don’t care about the price. One nit-pick: the ‘story’ lessons are a significant jump in difficulty, simply because (at least when following the learning plan as it were on mobile) there is not much emphasis placed on the reading/writing of the language. So I can easily speak sentences based on images, but reading an entire Japanese story, even if it is simple, feels much, much more difficult than everything before and after those story lessons. I found a way to skip them so after I understand what the story means, I usually just move on because there is no way I am going to memorize the whole story, and it is far too early in my development to expect that I can read Japanese. Thanks Rosetta Stone team!

Klunky app. The layout of the app is not intuitive at all. I’ve somehow jumped ahead a level unwittingly (wondering why the material was unfamiliar) and then notice on the progress screen that there are two levels with progress showing. The app does not return you to your latest progress point. Why not? That’s a basic expectation. That’s probably why I’ve gotten on the wrong level but who knows. Klunky. Also, it may be by design but, when an exercise screen is complete I would like to review it before moving to the next screen. But that’s not possible because when you pause the screen goes away and a progress screen for the lesson shows up. Better would be a button to advance when you are ready. Again, this characteristic might be by design and the teachers should know but for my learning experience the ability to pause before moving on would be helpful. I’m using an iPad for the lessons. It’s not practical to use an iPhone; screen is too small for photo inspection. I will continue to use the app. I paid for a lifetime. I’m using it in conjunction with Duolingo. That app does work properly and the only drawback are the silly awards, and the like, but that’s no big deal. I’m an unsatisfied Rosetta Stone customer for now. And I don’t see any way to contact a customer service representative. Pfft.

As Foreign Language-Learning Should Be!. Compared to other language-learning programs, Rosetta Stone uses one of the most effective methods to learn a new language! Instead of providing a picture with the foreign word and the translation, the program only gives a picture with the foreign word or sentence. You then compare one picture from a different picture and see what the word/sentence says in the foreign language, and then try to guess or figure out what it is saying. I like to think of this as the “learning for survival” method. Rosetta Stone makes you feel like you are an explorer who has discovered a community that speaks a foreign language that has never been studied before, so there are no translating dictionaries to help you. This puts your brain to work a lot harder to put things together trying to understand the language instead of it being all spelled out for you. Going back to the explorer analogy, you would need to learn the foreign language to survive being on foreign land with foreign people who speak the foreign language. That’s what I mean about the “learning for survival” method. I believe this is the most effective and longer-lasting methods to learn a language.

Better than duolingo. If you like Duolingo but think it's nonsensical, then Rosetta Stone is better because the lessons are personalized to your goals and what you want to use the language for. The things you learn are suitable for everyday language, but it doesn't take the time to explain grammar; instead, it tries to drill it into you. If you're looking to naturally learn a language by staring at a screen all day, then great, download this app. So, If you get bored quickly and want to know on the move, Pimsleur is for you. You can work out and practice speaking. In-depth learning while listening has to go to language transfer or Pimsleur. If you need someone to explain grammar rules to you and the nuances of the language on a screen, Babbel and Busuu are much better, for they'll break down the language, describe it, and feed you sentences in context. If you want to learn a ton of vocabulary, Anki, Clozemaster, and Memrise are good for staring at a screen and learning random words. Glossika is suitable for an audio-based vocabulary or a target language podcast or video. If you are looking to be fluent, then you might become fluent with this app and a lot of immersion, but without grammar rules explained, you might make a lot of mistakes, so I'd suggest a tutor with Rosetta Stone. I like Babbel or Busuu Instead of Rosetta Stone, then cover the gaps with immersion and speaking.

Great concept horrid execution. The teaching on this app, I love. It's a great idea. I wish I'd went month to month at this point though rather than pay for two years. It is the buggiest app I've ever used. In fact, it's so buggy the uncommon word "hate" comes to mind. I went all the way thru module three recently and got to the last lesson. I get a pop-up that says, skipping ahead? You didn't finish all the lessons. I go back and look and sure enough, the Review lesson I'd done said I'd not done it. This particular one I knew I'd done...8 times! You see, for the Review lessons, you can't retake and fix one card, it makes you retake the entire lesson! I wanted a 100% so I retook it until I did. Guess what... It apparently lost all progress. I ended up taking it two more times, finally getting everything right. When I finished, it said I missed one anyways. What!? I have another Review that I know I'll never get right because despite voice set to easy and having taken a year in college of German from a native German, it says I cannot pronounce one word. I gave up. In some lessons I can use the wrong word entirely when I'm trying to guess the dialogue and get a 100% but in the Review, which you must fully retake if you miss something, it won't get the single word right. In short, if you are a perfectionist or have limited time to waste on bugs, this is not the app for you. There are better ones for free that won't make you cuss in front of children or want to throw your phone.

Broken. I don’t know if it’s Japanese, it’s just iPhone, or if it’s something else. The biggest issue is speech recognition, this also was a problem on pc but seems to have been resolved there. It will miss certain sounds in a phrase or refuse to register at all no matter how loud or clear it is said. Today for example, it would pick up the phrase but would not register “imasu” even though it recognized more complicated sounds. Secondly, the ui is just broken, part of the screen is hidden behind the camera notch and thugs are sized in a strange way that is not optimal for touch on a phone. An example being the segments where the answer must be chosen at the top of the screen. The buttons are thin and place right at the top edge of the screen making them somewhat difficult to hit. Lastly I have a request if it is not already an option somewhere in the settings, I would appreciate a dark mode. Typically if I’m in my phone it is because I’m too tired to go on the computer. When this is the case black text on a white background can be very harsh on the eyes and fatiguing after prolonged use. First two are things that need to be addressed, last one would just be a quality of life feature.

Worst ever. I don’t know why this app has such great reviews. I’m trying to learn Hebrew and it’s the most difficult and least user friendly app out there. It hasn’t taught me to read the language and yet, it shows the words in Hebrew above the pictures so I can’t practice my pronunciation visually. Additionally, due to the lack of American translation, this throws me into sentences of which I have no idea what I’m saying and I have to figure it out based on the pictures?? Absolutely absurd as I spent three days thinking I learned to say something but when I asked my husband what The app was saying, it was a different sentence than what I had thought. I unfortunately paid 2 years worth and hope no one gets trapped into buying this as well. The first trial is easy so it makes it fun and integrative but in actuality there doesn’t seem to be a rhyme or reason for the progression of the lessons and it won’t tell you what exactly it’s trying to teach you like plurals or colors - you figure it out as you do the lessons. Also this app is only integrative and doesn’t give other options as auditory which would a nice option to have it I’m driving or running and I can just listen along. It’s a god awful app and I wish I could get my money back.

Too much focus on people you don’t know.. Most of us learn a new language to speak to someone new, and yet in almost every speaking exercise offered in this curriculum they have you practicing “usted” where you’re speaking to total strangers or about someone else. The focus should be primarily on conversations between me (yo) and you (tu), because these are the types of real-life conversations that matter. Sadly it doesn’t seem like they’ve updated their curriculum in a decade. Language has also changed in that time and several words they teach you are not ever used in the majority of Latin America... like “anteojos”... no one says that, they say “lentes” or “gafas”, but the software fails to teach you these alternate words that are more commonly used. Ultimately it’s one of the best tools out there for learning on your own but needs significant improvement and custom-tailored options so we are learning more of what we will actually be using and less of all the informal talk with random strangers in a completely formal manner. I don’t need to say “usted” every time I address someone. That’s exactly what conjugations are for - they imply exactly who you’re talking to or about and their gender...

App usage. I love Rosetta Stone. But the app makes it difficult to learn. There are occasions that if I login to progress my learning, my progress is not saved when I later visit the app to continue. I find that many times the speech recognition does not work properly. I might say ka instead of ha and I would still get a correct answer. Sometimes it does not even recognize my voice and I have to open and close the app many times and it still doesn’t work. Update: after working with Rosetta Stone app and website on my computer I fee extremely frustrated. The method they use is very effective to help learn a different language ... BUT their programming is horrible! The website and the app are both choppy!!!! I contacted them once through the feedback ferrite as it was advised ... the lady recommended me to delete the app from my device, update my device, turn off my phone, then turn it back on, and finally download the app again. The app was worse. My computer is also updated and the website most of the times does not recognize my voice or marks something correct before I even speak ... I feel so frustrated that makes me want to stop learning a different language. Such an unpleasant experience.

Why it’s better than duo lingo. I’ve tried quite a few languages apps. Duo lingo has been the go to for a few years. While I like Duo lingo a lot, this app excels where Duo struggles. For example this app works with you on pronunciation and grammar in the lessons. Duo lingo does have times where it addresses pronunciation and grammar but it doesn’t really have ways to practice it. It just kinda throws you in and hopes you figure it out on the way. Perhaps it my choice of language. I’m trying to learn Hebrew and duo just threw me into the deep end and hoped I could succeed without any real guidance or patterns. This app teaches new words and uses a system of audio/visual to help you with the language. I love that system. It’s more than just memorization. It becomes real learning. They don’t have any English translations to the side. The learning is strictly audio/visual. They show you an action like eating or drinking and repeat it over the 5 cases of usage. It’s very well done and exciting. I honestly don’t understand why anyone would have problems with this app. Especially if your serious about really learning and retaining a language. Their system is very impressive.

Just bought this worthless garbage and want my money back.. I used Rosetta Stone almost 2 decades ago and was pleased with it, so I decided to buy the unlimited access to all languages. After downloading the ap and getting started with my wife’s native language I started the first lesson. The first phrase was good afternoon in Tagalog. I was confident my pronunciation was correct even though it kept indicating it wasn’t so I had my wife repeat it (once again it is her native language) and it said her pronunciation was wrong. I speak 8 languages at different fluency levels and have been exposed to Tagalog (filipino) for over 35 years, but now that I’m retired and have more time available to really become fluent in all my languages and maybe pick up 2 or 3 more, I thought this would be a good deal. I WAS WRONG! This is a piece of junk. Over a decade ago I learned 1st level Russian in about 5 weeks using Rosetta Stone and it worked better back then. I decided after looking at the first page of filipino in this ap that want my money back, but I see no way to activate that 30 day money back offer. I guess I’ll have to call my credit card company and tell them about this and see if they can stop payment for this worthless ap.

Immersion is the only way to really learn a language. If you rely on translating, I don’t think you can ever become fluent. Each language has words and phrases that simply cannot be translated. When you have a conversation in a foreign language and you have to translate the foreign words you hear into your native language and then translate your response from native back into foreign language, you will not only get tired and stressed out but your conversation will not be fluent and natural. What works for me are images. When learning the foreign word for flowers for example, I don’t translate into my native language but imagine a picture of flowers in my head. Then coming up with Blumen, fleures, flores, etc. in a foreign language conversation is much faster and requires much less brain power than translating. Those are just my 2 cents. This approach works best for me. I’m a foreign language major with 4 foreign languages. English is my 3rd language. Everyone is different and has their preferred way of learning but I encourage everyone to try the immersion approach for one or two weeks and see how it goes. App works great. I only encountered one small glitch but that may have been a glitch on my device.

App is buggy. I prefer using this on the computer but the app is convenient when I’m on the go. Unfortunately - the app has a lot to be desired. The speech aspect is buggy - sometimes it registers what I say - sometimes it doesn’t and then I “get it wrong.” Then the activities aren’t formatted for an iPhone 15 - so the words/phrases for the matching images section aren’t visible so I just have to click randomly until it works. The “click on aspect to translate” doesn’t work consistently either. My other issue is conceptually. Some of the vocabulary isn’t explained/defined - and I have some background in the language (German). I find myself trying to guess the translation of the phrase. If I was trying to learn this for the first time I would be annoyed. While I understand using pictures - some pictures can’t show whole sentences - we also need the English translation of the words - particularly if they are not nouns but things like conjunctions or adverbs. For example - one of the activities had me putting in Warum or Weil (why and because) however it was never explained - I just had to guess. I remembered Warum but needed to look up Weil to make sure I was correct in my assumption as again the tap to translate wasn’t working.

Languages for Healthcare. I work as a paramedic and often come across emergency scenes of Latino patients with whom I cannot communicate. Since I really need to be able to communicate quickly, I am undertaking Spanish as it makes things easier without needing to call a translator phone line. I have been using several different methods for the past 9 months to learn Spanish, and as of right now this one is my favorite. Rosetta Stone uses almost none of my original language as possible in teaching me Spanish, which is helpful to me because I am associating words and phrases with pictures rather than English sentences. Furthermore, it integrates pronunciation more easily than other apps I’ve used by making a shorter feedback loop, and speaking at my phone feels less silly. I learned the basics of Spanish by matching English and Spanish with Duolingo, but found at a certain level Duolingo has lost me on grammar rules and sentence structure. I have only just begun using Rosetta Stone, but after studying very hard for 9 months by other methods, I feel strongly that this learning method is best for me at the intermediate level. Had I known earlier how this app works, I’d have started with this one.

Rosetta Stone is tops!. I wanted to wait several months before writing a review. I have now been studying Hebrew for six months with Rosetta Stone. I bought the year-long program, and I am on track for a one-year completion. I think you get a lot out of it if you put a lot into it. I study every day. The program is amazing! I had tried another program that was teaching me to transliterate into English first. It was slow and I wasn’t learning much because my eyes always went to the English transliteration rather than the Hebrew letters. I also tried a sample lesson with another company that used only audio as the “best way” to learn a language. I realized I am a visual learner, so just listening to audio did not work for me. But now with Rosetta Stone, I am reading the words in the Hebrew alphabet and understanding what I am reading. I awake in the middle of the night with Hebrew words and phrases running through my mind. The pictures are enjoyable, and help me to understand words and phrases. My vocabulary is amazing! I think my pronunciation is getting better and better as well. It is such a natural and fun way of learning. Right now, I am studying the past tense, and I thought it would be difficult, but I am understanding it just fine. When I get through with Hebrew, I may learn another language through Rosetta Stone just for fun!

The app isn't bad. Their billing is horrible.. You can download the app for free, and even do a lesson. Then it asks you to sign up for a subscription. If you wait a day or so, you get an email with a special offer of $5.99/month. Turns out though, it's not $5.99 a month, it's $147, paid all at once, which gets you a subscription for 24 months. Yes, that comes out to $5.99 a month if you don't understand finance, but it's a lot different if you don't want to pony up that much all at once. Worse, after the term is up, they'll automatically re-subscribe you at their full price, no discount. I hate this underhanded method of taking money from anyone who's not paying attention, and a bunch of people are going to pay a LOT of money for something they don't want. It's close to thievery, and it makes Rosetta Stone nearly dishonest. EDIT: After using this for a couple of weeks, I still think it's pretty good at teaching language. However, the speech module, where it listens to you and grades how well you say things, is completely useless. It doesn't understand you at all, no matter how clearly you say it, and no matter how low you set the bar. I had to turn off the Mic to be able to get through those chapters. The program complained that my Mic was bad, but it works just fine on audio notes and FaceTime, so it's not my Mic.

There's a reason so many companies and agencies insist on this product. So: I dabbled in language learning for over 20 years... all kinds of methods. This has (by far) been the most effective. I finally invested in Rosetta Stone over 10 years ago when online learning wasn't an option for them yet (and after using their program for a college course). I then sprung for the online. I was officially sold on their first big sale for Veterans (at which time i took the plunge and got the lifetime online membership, for less than i paid for the original 6 CD package i purchased years ago). Since then: they have made AMAZING IMPROVEMENTS to the software and opened up more languages. My only complaint is about the app: it can get glitchy (doesn't recognize audio, doesn't update lessons as completed, trivial issues that correct themselves with some "tough love")... but if I force close the app then the issue resolved. Tech support is responsive, as well! I love their product and highly recommend giving it a try to see if it is a good fit for your learning style! (Also: ensure you join an individual coaching subscription or a social group to get one-on-one real world conversational experience/practice. Rosetta Stone offers this option, but I do not have my laptop/desktop set up for use currently)

App is buggy for iOS. The app itself is a great tool. I have learned a lot about the language of choice with this app however a fatal flaw in its design is how incredibly sensitive the choices are. When I click to hear what it was that was said, the interface thinks I’m selecting a choice and I lose the 100% chance for the chapter. All because I wanted to confirm what was being relayed in the lesson. So many times this has frustrated me. Recently however the app has a new problem. When I’m given a few choices but only one phrase, sometimes (and this is very frequent) it doesn’t play the audio at all. Not even when I press the button to play what was said again. So I have to select a random choice to have the app tell me I got it wrong so I can hear what the actual audio is to match it accordingly. I give this app 3/5 stars cause the app still works, it’s just these are two incredibly awful and hindering bugs that need to be fixed. Once fixed, definitely a 5 star app. A lot of learning, a lot of content, integration with Apple Watch, extra listen aloud content, it’s just an incredible resource. Even better if you’re using it online.

An Awesome Language Tool. I have been using Rosettastone for over 10 years and have found their immersive way of instruction to be extremely effective. I thoroughly enjoy learning new languages and have found the hardest part of learning a language is speaking and getting immersed in it. Rosettastone has a comprehensive way of immersing you in your target language while introducing new concepts and grammatical structure. There are a few things I’ve had issues with, however. First, if you are using Rosettastone on your computer you will miss some of your writing lessons when you use the app. It does not even show you that you’re on or skipping a writing lesson it just happens. This bothers me enough to keep me from using the phone app and only use it on my computer. If this doesn’t bother you then you won’t have any issues. Also, if you’re trying to learn the depth of grammar and what not, you’ll need to buy a book and use additional sources to really nail in the language. I recommend at least learning the alphabet of your target language before jumping into Rosettastone. Otherwise, it’s absolutely worth the $179 one time payment to get this resource. It’s tried and true and provides all the immersion you’ll need to learn your next language.

Good but sometimes frustrating. I first bought Rosetta Stone for my computer several years ago. I didn’t use it a lot because I couldn’t get the microphone to work. Without practicing pronunciation I didn’t see the point in trying to learn a language. I kept saying I’d get to it later and eventually forgot about it. I got an email with a great deal to upgrade to the lifetime subscription for all languages. The price is awesome for what you get, but I do get frustrated with it sometimes. There are times when I know I butchered the pronunciation but it says I did it good, and then times when I thought I said it really good and it says I didn’t. Learning proper grammar at the beginning of learning the language is not going well for me. (English to Spanish) I don’t always understand why a word is said one way or another. Sometimes even the male vs female form of a word confuses me. I wish there was a button to mark a screen when I’m not sure about something. I feel like I’m not fully learning it and it would be nice to be able to easily go back and check on the things I was unsure of. I feel like so far I can listen to and read what I’ve learned but not speak it. I hadn’t used the app in a few days and the next step for me was the third milestone. I did terribly. The milestones are strange for me too. Most of the time I stare at the screen with no idea what it wants me to say.

Better than Duolingo BECAUSE…. Duolingo, in my experience, is about too much input and not enough output. Rosetta Stone gets you thinking in another language rather than translating from your native language. There are some downsides to learning grammar when you don’t have any explanations — you might get confused about what tense you are actually using in some cases — but I find that the Rosetta system is extremely well-designed. I’m learning Mandarin right now, and I was surprised to find that I could correctly answer plenty of questions on a sample language test after only a few months of learning with Rosetta. You can pace yourself and come back to your lessons after a break, but studying a little every day is definitely the best way to go! Edit: Leaving a four star review because there are some bugs sometimes, such as the audio switching from one speaker to another. Sometimes the microphone doesn’t seem to do audio recognition very well at all even though I’m pronouncing words as I normally do. That is frustrating sometimes! Overall, I still am enjoying Rosetta Stone very much.

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Learning with Rosetta. Great ! Really great besides the glitchy aspect of it like sometimes just freezing mid course, it logs me in and out in the middle of a course, sometimes the pictures are too small to see. I think this may be due to the internet where I am staying… I hope so.

Turkish. I have some knowledge of Turkish, but this is another way of learning, particularly pronunciation. I do not mind starting from scratch , as it reinforces my previous knowledge.i am not sure if someone starting completely from scratch would understand the questions but the illustrations are excellent. Once I have done several exercises , I am getting the hang of the method. I am also very deaf, so may miss some of the nuances. There is an opportunity to repeat the exercise to get 100%, which I will be doing as I refuse to accept a score which is less. I also like to write the words which I will do at the beginning as there is no opportunity later on in the exercise.

Better than other language apps but needs work. I like that you can learn opt to learn to speak, read and write in your chosen language but the app itself is quite glitchy. I often have to wait a second after the prompt to pronounce a word/sentence of it tells me the pronunciation is incorrect. Also the lesson home screen appears to be broken and wasn’t fixed with the update. It would be helpful if we were taught grammatical rules as we go too

Great overall but the app is janky!. I *try* to use the app often, but it has difficulty hearing my audio for the spoken word portions and recently there has been inconsistencies with the answers. I know the desktop version is optimized but I like using this on my iPad so I can practise anywhere. It’s not like the program is cheap. They need to focus on improving all offerings or don’t bother having them at all.

I would highly recommend this !. Rosetta Stone is fabulous, smooth design, no glitches, great clear pronunciation and excellent extended learning task I also love the online tutor function !! I would highly recommend this to anybody trying to learn a new language.

I cant go to day 3. I’ve been learning tagalog for 2 days, on the third day it says that I need to set a reminder for tomorrow to learn. I came back the next day and it still says that I need to set a reminder for tomorrow. I kept coming back for the next 2 MONTHS and it still isn’t working. Waste of time.

Rosetta Stone Rocks My World!!!!. I really enjoy using the app. The use of pictures and words is an effective way to avoid direct translation occurring in my head; and the creation of a target-language-only space in my head!

Convenient Learning at Your Pace. I am enjoying my use of Rosetta Stone. I find the application intuitive and very easy to use. I like that it is always convenient to learn when I want to and at a pace I am comfortable with. I like that I am able to go back and revisit past lessons to reinforce my learning and build confidence.

Excellent Rosetta Stone. I bought this program for my computer 17 years ago and loved it. This ap is awesome. I love how easy it is to use.

Useful. I think you should make one for kids. (This is actually more engaging than school.) I like it allot because it counts as homework...

Rosetta Stone Learning Experience. I am a big fan of Rosetta Stone. I have learned so much from my Spanish Latin America package although it does take a long time to finish. I also bought my mother the Italian online version and she loved it. My only criticism, and despite a few emails I am yet to receive any real form of constructive feedback, is that the advanced modules are not available to non-corporate customers in app form. I don’t understand this since the platform obviously exists but there is an unwillingness to share this amazing opportunity with the public. I don’t get it. Tried to do Rosetta Stone French Advanced online but the desktop version is painful. Why is an app form not available to non-corporate customers? Make it available...it’s a no-brainer....I’d sign up! Niall

Amazing!. Rosetta Stone provides an easy-to-follow guide in order to learn the language of your choice. I can’t recommend this enough for users wanting to learn another language. Worth every penny.

Best language app, but.... This is the best language App I have tried so far. And I have tried quite a few. But you can't have any noise around when trying to use the microphone. And my only times to use this are during train commutes.

Great way to learn. I have tried a few online language apps. Rosetta Stone is the best. It fully immerses you in the language. The live tutoring is an added feature. A bit daunting at first but it is really helpful.

Arabic. I studied Classical Arabic 40 years ago, and I know Hebrew, but I wanted to learn MSA to work with students. It’s been a week. A lot is coming back, but avoid skipping. Repetition is good for you! The speaking part is hard, but persevere - get the muscles moving & memorisation working. You may want to dip into a grammar book and Google translate for unclear vocabulary. I’m nearing the end of level 1. I’m trying not to skip despite a bit of boredom. Results do show - when I see things online I can already make out things. If I keep at this for 7-8 weeks I may me at the top level. The trick will be my students correcting me and practice practice. It’s certainly a better interactive way than to learn in the old fashioned boring way. My only beef is the training in duals and final vowels, but make your choice. It’s good to be trained. I am also writing down words and phrases. It’s with the money if you do it every day. I get a bit lost at tracking myself and getting back into modules. That could be better.

Excellent but flawed. This is a very fine learning environment, but for the cost, we should expect seamless experience. The microphone often does not work even with a headset, and at times every answer you click is deemed ‘wrong’. Yes, iOS updates are an issue, but with a company this big, swift app updates should provide functionality fixes.

Looked good until i got to the first screen and could not continue???. Tried the demo and got to the first screen.... Ni how, got the green circle then nothing. Could not continue. tried swiping, gesturing... doing anything. Completely stuck. All i could do was swipe up to quit as a last resort. Could not figure out what to do next. There is no visual affordance or cue about what to do next. The user experience is really bad as there are no controls i could find to help me. It had not crashed, just could not work it out. If the free trial is this bad, I’m unlikely to sign up. 1 star.

Love the scenarios!. I've had so much fun learning with this app. It's actually quite entertaining and engaging. It's a little different to Duolingo in the fact that you're not chasing after some score or streak. One must sit down and pay attention and it becomes very engaging especially with a challenging language that one might want to learn. They give you a structure and you do a little bit every day. I'm impressed.

Expensive but good. I’ve tried a few sos fire learning languages on my phone. This one is quite extraordinarily expensive, but it’s been the best learning experience so far. I’m tempted to pay for the unlimited lifetime, but can’t justify that expense.

Good, but room for improvement. I really like the concept of Rosetta Stone. Learning without translation through repetition while looking at descriptive images. This is how we originally learned our first language (with images replicating our real situations); however when we originally learnt we did not learn to speak read and write all at the same time. I feel that just learning to speak for the first few months would be more natural and more manageable. There is quite the cognitive overload trying to do everything at once. Finally since Rosetta Stone has decided to have us learn to hear speak read write all at the same time I would appreciate it if they could make it easier to repeat lessons. I am managing to move through at a slow steady pace however I need to repeat lessons multiple times and the app really doesn’t like me doing that. The lessons seem to run in blocks of 39; so after running through the 39 lessons I like to start again at 1 and redo al 39, however this seems to make the app crash, or only repeat a small portion of the original lesson and then when I have completed 1 again it will jump randomly to lesson 28 or something. Overall I’m finding it useful and I will continue using it, however I would really be pleased if some of my issues were addressed.

Not all languages are ready. I paid to learn Tagalog and it turns out that the translations (into English) are not available. So i am going through the lessons through guess work rather than actually learning the language... It is an extremely poor way of learning a language as although i am able to go through the simple stages which require a little logic and common sense, anything slightly more advanced becomes instant failure showing that i didn’t truly learn the language. I would not recommend using Rosetta Stone at all. Plus the app is really basic and glitchy at times...

Nice Design but High Price. Rosetta Stone has a nice, sleek, modern design it works well you can learn your language fine. However, when it asks you about subscribing you think ‘Yes!’ But think again, it charges you almost $330 dollars to subscribe for a lifetime membership, $330!. Overall, Rosetta Stone has a nice design, works well but they charge way, way too much for what they give you. Thanks

Brilliant learning tool. I’m a teacher, and I’ve experimented with many different types of language apps and software. Hands down, Rosetta Stone is the best for self education.

Great app but very expensive. It’s a great way to learn if you have some minor knowledge of the language. It’s pro version is very expensive though so I would struggle to recommend it unless your really committed.

Content is good, App and Website not so much.. Good for learning, but the app and website are pretty unstable when it comes to tracking of what you are saying. Sometimes you have to do the exercise several times before it recognises what you’ve done as correct (even if there is no difference from what you just said). It can get irritating and after a while I’ll stop using this website/app and use another one, cause it just gets too frustrating. Learning is hard enough, no need for this learning tool to make it even harder.

Really good system billing seems to be buggy. Loved the intro lessons but finding it hard to subscribe. Positives: everything is native. There’s no translation required. Lovely way to learn. Negatives: some features like speech recognition I swear is not working properly(or so I tell myself😅). Billing seems to have frozen? A little expensive in US dollars at the moment for overseas people with weaker currencies.(although I haven’t subscribed I probably still would if I can get it to work)

Excellent work. It is so easy for learning any language except it’s monthly subscription is too expensive

Terrible if you want to use on a different iPad. I purchased this on my iPhone and now find it impossible to register my account on my iPad. Apple only give generic support, somehow my name is the login name not the my email address, so I than I can’t log in online.

A brilliant program. I’m an ex school teacher but use it for personal study. This is a fantastic program fluidly following the way we naturally learn a language. I’m amazed at how much I retain and how easy yet fun it is to learn to speak read and write another language. I can’t wait to test my skills when I travel to Germany this year.

Actually making progress!. I’ve had a couple of attempts at learning Dutch in the past, listening to cds, attending a term of classes and a much older CD version of Rosetta. The convenience of the app has made it so easy to just do ten minutes here or there throughout the day and I’m sticking at it!

Keeps saying course store error. Terrible user experience. I have a 6 month membership and i only just started. App keeps telling me it’s unable to open and i keep occasionally having to re download the application making it slow and extremely inefficient. Too expensive to be giving me this many problems. I have used duolingo which has proven to be free and fast too. I also cannot tell my progress as clearly with this program too. Rather than a clear structure it just feels a little ambiguous. Not impressed at the moment.

Roseta Stone. Very good language learning app. One small constructive criticism, the layout of the lessons on iPhone is difficult to see making the experience somewhat challenging. Would prefer to see a more user friendly layout/format in a future update. Otherwise fantastic.

A poor app, but content might be good. Honestly too confusing. The on boarding experience is a myriad of pricing plans and course choices. The look and feel is fairly clunky and there’s too much navigation required. Feels like they just dumped a website or book into an app. Rather than trying to harangue the user with their pricing plans or choose a course they should just gently immerse them instead of trying to drown them... I’ll stick with Duolingo thanks.

Perfect for on the go learning. I have used this to learn Spanish while in Mexico and it has really helped with understanding and conversation for me. Very simple and easy to use and very well designed. Thank you.

Not detecting audio input reliably. So glad I was able to do a free trial before committing to spending any money. Whilst the content and method of instruction in Rosetta Stone is excellent, the app can’t handle audio input properly, meaning spoken exercises are a complete waste of time. I’ve done everything to make it work, including removing the case. Sometimes I have to shout for it to detect I’m even speaking. It sometimes pops up a message stating there’s an issue with my microphone quality. I’ve tested voice memos which sound perfectly clear. And I’m using Babbel for language learning on a daily basis. It has no problem detecting audio input whether I’m using my iPhone on-device microphone or AirPods. For the price of Rosetta Stone this problem is unacceptable. I won’t be going ahead with a paid subscription.

Cannot buy subscription. I am on the get full access screen and when I press the options nothing happens. The subscription screen is unresponsive. Help?

Excellent but super expensive and app limitations.. Excellent courses, very intuitive. I am disappointed though that because by choosing the basic subscription one cannot access certain functions like downloading: the app is not exactly cheap, the least they could do would be to be democratic and not chastise people for being just a beginner. The app is good but I DETEST that it only includes a number of languages: I bought Rosetta Stone to learn Latin, and sure enough Latin is not one of the languages in the phone app. One should be able to choose where and when to do their lessons, and now often than not one does not have a computer handy. The app should have at the very least a couple of less common languages, and Latin would be the first in that list.

Rosetta stone. It is teaching me to speak Spanish and French and is really helping me talk to people that speak a different language.

Excellent App. This app is definitely the best language learning app I have ever used, although you do need to pay a fair amount for a subscription.

No translation makes this ap useless. No translation provided for many languages (mandarin) leaving you to guess the context of the phrases from photos. That makes the app practically useless. Purchased a subscription and provided no method to be reimbursed. Online Help then claim I should have checked the website. Absolute theft given this is not disclosed in the App Store.

Good program but App needs work. The content itself is great and the learning concept is simple but effective. It also moves fairly fast so you aren’t stuck doing the same easy stuff over and over for hours like a lot of other programs. The website version is great but the app needs some work. When it tries to fit too many choices on screen it will glitch out horribly, and make the images the size of a pinprick so its impossible to choose the correct option since you rely on the images to choose the correct answer most of the time. Or it will mess up the words so that you have to scroll around just to read one short sentence. The microphone on the mobile version can be very frustrating as well. I recommend this program, if you’ve got the money that is. it’s very expensive. Honestly I find the free version of Duolingo to be pretty similar.

Great I love it. I absolutely love Rosetta Stone it’s amazing. I am intermediate at mandarin and doing lessons outside of Rosetta Stone for mandarin but doing a couple lessons of mandarin on Rosetta Stone. But what I’m really excited about is my Tagalog I am thinking of going to live in the Philippines next year and I’ve only done 4 lessons and I’m loving it it’s like amazing how much I’ve learnt thank you so much

Great App for learning. Have enjoyed using Rosetta Stone to learn conversational French so far - it has everything you need packed into a well functioning app.

Fantastic app. Although a high price point, definitely worth it!! They have updated interface to be more intuitive and less clunky. Very happy and would recommend. (I do Spanish)

Rosetta Stone. I love Rosetta Stone because you could learn different types of languages and speak it I already know so much Italian and it’s only been one day you should try it aswell

Good app, but microphone technical issues. I’ve enjoyed using the Rosetta Stone language app to learn Vietnamese. The content for the learning programmes has been good. My biggest issue with the app at the moment is the app not detecting the microphone in my Apple Airpods when I have the AirPods connected to my iPad. Other apps on my iPad (eg. voice memo) seem to be able to use the Airpod’s microphone well. If the developers could fix this issue this would make the app even better!

ReallyGreatApp. This app is soo good for learning even the language basics but you don’t have to pay for absolutely phenomenal it is soo good and lots worth it to pay for

Amazing program!. I love Rosetta Stone. It moves past the old way of learning a language and makes it happen almost effortlessly. I tried the program a few years ago but was not committed to learning a language. I recently thought about learning a language and purchased the program and jumped right in. I am still in my first week (doing (30mins a day) and I am amazed at how natural the learning process is. Thanks Rosetta Stone - I will be speaking fluent Italian in no time!

Mobile study needs a large screen. Enjoying using app on my phone when I have a break at work, but the images are so small that you can’t answer some of the questions correctly - because you can’t see the detail. On an iPad the experience is much better. It would be good to have access to some explanations as to when to use certain vocabulary, but you can always pause the app and Google what you don’t understand

Expected better for the cost. Poor voice recognition, which makes it a useless feature. Apps like Duolingo provide the same content in the end, making this not worth the money. I had multiple instances where the “voice bar” rated green, but the app registered a fail mark, increasing frustration and not making the experience enjoyable.

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Unclear instructions. The instructions for what to do aren’t clear at all. I often feel like I’ve been tossed in the middle of something instead of starting from the begging. Once I get the hang of it it’s not too bad but I still feel like it will be difficult to fully learn this way.

Horrible. Slow and painful. The voice recognition is horrible and makes learning impossible, boring and overall makes me hate the app

👍. Good app I am learning Portugueseand it is good

SCAMMED.. I purchase two LIFETIME programs with Rosetta Stone, totaling more than $600. I am now expected to repurchase a new “Lifetime subscription” because adobe stopped working in 2020. Instead of RS honoring the Lifetime purchases they sold hundreds of thousands of people before 2020, they expect us all to repurchase and expect that, this time, our “Lifetime Purchase” will actually last a lifetime. Its a total scam and I can’t believe they are getting away with it. Shame on you, Rosetta Stone. Your behavior is disgusting.

Very frustrating app to use. Now at unit 13, I have been using the app on my IPad only because it is way too small on an iPhone 8. The app is very glitchy, doesn’t load, crashes, and won’t load the offline mode. Going from the offline to online mode is a real headache and I have to load the app multiple times to make it work. Will not renew my subscription even if I am not done with the program.

Good lessons. Once I switched to using the App on my phone I practiced more regularly. I enjoy the lessons.

What I rate this app at. I love the app I am learning a lot of the language that I picked but I don't like that you have to pay a couple hundred dollars to finish the entire task or entire language

Not free. And not cheap. At least make payment monthly instalments.

Review. It’s great it doesn’t go too fast but not too slow it is just write and tells you if you are doing something wrong like saying it

Learning German. It actually works if you commit

Great app!. Great app, the only thing missing is an explanation as to why you learn each segment. It just jumps into it without an explanation.

Learning Chinese and german. Been learning Chinese for a while. I will set myself apart from the crowd by knowing the three most powerful languages. I Previously learned Chinese on my school paid for Rosetta account but I left school so on my new account I can’t sync the data between them. I didnt have to start over you can start from any level but when i finish said level and click continue it sends me back. Works fine, wish there was a translation button or a language structure button. Sometimes rosetta been wanting me to pick the answer between two words i never heard before and never showed a clear meaning

Great interactive learning tool. I’m enjoying learning the basics of Spanish with Rosetta Stone. I like the interactivity and being able to get graded on my speaking skills.

Good app. I really am learning from this app. Worth it

Rossetta. It is very fun to learn Spanish but sometimes when you show the picture I know the right words but I don’t know what it means but I love your app.

Errr duo better. This app is so bad omg it felt like whenever you took a lesson the next day u had to go back to day 1 Soo bad also as someone who had to use this as a family it sucked so much like you can’t have the tab open otherwise IT WILL END UR SUBSCRIPTION or smthin like that I don’t rlly remember also when it would get you to pronounce it can’t hear you that well I’ll be up to the mic screaming “ØL OG VIN TAKK” AND SOMEHOW IT CANT HEAR ME? When in duo it can hear me by whispering anyway I’m not promoting duo I’m jst saying my opinion 1 star

En phase découverte de l'application. L'application est très intéressante. La méthode est prometteuse pour mon apprentissage de l'anglais dont j'ai peine et misère à l'apprendre. 1) Le son de la petite cloche (pour m'annoncer que j’ai la bonne réponse) est redondante. On pourrait varier la tonalité. 2) Lorsque je donne une réponse à voix haute, j'ai remarqué que certaines de mes réponses auraient dû être erronées alors que, de son côté, le système les acceptaient. Mais dans l'ensemble, j'aime. J’ai hâte de voir la suite.

Rosetta Stone. I am progressing very well learning Greek, I highly recommend this app it will help you learn a language at your own pace! Sincerely: Vuk D.

So good. It’s great it helps me a lot

BRUH. For some reason I cannot delete this app this app sucks won’t even recognize my voice like I’m a native Korean and it says incorrect when I say whatever their saying voice recognition is BROKEN

Broken App - Stay Away. If you would like to use and pay for Rosetta Stone, I definitely do not recommend the app as you’d be paying not just money, but with wasted time. The web browser version of Rosetta Stone is really the best way to truly use it, as the app barely works properly. You’ll end up having spent more time dealing with headaches than learning language lessons.

Love love love, but confusing payment options. So far I love this app, I have rudimentary Spanish from a year backpacking across Central America but it’s been years and I am losing it. This app really intrigues me and I wanna get the Latin Spanish unlimited for a year but am very confused by the pricing. Is the one year monthly for $12 or do u have to pay the whole year and the $12 just says how much it would come out to versus it being the monthly payment. Looking forward to a reply, I would purchase in a second if it’s monthly payments

Awesome. Really helping me learn french👍

Espagnol. Cette app facilite beaucoup l’apprentissage d’une langue

This app sucks. I have to do this app for school and I hate it. Rosetta Stone sucks. It keeps crashing and freezing.

Falls way short of duolingo. The free version is nothing compared to what duo offers for free. I have not paid for premium, so this review is based off the sample lessons. Ok, so first of all, the interface is pretty bad. Poor design choices in terms of hard to see/unclear(contextually) photos and hard to press buttons. The speech recognition is basically useless I was marked correctly for something I said “wait what?” to, and it is also super difficult to re-listen to the phrase. Secondly, you can cruise through a lot more than one lesson on duolingos free version, and Rosetta offers 1 lesson. Like I used duo for a good six months before subscribing. In terms of value, I’m not really sure if Rosetta has more to offer in V.I.P., however, it seems like the app needs a lot of work before it is even close to as fun or easy to use as duolingo.

Great app!. Enjoying this app for learning a new language. Would recommend.

I own the app but it demands I buy it again!!!. I already owned the app I had offloaded it to save space on my previous phone. Now it won’t let me download it even though I already paid for it before! Not only that but I paid the cyber Monday for the unlimited lessons but it keeps forcing me to the app and the app I already bought in Dec 2022 is demanding I buy it again!!!! UNACCEPTABLE! Is this just a money grab? Is this a scam? Sell you the app but demand you buy it again after you already own it? I want my lessons or my money back.what are you going to do about this Rosetta Stone?

Fun and easy to use. Didn’t think learning a new language could be so easy and fun.

App. Love this app !

Bonne application. Bonne regarde

Keeps crashing. I am enjoying the learning method. But it keeps crashing. Try to open the app and getting a black screen. So I have to delete and reload. What a pain.

Buggy, buggy, buggy. This app constantly has weird bugs. Now the speech recognition isn’t working on my iPhone but works fine on my iPad. The iPad version also has an issue where it rotates the UI upside down. Just weird bugs by bad developers! Previous: The images are super tiny on my screen, like the layout code is messed up. I’ve reported this bug and they acknowledge they’re aware of it, but have not fixed it at all. You’re required to makes way too many choices, and they’re not even sequential before you even get into each learning section. I don’t know which one to choose. The Mac app is way simpler and it just gets you into learning much faster. The iOS UI is really poorly designed and it’s way too complicated. I don’t know what to choose or pick first. For this price, I can't have multiple learners? If I buy the Mac app, I can have multiple learners. If my wife and I both want to learn Chinese, we BOTH have to pay $279 for the Chinese? What the? This is according to Rosetta Stone tech support. I want my wife to be able track her progress, etc and for $279, I should get at LEAST one more person who uses the same devices as me to be able to learn. Nevermind my children.

Voice recognition doesnt work. The voice recognition exercises are not picking up on my words. “Hola” is pretty straight forward and it still says Im incorrect when I say it.

Missing one thing. I’m doing the first unit for french, Unit Basics and wish the picture you click correctly on had the words/phrase translated to english for my notes. I don’t like trying to guess the word they would like me to learn, then having to look it up somewhere else. I would like to learn the correct word/phrase the first time so I don’t get confused or have to relearn it in another unit/on my own.

My purchase of the Russian language has vanished.. Can someone help?

Free TO TRY. Free to try only first 2 - 3 basic lessons.

Broken exercises, very frustrating. The sequence of learning is not great for me. I think you need the alphabet before you see it written, and there is no explanation of vowels. But the really frustrating thing is “broken” exercises. The first grammar exercise flips through five or six pages without allowing a response and then tells you that you cannot proceed because you have got them wrong. After multiple tries I got to the second alphabet exercise, And the “ye” from the “yelda” kept changing to another letter when I selected it so every answer was wrong. For $139 I expect at least a help function, but there seems to be no way of communicating with Rosetta Stone. Very disappointing for a company with this reputation.

What kind of learning method is that?. Tried learning Arabic for several months. Felt like I wasted my time there. Now again with Mandarin, did one 10min lesson to realize how terrible this language learning method is bad. How can you learn a language by only repeating words you don’t have the translation for? You end up guessing every time and not acquire a proper vocabulary. It should go over the basic letters/symbols pronunciation and reading before throwing you into memorizing a bunch of random words (that you don’t have the translation for). Very disappointed.

Good 40%. Sucks that you have to pay to go pro

Log into App. This app doesn’t allow you to change your password or access the account. You put in your email address and the app will allow you to change your password but the app won’t recognize your password

I really like the app. It's nice to be able to use my phone to learn another language when I'm waiting for the bus, or just don't want to grab my laptop. I can download my lessons to use without wifi and I love the story telling. It reads to me, I read back as it records, and then it tells me where I hesitated or spoke incorrectly. You do need a subscription or to the buy the product outright.

Frustrating. On my iPhone 11 images are hard to see. Cues are insufficient to understand what is the intended response. Listening and speaking exercises become difficult too quickly. Deleting the app.

Doesn’t work for me.. I don’t have success with this aplease don’t renew my subscription.

Speech recognition is GARBAGE. The app crashes and has glitches like the second line of the written material is always covered by the picture so you have to guess what the rest of the text is. These things are not the end of the world. What is a big ongoing problem is the piss poor speech recognition. It has been poor quality for years now. It really is about 50% accurate at best. Shout, speak loud, whisper, talk slow, whatever it will fail to recognize that anything was said. This is a significant problem for a program intended to teach language. It feels like I have a teacher who has hearing aids with dead batteries. This is extremely frustrating which doesn’t help with motivation either. You people should fix that tomorrow morning. Seriously, It really should be a top priority to fix this. Also if you are trying to learn over a long run, be careful because this company will cancel lifetime subscriptions without refund, notice or cause. My work recommended this app but I’m wishing I tried any of the other programs that do the exact same thing.

Much faster than Duolingo. I really enjoy the app, and I am learning much faster than I would either otherwise. My only qualm is they need to work on the pronunciation software.

Not worth the money.. Can’t go back and redo lessons no translations.

Very good. Intuitive and effective learning tool.

Can’t Cancel!!!. Recurring billing continues and no response from customer service. I’ve called, sent emails and used their online form. No one ever picks up or responds. The function to cancel within the app does NOT function. Thus I continue to get billed. Just opened a fraud case through my credit card company. Rosetta used to be a legit company… I guess they changed. Stay away. You e been warned.

Works well. Just like on the computer

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This system is annoying. If you are color blind or you are not a mind reader, then this app is not for you. In every language as far as I can tell, they have an exercise where they show you books and ask for the color. I cannot see the differences and many times there is no context. I know color blindness affects only a relatively small percentage of men, but if you’re going to use only pictures, you need to make it so that I know what the color is for or at least make the colors on a a page very different. For me, red and green often look the same as well as some light greens and yellows (apparently, I of course can’t tell). The same thing happened with a white egg and a very light blue (apparently) egg. Additionally, many times you need to be a mind reader. You’re presented with a picture and you’re supposed to figure you what that picture is trying to say. I’ve tried with several languages over a few weeks and it’s completely frustrating. Even more annoying is that, based on my thoughts that Rosetta Stone is the best, I bought the lifetime membership. That is going to be a complete waste of money and I feel pretty stupid right now.

10/10, recommend for beginners, advanced, and everything in-between!. I have used this app to effectively learn 2 languages, and I am learning my 4th now. I am currently learning Russian, which is a language most people won’t approach because it uses the Cyrillic alphabet (similar to Latin and Greek.) but Rosetta Stone has helped me through it and broken the barriers! It has a very extensive variety of languages you can choose from. And I would 100% recommended getting the lifetime subscription, it allows you access to tutors, books, tons of languages, and more! And it does a wonderful job of correcting those little slip ups people have while learning a new language. So you want to go to français? Learn French! Do you want to go to руссна? Learn Russian! You have to experience as much as you can throughout your life, and this is the way to go. And most importantly, enjoy it!! 😃

Such a bad app. I like Rosetta Stone programs - I’ve used them to brush up on my Italian and Spanish, even way back when they arrived in the mail on CDs. This app, however, is TERRIBLE. Like surprisingly bad. The activities where you speak and they grade your accent are fantastic…..when the app can even hear you. Most of the time when I speak my response does not register, and it’s much worse with headphones. There’s also a strange bug right now where I can’t complete any of the lessons except the intro. I click on any lesson, it says completed (which it’s not) and sends me back to the main menu. I tried deleting the app and reinstalling, signing out and back in, nothing works. I tried going through the first lesson to see if that might let me get back to my lessons, but then it won’t register my spoken answers (see above), so I’m completely stuck. I’m visiting Lima and thought I’d do some lessons, but I just spent the last 20 minutes yelling “me llamo Felipe” into my phone to no avail. What must my neighbors think of me 😅. Anyway with all the amazing language apps out there this one is NOT worth the money. I bought a lifetime subscription which I see now was a total scam, lol.

If your looking forward to learning a language GET THIS APP NOW!!!. I am trying to learn Turkish because my family speaks and I have learned so much in the past week I am speaking full dented already you don’t have to pay anything you just get the app and get started. There are many languages including a planner, timing and it even has a choice for you to speak into the mic or choose cards. This has helped me so much a fan now my mom is so proud of me and is now considering sending me to turkey to my family!!!! Thank you so much whoever created this app you have made my life so much easier and my experience with this app is just so good I could go on and on all day saying good things about this app. Also fun fact I’ve been using this app since I was 8 and I am way older now but I have stopped for a while Becuase I got bored but now that I am older I can’t wait to speak Turkish to family and I am so happy teşekkürler!! It means thank you in Turkish! 😉

Rosetta Stone Review of Program and App. User friendly. App makes it really easy to complete a lesson or two even in very busy days, the continuity of which seems to help reinforce learning very well. Excellent mixture of learning to speak and listen (with and without words in other language making you understand both written and listening and a combo of both). Progresses through language skills/grammar etc in a systematic way with spiraling back to reinforce older lessons. Lessons short, fluid, and interactive so keeps attention. Language software recognition is much better other resources I have tried. Have been wanting to try for years due to Rosetta’s excellent reputation in language learning and very glad I did. I think subscription may have even come with money back guarantee? Can’t remember for sure but you won’t need it if you are really interested in learning other language(s) and are willing to set aside 10-20 minutes most/several days of the week.

Easy to follow along. For the longest time I have been trying to learn a new language and have used several apps but this is my favorite so far. I am a visual person so I like to see the image and see how things are spelled for me to understand and follow the pronunciation much closer. I am still just a few weeks in but so far I see some results. They don’t provide you with the translations which works better because you have to pay closer attention and figure it out based on the picture and the dialogue that is being used. I think that was one, of the many problems, that I had. I was always trying to translate it and just memorize the sentences, while with Rosetta Stone, is about really learning without clouding your mind with definitions and translations. It flows a little smoother. I will still have to see how far you can go with this and see if I can actually have conversations with the new languages that I plan to learn.

Pictures too small. I have an iPhone 11, so it has a good sized screen. I do wear glasses, which give me 20/20 vision. The photos they use are too detailed and small, and I can’t find a way, other than in the “accessibility” part of my settings to get bigger pictures. I get things wrong all the time, because of things like not being able to see three tiny heads in a pool are women, or the background is so busy I don’t understand what the word I am trying to be taught means. Why are the kids in the woods in a tiny picture? This mainly happens with the genders of people, adults and children. This was not an inexpensive app, putting six busy pictures with sentences on top of them on a six-inch screen makes it incredibly difficult to learn. If I did not have an old iPad to use, this app would be unusable to me. The iOS on the iPad is very out-of-date, so if this app no longer supports the iOS it is on, I am up the creek. I think this is a great way to learn the language, much better than Duolingo. But you cannot just shrink down the layout used for a PC or laptop and put it on a much smaller screen. One inch pictures? Are you serious?

Great Summer Review Between School Years. I am a middle school student, going into Spanish III. I got worried about forgetting everything over the summer, and I was looking for something to help me review what I’ve learned. My parents and I decided that Rosetta Stone would be the perfect thing. Using this app a little each day will really help me for the upcoming school year. Not only am I going over what I’ve already learned, but I’m learning new vocabulary, sentence structure, and grammar. I definitely feel more confident going into Spanish III, than Spanish I or II. Though this is a great review, I can definitely see myself having trouble learning the language only using this app. Also, some of the pictures that you have to match with a sentence or word can be a bit unclear, but I only ran into this in maybe five out of the hundreds of lessons. Overall, I’d say this is a great app to use. But it takes a lot of dedication to complete, so make sure you’re up for the challenge.

Awesome. This app is really cool. I really really like this app. This app helps me. It really helps me. Spanish is cool on this app. It’s really cool. If you want to do Spanish use this cool app. This really really cool app. It’s so cool. Cooler than cool. I reccomend using this app because it actually works. It’s better than any other curriculum out there. It’s very cool, it’s really really cool. USE THIS COOL APP This pictures are very good and detailed, they help me a lot on learning a new language, sometimes I just look at pictures and just say the words. What’s cool about this cool app is that the lessons are ver very short. That’s means it doesn’t take long to learn a language. I don’t like how sometimes the speech part isn’t working, I’ll say the exact word like millions of times and it doesn’t recognize. I know it’s really hard to fix that. It’s still a cool app, it’s a really really cool app. Sometimes I like doing Spanish, other times it’s boring. This app helps me engage in thoughts and focus. It’s not boring and it’s cool. Really really cool

Not quite immersion, but excellent.. Would not true immersion involve living in the country whose language one is pursuing? However Rosetta Stone offers an approach, methods (computer and Ap) and tutors to learn the phrases, vocabulary and grammar by listening and speaking. When I began a few years ago, I completed 4 of the 20 units but was disappointed that I did not understand the grammar. So I stopped Rosetta, but continued to pay the yearly subscription as I took a once-weekly six week course three times a year for three years. Now I have returned with some background and do enjoy Rosetta’s style, the images, the divisions into grammar, speaking, etc. and the tutors. It is possible to review several times. Hearing the words and phrases with that background has made it so much more enjoyable. I think the Ap for the iPad works quite well. The original headset ceased to function and I had some difficulty finding the correct two-way USB headset with large enough ear coverage.

Wants me to purchase what I’ve already paid for.... I purchased the program for my PC (all 5 levels) and figured I would be able to access the content I paid for through the app. I was wrong. I still sign in with all the same information (user name, email, password, everything) but it doesn’t allow me to continue on with lessons I’VE ALREADY PAID FOR. I don’t understand why the app and the PC program don’t work together. They easily could and should. On my phone and iPad I’m using Duolingo as a way to keep the language fresh as I don’t always have time to login on a PC. I would love to use Rosetta Stone while I have some downtime during the day, but I’m not going to haul my computer around in order to do that. It just doesn’t make sense. The app and attitude of this company are very disappointing. It’s also disheartening to see that their response to poor reviews isn’t to actually give answers, but to ask people to go to there website and make a statement. When customer has already expressed their concern in the review, it pretty ridiculous to ask them to do the same thing in a different location. It’s just another example of them ignoring the problem.

Images Too Small on Mobile Phone. Edited Review on Dec 3rd••• Thank you for the response. I followed the instructions and Now i can see the pictures bigger! It makes a world of difference! I changed my review to a solid 4 stars. I use this app in conjunction with others because they each have strengths and weaknesses and different approaches to learning the language. Original review••• I almost want to give 2 stars. This is a photo based language learning app. On my phone, when im using the app, a lot of times its impossible to see details you need to see to get answers correct because the images dont expand. Probably best to use this on larger tablet or computer screens. By the way, I have an iphone 12 Pro max. Lastly i wish the lessons sequencing and organization of concepts were set up a little more like learning a language in a classroom rather than solely loosely categorized random sentences and vocabulary. There should be more some more emphasis on rules, lists, patterns and explanations.

Good teaching styles but riddled with bugs. The teaching aspect has a couple of problems, but overall it’s well done. It’s the ‘immersion’ style where there’s almost no English. That’s great, until you literally don’t understand why you got something wrong - there’s no possible way to get an explanation of what they’re trying to teach you or why you got it wrong. I was starting to write down the bugs that I ran into during today’s lesson, but gave up after half a dozen. It often can’t understand dictated text, it cranks the volume to 100% sometimes, it hangs if you app-switch, etc. Also, they violate several of Apple’s Human Interface Guidelines for iOS on the phone, many buttons and images are too small to see or tap, and required information is disabled. It’s very frustrating to get errors due to the app, even when you know the language part perfectly. For such an expensive app, I expected far more polish and usability.

Embarrassingly low tech for such an expensive program. I am learning quickly and well using Rosetta Stone, but for $200 I really would expect better. In 2020, it is crazy that an app like this won’t work with the mic from wireless headphones, when wireless headphones have been the norm for years now. Even Duolingo, which is free, works with wireless headphones. Using my phone mic I have to put my mouth right next to the mic for the program to register my responses as correct, which makes it impossible to read the paragraphs of text from the screen... further, I’ve had the app not record my completion of a specific lesson quite a few times and I then have to redo it... The program is constantly telling me I mispronunciations the word “el” in Spanish, so I had my husband, a native speaker try and it did for him too, meaning it has something to do with the program itself, which is frustrating for such an expensive program. Pretty frustrated and disappointed at this point. In the last few days I’ve been turning back to Duolingo, which is easier to use and free...

Really enjoying RS. I started using RS in 2015 to learn Greek. Very complicated to learn a language with a different alphabet. I felt the lessons escalated far too quickly and I got lost and frustrated. I quit. In 2019 I started using Duolingo and while still only a beginner in my language, I decided to try RS again. Updates to the program, along with some beginner basic language under my belt, I was confidently tackling the RS lessons. It’s now 2021, and I am still using both Programs to learn. I am advancing quickly and find myself spending more time in the program each time I use it. While both programs have pros and cons, I feel like using Duolingo is what encouraged me to give Rosetta Stone another chance - and I’m so happy I did. I still use both programs and feel they compliment each other nicely. I highly recommend Rosetta Stone for anyone. I’m having fun with the lessons.

DO NOT BUY. Don't buy this app. Just don't. I had deleted the app because it wasn't very shellfish to me in my opinion, and every day, since I'm not using the app since I deleted it, I get at least two or three emails every day from Rosetta Stone, DONT FORGET YOUR FREE 3 MONTHS every single day I don't use the app. I guess that you need to use the app daily the second after you buy it or else they'll constantly fill your email and use up space in your phone. They just cannot accept that you stopped using the app ever. Within 2 days of me deleting it, I got 6 emails saying 3 FREE MONTHS DONT FORGET TO CLAIM IT. If you do buy this app and don't plan to use it every single day of your life, Too bad. You probably already gave them your email and now you'll never stop getting emails for the rest of your life. Even if you delete the app, nice try. They'll still send emails. There isn't any way stop it either. Even after reading this you still decide to get the app, just be ready. There are plenty of other apps that are much better apps than this in every way. They are obsessed with you using the app. Here's a language lesson for you, the translation for "claim your 3 free months now", is "USE OUR FREAKING APP MORE". You're welcome.

Good Start. One thing is writing a review towards the beginning of the program, another is writing one towards the end of the program.. I can say that I’m somewhere in the middle. And I think, most people don’t get this far let alone completely finish the program.. I feel Rosetta Stone needs to create more incentive to finish the program. It’s hard work and time consuming. I see how someone could easily veer off and eventually stop using the program. I also think Rosetta should do some more work on developing ways for people on the program to create language. In other words, 40% through the program and I’m still not confident to make a conversation about anything to a native speaker.. Well I feel I can’t just yet and actually don’t believe I can get there without any further intervention or more advanced training or tutoring. But I do think that it’s a good program to get the basics in and challenge you to see if you want to go further.. I do think it’s a good program and I do recommend it.

Great app but one suggestion. So I recently found the live coaching category and I watched a couple and they were really helpful, but I thought since humans have a small attention span, what if there was an option to watch 30 second - 2 minute videos on a word or two, and then if you watch x amount of seconds of that video it gives you more words building onto that? (sorry if that doesn’t make any sense) for example I watch a short video on how to say Hello how was your day? in Spanish or something and then when the video is over I can swipe to the side to learn how to reply or something, (another example: You watch the video on how to say good morning in Spanish and then if you swipe left it’s a video on how to say good night, and it just keeps building on from there.) but this is a very good app I recommend using Rosetta Stone instead of Duolingo. (Sorry for the really long examples)

Destiny. Ok don’t get me wrong the app is wonderful it helps you speak new languages but don’t you think we should learn how to say and write the alphabet of that language we decided on. The reason why I think that is because that’s how we learned our original language by learning the alphabet so I’m just saying we shouldn’t be learning how to speak another language without learning how to say and write the alphabet. And second sometimes I think that when we are trying to learn a new language instead of a picture it should be converted back in to our own language to understand it better and also sometimes I think the app is fake because I was trying to learn Spanish then I said a word in English and apparently I got it completely correct and that’s what made me suspicious about the app so please take advice from my comment cause you probably will be better off downloading something else or getting a book on learning that language or even going on going to take a course of that language for 6-12 months because I did that and now I know Spanish really wel

This message needs some attention!!. Hello Rosetta team! I purchased the app 3 months ago and in the first month everything was perfect. Since the beginning of second month i started to have some problems like seeing an already finished exercise over and over and the most annoying part is i keep seeing the taskbar menu in the exercise page(below) so i have to zoom in on pictures to be able to see them and its frustrating me because i am using a handy version. I contacted you but you told me i have to wait till the next update( which i dont know when and if there is an update, will it solve my issue?!) I also experience another unpleasant issue since yesterday; i keep seeing only the exercises i did yesterday as incomplete and when i click on them to redo them in order to get rid of them, they mark themselves as completed task! But the dont disappear! I am a serious learner and work with my app everyday so this is not a type of support i expect from a big name like Rosetta Hope your technical problem soon be solved

Pretty good but one problem. Overall this app is really good… although there’s one problem when you’re looking at the pictures they show you don’t actually know what it means like the Spanish lessons lessons for travel when you’re learning you don’t know the certain Word for Word meaning they’ll show you a picture of what they’re doing and they teach you how to say it in Spanish,but you don’t actually know the exact sentence so if you read the picture wrong then you’ll end up with the wrong sentence. It’s especially annoying with pronunciation so I guess what I’m asking is just for when you figure it out from the picture and get it right you get it Word for Word after so you can still use the pictures for visual but you also get exactly what you’re saying in the language you speak,but again overall that’s really one of the only problems and I highly recommend getting the app since most of the time you can’t understand it but it would be really nice to to know Word for Word

It’s better than others. It’s great for immersion, but explains nothing even when you selected to learn from the ground up. I’m learning Japanese and constantly get things wrong because I have to vaguely figure it out on my own instead of having an explanation like in other apps such as memrise. Then you fail because the app didn't tell you that this ending is present vs past tense or that this phrase is a question vs an answer or formal v informal. If i’m paying a subscription I would like a more in depth explanation instead of highlighted words and pictures for me to piece the puzzle together myself. Edit: I got a response from the “devs” reexplaining immersion learning. I know its immersion learning; my point is that there should still be an option for an explanation. If someone is struggling, then there should be a click to show window that explains what is happening or break it down. Explain why this phrase is formal v this phrase informal, etc. currently it only explains “fill in the blank” not why or what is going on in the /learning/.

Immersive and Funny. I got Rosetta Stone a few days ago, and so far it is GREAT. Compared to other language learning programs, this is far superior. There’s no limit on the number of mistakes you can make per day, and the pictures help you to understand concepts without reading a lot of technical grammatical information. The reason I put the word “funny” in the title of this review, is because (at least on the Latin American Spanish course I’m taking) they don’t have any child voice actors, so images of children conversing about toys (jugetes!) are voiced by adults, and I find that hilarious. There will just be a picture of a toddler speaking in the deepest voice imaginable saying something like, “which toy is bigger?” I think the humor helps me stay engaged. I also like that the app has really intuitive buttons and it’s really easy to use and navigate. Overall great app!

Great, but audio play issues. I have been enjoying Unit 1 very much. It’s broken down into 5-10 min chunks of time, and everyone has 5-10 minutes to spare! HOWEVER, throughout, I noticed that sometimes the audio files won’t automatically play. I have gotten past this by manually pressing the play button so I can hear what I was intended to hear for the lesson. My problem right now is the Unit Milestone lesson. It apparently requires a bunch of listening. BUT the audio isn’t playing (even though the pictures keep advancing), and I have no way to get around it because there is no Play button for me to manually invoke the audio play. It’s frustrating, and after sticking with it through Unit 1, it’s especially annoying because I was looking forward to the Milestone lesson and getting a good score before moving on to Unit 2. I have the most updated version of Rosetta Stone app. I use a 2018 iPad Pro 12.9 inch. I hope the folks at Rosetta Stone can get these audio issues resolved.

This app has changed my life!. Before Rosetta Stone, I was a workbook and language learning video queen! I looked at videos and looked at different books to help me understand Spanish. I learned some things, but in the end I couldn’t speak or read the language . I heard how great Rosetta Stone was from my mom and grandma and decided to give it a try. After three days, I could fully speak in sentences. They may have small sentences, but it was a huge difference! I feel more confident now listening to Spanish speakers and picking out things I understand. I can also read a passage in Spanish and know exactly what they are talking about as I’m reading it! I was starting to give up on learning a different language, but not anymore! I’m even so confident in this app that I decided to do two languages at a time! Even though you have to pay for the experience, I’m telling you this app is definitely worth the purchase! Just get it and you won’t be sorry!

The Best Learning app ever!!!!!. I am 11 years old and I want to learn how to speak Spanish Italian and Chinese I could not find A learning app to teach me but when I got to the App Store I found Rosetta stone it helped me a lot I am on the fourth lesson and I feel like I have learned so much from using this app it helped me learn more about Spanish Chinese and Italian I bet you would like this app to there is no ads and nothing can stop you from keep on learning every day I’ve been using this app for a week now and nothing bad has calmed up to this app I am so happy I found this app there is two more of Rosetta Stone and I will be happy to try them my mom has said this has helped me a lot and I feel like if people want to learn how to speak a different language this is the app for them I hope you get the Rosetta Stone app now after hearing this and there’s nothing bad about this so your parents or you yourself should not have any troubles with the app I hope you like your new Rosetta Stone have fun Learning new languages!!!!🇨🇳🇫🇷🇵🇹

Worst Service Ever. If I can give this anymore negative stars I would. As soon as I subscribed, downloaded the app and 90% of the content was locked. Managing subscription option sends you to a blank page and I figured it just needed time to refresh my sub data. I looked through the support page and it suggested to reload the app. After waiting and trying all these steps, I contact customer support that immediately doesn’t bother to read the steps I’ve tried. The rep begins to send me one sentence fixes like sign in and out, uninstall and reinstall the app. This is after me reminding him I did all this. The second rep that I asked for a refund from keeps telling me to give them a chance to fix it and made me repeat myself that I just wanted a refund, only to be told that it will take 7-10 business days to get my money back. Considering it only took a minute to take my money I thought it was ridiculous it will take this long to get money back. To add insult to injury, the 3rd rep kept telling me there was no point talking to a supervisor after I asked to speak to one 3 times. Save your time, money and any potential heartache and stay away from this.

Awesome program. Its been really helpful, I've managed to learn a lot. Rossettastone's 30min daily plans really go such a long way for the very little effort it plans for you. But one should never limit themselves to 30min, if you have more time to study or improve yourself in some capacity you should take the opportunity. Multiple ways to study it gives hour of listening material to help you as well as other various study materials. I listen to the listening material while i drive and that is a huge help, simply listening does so much to help you retain information from the 30min study sessions. It is a great program and when i purchased it was $200 for lifetime unlimited languages. It is a very affordable offer. I couldn't be more satisfied with what Rossettastone's program for what I paid for it. 5 stars! And its available on your phone so you can study anywhere, not just at your PC/Mac

Sandra Fernandez-Achenbach. I truly love learning multiple languages and I can supplement my language learning with Rosetta Stone! It is a very serious, passionate hobby for me. I have been enjoying and learning languages with Rosetta Stone for a few years, and when I retired 3.5 years ago I started using it more. Rosetta Stone is not the only way to learn languages, but it adds to the process. Learning in-person with native speakers, being immersed in the culture or country, and attending in-class direct grammar, conversation and writing lessons with a professional teacher are the BEST ways. But Rosetta Stone is convenient to use on my cell phone, so I can study anywhere that has internet. I thank the Rosetta Stone Corporation for offering such a reasonably priced online system and for troubleshooting technical issues. Yesterday, the first syllable of each phrase or sentence was inaudible, and I emailed the tech support. It was fixed the next day. That’s impressive! I really appreciated your prompt attention to the problem. Over the years, I will be using my acquired Rosetta Stone language skills for comprehending text, learning about people and culture, doing International volunteer/nonprofit work, embarking on further personal geographical travel explorations, researching for writing projects, developing friendships, and listening to foreign media. Thanks again for a fantastic language learning adventure!!

Amazing page to learn, horrible service. I got the three months trial for student and at the begging was great! Now I have to contact Rosettas chat almost daily to ask for help as I cannot finish not even one lesson a day! Every twenty minutes it starts to fail, just stops working and then shows that there’s no internet while I’m able to go to any other websites, sometimes it works again within 20-30 minutes sometimes doesn’t work again. Then after weeks of having to contact the chat almost daily somebody told me that was going to escalate my case and now that I have to chat again w support they have no records of any of my complains. Feels like they’re just making the website to go slower so i cannot advance that much and at the end pay...do you think I’m gonna pay at the end of a trial when i had to contact support almost daily for a trashy service? Will absolutely stay w the program if the keep giving me the chance to learn and advance a lesson per day, so i was not going to finish the course in this three months and again I would pay it cause its worth it, but not like this! Going to Babel!

Good but major problem. I really like Rosetta Stone for learning languages. It’s definitely not perfect and needs a companion of some sort to learn a language properly. However there is a HUGE problem with the app since it does not accurately track progress. Numerous times I’ve had to repeat lessons because the app logs me out and erases my latest progress. I do not know why and it’s hugely frustrating because you can’t skip ahead if your progress is lost. I contacted support and was assisted by Joshua Rasos. But Joshua told me there was nothing he could do to restore my progress after a back and forth consisting of my giving him my login info and so forth. Why did he need it if he knew he was not going to be able to restore progress, which he said is not possible? He told me to screen record the app every time I use it in hopes of catching a crash, since he failed to understand no crash happens. You just open the app one day and your progress is gone. (Also why should I screen record the app every time I use it for you to care enough to fix the issue?) For this huge problem and poor customer service, I rate Rosetta Stone 2 stars.

Surprised by all the great reviews - Super buggy app. Although this app gets great reviews on the app store, there are many glaring issues with it that make me very frustrated that I bought an annual subscription. I don’t understand why other people think it is so great. TLDR; You won’t learn any grammar skills with Rosetta Stone. It’s rote immersion. They don’t explain how or why something is the way it is. The app will hang up or forget your place often. I’ll finish a section, and it takes me back to the home page, but the lesson is still showing it is 0% completed. If you need to read a story, the app is super buggy. It seems to recognize short phrases, but it can’t keep up with my dictation, even though I’m an intermediate spanish speaker. The app completely hangs up often too. You simply have to force quit the app and relaunch. Lastly, it you try to use the app on iPhone, you better have super sharp eyes. The photos they ask you to select after hearing a phrase are so tiny, they’re nearly impossible to see. It’s much better on iPad.

Writing option isn’t available on mobile. My school doesn’t offer Japanese so I had the option to take it online and my class uses Rosetta Stone. I had to show my reports of Rosetta Stone for my class and when I looked at my reports, it said that I have not done writing: N/A. I have to do writing for a grade but I can’t do writing because the writing option is not available on mobile. But when I opened Rosetta Stone on computer it had writing available!!! So I had to finish that on computer which was very time consuming. I was hoping that this new update had the option to write for mobile . It’s pretty annoying how on mobile they LITERALLY give you the option to have writing but doesn’t even give you lessons that says writing. And btw I take this class on phone because my laptop is broken/old and my school blocks adobe so I can’t speak when there are speaking lessons. Otherwise I would use Rosetta Stone on computer you know. Is there a specific reason why Rosetta Stone don’t have writing on mobile?

App Not Accessible To The Blind. I am a 15 year old blind person wanting to learn Greek, and I’ve heard very good things about Rosetta Stone. However, after downloading the app and starting my first lesson, I noticed the app was poorly made to be accessible. A lot of the buttons just say “button”, nothing else. For example, the subscription buttons. It read the text describing the subscriptions, but not the buttons themselves. Another thing, within the lesson, buttons that are described are unnecessarily long. For example, lightbulb solution outline button, button. To the developers, the button doesn’t need to be described in great detail, all I need is its function. Like a search button should just be labeled search. And again, within the lesson VoiceOver; the screen reader, refuses to read the images when it asks me to click on what was said out loud. I was going to purchase a Lifetime Plus subscription, but I can not commit any money to this app until accessibility is taken more seriously. I am willing to return to this app and buy a subscription when I see improvement, though.

Not helpful. Got the app for an upcoming trip and chose the option learn for travel. I am in week 3 of the lessons and it has nothing to do with travel. I can say dog, cat, man, women, run, walk, pants, egg and a few others. Nothing to do with traveling. The app also shows generic pictures and your supposed to guess what word or phrase they want which is difficult at best. An example is you will see an eye surrounded by black fur. You can guess it may be a cat but do they want you to respond with cat, eye or the color. You will know after the first “x” sound you get. You will also advance to full sentences but you have no clue what the sentence means and again must guess by looking at a generic picture. Example: I’ uomo ha un libro. Understand uomo “man” and libro “book” but know clue what the other words mean except by looking at google translate. Gets more confusing when the objects are plural or the gender ( word or the person) changes. Maybe later the app gets into verb forms but as of now I am lost and will miss my train because can’t ask for directions, where the hotel is, how to pay a bill etc….

Effective and enjoyable lesson but there are glitches. Rosetta Stone language learning is effective, well-paced, and some customizable choices (extended version, auto page turning, read/write/speak/listen). I feel that it works for me (even though foreign language does not come naturally to me). I feel that it builds skills to be able to truly learn the language instead of memorizing useful phrases. I would have given it five stars, but the frozen app (not loading, stuck forever in loading) frustrates me. I am in unit 3 of Spanish and I have had to delete and reinstall the app about 4 times. Deleting then reinstalling seems to fix the glitches most of the times but I have had an occasion with reinstall action did not work and I had to let it and not use it for a couple of days until the tech department fixed the freeze. It can be very frustrating when you carve out time to take lessons and are not able to because of the app issue.

Good learning, but bad app. I have been using this program to learn French for two months now. While I have definitely increased my understanding of the language, the app itself is frustrating. Each time I go back to it to do more lessons after taking a break, it needs to be fully closed and reopened or it will not update my progress. I’ve become used to that, but in this day and age I think that is a fail and it should be fixed. The thing that is most frustrating is the inconsistency in the voice recognition. I will be doing great in the short spoken sentences, but then when I go into the longer stories, it is a fail within the first few lines of twenty things to say. I’ve tried slowing down to be sure of my pronunciation, but it fails you on that as well. It makes me wonder if that function is broken, or the recognition on the shorter stuff is what is really failing, in which case I might not be at all understandable. I’ve now come to where I just ignore those sections and skip them, which feels like I am not getting all I could out of the program.

Great overall, a bit difficult.. If you’re not familiar with Rosetta Stone it’s an immersive learning experience. I have found this to be very helpful in learning but I’m sure it’s not the way to learn for many others. I do wish that I could get translations for every slide; it is a bit annoying getting to longer phrases and not know the translation. Of course there’s pictures to figure it out but sometimes it takes a minute to understand. Overall good learning experience with the exception of the grammar section. I feel that this section would be more useful if there was a list of words that were introduced in the section that the user can choose from to break down the pronunciation. Instead it makes you pronounce simple words as well as harder ones. “Comè” is fairly easy “Boligrafos” not so much with getting familiar with how to pronounce. These are the two things I would change to make this a 5-star experience.

It used to be acceptable. To be clear, the speech recognition has NEVER worked correctly for the “pronunciation” lessons where it wants you to pronounce individual sounds. But it’s gotten so much worse over time for all speech recognition. When the app beeps to tell you it’s time to speak, the software recognizes its own beep as language! This means that it hiccups as you’re trying to speak. It’s completely hit or miss now and sometimes it just doesn’t work at all. I don’t know what they’ve done to make it so unusable, but it’s unfortunate because I paid a lot of money for this and it feels really wasted now. I wish they could make the app better like it used to be. (I’ve been told that I MUST use corded headphones, but this is totally ridiculous, especially because it’s only been a recent issue.) The only reason I gave it two stars instead one is because it’s somehow still better than any other language teaching app, even if you need to go elsewhere for grammar instruction because it’s always lacked woefully in that department.

Very Effective. I’ve been using Rosetta Stone app for Mandarin Chinese for 12 months now and I just love it. I purchased the one year lifetime subscription with 12 months of live coaching and have since signed up for another 12 months of coaching. I’ve got my app set up for Chinese characters and there is an option for just pinyin. As I go through the lessons, I take snapshots of the parts I wasn’t clear on and take notes them. I review my notes daily and before each new lesson. I also create for each lesson and use pleco flash cards to review. My favorite part is the coaching. I use it about 3 times a week and the coaches are all fluent. They won’t speak to you in English so you’re forced to use the language you’re learning. The best part is that it isn’t just free talk. Each coaching session is based on a unit which you chose. I’ve used other programs with audio only which I also like. But I like how I can learn Chinese characters on Rosetta Stone

3 stars for interface, 5 stars for content.. I love how you learn the language without translating from your native language. It all builds like learning your first native language. Five stars for the program. Three stars for the app. The app is low-budget and the poor developers didn’t have a good say against the manager trying to cut corners. Seems like it was just thrown together from an old online version from the early 2000’s. The rotation doesn’t work when I want to go back to portrait mode on the menu after a lesson, the picture icons to click on during lessons are small (I have 20-20 vision) and I have to guess what they are half the time, and going through any menu is a nightmare. Also a bit of the information is old. I don’t think that “Telephones” or “newspapers” are used anymore. People read online news, or and use the “phone” or “cell phone” if it’s wireless. I am a savvy language learner and want to use Rosetta Stone to the end for the first stepping stone for a language. Hope this gets fixed soon!

I LOVE THIS PLEASE READ!🙏🏼 BEST APP EVER!. This app really is a great way to learn how to speak a different language. It is very addicting and fun. I just started this earlier today, and a couple hours later, I’m still doing. I really like how it pronounces it for you, it has you speak the words, it has the words written down, it shows you pictures of the words, and it puts words together to eventually form a sentence. This app doesn’t just go straight to the advanced language, but it helps you get along at your own pace, as accurately as you can. I already know so many words in Spanish just because of this app! I have spent so much time looking for the perfect app, and I’ve finally found it. I would definitely recommend this app for learning a new language because I know it is the best! Thank you for reading this, and please get this app. It will save you so much time and help you so much!👍👍👍🤗🤗🤗😍😍😍😍😍😍

Still unsure. I agree with other reviews that I’ve seen, if I’m going to be charged money I would like the confidence that what I am purchasing will give me the out come I desire. 2 days of going over the complete basics of the language is not enough. I think at minimum the first full week and maybe 2nd week trial period is more sufficient. I also have seen the developer response that explains that type of learning program that is used, but a more in depth test drive of the app is needed in my opinion. Especially with the amount of bugs and glitches I have come across in just 2 days. Downloads don’t work or are extremely slow and I find myself refreshing the app quite frequently. I’ve heard so many great things about RS over the years and I’m excited about the opportunity to learn through an app and be able to take my lessons on the go if needed but Product needs to look deeper into the bugs and sales need to reconsider the over aggressive strategy of forcing a buy in after only 2 days.

Perfect!🤯. I live with near my grandparents who mainly speak Spanish and everyone I know speaks Spanish. I got this app to learn how to speak Spanish only 30 minutes ago and I am already able to make small conversations! Before I got this app I barely knew 5 words in Spanish! I got my grandma this app so she could work on her English to. I got it for her just yesterday and she is speaking like a pro now! This app gives you the best lessons by quickly selecting the reason you want to learn: travel, work, family, (etc) so it knows exactly what to teach you first! It has you speak into the microphone so you can learn how to say it, because of this it gives you choices on what your voice sounds like so no mistakes are made: adult female, adult male, and child. There are so many language options to learn as well! From English and Spanish to Vietnamese and Polish! So I implore you, get this app!!!

Surprising poor app experience. For the overall rating in this app I’m rather surprised at the user experience this app has. It’s very slow to load the start screen, regularly lags, glitches and forces you to close out or log out of the app. Even recently I had to use the web version to complete a lesson that wouldn’t load, as well as lesson text being cut off in their “bubbles”. I contacted customer support for assistance but they don’t seem to read throughly because they are very quick to send web links to support articles that aren’t even for the correct platform that was specified on the form submission as well and following replies. The content is there but the app needs an overhaul and the support is very poor. I’d recommend using another app and definitely not paying for a long term subscription before trying it for a couple months. This app made me feel like Rosetta is a dying company and has simply “appified” their existing content into a poor mobile experience in order to continue to compete.

Expensive and glitchy. Years back, I paid hundreds of dollars for the desktop Rosetta Stone and liked it, but had trouble finding time to sit down and use it. I was definitely excited for the app when I saw it (although a little annoyed I had to pay for the same product again after having a lifetime subscription). After subscribing for several months, the app became buggy, especially when trying to download the lessons for offline use. Later, when the service went on sale I purchased another 3 month subscription but was still charged the full price because there are 2 points of purchase- either online though Roseta stone or through the App Store (This is important if you chose to purchase). I was annoyed but still looked forward to making the most of the lessons... however the app then became so buggy that it crashed every time I opened it and failed to track previous progress of lessons, so frustrating! Do yourself a favor and check out other cheaper (and even free) apps... Pimsleur, Duolingo, Babble, etc. Hundreds of dollars wasted with Rosetta Stone..

Swedish. Steady pace with opportunities to repeat as many times as necessary and to practice reading and speaking in each module Needs more “breaking down word pronunciation into distinct syllabic distinctions “ and more practice saying words correctly. Would be perfect if I could choose that practice at any time with the words I’m struggling to pronounce. Think of “fix and then go again”. There needs to be much more emphasis on saying words with correct Rhythm, pace and syllabic emphasis. This is weakest part of the program. Biggest change I would recommend is to provide the ability to “step out of the module” and repeat words and phrases sufficiently to get the “feel of the language”. That would require hearing some words repeated several times individually, then have the program repeat the phrase with the words as part of the phrase. I err in pronunciation most often because the diction of each word is not correct. In some cases, I flounder on just one word repeatedly because I can’t hear clearly how to pronounce just that one word.

Great program, great value and it really works!. I’ve been using Rosetta Stone to learn Spanish. It’s real easy to use with multiple platforms for access. Online or through the app allows you to practice anywhere. Even just a few minutes a day with the audio companion really drive the new language. I try to use the audio while going to or from work which is all in the app, one stop shop. If you allow notifications you’ll get reminders to put in a few minutes. You get what you put in, you’re not just going to absorb the language after you hit submit for payment. You need to invest time and the investment of a few minutes a day opens the world of opportunities up to you. I absolutely love and recommend them to anyone that ask me where I learned Spanish. I needed the language to help assist customers and also make me more marketable in the industry I’m in. If you’re thinking about it, do it, you won’t regret it, it works.

Mixed feelings. I have mixed feelings about the Rosetta Stone app after a month of use. I enjoy the lessons tremendously and I love that there is an app. But for the premium price I paid, the app is less than satisfactory to use on an iphone, even on a large iphone (10s). Some of the pictures are comically small (we’re talking a fraction of a centimeter in each dimension) which makes them ridiculous to use. You can hold your finger on a picture to make it bigger, but sometimes you will end up accidentally “selecting” it and getting a question wrong simply because you were trying to enlarge the picture. Perhaps it is optimized for an ipad. Also, the audio recognition is sometimes very buggy. Sometimes it will not register my speech at all, and other times it will work seamlessly. This inconsistency leaves me feeling frustrated and helpless. I think that I am learning, but the app could be dramatically optimized. I hope they keep optimizing it. I think there is a quality educational program underneath these problems.

The Mic Voice Recognition Needs Serious Work. I’ve been using this app for about a year now and I’m finally just going to leave this review and hope that the devs see it and address this glaring issue. This app is fantastic for learning the language. It’s set up awesome and really immerses you in the language as it says it does. The one major problem that has to be fixed is the voice recognition with the Mic. It is completely inconsistent to the point where it’s unusable at times. At random intervals, it will just stop working. You have to close out the app and restart it and that doesn’t even help. The Milestone lessons literally cannot be done when this happens so you cannot advance any farther. You basically have to keep redoing it over and over and over again until it finally works the entire way though which, for what you pay for this, should not be happening. Get it fixed guys and I’ll give this app the five stars that it, otherwise, deserves. Thanks.