Practical Use of Rosetta Stone’s Latin Software Version 3 (5 out of 5) Rosetta Stone’s Latin software is the closest thing to immersion in the language as any student of Latin could ever hope to achieve. There is no need to take notes, memorize grammar tables, or have advanced knowledge of English grammar to proceed with the program as is normally required in traditional, classroom Latin programs.
Students are able to dive right into learning Latin with no preparation whatsoever. This is not a problem with Rosetta Stone’s version 3 because the learner is spared the tedious nature of Latin’s grammar, lexicon, and structure. The result is a language whose rules change and seem to make no sense to the uninitiated. Understand that Latin was a language spoken for a long time by a largely illiterate population. The learner will experience everything from the five declensions, the four conjugations, and even the exceptions to most of Latin’s grammar. Having perused the software thoroughly, I noticed that all of the major aspects of the language are covered. Comprehensiveness of Rosetta Stone’s Latin Language Learning Program (5 out of 5)Īs I mentioned above, one of my complaints with earlier versions of the software was lack of comprehensiveness. When I started this program, the words quality and comprehensive came to mind. Not once did I have to repeat myself or receive a false-negative pronunciation error while using the headset. The headset included in the package is well-built and works flawlessly with the software.
Progression of the speech recognition eases the student into this difficult and enigmatic language without the need for any previous knowledge of the language’s lexicon or grammatical constructions. Absent in previous versions, students of Latin can now learn to speak the language rather than just listen to the language being spoken by someone else.
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The most important upgrade is the addition of speech recognition to the Latin program. Users of the new version 3 will be happy to know that the software has been expanded to include far more material, exercises, and options in line with other version 3 language programs. In a previous review of Latin version 2, level 1, my only real complaint was that the software was not as comprehensive as other Rosetta Stone offerings due to its long time resistance to upgrading the software to three levels. Initial Reactions to Rosetta Stone’s Latin Language Software (5 out of 5)įor those familiar to version 2 of Rosetta Stone’s language program, users will be pleasantly surprised by the upgrade to version 3 and the addition of two additional levels. To my surprise, Rosetta Stone not only upgraded the Latin language software to version 3, it also added two more levels to the program as well. At first, I erroneously assumed that the publisher might be phasing the language out due to low interest in the language, juxtaposed with more accessible and popular languages such as Spanish, French, and German. Until recently, Rosetta Stone only offered one level of Latin and the Latin language program was not upgraded to version 3 of the software along with all of its other language programs. Interestingly, Rosetta Stone offers Latin, its only dead language program, among much more practical languages. Rosetta Stone is well known for publishing excellent language learning software covering over 30 languages including Spanish, French, Italian, Russian, and many more.
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