I found my increasing ability to say ever more complex things to be completely addictive and it kept me going through the whole course. I got hooked on Pimsleur early in my Portuguese journey and ended up completing all 90 of the Pimsleur lessons. One of the most popular alternatives is the Pimsleur audio course. So let’s take a look at some of the alternatives to Rosetta Stone. But achieving fluency is not easy! It requires dedication, enthusiasm, discipline, and several years of work (a lot of which can be fun). Rosetta Stone also sells us the idea that achieving fluency can be easy if we just spend enough money and then let a computer program take responsibility for our learning. Rosetta Stone is well beyond the budget of many people who would like to learn a language, and its one-size-fits-all approach ignores the fact that different people learn in different ways, and at different rates. Actual language study is a messy thing, one that requires motivation, a diversity of approaches, and hard work. I think Rosetta Stone is a good, well-produced product. Like most luxury items, Rosetta Stone trades on its high price and slick marketing to create a perception of quality. Of course, it will cost us a few hundred dollars. They have spent a fortune in advertising trying to convince us that if we just spend enough money, we can have a computer program hold our hands as we move from step A to step B to step C and so on, eventually achieving our dream of being fluent in a new language. Or at least, that’s what Rosetta Stone would like us to think. When it comes to language learning these days, there’s Rosetta Stone and there’s everything else.
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