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2:46 The Japanese use thousands of English loanwords so this is not necessarily accurate. Embassy workers can't just throw in some katakana Eigo, but it usually works for street Japanese.

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You suggest to get Rosetta Stone for free from the library. I guess I would have that opportunity as well. But can you tell me the formate of that programme? Is it a CD, which means that you need a computer? Or is it just a link? I ask because I am not willing to work with a computer. I want to learn by Smartphone. My question is: Is the free library version compatible with any Smartphone?

I do agree with you that the Rosetta Stone course is probably equivalent to two college courses -- maybe let's say 1.5 college courses -- if you supplement it a little like you said (yes maybe a little grammar and some more reading) -- yes easily two college courses.

Rosetta Stone is GOLD. The reality is learning a language is all about "efficient hours" (active learning hours) -- so almost anything will work if you spend the time. But Rosetta Stone got me maybe beginner level A2 with a vocab of maybe around 1200-1500 words. My only issue with Rosetta Stone is no second (advanced) course in Portuguese (like they do in Spanish, French,...) . My problem with Rosetta Stone is that I finished the course and just wish there was more.

It is an old language

I really appreciate your review. I don't understand why people seem to hate Rosetta Stone so much. It kinda feels like most of them are just jumping on the bandwagon as some kind of validation, as if hating Rosetta is some sort of requirement to be a self-proclaimed polyglot 😂 I watched a RS review by this french guy. He roasted RS for its repetitiveness, high price and whatnot. The same guy recommended Babbel, in a different video, and said it was ok for Babbel to have that much repetion because there is no way to avoid it in language learning 😶 I bought a lifetime subscription for about US$45 (Rosetta is cheaper in my country, otherwise a regular person would not be able to afford it. $45 is still a lot, considering that minimum wage is around US$258 and people can barely pay the bills). Babbel costs exactly 3 times more over here, and they have fewer languages.

I'm learning 3 languages in Rosetta Stone. One of them is Arabic. It's super hard because it doesn't sound like anything I already know. I learned the alphabet in 2014 just for fun, and forgot most of it, but that's about it, I didn't know a single word. I have chosen Arabic as an experiment to see how well I can learn a language (even a very difficult one) mostly using RS. I'm not supplementing my studies with anything else, and I just look up stuff when I'm really curious about it. I'm enjoying it a lot to figure out how the language works by myself. I'm 2 weeks in, and so far I noticed Arabic differentiate between dual and plural, both in noun and verb conjugations, verbs also change according to gender, etc. I think this is a great exercise for the brain.

I like Rosetta Stone, but there's no way you got enough vocabulary from it to read articles. Your supplemental material must have provided tons of vocabulary.

Wish could’ve heard you speak French to show what you’ve accomplished

I'm taking the Tagalog part because my wife is a Filipina so I have alot of practice with her

It is not a dead language!

I like that it's purely in Spanish no English words however when a new word is added there should be English pop us for a short time as you have to keep checking on a transator 12:08

Hello si vous avez appris le français que c est facile parler français non anglais et voir comment vous le parler

this encapsulates everything I've learned for the past three years in my undergrad hahahaha

Why not do this podcast in french

People spoke Latin most of the time it was taught, it is only as it fell out of regula use that it became taught as a read-only language (from 17-1800 onwards, depending where you were) So this is a return to tradition, rather than something wholly new.

Becca, woowwww, I too am a Maryland resident. I’ll look into the public library option you noted.

They say you always hate something if you are forced to do it, I was forced to do Rosetta for my Portuguese class as part of the grade, at first it was like yay easy grade, but it became tedious real fast. Might try it later with another language but I burned out on it

I'm also combining linguistics with economics

Am totally agree with you. Thanks Rosetta stone, now I am a fluent Russian speaker !

By what metric is Noam Chomsky the most well-respected linguist in the world?

Really? The people at L’académie française aren’t linguists? Prescriptivist linguistics is a kind of linguistics. It’s bad and harmful, but it’s linguistics.

Wow! I’m fluent in Argentine Spanish. I learned Spanish in my 20’s, going to language school and studying when I got to the country. I spent eight years in Argentina. I want to learn Italian, French and Portuguese. Your review was very helpful. Thank you.

as a chinese people i should tell you there's no vaule to learn chinese at all in nowdays world, because japan is the future in east asia , we all learn japanese and english as harder as possible, china has no future because of ccp

interest is the best teacher for learning

😂 try learning cantonese

Well the good thing about Japanese it actually does have a lot of loan words too. I would say there are a lot of european countries that have less english loan words. But yeah there are allso a lot of words that are entirely different in Japanese where as many words in other languages then english often are at least a tiny bit similar.

Loved this video, it its so helpful. Thank you so much!❤

It teaches you how you learn as a child - so you have to just trust the process and and learn through association which I absolutely love as then you don’t convert from your mother tongue you learn to think in the language you’re learning

I think the reason why Japanese people don’t speak English is that the order of English words is completely different.

For me(Japanese), Learing English is hard. Even if we learn it at least for 6 years, Most of us have difficulty speaking it. I think this is because English is completely different from Japanese,so English for Japanese and Japanese for native English speakers is almost the same. It's interesting to compare different languages!

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In fact, it depends not only on the simple difficulty, but also on the abundance of teaching materials English is the most abundant, and Japanese is probably the most comparatively abundant too

You actually badmouthed Duolingo? You went there?

I don't really have time to properly study yet another language right now as I've got my hands full with Japanese, but I've dabbled a bit in Mandarin and Korean using Rosetta Stone. Originally I was just supposed to test the Mandarin course in Rosetta Stone for the company I was working at (alongside some other apps), but ended up liking it so much that I bought the lifetime access. What I think is crazy about Rosetta Stone is the retention rate: I feel like I can still remember like 70% of the Mandarin I learned over a year ago. Vocabulary, pronounciation, grammar - the whole package. Granted, the similarities with Japanese help a lot, and I've had some outside exposure to Mandarin since then. If I was going to get started on a new language, or get serious about Mandarin or Korean, I'd most likely start with Rosetta Stone first to get a good feel for the language, and then probably move on to LingQ. It doesn't necessarily do great in every aspect, however. Since the lessons build on previous lessons to introduce new concepts, it can be hard to skip ahead even if you have pre-existing knowledge. In fact, I think it become an utter snoozer if you already know a fair bit of the language but just want a refresher for example. The content in exercises are just super repetitive and unengaging when you're not trying to figure out new words and patterns. Also, their stubborn stance of no translations and explanations can be just hilariously ineffective sometimes. For example, they give you the Korean phonetic alphabet with example sounds and just expect you to figure it out like it's a puzzle. If you start with no idea how it works, you could probably spend weeks or even months figuring it out on your own, when it could be taught in about 5-15 minutes. Or something like throwing irregular verbs at beginners because they just happen to be the same verbs they use in every language, with 0 mention or explanation of the irregularity, which can be really confusing at the start when you're trying to figure out patterns. I'm also not necessarily a huge fan of them pushing speech exercises at you straight from the beginning, before you get a good idea of how the language sounds and how the words are pronounced. Maybe after the 3rd lesson or something would be better. But you can just turn them off or skip so it's not that big of a deal.

Qué buena review.

I was hoping to hear a sample.

Doe's Tower of BABYLON RING A BELL IN YOUR MIND'S?

Duolingo is really addictive. I'm finishing 2 out of 6 units in Spanish and I can listen to conversations in public and understand parts of it. All these language learning apps are like college professors. different teaching/learning styles work for different students.

Working really well for me! I’m actually hearing spoken Japanese well now! My speaking is still a little slow and clumsy; however my reading has significantly improved! I’m on week 5

Hello Becca, do you work with textual data analysis? Do you conduct sentiment analysis for a bank?

I wondered if Taylor Swift's use of French at the beginning of "You Need to Calm Down", using a negative portrayal of French people, was a jab at France because her albums and singles have not done as well there as in other countries for some reason. Her discography on Wikipedia used to include her chart positions in France but they were always significantly lower than other countries. France has since been removed from those webpages. Even in Switzerland (in which French is one of its official languages), her chart performance is not as strong. There might be something about her songs or what they express that is not translating well into the Francophonie world?

So let's assume that one gets a major in Applied Linguistics, being a native speaker of English. And then an employer appears, demanding that you take a "language proficiency" test, which proves that the level of your English (!) proficiency can be estimated as "somewhere between pre - intermediate and intermediate". Yup, having your language proficiency tested by someone, who have had NOTHING to do with linguistics/philology in their life sucks like a vacuum cleaner.

the first time i see uu i falling in love hhhhh

What are the outcomes of this major? Currently I’ve been taking biomedical science; I loved biology and I’m miserable. I’ve been learning Japanese for 3 years now, and I wrote a paper on the bilingual brain last semester, and it was the most fun I’ve ever had. I don’t know what to do

this is barely 1 semester of sociolinguistics. you should be given your money back. also noam chomsky lol this is early 2000s high school myths, dont tell me thats what they still teach you in college in the US????!!!!

Hey! Good video becca, glad I found your channel, hope to see more in the future!

It works for Russian, too.