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.

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.

I really like the full immersion from the start. It makes you have to start guessing what words mean and start building your internal model of how the language works. Much better than passively being told everything and then it just being about memory exercises. I’m doing Greek, and although I’ve studied Spanish for 18 years now, I feel that this is a fresh and unique approach that has made me more comfortable than I otherwise would. I would like however to pause the flow at certain points to let things sink in or clarify grammar, but perhaps that is the old me wanting some familiarity. Anyway, too soon to tellBut I like it, the apps seems a little buggy but nothing that holds you back. I haven’t yet checked out the extended learning components. But honestly, a million times better than Duolingo.

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.