Rosetta Stone v3 - Japanese

Rosetta Stone (NYSE: RST) is proprietary language-learning software produced by Rosetta Stone, Ltd. Its title and its logo is a reference to the Rosetta Stone, an artifact inscribed in multiple languages that helped Jean-François Champollion to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics.
The Rosetta Stone software utilizes a combination of images, text, and sound, with difficulty levels increasing as the student progresses, in order to teach various vocabulary terms and grammatical functions intuitively, without drills or translation. They call this the "Dynamic Immersion method". The goal is to teach languages the way first languages are learned.

According to the company, Mr. Allen Stoltzfus had learned German through immersion while living in Germany, and found it relatively easy. In the 1980s, Stoltzfus began learning Russian in a classroom setting, but discovered it to be much more difficult. He wanted to simulate the German experience, and he decided to use computing technology to create a similar learning experience. He enlisted the aid of his brother-in-law, Dr. John Fairfield, who held a PhD. in computer science.
By 1992, CD-ROM technology made the project possible and they formed a company known as Fairfield Language Technologies in Harrisonburg, Virginia. Allen and John brought on Eugene Stoltzfus, Allen's brother, as company President and CEO, and released their software product under the name Rosetta Stone. In 2003, the company came under new leadership with the announcement of Tom Adams as President and CEO, a businessman with international experience. The company changed names in 2006 to Rosetta Stone, Ltd., and with it came a change from an S Corp to a C Corp and the sale to investment firms ABS Capital Partners and Northwest Equity Partners. On September 23, 2008, Rosetta Stone Inc. filed an Initial Public Offering with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

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[Rissykinns]

ROMAJI IS NO GOOD! DX

They should have the kanji/katakana/hiragana on there!

....Does Rosetta Stone even do that?

[lifeanxiety]

@Rissykinns Yes, It does it with grace. I was just being shy to do it that way.

[calebmaloneblog]

@lifeanxiety Hey does this program teach you kanji,katakana,hiragana, very good?And does it teach you all 3 in one level or 1 per level?

[lifeanxiety]

@calebmaloneblog You can learn hiragana and katakana and few kanji, but mainly the software teaches you the sound and feel of japanese and important grammar. After you do all the levels you have a solid base to really start learning and get in a private class and study along with anime and other japanese culture items. For me Rosetta was very powerful I stopped studying japanese long time ago and I remember almost everything the software tough me.

[Worldsnicestteengirl]

@Rissykinns Yes it does. I am taking Japanese Rosetta Stone and it has romanji, katakana, hiragana and furigana. You can change it if you want. i put it in furigana to learn and read better and faster. before taking Rosetta Stone, i already knew the basics and and hiragana and katakana ! : )

[MIcChOp1]

@armelani24 Hi! Well... you can resolve that if you download the language pack and you mount ISO... now your PC detects an CD and can open the file =]

I hope this help you! :] Greetings!

[artboy598]

@heathcliffheli Lang-8, Skype, Anki, Japanese social networking sites, the book series "Genki" and "Japanese for Busy people". Sorry for the late reply

[heathcliffheli]

@artboy598 can you suggest me one of them?

[artboy598]

@keepdoing Ikr. The speaking pace is too slow (total immersion should be at native speed) and they don't choose the most natural way to say everything (although it's grammatically correct). I've found better things online for free :P