Giveaway: Foreign Language Program from Rosetta Stone
This giveaway has ended. The winner will be announced on the weekend!
Welcome to Back to School Week here at Simple Homeschool! This week I’ll bring you reviews and awesome chances to win–perfect for back to school planning time.
Today I’m giving away a foreign language program from Rosetta Stone.
Rosetta Stone is widely known and recognized as one of the most effective language programs out there, so I was excited to try it for myself. They sent me Italian Level 1, which I chose because my husband and I are planning to go to Italy next year for our 14th anniversary.
Rosetta Stone call their approach to language learning Dynamic Immersion. This means they recreate the method used when learning our native language to help learn a new one.
Using sights and sounds presented on the screen the learner naturally–without translation–begins to pick up words, phrases, and sentences. From the very first lesson the student begins to build a foundation, guided by the pictures, written words, and language pronounced by a native speaker. The program allows you to proceed at your own pace, repeating sections as many times as necessary.
My Italian Level 1 arrived with a headset and microphone, which plug in to complete the speaking/pronunciation side of the course. (One tip: When being prompted to repeat a phrase, I found it worked better if I allowed a short pause after the beep before answering.) The program distinguishes between adult voices and those of children for greater accuracy.
You can set up multiple students to use the same language level; it will track each student’s progress individually. The homeschool dashboard allows you to see clearly what each person has completed and what remains to be done. It also tracks grades and percentages–making it quite simple for a homeschooling parent to use.
I also found Rosetta Stone’s customer service to be exceptional. Just a couple of weeks after receiving my program, the following email appeared in my inbox:
Sarah also called me to see if there was anything I needed, providing the type of support that would be especially valuable to a homeschooling parent using the program with multiple students. Rosetta Stone makes a point to stay on the cutting edge of technology. This year the company released an app that allows you to sync your coursework on your iPad.
Rosetta Stone makes learning a new language more natural (and really, more fun!) than any other language program I’ve seen before. I have been sincerely impressed with my experience and look forward to continuing my language study and introducing it to my children as well.
One Simple Homeschool reader will receive a foreign language program from Rosetta Stone, in the language of your choice!
How to Win
Everyone has two chances to win. Here’s how:
1. Comment on this post, answering this question: Rosetta Stone offers over 25 different languages–which one would you or your children choose to study? (If you are reading this in an email, you must click over to enter your comment!)
2. Tweet about this giveaway on Twitter, including @rosettastone, @simpleschool and the URL for this post. Your tweet could be something like:
I’m entering to win a foreign language program from @rosettastone & @simpleschool – http://bit.ly/o9aFnU
Then — this is important — you need to come back and leave an additional comment here, telling me you tweeted. It won’t count otherwise.
This giveaway has ended. The winner will be announced on the weekend!
Awesome give-away!! I think I would choose French.
I think I would like to learn Italian with my children.
I tweeted: http://twitter.com/#!/gatheremeralds/status/97883395337629697
Wonderful giveaway!! My daughter wants to learn Spanish, so I guess we’ll go with that.
I tweeted about the giveaway!
Hebrew and Russian. 🙂
Very cool giveaway! We would choose spanish.
I’ve wanted to try this for a long time. If we won, we would choose Spanish. That is the native language of my children’s father, and one that I know, but never learned well enough to feel confident speaking regularly. Thanks so much!
My oldest would choose French, my youngest seems to be taking up an interest in Chinese so I would choose that for her.
We would like to try the Spanish! Thanks for the chance!
Tweeted about the giveaway – http://twitter.com/#!/innachika
We’d love to learn Norwegian. Someday we’d like to visit Norway to learn about our ancestors from there
Spanish! Latin American version, I think! I’m in Arizona, and my 5 year old has heard tons of Spanish and sees all the words around town on signs that he cannot read because he’s only learning English right now. He has expressed great interest in wanting to speak with our Spanish speaking neighbors–literally, our neighbors primarily speak Spanish. What a wonderful addition this would be to our schooling. Thanks!
I would probably choose spanish
I tweeted about it (@nolamom76)
Fun give away! We would choose French!
I’ve heard so many great things about Rosetta Stone! I would choose Spanish for my kids.
We’d choose Portuguese for sure!
My husband and I want to learn Spanish with out 5 year old son and 2 year old daughter this year!!!
I tweeted!
I would love to learn French with Rosetta Stone. I’ve been thinking about bringing up my little girl with her learning french, since we’re from Louisiana.
Spanish.
We would definitely choose Spanish – Latin America. We live in Arizona and my husband’s entire family is fluent, so it’s a no-brainer. Hope we win!!
I just tweeted about the contest! Twitter name: GoMunster
This would be the perfect tool to teach my daughter my mother tongue, French. It would also help me to brush up on it since I am losing a lot by not speaking it often. I’ve been struggling to teach her both, and this is a wonderful product.