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Giveaway: Foreign Language Program from Rosetta Stone

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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!

About Jamie C. Martin

Jamie is an introverted mom of three, who loves books, tea, and people (not always in that order), and avoids answering the phone when possible. She co-founded SimpleHomeschool.net in 2010 and began IntrovertedMoms.com in 2020.

Jamie is the author of four books, including Give Your Child the World (reached #9 on Amazon's Top 100 Best Sellers list), and her latest release, Introverted Mom (an ECPA bestseller). Her work has been featured by LeVar Burton of Reading Rainbow, the Washington Post, Parents, Today Parenting, and Psychology Today.

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  8. Andrea

    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!

  12. Christina

    We’d love to learn Norwegian. Someday we’d like to visit Norway to learn about our ancestors from there

  13. Demetria

    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!

  19. Julie

    My husband and I want to learn Spanish with out 5 year old son and 2 year old daughter this year!!!

  21. Gabrielle

    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.

  23. Michelle

    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!!

  25. Sara Castonguay

    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.

  28. Christie

    I’ve been looking at Rosetta Stone for a long time but have yet to take the plunge. We’d love to try Mandarin Chinese. My eldest son was born in Beijing and keeps asking us how to say things in Chinese – all he can do right now is count to 10. My Chinese is rusty so I’d love to do it with him and brush up then one day take a trip back there!

  29. Julie

    I would choose German. My son is friends with two immigrants from Germany and is really wanting to be able to communicate with them in German.

  32. erinhudd

    I would choose Italian. My husband speaks it fluently, so I would love for my children and I to learn it as well.

  34. Tia Wood

    Oh that is SOO hard! I would love to learn (and someday teach my wee ones) Dutch, Latin, and French!!

    Hmm.. Latin would be most beneficial, but who wants to be fluent in a “dead” language?! I am going to have to go with French. 🙂 Thanks for the chance (oh and you should totally do it where you can get a 2nd entry by posting on FB or Google+).

  35. Andrea

    I’ve heard great things about Rosetta Stone and would love to try their Spanish program. Thanks!

  37. Brigitte

    I would love to win this for myself and my kids. We homeschool and have already learned spanish and latin, but have never been able to afford Rosetta stone. We would have a hard time deciding which to pick, but probably Chinese or Japanese.

  40. Jessica

    Wow! What a great giveaway! We would definitely choose Mandarin Chinese! That was the ONE thing I liked about the traditional school the kids were in before I chose to homeschool and the ONE thing I feel I can’t teach them. I took 10 years of French -whomp whommmp.

  41. Amber DeGrace

    My 3-year old son is brilliant – seriously! He’s known the alphabet for a year and spells quite complex words already. I have been teaching him beginner’s Spanish for about a month now and he counts the steps from his bedroom to the first floor en Espanol already! As I plan on continuing homeschooling both him and his younger sister, Rosetta Stone Spanish would be beneficial in providing a prime bilingual environment for them in the future!
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  48. Christina S.

    I’ve been eyeing the Spanish program and considering ordering it for this school year. What a blessing this would be to my family! Thanks for the opportunity.

  53. jennifer

    Chinese Mandarin. China is an emerging superpower and I think it will be important for my kids to learn it.

  55. Heathahlee

    We would probably choose Spanish, but with my child you never know. : ) That would be what I would choose…He might think totally out of the box and choose something I’d never expect! Thanks for this giveaway!
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  56. Libby

    Wow! Such a great giveaway. I’d choose spanish for my crew, it would seem to be the most practical for our geographic location. Thanks for the opportunity!!
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  66. sheila

    We would choose Spanish and need to get this soon for the coming school year anyways…wouldn’t it be great to win it instead!!!!! Thanks for the chance!

    Sheila

  69. Carol Lyn Wauford

    I know it would be practical to say Spanish but I just said today who I thought the one Chinese immersion school in our town was interesting and I would love to learn Chinese, so I am going to say Chinese!

  81. Carrie

    I would love to win this! We would pick Spanish, because it’s so prevalent in our culture here and because our church has a sister church in Mexico.

  83. Stacey E

    I would choose Italian. My DH lived in Italy for several years and picked up quite a bit and we would love to go back on vacation again. This would be great for our curriculum!

  84. Kelly

    Please enter me for this fantastic giveaway! If I chose a language for my children it would be the Spanish program. Thank you!

  85. Danni Mayah

    #1 French! so my children and I can communicate with our Quebecian French speaking relatives!
    #2 Latin- so they can learn any other romantic language they want!
    #3 Hebrew- so they can translate the Bible themselves and not be deceived by groups who say the Bible is translated wrong!
    #4 Greek- same as above!

  87. deanna

    We’re California girls, so Spanish makes the most sense. But the dreamer in me would love to learn French or Italian.

  90. Jill

    Learning Spanish would help my kids enormously where we are, but I’ve lived in France and have a soft-spot for that sweet language. So…..French.

  93. Jill

    Oh! And I tweeted about the giveaway as well. Maybe my husband will enter and win. Though then we’d have to debate about the language – he speaks Spanish. 🙂

  95. Elmarie Hyman

    I just tweeted this: I’m entering to win a foreign language program from @rosettastone & @simpleschool – http://bit.ly/o9aFnU – I would love the Italian program, my son is really interested in learning it and I don’t even know one word 🙂

  101. Jennifer Brannon

    I would LOVE to win the Spanish program… we’re looking at the demo of Tell Me More Spanish that we picked up at our homeschool convention… but we can’t afford to buy one right now. This would be a dream come true!! Thanks for the chance.

  103. Jennifer Brannon

    We’d study Spanish not only because we live in AZ with a huge Mexican population, but because I studied it for six years and LOVE the language!

  108. Kristin

    We would go with Spanish. It would be a very useful language for our geographic location!

  109. Tina K

    I have 3 children and one child took French for 6 years, another is taking Latin and one is taking Spanish. My son is taking Latin to help him with the SAT, and my other child is taking Spanish because of the way things are in the country.

  110. Erin

    I’d love to have Rosetta Stone for Spanish! I learned in high school, but would love to refresh my skills as well as teach my kids too!
    Thanks for a chance to win!

  111. Sara

    I would love to teach my children Spanish with Rosetta Stone. I have some background in high school, and our location (Seattle) and heritage (Mexican) make Spanish a good choice!

  112. Serena

    I am not sure–each language has advantages–but it would probably be between German and Latin American Spanish.

  117. Cindy

    My daughter loves to learn different languages. She went to a school that was multi-lingual before I began to homeschool her. Our dream is to travel through France so we would love to learn French. I have been looking at the Rosetta Stone program. Thanks for the contest!

  118. Tracey

    My kiddo has been begging to learn Spanish… probably Latin American. I’ve been on the fence about investing in Rosetta Stone. Free is the best price! Thanks for the chance!

  122. April Garcia

    We have the Spanish Rosetta Stone and are just starting and love it. I would love to win the Russian one because I spent some time in the Former Soviet Union doing Mission work about 12 years ago and would love to refresh my Russian. I have recently met some Russians in our city and would love to communicate better with them.

  123. Michele

    I’m already teaching my almost 5yo Spanish though I don’t know that much myself. I’d love the Spanish (Latin America) version. Also tempting for me are French, Arabic and Hebrew.

  124. Jodi

    Oh man, how to decide…! I’d love to learn Japanese, but for my kids I’d probably pick either Spanish or Latin.

  125. Mel

    Oh wow! We would love to win the Italian Rosetta Stone program. We dream of traveling to Italy, eating spaghetti and gelati, viewing the Sistine Chapel and winding our way through the narrow streets of Rome on scooters! 🙂 If we won this program we would actually be able to say something other than “Ciao”! You’d be helping 8 people achieve their dream! 🙂

  126. Betty Marino

    We would love to use Rosetta Stone Italian! Our family speaks Italian and we have several relatives in Italy. We would love to be able to travel and converse fluently with locals in Italy as well.

  127. Sam

    I would love this!! We would study Spanish. I’ve been looking into Rosetta Stone…how well does it work for younger children(under 7)? Thanks!

  128. Deanna

    Our 2 sons (9 and 5) have relatives who only speak Russian. We would love to win Rosetta Stone Russian so they can finally communicate!

  134. Melissa

    Oh my- we would love to win Rosetta Stone German as we are living in Switzerland and sadly know very little German!

  142. Garland

    French, definitely, as I want to learn it and would love the kids to begin a second language. I figure the few words they’ve learned from Dora don’t count :).

  143. Heather

    I would LOVE the Spanish version of the Rosetta Stone. We are going to Mexico for a second time in Feb. and it would come in handy for the kids.

  148. Char Gutt

    My children and I would love to learn Spanish, using Rosetta Stone! As more of our population becomes spanish speaking, we will be able to better serve our community by being able to communicate in fluent Spanish! Thank you!

  151. Kami

    We would love to receive this in our family! We are currently living in Turkey and would choose Turkish as the language to study. It would be a wonderful tool to help aid us in learning this language:)

  152. Duise

    I think if I had my choice I’d pick French because I would like my children to be multilingual (I lived in Europe where many people are multilingual), and spanish is easier to pick up here where we live without needing a curriculum for it.

  153. Sheri

    I think we would choose Japanese (although I need to confirm with my sons). Thank you for offering this giveaway!

  154. Rebecca

    I would have to go with Spanish. We know some bits and pieces, but not enough to communicate well with some friends in Argentina. Thanks. 🙂

  156. Andrea Stricklen

    My son would love to learn Greek and/or German. He took Spanish I last year through an online course, barely passing and walked away with very little knowledge of the language. I would love to try RosettaStone.

  164. Tracy

    Our family of 5 would choose Spanish. We live in Texas, and the whole state is bi-lingual, except us!

  165. alawiyyah

    My lovely daughter (9) would choose french. I have my own personal love affair with spanish, havivg studied it for 3 years, but as a family unit, we would choose arabic as we have it as a family goal. ah, decisions, decisions 😉

  166. Kristin J.

    Wow, what a fabulous giveaway! My family and I would most likely choose Italian too, I would love to spend a few summers in Italy as the kids grow older. That’s the beauty of homeschooling, learning around the world as we go!

  171. marybeth Santos

    I would choose spanish. I am a homeschool mom of 3 boys 5, 3, and 1. My husband is from Puerto Rico, and while I have picked up some spanish along the way and can understand ALOT but speaking it is a different story. I also would like to become more integrated in our home to honor him and allow my children to learn and feel comfortable speaking. Its his strong desire for us to become a bilingual household, and I would love to be able to honor that wish, this program sounds GREAT. My husband has also started a spanish ministry at our church and as his wife I believe it is very important for me to be able to have a conversation in spanish. I hope I can win bc we cant afford it otherwise at this time. Thanks for the review it was helpful. Ive heard alot about this program but never really heard a review like this. Thank you!

  172. Stephanie

    We would choose Spanish. My daughter and I have been working on basic conversation skills, but my husband would really like to be able to understand us better!

  174. Robyn

    Fabulous giveaway!
    We would choose French. It would be a lovely addition to our French language studies! Thanks for the chance to win.

  175. Jennifer Howard

    I would probably choose French but I think my kids would choose Japanese. They have learned some on their DS game.

  176. Stephanie Fallon

    Latin!!!!!!!! This is going to our first homeschooling year. We plan to learn about Rome and are planning a trip there next October. What a treat it would be to use this fabulous program.

  177. Deb

    Timely give-away with school starting or about to for so many of us!
    Choices are HARD! I have 2 still schooling and my older one considering a missions trip abroad. It will take intense negotiations to settle on a choice!

    Thanks for a great give-away!

    Blessings on the journey~
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  178. Sharon

    I would pick either Latin or Greek. I really can’t decide which, but if I win, I’ll cross that bridge then. 😉 Thanks for the opportunity.

  182. Jeana

    I would either choose Latin or Spanish. I think living in the US Spanish would be more useful.

  185. Jennie

    We would love to learn Japanese since I have a sister in law that doesn’t speak English!

  186. Amber

    We live in a large Hispanic population. My husband has to learn Spanish for a new job, and I would love for my daughter to learn along with him. So far, we have not invested in a program. This one sounds great!

  187. Sarah

    We’d choose French – my kids have been asking to learn it. Merci for the great giveaway!

  188. Jen

    Oh my, I would LOVE to win. I would choose French, my family would love to learn it, and I could add a foreign language to my curriculum next year!!

  190. Teena

    I would love to win this one. My son is turning 5 and I just keep thinking I want him to start learning another language early on. We would choose Spanish, I have always loved the idea of being able to communicate with people in our community who dont speak english and it seems the majority would be Spanish-speaking.

  196. Erin

    I would choose Spanish or Latin for Rosetta stone! We are just gearing up to start homeschool after pulling DD8 and DD 6 from ps.

  197. Morgan

    Such a difficult choice! I would choose Latin. We are currently working on Spanish, Latin and ASL in our home school and Latin is the language we are struggling with.

  202. TeressaN

    We would love this for our homeschooling. I would have to choose Spanish because it comes in handy in a lot of places in the U.S..

  211. Emily

    I would choose French. My son currently takes Mandarin and French in preschool. I’d love to learn a language with him. Since I took a couple of years of French in high school, I think I would best be set up for success in French. Plus, we are planning to take a family trip to France in the next few years.

  213. Sara S

    I think I would want to brush up on my French. I studied that in high school. My kids would probably want to learn German…..auntie and uncle live in Germany right now. 🙂
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  216. Mary

    We would learn German so we can get by when we all go visit my brother who is stationed there.

  218. bryssy

    Totally Spanish. We need to know some….and by “we” I mean “me and daddy” especially!

  220. Pepper

    I would choose either Spanish, because it’s the most practical…or French because the kids want to visit Paris in the upcoming year. I took 2 years of Frech in high school and it was a difficult language to learn but I’ve heard fabulous things about Rosetta Stone.

  223. Paige

    I would chose Spanish for a few reasons. I am half Mexican and my father never spoke Spanish to my brothers and I growing up, because he was afraid we would be marginalized. Well, now he sees that it would have been a great advantage to us. Also, since I try to pass on some of my heritage to my children, I feel Spanish would be perfect for them. They love “the sound” of the language, and my family recognizes the countless opportunities to use Spanish. It is such a practical and beautiful language!
    Thank you for offering such a fantastic giveaway…..here’s to hoping!

  226. Kelly

    Mandarin! We are Chinese, but since my husband and I both grew up here in the States, we speak English at home.

  227. Kim S.

    Ooohhhh, French. I would love for us to learn together and fulfill my dream of taking my girls to France when they are a little older. What a great giveaway!

  231. Jennifer

    We would do French. My daughters took beginning French through our homeschool co-op, but then the class didn’t continue the following year. This would be great!

  232. Tracy

    I would choose French because I would love to teach it to my children. It’s such a beautiful language. I took many classes in it in college, but I don’t remember very much of it anymore. I think RS would be a good refresher for me to help my children learn the language!

  233. Lisa McBride

    We’d choose French. We are already working on Spanish and our daughters are taking ballet, so French is a natural fit. If they were in the the ballet school full-time here, that’s what they would be taking.

    Eventually, we want them learning 4-5 languages total.

    Thanks so much!

  234. Michelle Disney

    We would choose Latin American Spanish!!! Although my kids would love to learn Polish as well.

    • Beth C

      Sorry, the website said that my first comment didn’t go through, so I commented again. But now I see both. I only meant to comment once. 🙂

  242. Laura

    What a fantastic opportunity! We would love both Spanish and Latin. I think we’d do Latin first and then buy Spanish a little later.

  244. Tabitha

    Mandarin. It’s actually a family project that we’re embarking on….we need all the help we can get! Thanks for the chance!

  245. Laura

    I would choose either Spanish or French…Spanish because I want our family to learn it for missions, and French because my daughter has a fascination for that language and culture. :0)

  248. Laura

    I did not realize that they had Latin! How fascinating to learn to speak a dead language. I might choose that one also!

  252. heidi

    Our choice would be spanish…very practical in our part of the world. Thanksfor the giveaway!

  255. Tracy Emery

    First of all, thank you so much for offering this chance to win such an amazing prize!

    With so many options, it’s hard to make a decision! Our family lives in a university town with many international students, so Mandarin Chinese would definitely be on the list. My middle daughter has a heart for the people of Haiti, where one of two spoken languages is French…so that would have to be on the list too! And, of course Spanish – Latin American, as there are many Spanish-speaking folks in our lovely city.

    Blessings to you!!
    Tracy

  260. Kendall

    WOW!! This is an amazing give away!! We choose French! We lived in Senegal for 7 years and two of my children were born there. Although they speak French in the cities, we decided to learn the local language of Wolof while we were there instead. We now have the opportunity to work with Francophone Africans and this will mean a lot of travel for our whole family to and from French-speaking Africa. We would LOVE this as it wouldn’t limit us to Anglophone African countries.

  261. Melissa Johnston

    If I were to win, I would like for my family to study Italian. We like to take trips there, and it would be nice to know more of the language!

  264. Penny

    One daughter would like to learn French, the other would like to learn Cyrillic. Or Latin. So many wonderful languages in the world!

    Thanks for sponsoring such a great give-away!

  265. Ledys

    I’d love to win the Spanish version. I am from VeneUela, but it’s proving difficult to teach my girls Spanish with all the English they hear every day. I really think that Rosetta Stone would be a perfect solution for us.

    Thanks, Jamie!

  266. Teresa

    So hard to choose which language!! Italian? French? Chinese even? Maybe Spanish would be the best to start with since it has such easy applications in our day-to-day lives. Thanks for offering such a fun giveaway!!

  267. Theresa

    I would choose Turkish becasue our church is planning a mission trip to Turkey for next year.

  268. Ledys

    I’d love to win the Spanish version. I am from Venezuela, but it’s proving difficult to teach my girls Spanish with all the English we hear every day. I really think that Rosetta Stone would be a perfect solution for us.

    Thanks, Jamie!

  274. Roxy Schow

    I think we’d choose Spanish . . . but so many great opportunities it would be hard to choose! This is a great program – the foreign language gurus in our area have nothing but good things to say about it – thanks for the giveaway!
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  275. Leah

    We would choose Mandarin. Our daughters were born in China, so it would be great to have something at home they could to learn the language.

  277. Lisa

    I would love to win the Spanish program. There are so many spanish speaking people in our community. It would help my son interact with them easier, and help our ministry reach them. But, any language program would be great. We do not have one yet.

  278. Kim

    Oh my gosh, that is such a tough choice! My son said he would like French or Italian. Of those two, I would probably choose Italian.

  280. Melissa

    We would definately choose spanish. This is a great opportunity to better engage in our community. Thank you for this giveaway!

  281. Sara

    My heritage is part Australian and part Italian, but since we live in Australia I seem not be able to use Italian with my kids as much as I’d like to.
    Fingers crossed I can win the Italian Rosetta Stone 😉

    Thank you for the giveaway and thank you for your great homeschooling advice 🙂

  282. Amy

    What a wonderful giveaway. I guess we’d try French as we all seem enamored. And thanks for the review. I’m always interested in the different methods for teaching a language and this sounds great for kids.
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  284. Christina

    Wow! Thanks for sharing this fantastic giveaway, Jamie. We’d like to learn Italian as a family. There’s an Italian book series we like that started being translated into English, but the publisher stopped translating them after four books! We’re dying to know how the series goes on (there are at least nine books in the series now).
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  285. jennylark

    I would choose Spanish or French for my kids. Their school uses Spanish, but I was a French minor in college. I would choose Arabic for myself. My husband says I will stick with English thank you very much! Thanks for the chance to win!

  286. Meredith

    Yeah! My first time adding to the conversation! I love the website, I homeschool all four of my kids and this has been my only outlet to the real world for now. Thank you!

    As for the language…I love Rosetta Stone! My middle and high schooler chose Spanish and German with Rosetta Stone. I have thought about taking up Spanish (learned some German and French in high school) but my current passion for a language is Italian. My husband has been dreaming of going to Parma, Italy for years now and I am wanting to surprise him with a trip (we’ve never even had a honeymoon) in the next few years. Learning Italian would be, for me, a perfect way to enjoy Parma that much more! Plus, I love the language! Thank you again!

  291. Hannah

    Ooh, great giveaway and tough choice, but I think I would say French! Even though we live in tx and should probably do Spanish …

  297. Jennifer P

    Oh!!! Mandarin Chinese PLEASE! We are adopting an eight year old boy in September. My 8 other kids would love to have some idea of how to communicate with this sweet boy.

  300. Danielle

    We would love to learn Spanish! I would love to learn many other languages, but spanish is the most practical!

  302. Michelle W

    We would choose French. My daughter really wants to learn and I could really use it also. It’s been a long time since high-school French class.

  307. Heather

    We would love to have the french lessons! It’s in my husbands heritage and we would love to pass it down to our daughter!

  309. Lynette R

    Our family would like to study French (Canadian) using Rosetta Stone. I studied French as a girl, but haven’t been doing it with my children.

    We used Rosetta Stone for learning Indonesia when we went to live in South East Asia for a time. It was very helpful in our start with vocabulary and pronunciation. And excellent programme, and a great giveaway. Thanks!

  312. Kim

    I would like to win the French language program. One of our goals is to visit France as a family and watch the Tour de France!

  315. Debra

    I would love to choose Chinese for our family! I am half-chinese, and really want my sons to learn, but I don’t feel I’m proficient enough to teach them. This would provide the much-welcomed help we need! Thanks for such an awesome giveaway!

  317. Jennifer

    We hope to learn German. It would be quite special for my boys & I to converse with my mother, who spent much of her childhood in Germany.

  319. Kathleen K

    I’m having difficulty choosing just one language–but since we live in Texas, Spanish would come in handy.

  320. Kacie

    I plan to teach my kids Spanish. I took 4 years in high school and through the 250 level in college, but my skills are lacking these days! It will be good to brush up and also share the language with my kids.
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  321. Dustin

    I am a first time homeschooling dad staying home with my two boys this year. We are excited and quite anxious about our new adventure. Spanish is something we plan to do this year, and we plan to use Rosetta Stone. We would be thrilled to receive this program at no cost as we try to adjust to life on one salary.

  322. Dee P

    I would choose to study German with my daughter as opposed to Italian with second son or Spanish with my first son, because when I get to Germany I could talk with all the Germans in their language just like I talk to all the Turks who live in Germany with Turkish already.
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  323. Anna Smith

    I asked my son and he wants to learn Latin because many of our words come from Latin. He also has a huge interest in science which uses many Latin words.

  326. Sarah Miller-Kramer

    We would love the Spanish program! We are just starting to learn and this would be an immense help! Thanks for the wonderful giveaway!

  329. Karma

    Although Spanish seems to be the most popular choice among people I know, I would be tempted to choose Hebrew – how cool would that be for Biblical studies!

  330. debra

    we’ve been wanting to try out rosetta stone for spanish (and french, and italian, and russian, …and…)! this is a great giveaway, thank you!

  332. Heather

    Hi! I’m planning a trip to Japan with my oldest son when he graduates from high school. We would really love to have the Japanese program.

  334. Ann

    We are just starting our homeschool journey this fall. My daughter who is starting her Junior year in HS has been taking Spanish for 2 years, so we would continue that with her. My 3rd grader I am thinking about Latin…we’ll see!
    THis is a wonderful opportunity thanks for offering!

  337. Amanda Williams

    Oh! We have always wanted to own something from Rosetta Stone! My children are adopted from Taiwan, so we have dreamed of learning Mandarin Chinese! We haven’t been able to purchase one of our own, so praying we can win one! How wonderful of an offer! Thanks for the opportunity!

  338. Jen Burns

    We would choose Spanish. we have relatives that speak Spanish, and it would be helpful!

  339. Amanda Williams

    I don’t have a twitter account, or know how to use that, but I DID post your blog site and this on my facebook page and feed! I am praying you will accept this as an attempt to thank you for this opportunity as well! Thanks, Amanda 🙂

  340. StreuselMama

    What a fantastic giveaway – thanks for the opportunity! We’d like to learn the latin american spanish, but the japanese looks intriguing too!

  343. KateC

    My husband and I were just talking about purchasing the Spanish program. We are planning to visit Costa Rica again, this time with our oldest son, and feel very strongly that we should all learn the language (at least a bit) before we go back.

  350. Angela

    Our whole family would love to learn Spanish. We regularly go on mission trips to Spanish-speaking places. We’ve picked up some Spanish, but need more.

  352. Karen H.

    I am thinking along the lines of Spanish because we have a large Spanish population here.

  356. Stacey Kemper

    We would choose Spanish for our family as it is a rapidly growing language in our Midwest area. We would also want to learn along with them, to be able to model working to learn another language, and being able to communicate more with members of our community.

  362. Sarah

    Latin. My 4th grader asked to learn it. How can I say no to that? RS would be a GREAT resource. Thanks for another helpful post.

  363. Jolene in Michigan

    My girls will be starting Spanish, unless they can talk me into French. 🙂
    They want to sound like Madeline.

  365. Allison

    I would love to teach my children French! I took French for 3 years in high school and a year in college, but still really only know the rudiments. I would like to teach them while relearning it at the same time.

  366. Mel

    My family is from Russia, and I was a Russian minor in college, but I’m so out-of-practice. I’m teaching my 2 yr old what little I remember, but I would love to learn and teach her more.

    Thanks for the opportunity!!

  368. Beth

    Oh! I want this one bad! I have always wanted to learn French but I would start with Spanish. I’m a nurse in a largely Spanish speaking area and hate not being able to communicate with patients. So far my attempts to learn with borrowed books/tapes and apps on my iPhone haven’t been very successful. I’d love to use this approach.

  369. Kimberly

    Well, I’m torn between Italian and French – Italian because my kids are dying to learn the language of pizza, and French so that I could brush up on the French I took in high school. I’m thinking the pizza language would win out… 🙂

  370. anne

    I’d choose Spanish since we are starting to learn that now. In our community, it would be a great language to know.

  374. Michelle

    Gaelic! (I think they currently only have Irish Gaelic.) Our 16yo DD could really use this along with her other Gaelic home school books.

    • Michelle

      Oops, Didn’t know if I should comment under my original comment re: my tweet…
      I happily tweeted about this contest & referred to your website.
      twitter:@olsongilliclan

  375. erica

    I would love the Korean language program. My children and I would finally be able to speak to my mother in her own native language! She never taught me Korean and has no one to speak to in her own language. It would be such an amazing gift to the whole family.

  378. Jacqueline Hoge

    I would choose the Spanish program. I would be a benefit in our area, especially in church work within our area. Thank you for offering this!

  379. Michelle

    I happily tweeted about this contest & referred to your website.
    twitter:@olsongilliclan

  381. Jamie

    My kids really want to learn Spanish. They have been reading the Spanish/English dictionary for fun!

  382. Maggie

    Wow, I did not know about the addition of this program specifically designed for the homeschooler, what a great feature!
    As my children’s God-parents are from Italy we would love to learn Italian, so both sets
    of our children can speak better with each other.
    Thank you for this opportunity!

  386. KK

    I don’t tweet (yet) so I’ll only be able to chime in here. We’d definitely love to do Rosetta Stone’s Spanish. As the 2nd most spoken language in the United States, I think it’s imperative. We currently live in an area with a large Spanish-speaking population. I’d love to not feel like a visitor in a foreign country, as I do at times! In addition to benefiting my son, who has never had an foreign language exposure, it would also benefit me in my prior career as a Medical Imager. Of course, that will be years from now as my son is my current profession!

  387. Laura

    Oh wow, I really don’t know what language I would choose! I think I am torn between Italian and French. But it would also be really interesting to learn a language that has a completely different alphabet than our own.

  388. Wendy Dieleman

    Hola – Our family is volunteering in an orphanage in southern Mexico. We’ve picked up some Spanish here, but we are at the point where we need to do some real studying in order to deepen our relationships here. So without hesitation, we’d pick Spanish!

    Wendy

  391. northernfairie

    This is a tough one I have been pondering. I would probably choose Irish as we are immersed in the culture with dance and music. I’m also thinking that Spanish would be practical as there are more and more Spanish speaking people in the USA.

  392. Rena

    I would love to start my children out early learning Spanish. I wish I would have spent more time on foreign languages in college.

  393. Lynette

    I would choose Mandarin Chinese because my husband is Chinese. My mother-in-law tries to teach the kids some when she visits but it would be nice to have a more regular exposure. I would love for my children (and myself) to learn the language of their heritage.

  394. karen palen

    I would totally get the Spanish. We go to Guatemala once or twice a year to do medical clinics and women’s seminars, and believe it or not, just have not really learned spanish well enough. We would be so much more effective!!

  396. Michele Villano

    This would be SO awesome for our family! It would be fun to learn a language from our ancestry, like Italian or German, but I would probably go with Spanish because it would be of greater value to my children as they grow up and enter the professional world.

  400. Heather J

    We would choose Spanish–my husband speaks Spanish but since I am homeschooling and with our children most of the day (and am a non-Spanish speaker), this would be wonderful to have for our whole family to be able to speak together. Thanks!

  401. Amanda

    Oh, I’d want the French. I should probably teach Spanish – much more useful! – but my husband and I both have years of school French that we loved.

  407. Pam Moser

    What a fantastic opportunity! Thanks so much. We would choose Spanish. We have lots of Spanish speaking people in our area & would love to understand more of their culture. It can be difficult when you can’t communicate effectively. Thanks again!

  408. majellamom

    I would LOVE to have Rosetta Stone Spanish (Latin America) because my husband in particular believes that the Spanish language should be an important part of our children’s education. The problem is that I don’t speak it well, and unless I delegate all teaching of spanish to grandma (who is mostly fluent) I don’t feel like I have a good enough grasp of the language to teach it. So, I’d use the Rosetta Stone first, and then as my girls get older (going into 2nd grade and Kindergarten now) they would use it too.

  409. pandasheart

    What an awesome giveaway! I would want to the Italian1 if I were to win. When I was a child, the grown ups spoke in Italian to ‘speak above the children’ (instead of spelling). By the time I wanted to learn the language, no on was speaking it anymore!

  412. Melanie

    We would choose spanish. Thank you for the lovely review. I’ve been looking at language programs for spanish. We are planning on taking a year to travel with our children and will focus on Spanish speaking areas.

  413. Terri F

    My home-schooled son would like to learn Mandarin Chinese, as we just adopted his little sister from Taiwan. This would be a great tool for him!

  414. Amanda

    Latin. Definitely Latin. That’s where we plan to start, in any case. 😉 What an awesome giveaway!!!

  415. Christina P

    Latin! I only got to take one year of latin at my high school before they cut it, and even that really changed (for the better!) my conception of English. I’d love to try it out!

  426. Tanya Nored

    I think mine and my children’s choice language would be Spanish. Italian would also be a lot of fun though. I am going to post about it on my facebook. Thanks!!

  429. Sara

    It’s a tough choice, but I’d probably have to go with Spanish for practicality’s sake. 🙂

  430. Emily C

    We’d do the German, definitely. My in-laws speak German exclusively at home, and I love when my kids are able to communicate with them but their German is very rudimentary at present.

    And I can’t teach them since mine is even more rudimentary!

  431. Raychiel McLean

    This would be for my daughter who starts first grade and my son who starts kindergarten with ACE. I would love them to learn Spanish. Thank you.

  433. Betsy W.

    Wow! We would choose Hebrew. We want to learn the ancient languages and it would be awesome to learn one that is still in use! Thanks for the giveaway!

  434. Caryn

    Wow! What a great giveaway. I would love to teach my girls modern Greek so they can talk with their father’s family.

  435. D'Ann

    I’d be torn between Spanish and Latin. Have a friend that’s doing latin and says it’s very interesting because a lot of the English language is derived from it, but Spanish would probably be the more sensible option since my children have already had a little bit of Spanish in the public schools.

  437. Missy

    I’ve been looking at Rosetta Stone for quite awhile, but wondering if it was worth the money. Thank you for your helpful review and the chance to win the program. We will study French one day as two of my children were born in French speaking Africa and we’d love to return with them when they are older.

  438. Michelle

    Of course, being Canadian, I would choose French. I have heard about this program and how good it is. I’ll definitely be looking into it.

  439. Wendy

    OOOHH out of 25 languages that would be tough to pick one…I would love the opportunity to have to figure out which one 😉
    Thank you for a great giveaway opportunity!
    Wendy

  440. Alisa

    Spanish makes the most sense but Italian would be a lot of fun too! Or maybe French… Hmm, what to choose!

  443. sandra

    My 2 year old son is currently watching the Little Pim French series and loves it. I chose French since it is the language I know best after English. I’d love to be able to brush up on my French and learn along with my son.

  451. Ursula

    This would be such a blessing for our family! We would choose Latin, I believe. Thank you for the chance to win. 🙂

  453. Stacy G

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    I’m entering to win a foreign language program from @rosettastone & @simpleschool – bit.ly/o9aFnU

  454. Alexis

    I rarely enter giveaways but we really want to start learning Hebrew this year and Rosetta Stone was our method of choice so it would be so sweet to get one free 😉 Our plan is to visit Israel in about 2 years and it would be lovely to know a bit of modern Hebrew!

  455. Vicky

    I would choose spanish…I have several spanish speaking friends and it would be nice to understand them!

  458. Kristy Boyd

    Great idea! We are contemplating moving to Belgium next year, so French would be our choice.

    Thanks,

    Kristy

  459. Jessica

    I would love to have the Korean set! My husband is Korean and still has family in Korea, but doesn’t remember very much about the language since he moved here when he was only seven. I would love for our family to be able to communicate with the extended family more efficiently! Hope I win:)

  462. Cara

    I think we would go with Spanish. My girls have met a lot of children at the park that they’ve wanted to play with that only speak Spanish and even at 5 and 7 years old have figured out that “Dora” won’t cut it for a real conversation.

  465. Clare

    Wow! We would choose Spanish for our family. I have been thinking about ordering from Rosetta Stone, so how wonderful to be able to win.

  466. Crystal

    I would choose Spanish. We live in Texas and it is the language that would best benefit my family 🙂

  471. Angela Stoner

    Hello, Simple Homeschool! I would LOVE to have the Rosetta Stone Spanish for me & my family! Living in Texas we have so many opportunities to use it!! Thanks for this awesome give away!
    Angela

  472. Briana

    I would love my child to learn French. Both her dad and I took many years of French in highschool (over 20 years ago! use it or lose it); it would enable us brush up while at the same time teach her.

  473. Angie

    I would choose Mandarin! It’s my little sister’s first language, so I’d love to learn it with my own children. Fun fact – my sister used Rosetta Stone to learn English!
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  474. JaimeB

    I would choose Spanish for my girls. My husband and I are functionally fluent from living in Latin America for 5 years and my oldest really wants to learn. I would choose Italian for my husband and myself as we’d love to take a trip for a future anniversary. I would be so excited to learn!

  475. april c

    Oh wow!! This would be awesome! Hands down, it would be Spanish for our family. I took 4 years of it in high school but since I don’t use it that often, I have forgotten a good bit of it. I have been wanting to start learning Spanish WITH my girls (5 and 7). This would be awesome!!

  476. Amber

    We’ve been wanting to learn Spanish as a family, but haven’t come across any good curriculum yet. If we won, I think we’d all get into it 🙂

  477. CarrieK

    My daughter starts Hebrew school in the fall. It would be such a blessing to have a Rosetta Stone program in Hebrew to get her started! Thank you for offering this giveaway 🙂

  480. SoCalLynn

    My daughter would love this! She really wants to learn Japanese (although Spanish would be more practical!)

  484. chrissy

    It would be AWESOME to win – we would choose Tagolog (Filipino) bacause we have family there and are planning to adopt adopt from there. Thanks for the opportunity!

  485. Kristen Peters

    My daughter would love to learn French! She is passionate about food and is studying culinary arts. Many of the terms are French, so we are often looking up the pronunciation of these words. My daughter feels very drawn to the language.

  486. Angie LaFrance

    What an amazing giveaway! We would definitely do spanish as my in-laws are missionaries to Costa Rica. =)

  488. amykate

    So intrigued by this program…we’d love to use it in our homeschool. Just have to decide which language. Thanks for the chance. Blessings!

  490. Pam Lusk

    I can’t decide at the moment – Spanish or Chinese – we have both of these but not Rosetta Stone; but maybe I’d get something different. I really want to do a language this year well. This would be fantastic!
    Thank you!

  494. desilou

    I was so excited to see this give away! We’ve been wanting to start learning Spanish and thought the Rosetta Stone program looked awesome 🙂

  495. molly

    We have been eyeing Rosetta stone for our homeschool program for years. I would LOVE the chance to win. We’d be tackling french with our kids first!
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  496. Cora

    We would choose French for our family. When the kids are in middle school, our plan is to visit friends who are French missionaries and pastors. My husband also wants to learn French for his Doctorate program. This would help tremendously!
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  497. Jackie Garrison

    I’ve been wanting my children to learn German. I absolutely love all things German! I’ve purchased books and looked into various language programs, but I’ve heard lots of great things about Rosetta stone. However, it’s cost is prohibitive on our budget, so winning would be awesome!
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  498. Kendra

    We would love to learn a healthy dose of Spanish here in our house! Thanks for the chance to win~

  501. katie

    Choosing a language to learn would be hard for me.

    I already know some Spanish and would love to become stronger in it and for my girls to know it as well.

    However, my 8 year old has said she wants to learn French. I’m not sure what brought that on though.

    Latin is always so fascinating to learn about. We just read a Hanukkah book that has Hebrew words in it so that has fueled some interest in that language as well.

    Hard choice!

  504. Kathy

    We would love the Spanish lessons since we are planning a trip to Mexico next Spring.
    Thanks so much!!

  508. Amber Walters

    My husband is able to use Rosetta Stone through the Army so we have seen him use it and seen the huge variety of languages they have available. The homeschool version looks incredible! We would probably choose Spanish here. Although Latin would be fun and so would Chinese!

  509. Becky

    I know that I’d use Rosetta Stone to brush up on my French. My 6-year-old son is chomping at the bit to learn Latin (scientific names are an obsession) and French. Two birds, one (Rosetta) stone? You bet!

  510. Leslie M.P.

    Our library used to have Rosetta Stone for its patrons to use, but they discontinued offering it. We were so disappointed as we had only gotten a short way through the program. We would absolutely love to own the Spanish software. Thank you for this wonderful giveaway.

  513. Rachel

    This is very timely! I was just trying to figure out how we could afford to add Rosetta Stone into our curriculum this year.
    My girls and I are interested in learning French (or relearning in my case), in hopes that we might be able to one day travel to Paris.
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  514. Jess

    Latin American Spanish. We’re trying our best with the program we have, but it’s little to no help, and my son is not a fan.

  515. Marya Renkema

    I’d love to get this for my boys to teach them French. I’ve heard great things about this program!

  519. Melissa

    We would love to learn Chinese. We live near a University that gets about 500 new Chinese students every year and have become friends with many of them. It would be wonderful to be able to speak their language!

  520. Allison

    Definitely Spanish due to where we live. I want my children to be bilingual. Thanks for the opportunity to win. Immersion is the best method! I

  521. Michelle

    Wow! This sounds great – my husband and I speak German, Italian and Spanish, and English, but we have found that passing this on to a child can be overwhelming. I’m thinking of adding Rosetta Stone to our curriculum so my son will at least have some familiarity with the languages when we visit family. We would try Spanish, and German (maybe Italian or French too 🙂

  524. sarah

    We woudl like to learn latin or hebrew. We are teaching our kids spanish and french right now. But the older languages have a great need in learning the bible and history.

  534. Jessica

    Both of my kids (ages 5 and almost 7) are interested in learning Mandarin. As I don’t speak Chinese at all, this would be a great tool for them! Thanks for sharing.

  535. Jeannie

    I would choose Latin American Spanish. My five-year-old currently attends Spanish classes once a week, so I would love to reinforce her learning (and add to my own) with Rosetta Stone. She would probably pick Latin though, since, at the moment, she’s enamored with the Penderwicks, a series of books by Jeanne Birdsall, in which the father often spouts Latin phrases at his four fabulous daughters.

  536. Shelly

    How Fun!!! Thanks for this fun chance to get Rosetta Stone in our home. We would love Latin in our family. Good Luck everyone!!!!
    Happy Schooling
    Shelly

  538. Christine

    We would so love to have Mandarin. Both of my girls are adopted from China and we have talked about getting this program for all of us.

  539. Steph

    I’d love the Spanish version… my husband and I studied it in college, and I’d love to refresh and study it again with my kids.

  540. Debbie

    My kids would love to learn Spanish since it is becoming more and more prominent in the US. My 13 year old daughter wants to be fluent in three foreign languages by the time she graduates. This would help her reach her goal quickly!

  541. Cherie Anderson

    This is an AWESOME giveaway! My 15 year old daughter was just telling me last week, that she wants our entire family to study the same language so we can “talk” amongst ourselves. She would like to study FRENCH, and I completely agree. We would love to study FRENCH as a family. Thanks for doing this giveaway!

  542. Lisa Allen

    Hi! I am so excited about this giveaway! My husband was homeschooled and is now 28 and a lifelong learner. He chose to take his GED as a scholarship opportunity and to prove his education levels to be accepted to college. He passed with high scores and earned the top GED performance scholarship with a community college near our hometown. We have since had a child and he is slowly continuing his college education while pursuing his career as a supervisor (on the path to manager) in the medical field. He has been saying for the last few years that he wished his mom had included more language studies growing up and that he would love to get a Rosetta Stone program and learn Spanish. This would be a great asset for him.

    I would also use the program for myself and our daughter. I took two semesters of Spanish in college, but would love to learn more. We also are homeschooling our daughter and future children. I believe in our wonderfully diverse world we should have at least one secondary language. I truly hope to win! Thank you for this opportunity and all your wonderful posts (I receive them daily in my email and love it).

  544. kathy o.

    Rosetta Stone offers over 25 different languages–which one would you or your children choose to study?

    I would choose German. My boys & I would love to learn German.

  546. Melia

    Spanish, definitely! We have been interested in Rosetta Stone for awhile and would love to win this!

  547. meghann

    Oh, hello! I was just looking at these the other day! I would have my children study French, I think, because I have a background with it & want them to learn it (but don’t know it well enough to teach it). But I’d be tempted to get Irish, just because I’ve always wanted to learn & I think it would be fun! xo
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  548. Jessica

    What a great giveaway opportunity! We’ve been pondering Spanish, or German, or Latin. German would probably be our #1 choice so we can speak with DH’s family.

  549. Tammy R.

    Wow! It’s hard to know which one my daughter and I would like the best. We’d probably go with Spanish.

  554. Denita

    Oh wow, 1 in 552+ aren’t great odds, but BOY would I love to win this! Since my homeschooler is already started with Spanish, I’d probably opt for that one. I know, not the most exotic language, but perhaps the most useful! Thanks for such a great giveaway!!

  555. Megan

    Officially starting the homeschooling journey this year! My daughter would love to learn french :o)

  556. NW Homesteader

    I would love to learn them all!!! But, practically speaking, we would choose spanish (latin america)

  558. Christy L

    I have been wanting this program for a while but have not made the splurge yet. I would really like the French version.

  566. Guisla

    Chinese! My son just finished an intense 3 week course for Chinese for the equivalent of 1 year high school level. Rosetta Stone would be a wonderful addition to his continued study.
    Oh, I hope I win!

  568. DeLynn Coppoletti

    We would like to try Italian. Our son is entering 10th grade – and my husband and I are planning a trip to Italy in the next 2-5 years as well.

  571. Sarah C.

    Spanish would probably be most useful here, but I’d love to go back to learning Latin.

  572. Karen

    I would like to learn Latin American Spanish. Spanish is my parents’ first language but they never taught their kids to speak it.

  574. Kim White

    We homeschool also. My husband was born in Germany and adopted by American parents, we would pick GERMAN! Rosetta stone would help him with his dream of our child learning the langauge of where he was born.
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  575. Sara Kimball

    Some day I would like my children to learn spanish but for now I would start with French!

  579. andie

    i feel like it depends on where we live. we’re hoping to go back overseas, so if we’re back in our other “home” country, i’d pick spanish or something not heard often there. if we’re still in the states i’d pick the language of our other country so we can all stay on top of things :).
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  581. Sunny

    I would choose Spanish simply because I would have so many opportunities to use it where I live! 🙂

  584. Lily Shahar Kunning

    I am debating with myself between Spanish, which is practical for here at home or French, which will likely come in handy on our first trip abroad. If we like the first program (probably Spanish) we will be purchasing the second!
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  590. susan

    spanish seems to be the favorite, but my boys really want to study russian, which is where they were born.

  594. Dawn H.

    I have been waiting to win Rosetta Stone Spanish. We moved and realized that our area was largely Hispanic and many neighbors are not completely comfortable speaking English but we desperately want to communicate with them. With baby #5 on the way funds get a bit tight and we’d love to win this.

  599. Maya Johnson

    I would choose Russian – I am from Russia and we live in FL, and trying to raise bilingual kids is a challenge – when you are totally submersed in English.

  603. Brooke

    We’d love a spanish version for our homeschool to learn for foreign language requirements along with going on mission trips to countries where spanish is spoken and my children can speak with others there!
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  604. Brina

    Well, I don’t normally comment on many blogs. But this one is worth the comment. 🙂 We live in an area where many Mexicans live. So would choose Spanish for sure!

  605. Bethany

    I would choose Spanish. We’ve been working on it for the last few years and would love to continue. I’d love to try Rosetta Stone!

  606. Megan

    My kids would choose German because we are already learning Italian and both are countries where our ancestors immigrated from.

  607. Lynette W.

    We would love to study Spanish (Latin America)! What a wonderful give-away! Thank you so much!

  608. Leigh

    What a great giveaway. I’ve always wanted to try Rossetta Stone but couldn’t afford it. Maybe this will be my chance! We would learn Italian or Hebrew I’m having a hard time deciding!

  609. Shelly

    Spanish or German or Mandarin or Italian or French or Arabic–heck–I would LOVE them all. I am a life long language learner and would love for my children to share that with me

  610. Laura

    I would choose spanish because of the large population on hispanics in the surrounding area.

  613. Nicole Gilmore

    I would choose Spanish because there are plenty of opportunities for them to use it in our community. There are also so many opportunities to go on outreaches to Mexico, since I’m in California, and we’d love to take the language with us.

  614. Connie

    My daughter and I would like to start learning German this year. Thanks for the review and chance to win a program.

  615. Amanda Babcock

    I would choose Spanish (L.A.) because I live in Northern California and feel that it would be the best choice for my family. Thanks for such a lovely giveaway!

  616. sarah w

    Spanish for sure – the most useful language for my family. But my husband would want Latin – it’s his dream to learn it.

  617. Amy

    Our whole family would Love to learn spanish…definitely spanish! We’d love to take family mission trips when our kiddos grow up a bit…and would love to know the language together to go to a spanish speaking country and serve.

  619. Renee

    We’d love to learn Spanish. It would be a great addition for our homeschool. Plus we have friends from Mexico & Puerto Rico so we could really have a peactical application.

  620. Jess

    I would love to learn Mandarin and for my children to learn it. My husband knows it already and we may live in China someday, so I should probably start to learn it now 🙂

  627. Kari

    I’m conflicted between French and Spanish! I think I would choose Spanish first though simply b/c of the part of the country we live in. This would be incredible to win!
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  628. Aimee

    I’d choose Latin American Spanish. I’ve looked at this program and we’re really interested, just not in the budget at this point. Thanks for this!

  629. Sadie

    I would choose German. We lived in Germany for a year and this would really help my kids and I keep up what we learned.

  630. nicole

    I think we would choose Latin. I just love how you can connect so many of our modern day words to latin ones..very cool and relatable for my kiddos! What a great giveaway!!

  633. jess

    I would get Spanish. My hubby had this program once, but silly him left it for the next pastor to use! Now I wish we still had it.

  637. Emmalina

    This looks fabulous! I would choose French being as we are living in Canada ; ) I’ll be checking out this programme on their website.
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  638. Tamara Wall

    My family would love to learn Greek to go along with our ancient history!! Thanks for a great give-away.

  639. Tracy

    We have narrowed it down to French, German or Spanish. This summer we met Max in Canada. He was visiting from France and whet our appetite to visit Europe. Grandpa speaks German and Spanish is such a widespread language.

  642. Mary

    We have wanted to add Rosetta Stone to our daily routine for quite a long time. How exciting that you are having this contest.

    My family and I would choose Spanish (Latin American) (o;

  643. Sue Karnatz

    I would love to learn Spanish (Latin American). I studied it in high school and college so I think it would come back to me quickly, and now I want to share it with my sons!

  651. Beth

    We would choose either Spanish or German. One girl wants the first, the other wants the second. Rock paper scissors or the flip of a coin would probably decide it for us. This is an amazing give-a-way! Thank you.

  653. Koren

    Spanish! It’s been on our “to learn” list for too long now. This would make it almost too easy to not do. 😉

  654. Charlene

    We would choose Spanish or Mandarin! We would really love to add this to our homeschool. Thanks.

  660. Tracy Thompson

    I would choose Spanish for my daughters. I do not twitter but I am going to share it on FB page. (hope this still enters me)

    Thanks

  661. Marianne

    I took Advanced French in High School and I’ve always wanted to brush up and make some progress…and then teach my children too! What a GREAT giveaway!

  662. SaraR

    I’d probably go with Spanish. My husband is Mexican and we want our children to be bilingual but that’s not coming about as naturally as we thought it would. Although, it would be fun to learn Italian too.

  663. Tabitha Wren

    I would choose Spanish (Latin America). Like most of America, there are lots of native Latin Americans in our community and it would enable my children and myself to be able to better communicate with those around us. I would help us to share God’s word with people we cannot not currently, personally, reach. It would also help broaden my children’s job possibilities as they get older, as the need for bilingual people is growing.

  664. Jenny

    Our family would love to learn French or Spanish. I have three children who would all benefit from Rosetta Stone.

  671. Kim Deas

    Oh, my children and I would like to study with Rosetta Stone in Spanish! We feel this would be a great preparation for them in mission work as adults.

  673. Molly

    We’d choose Spanish. It might be a boring answer, but it’s so essential these days and Mom is VERY rusty! 🙂

  674. Jenny

    We’ve been debating the cost of Spanish I for three years now!!! I think I’m going to win!!!

  675. Corrie Perry

    We would LOVE to win this! We are just starting our homeschool journey and my 2 kindergarteners are very eager to learn a new language. We would love to learn French!

  677. Marianne Ostmann

    If we were to win the Rosetta Stone prize my daughter has already mentioned that she would like to learn French. It would actually be fun for our whole family to learn french together!

  678. sheri stockman

    I would choose Mandarin Chinese. My daughter is adopted from China and I would love to be able to provide her words from her country.

  686. Lorie Maenza

    I would love either Italian. My husband and his family are full Italian and it would be a blessing to be able to teach my children the language. The second choice would be Spanish, We live in the south and it would be very beneficial to be able to converse with many Spanish speaking individuals that live here.
    thanks for the opportunity to win!!
    Lorie

  689. sara

    Awesome giveaway! I have heard great things about this program. My children are begging to learn Japanese, so I think that is what we will choose if we are so lucky as to win!

  691. Gracie

    Heard so many great things about this program. Our family has always wanted to learn Latin using Rosetta Stone. Thanks!

  692. Lisa Warren

    I would really like to win Spanish as my two 4 year olds are trying to teach themselves by playing free computer games. I would like to make this more formal and learn along with them.

  699. JenRay

    Personally, i would love to pick up some more Italian, but I would probably choose Spanish or Mandarin for the kiddos. Thanks for the excellent giveaway!

  703. ondrejka

    Spanish. We would all learn Spanish. Thanks for the give-away. I was just thinking that we needed to give a foreign language some attention.

  705. Mandi

    I would have to say Chinese Mandarin. My husband and I would love for the little ones to learn some basics, but do not have the tools to teach it. I would LOVE to win this. It looks amazing.

  708. Emily Lentner

    I would choose Russian. My son was born in Russia and someday I would love to take him back to visit. It would be great to know the language.

  711. Rose

    We would choose French. As a family, we have started plodding our way (slowly) through a few French lessons, but this would be fantastic! My husband and I are planning a trip to Paris (in three years) for our 20th anniversary.

  712. Carol B.

    Oh my gosh! What a wonderful giveaway! We would love to have French, should we win. Thank you, thank you.

  715. Julie

    French! I can speak it, but I’m not a francophone, so I teach my kids with an accent. With Rosetta Stone they would speak better than me!

  716. Angela

    How fabulous! I’d love my kids to learn German, because their extended family speaks it, and I don’t. It would be great for them to feel connected to their heritage.

  718. Trina

    We would choose Spanish because we are adopting a baby that is Hispanic… we think it is important for us to all learn Spanish!

  721. Peggy

    Ooh this would be cool. My younger son wants to learn French but I could only afford one program fro the older this year which he chose as Latin American Spanish.

  722. Tessa

    Hmm… that’s a tough one. Italian sounds pretty cool and it would be a great excuse for a family vacation. Or I could relearn Swedish and take my family there. That would be fun too. I’d have to talk to hubby before deciding for sure.
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  723. Kathy

    We’d choose Latin American Spanish, or perhaps Mandarin Chinese. Spanish would be very practical, but Chinese is a beautiful language that we’ve learned a little bit of and would like to learn more. Either would be great fun! Thanks for a terrific giveaway!
    Kathy’s latest post: My Brand New Knitting Bag!

  725. Julie

    With my luck, they’d all want to learn a different one. But we do plan to add foreign language to our homeschool curriculum this year, and last I heard they wanted to do French.

    One of my daughters wants to learn English The Way Harry, Ron and Hermione speak it. Does Rosetta have a program for that????

  726. Brandi Hansen

    Thank you for this fabulous offer! Latin is the choice for our house full of scientists!

  732. Erin @ Mama in Progress

    Spanish for us first, adding latin later and then hopefully another language after that- I’m most comfortable with French, but I’d love a great excuse to learn German or Italian more thoroughly.

  733. Erin

    We’d learn Spanish! I was just researching all of this yesterday, and Rosetta Stone seems overwhelmingly to be the favorite. Great giveaway!!

  741. Sarah

    My kids and I would like to learn Hebrew. I’ve always wanted to try Rosetta Stone! Thank you for such a generous giveaway!!

  744. Jessica

    As much as I would love to learn some obscure language, we’d probably go with Spanish. It would definitely be the most useful around here!

  760. Lydia

    Dutch please! I did a summer homestay in the Netherlands twenty years ago and would love to go back — this time speaking the language!

  761. Leah

    We would definitely choose Spanish as my husband is Costa Rican and we’d love for our girls to speak Spanish. Have heard wonderful things about this program!

  762. Leah

    We would definitely choose Spanish (Latin American)
    as my husband is Costa Rican and we’d love for our girls to speak Spanish. Have heard wonderful things about this program!

  764. SimplytoDelight

    We would love to learn Spanish. My husband and I were able to go to Guatemala a couple weeks ago. We would love to learn the language so when we return we would be able to communicate more easily.

  768. Shannon

    We would love to learn Spanish so we could communicate with locals while traveling with my husband to the Domincan Republic and Puerto Rico for his job.

  772. Natalie

    We are learning Spanish this year and this would be an awesome addition! Thank you for giving us the opportunity to hear about your experience with it!

  775. Geri

    We would love to learn Russian! Our friends were missionaries in the Ukraine and have two children adopted from Russia. Our boys have picked up a few words from them, but would love to learn the language.

  776. Stephanie

    My kiddos have chosen Mandarin…though SPANISH seems like it would be much easier…at least for me! 🙂

  782. Julie H

    It would be hard to choose…but since we are starting our 3rd year of Latin, I would probably go that direction. Awesome giveaway!

  791. Ashley Armistead

    We’ve been in school for the past two years, but we’re back to homeschooling next year. I’ve been wanting to invest in Rosetta Stone for my kids. We would love the program in French! thanks for this opportunity!

  792. Joy

    I really, really need to win this! Wow, it is hard to choose which language I would choose. I would be happy with most any of them. I think I would choose Farsi, Arabic, Mandarin, or Spanish (Latin America). I really want for our family to learn another language and we can not currently afford to purchase it. Thanks so much!!

  794. Christine

    We would love to learn French with Rosetta Stone!! We have heard excellent things about their programs! Thank you for the great, detailed review and offering yet another awesome give away!

  795. Conni Cossette

    We have been working on learning Hebrew as a family so someday we can all the read the Bible in it’s original language. We would LOVE to use Rosetta Stone to do this!

  797. Jamie Tvedt

    We would really enjoy to learn Spanish with Rosetta Stone!! Friends of our’s have used RS & I have sampled it! We would be so blessed if we won!! Thank you for the chance to win! 🙂

  798. Meredith C.

    I would choose Spanish so our son who was adopted from Guatemala 5 years ago can re-learn his native language!

  802. Heather

    I lived in Germany while growing up as a military kid. I learned German at the time but would love to refresh myself and teach it to my kids!

  804. Stephanie

    Our family would benefit so much from the Spanish level one. What an amazing giveaway. Thanks for the chance!

  807. Rachel Bowen

    I would choose spanish. I took it for 2 years in high school and the only thing really I can say is to put your gum in the trash can! Horrible. With living to close to the mexican border I would want my girls and I to learn Spanish!

  808. Mae

    It would be a tough decision as to which language our family would choose! We’re interested in Spanish, French, German, and Russian!

  816. Catherine

    Probably Spanish would be the most useful for my family right now. Thanks for the giveaway!

  818. Shannon

    This giveaway would be a tremendous blessing. Our family would choose the Spanish course. Thanks for the opportunity!

  822. Rebecca

    I would probably pick Spanish as I have background in it and could come up to speed pretty quick to converse with my kiddos.

  827. Alli Rodriguez

    Both myself and my children would choose to learn spanish because my husbands family is Puerto Rican and we’d like us all to learn that language as part of who we are and where we come from…. My husband could use some brushing up to because he learned it in school but never got so much practice with speaking it regularly.

  830. renee

    I would love to learn Persian, but I would probably select Spanish. Living in Arizona it sure would be useful!

  832. bethany

    I’d definitely pick spanish, i’d love a refresher and we have family that speaks it fluently, such a beautiful language too!

  833. denise

    Our family just moved to Mexico to be closer to my hubby’s family here, so you better believe we NEED the Spanish (neither my 3 kids or myself speak the language). What a great addition that would be for our homeschool and social lives (the boys can’t communicate with the other kids they’ve met over here yet).

  839. genuinemom

    Oh, the choices! I studied Spanish for 3 years and know a lot of “book Spanish” but have forgotten a lot and would love a way to share that with my kids.

    My 2nd and 3rd choices are Italian and Russian.

  840. Amanda

    Of course, I’d have to think about this more fully if I actually won, but German strikes me right off the bat. It’s hard to say why. Maybe because some people in my family know a little bit, and I’m always out of the loop?

  842. Jill Rollins

    My son wants to learn Japanese. His friend is moving to Japan later this year– they would like to communicate with each other in Japanese!

  843. Laura

    If we won we would like French. My son is desparate to learn French but I’ve struggled to find resources that work for him and fit in our limited budget. One day I hope to hop over the channel (we’re in England) and take my son camping in France to explore. If he can learn some of the language first it would open up so many opportunities for him (& me).

  844. Kimberly Warthman

    Despite my language experiences in 6 (count them 6!) other languages, my daughter decided she wants to learn Japanese. Rosetta Stone could really help out with that.

  847. kathlern

    I would choose Spanish. My son has been wanting to learn very badly. His friends speak it and he wants to be able to speak it and understand it.

  850. Patty

    We live in a Georgia town that has had the Hispanic population increase dramatically in the past ten years. Nearly 1/3 of the town is now Hispanic. I would love to have my children learn Spanish.
    Thank you.

  853. Amy

    I really want my kids to learn Latin American Spanish before we take them to the Dominican Republic on a mission trip!

  855. Wendy V

    My children and I have been looking at several language programs and Rosetta Stone is the one my son chose to use. He would like to study French because of his French heritage. I will be posting on Facebook as I don’t have a Twitter account. I hope I am still eligible. Thanks for the offer of this giveaway!

  856. Jessica

    I really like the look of this program. I would have a tough time deciding between French and Spanish!

  859. Melissa R

    Wonderful giveaway!
    We have been so curious about Rosetta Stone.
    My 8 year old homeschooler is unsure which language he’d want to learn. We keep switching between Spanish and Japanese.

  860. LivingSimplyToday

    Wow! Learning French would be great! I’d love to go on European trip someday and visiting France would be on the list!

  869. Jennifer C.

    spanish, spanish all the way. My daughter goes around “babbling” in what she calls Spanish! I know she’d love to learn. We love to read the spanish stories in her High Five (Highlights) magazine!

  873. Nicole B.

    I would love to get the Korean program. It has been a struggle to find good materials for my daughters!

  878. Shelley R.

    Even though our kids are younger, we already have the Chinese Mandarin set from Rosetta Stone and it’s so much fun! If, by chance we were able to learn a third language it would be Spanish (Latin America) to equip our family with some of the major languages in our world. So that would be the set we choose this time around!

  879. Julie

    I would love a chance to win. I am not sure which one to pick. It would be either Spanish, Italian, Polish or Chinese Mandarin. Some follow our heritage which would be great while others we have friends who speak the language which would provide great practice! I guess probably Chinese Mandarin is what I would like to win!

  880. Sarah O

    I’d choose either French or Spanish to improve my language skills, so I can teach my young children a foreign language from the start!

  881. Catharine

    Thanks for the link. I hadn’t heard of Rosetta Stone but we are just preparing for a 6 month trip (still one year away) so I would choose Latin American spanish.

  883. Jenna Stoller

    This is great! I’ve been thinking about learning Spanish lately as there is such an increase in population and I would love to teach it to my kids!

  889. thecoolmom

    I have the Latin American Spanish for all of us, but my high school age son wants to learn Japanese. I would love to be able to hook him up this year!

  893. Sarah G

    I’d love to learn Spanish (Latin America) and speak it our children as they grow. We have so many migrant workers in our area who haven’t yet learned English and there is such a need for willing translators.
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  894. Tammy S

    Have been wanting to get Rosetta Stone for my kids (ages 11 and 9), but struggling with cost. We’d love to get the Spanish (Latin America). Was glad to see you posted that it works for multiple kids, I thought I’d have to get 2!

  895. Daniel

    Any of: German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, Russian. I’m probably most likely to actually use Spanish, Italian or Chinese, though.

  896. Becca

    Our family would LOVE to win this! We’d pick either Latin (to stick with the classical model), or Spanish, or Mandarin. Is it terrible that I haven’t decided yet?

    Thanks!
    the Hubbles

  900. Heather Wallis

    I would love to win the Mandarin Chinese. My daughter is from China and we have been on a mission trip to China and plan to go on more in the future! This would be a huge help in our travels!

  902. Melissa

    Our family has been wanting to learn German. My husband’s family has German roots and we would love to revive some of that in our little home.

  906. Sarah H

    I would most definatly want to choose French 1. I want so badly to use this curriculum for my two children in my homeschool. There is just no way I could afford such a luxury. 🙂

  907. Jeannine

    I would choose Spanish; I already know some but we all need to know more. I think it will open up more possibilities for my kids and help me as a nurse. I am already learning Korean ; >. I already tweeted this also! (My twitter is http://twitter.com/#!/jwhit72) Thanks! Jeannine

  911. Katie

    i think it would be extremely fun to learn Irish, BUT to be a bit more practical..we’d probably pick Spanish. It’s a great 2nd language to learn and the kids would LOVE IT!

  912. Laura

    Tweeted about the give away. Our family would be interested in either the Latin or German. Would be a wonderful addition to our homeschooling.

  915. Elsa

    Wow! What a great, great giveaway! We would have to choose between Italian and Chinese because those are the two languages in which our child is interested & admittedly, we are too!! So diverse, eh? I love it that Rosetta Stone offers so very many options. We’ve been wanting to try this program, but the cost has been the hold up on diving right in – it would be great to try it first! 🙂 Since we have to pick one, I think we’ll go with Italian first. Best wishes everyone!!!

  917. Shulamit

    We would definitely do Hebrew first. Though Spanish and Chinese would come in close second and third. Isn’t it amazing how many people write that they have two or more languages they would like to learn!

  918. Sarah Wells

    I’d pick Spanish. I’m going to be helping at a free clinic where a lot of patients speak it, and it would be so helpful if I could speak it better myself! Also, I’d have my kids use it in our homeschool.

  919. Amanda Howell

    I’d LOVE to win this!!!!!!! I’ve got a long list of languages I want to learn…everything from Latin to Farsi.

  923. Lori Scherbel

    We would want to learn Spanish. DH knows spanish but is extremely rusty so the ability to hear a native speaker would be terrific!

  929. Mary

    We would absolutely LOVE the Chinese course. We’re headed for China in a few months to adopt our little girl, and we’re trying to learn as much Chinese as we can. Thank you so much!

  933. Krissy Campbell

    We would love to add French to our curriculum. I speak Spanish and Portuguese, my husband speaks French. I would love our children to learn French so we could all do a mission together somewhere French speaking!!

  936. Angie C.

    This is wonderful giveaway!

    I’m making plans to start Spanish lessons this year, so Rosetta Stone Spanish version would be perfect!

  940. Rebekah W.

    We are planning on studying Spanish, starting this year. I have a background in it and definently want my family to learn it as well. Rosetta Stone sounds perfect.

  942. kristen oconnor

    we would love to try Spanish, my son finds Spanish very exciting and we all want to plan a family trip to South America. Thank you!!

  943. Smoochagator

    I would probably choose Italian Level 1 also, because I love the Italian language, and I really hope to visit Italy someday. That’s where all the art lives, after all 😀