Rosetta Stone (language learning, not artefact)

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If I’m going to take advantage of their sale & spend my birthday & Christmas money on a lifetime all-language membership I need to be pretty sure it’ll be worth it. It has rave reviews, but the cost has always put me off trying it.

With the lifetime membership thingy I’d ideally be able to drag my French & German back towards fluency; my Italian back to the realms of vague competency; & make more progress with Irish than DuoLingo permits. When I was younger I found immersion in another language helpful - it got me to thinking in the language in question; & consistently dreaming in it, too - so I don’t think that would be an issue.

Almost £200 is a lot of money for me though, so I’d welcome the thoughts/advice/reviews of any MNers who[‘ve] use[d] it themselves.

Bumping as curious about this too. I've got Duolingo but want to change as they have removed the comments, and I'm struggling with the grammar.

I bought the advanced German course a few years ago, but it was really bad. There was no structure to the content at all, in terms of either grammatical point or lexical theme, just a random collection of tick and click and complete.
It may be different now/ have changed, but I was very disapointed as it was basically unusable.

That sounds rather like Duo Lingo @Unabletomitigate 😂 I’m sorry you had such a poor experience though 😔