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Grammar Acquisition with Rosetta Stone
One of the things we do at Rosetta Stone is help our learners acquire grammar rather than learn about it. What do I mean by this? In our method…
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What do we think about in-country language learning?
Some days ago, I was cornered by a New York sophisticate who wanted to challenge me on Rosetta Stone’s efficacy….
How to Design for Unit Testing in Flex
Almost every user-facing product at Rosetta Stone is written in Flash using ActionScript 3 and the Flex framework. In order to help improve our confidence in the quality of…
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Making a Difference
“Every language is an old-growth forest of the mind.” – Wade Davis
A company like Rosetta Stone is, at…
You must speak dozens of languages, right?
Whenever I tell a new person about what I do – research in Automatic Speech Recognition for Rosetta Stone – the first thing they always say is, “Oh, so…
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Does Rosetta Stone Teach Grammar?
Absolutely! Not that you’ll learn to explicitly recite rules for turning words into sentences, but you will learn to speak your new language correctly from the beginning. The difference…
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Adventures in Audio Data Collection
Ever wonder how Rosetta Stone assesses your pronunciation? In a nutshell, your speech is compared to native speakers’ pronunciation to determine how accurate your…
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Challenges of Speech Recognition
“True simplicity does not reveal the tremendous effort it requires.” – attributed to Somerset Maugham
New Method to Study Brain and Language
This week, Science Daily summarized research published in the Journal of Neurophysiology describing “a new method…
