Anyone who’s spent time in a traditional language-learning class remembers the moment all those lists and charts you memorized failed to produce anything. Somewhere—at some shop, street corner, bus…
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Tag Archives: Dynamic Immersion
Top 10 Reasons I Love TOTALe
What’s a Word’s Worth?
Oh, wondrous power of words, by simple faith licensed to take the meaning that we love! –William Wordsworth, The Prelude: Book Seventh: Residence in London
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….
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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A History of Language Learning: The Road to Dynamic Immersion
These days, language-learning methods sport an array of trade-names associated with a particular founder, technique or symbol. But names aside, these methods cluster around two basic approaches: those which…
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