What Do I Get?

Rosetta Stone teaches new languages through a step-by-step sequence of carefully structured lessons. New words become associated with familiar objects, actions, and ideas. Words build to phrases and sentences in a systematic progression.

Your Rosetta Stone Purchase Includes:

• Application CD
• Language CD
• Student Management System CD
• Illustrated User Guide - Provides complete instructions to help your child get the most from Rosetta Stone.
• Curriculum Text - Contains a table of contents for each level, scripts for each lesson, and an index to all words in the program
• Handbook for Teachers: Homeschool Edition - A guide to lesson planning, student tracking, and effectively using the Rosetta Stone program in a home education environment.
• Installation Guide
• 3,500+ real-life images and phrases in 92 lessons
• Up to 400 hours of instruction
• Speech recognition for accent perfection
• Headset with microphone
• Systematic structure teaches vocabulary and grammar naturally, without lists and drills
• Previews, exercises, and tests for every lesson

Features & Benefits

It’s Fast and Effective!

Rosetta Stone is the fastest way to learn a language because we harness your natural language-learning ability and use a computer to recreate the environment in which you learned your first language, completely immersing you in the new language. This Dynamic Immersion™ method is so fast and so effective, it’s used by the Fortune 500, the U.S. State Department, and over 10,000 schools.

It’s Convenient!

Anytime, anywhere, any speed. Rosetta Stone is ready to go when you are. No schedules to keep or missed lessons to make up. You decide when you want to study, for as long and as often as you want.

It’s Enjoyable!

When something is fun, it captures your attention…and holds it! Interactive activities, vivid imagery and voices of native speakers make Rosetta Stone truly engaging – not tedious or boring, but fun and exciting. And it really works!

Comprehensive Program

Rosetta Stone teaches you the four key language skills you need to excel in any language: listening comprehension, speaking, reading and writing.

Speech Recognition Technology

Improve your speech by imitating a native speaker. It records your voice and evaluates your pronunciation and accent.

Highly interactive

Immerses you completely in your new language so you’ll learn quickly and retain what you learn. Systematic structure helps you build your arsenal of language quickly.

Immediate Reinforcement

Previews, exercises, and tests with automated tutorials help you focus on areas that need additional reinforcement.

Student Management System that Tracks Progress

A Student Management System provides parents the ability to build lesson plans and see specific information about student performance. These tools make it unnecessary for the parent to be present while the student works. Parents can simply check in on student progress from time to time

Sample Topics

A Sample of the Topics You’ll Find

• People and talking
• Directions: “How do I get to…”
• Affirmative and negative verb forms
• Food, eating, and drinking
• Family relationships
• Telling time
• Numbers to 100
• Clothing and dress
• Vehicles, furniture, clothing, and instruments
• Shapes, colours, and locations

Student Management System

Every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 2 Language program includes the Student Management System (SMS). The SMS allows parents to lesson plan, follow student progress and generate reports.

Lesson Planning

For many homeschooling parents, teaching a foreign language is a daunting task. Lesson planning can be difficult because many parents have never taught a foreign language course, and often times they do not speak the language the student is learning. Rosetta Stone^® makes lesson planning easy because parents can create their own lesson plan or choose from two preloaded lesson plans. A simple setup wizard will help parents create student user names and passwords and enroll them into their desired lesson plan. The two lesson plans are as follows:

Testing

All testing is done on the computer with Rosetta Stone. Within the lesson plans, students automatically advance from exercise to tests. Once a student reaches a test, they must achieve a certain predetermined proficiency level on that test, 85% for example, in order to move on. If the student does not achieve that level, they must test again until that level is achieved.

Parents can adjust the proficiency levels set in the lesson plans to meet learning goals in both the Accelerated and Comprehensive tracks. Parents also have the ability to set proficiency levels when building their own lesson plans.

Reporting

The Student Management System gives parents the ability to view, print and export student results. Parents can create a report for one or multiple students. Information available in this report includes:

• Student's current lesson track
• Completed lessons
• Test scores
• Time on task
• Status of lesson based on proficiency level achieved
• Date and time exercises were completed

More information regarding lesson planning, testing, and reporting as well as sample schedules and cultural activities can be found in the Handbook for Teachers Homeschool Edition included with every Rosetta Stone Homeschool Version 2.

Rosetta Stone offers Restored Classical Latin.

The ancient Indo-European language of Latin is the foundation for many of today's widely spoken languages. A majority of English words are derived from Latin, and many medical and legal terms also are rooted in the language.

Latin was the official language of the early Roman Empire and was adopted by scholars and the Catholic Church, where it remains in use to this day for ceremonial purposes. The Latin alphabet evolved from the Etruscan and Greek alphabets and has traveled around the world.

Your study of Latin will bring insight into the evolution of the Romance languages and greater appreciation for the works of Pliny and Virgil.