I purchased this to primarily to learn Japanese and the biggest red flag was that they don't teach you how to actually interpret the characters. There's an alphabet section tucked away in a menu under the profile tab that I only recently found, but it doesn't have any way to practice your understanding of the characters or sounds prior to jumping head into the Core Lessons. There are no flashcards to learn them or anything like that just a chart that you can hover over to get the sounds. Odd that there's non way to test your knowledge of the characters at all.I've given it a two star rating for lack of beginner friendly teaching tools and study methods since I'm very much a beginner. I'm having to use outside sources to learn the BASICS prior to even being able fully utilize Rosetta Stone. I've completed two full days of lessons and honestly they are just confusing. I've picked up some things, but there doesn't feel like a clear path that you're following.For example: Day 1 Core Lesson 1.1 Basic Sentences... It doesn't explain anything along the way. You're given a picture of orange juice with ジュース written above it and you're expected to just know from the audio that it's Katakana ジji ュyu ー(place holder character to indicate the previous is a stretched vowel) スsu. While this is a very easy example, it gives no indication of if they are using Hiragana or Katakana. You're just expected to figure it out. I'm so surprised that they don't eve offer a "heads up Japanese is a syllabic language".It just feels strange to have ZERO explanations of any kind, don't even get me started on the grammar section, again with NO explanations of what they are highlighting. You just have to make your best guess and roll with it. End of the day, this could be a useful tool, but I would say it's NOT for beginners especially for a characterized language that is different from your native language.

Bought for my kid to learn multiple languages. My kid did not enjoy this. Says it is far to easy not enough challenge. Got much better experience learning from work books and meeting with tutor.

I can't access it... I would love to use it.

While going through three different languages I noticed that they only cover basic sentences and give a general understanding of the languages offered. There doesn't seem to be a way to learn more words or other phrases past the last lessons. Seems like there should be more to these products.

Overall, Rosetta stone is easy to use. But sometimes its ideology gets in the way. In Hindi, the writing lessons lack reasonable feed-back and explanation on how the writing functions. For example, the special symbol for a preceding r sound on top of a vowel is the r connected to the following consonant, which is hard to tell. Apparently, the order in which accents are put in matters for evaluation correctness, but the writing looks the same. Also, the lessons jump in difficulty a lot. Overall, learning writing with Rosetta stone might be fine for German or French, but for other languages, it is pretty useless.There is not enough meaningful repetition. One has to review the same lecture over and over again to learn the vocabulary. Unfortunately, for some less popular languages, Rosetta stone is one of the few decent courses.Difficult grammar concepts are not explained, but there is also a lack of examples. This seems to be because the same images are used for many different languages.Also, the images are hard to interpret. Can really everyone tell the age of a little child from a picture? Well, I cannot.

I bought the Unlimited Languages Lifetime subscription through another reputable reseller. It seemed okay until I tried to switch languages and found that this option didn't exist in my user menu, despite what is shown in the online help. Having to contact support to use a key feature is unacceptable. I recommend Duo instead. It's just as good if not better for learning foreign languages. Rosetta Stone has a slight edge on speech recognition, but that's about it.

NO LATIN! Wtf? That’s why I bought it to begin with.

When I saw this on Black Friday, for under $200 (Lifetime, all languages), I knew my husband would LOVE IT. He's currently trying to learn German, and refresh his knowledge of French from high school, to advance his career. Unfortunately, no activation code was ever sent, and they haven't responded to my emails. Now, I'm disputing the charge with my credit card instead.I knew that price was too good to be true.

I’m so disappointed that for $200 only one user can learn on this. I wanted to use it for my homeschooled kids but I’m not paying that for each of them.