Tuesday, August 17, 2010

"Rosetta Stone revolutionized the teaching of languages"

Well, sorta. Unlike your high school Spanish One textbook, Rosetta Stone shows you pictures and you speak the word, or they speak the word and you pick out the picture.

"The Learnables" did it first, though.

Sadly, both these methods are painfully, sickeningly slow, and most people don't stick with them. I tried to get my kids to learn French. They sat through about four minutes of "Un (pause seven seconds) Deux (seven seconds) Trois (seven seconds)..." and that was the end of that.

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