The weakneses I find are a lack of focus on grammer, no english translation of anything, and I found that I was starting to become dependent on seeing the pinyin and was using that as a crutch in translating the sentences while they were spoken. Speech recognition isn't perfect and can at times be frustrating but with a little work I understand what pronuciation mistakes I am making. The audio only courses that I found, like, don't have a feedback mechanism to tell you how close you are getting. I also like the speech recognition functionality which forces me to pronounce the words closer to how they actually should be. However, I have to make sure I have a good dictionary around at the beggining of each new level to make sure I am understanding correctly what the words are suppose to mean. They do this by having me listen to it, speak it, write it, and read it in pinyin. I find that Rosetta Stone does a very good job with repitition and embedding vocabulary into my brain. I have also recently started using 's free audio course as well as the Beginning Chinese book by John DeFrancis.Įach of these tools has its strength and weaknesses. I am currently using version 3 of Rosetta Stone as one of my tools to learn Mandarin.
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