vlshort Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Is Rosetta Stone a good choice for high school? What about BJUP? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sebastian (a lady) Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I would recommend against Rosetta Stone. It has several shortcomings. The farther the target language differs from English the harder it is to self derive grammar. Plus RS doesn't give much practice in long readings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lori D. Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 What language(s) are you considering? Your options vary widely, depending on the choice of language. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
In The Great White North Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Rosetta Stone is a good language lab component of a high school language course. You need a real textbook (with the grammar, spelling, syntax, etc) to go along with it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle_NC Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Just throwing this out there as an option ... many universities are accepting American Sign Language as a foreign language now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vlshort Posted June 11, 2014 Author Share Posted June 11, 2014 I am considering French. Can't believe my high-schooler wants to do French... but I did French 1-3 in high school, so I will really enjoy it. Leaning toward BJUP simply because I see their Spanish program being used in our homeschool co-op, so it must be good LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michelle_NC Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 My daughter wants to do French in a class setting and its been a challenge to figure out exactly how that's going to happen. Spanish is everywhere but she's not interested. If you're looking for online options, Monarch/Alpha Omega is a good one. Also check Potter's School, PA Homeschoolers, and BYU Independent Study. Our homeschool group uses Spanish I- BJU Press (1st or 2nd edition) and Activities Manual Spanish I - BJU Press (1st or 2nd edition). Our previous group uses: Déclic 1 Méthodes de français and workbook: Déclic 1 Cahier d’exercices Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
creekland Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 Using Rosetta Stone (homeschool version) for Spanish is my one major regret with homeschooling. My kids got all As via their grading system, but learned practically nothing. Oldest couldn't test out of even one semester of beginning Spanish when he tried a college placement test. Middle then opted to get basic "Learn to Speak Spanish" books from our library and told me he learned far more from them in just one year than he had learned with three years of RS. It also irked me that they had a ps peer over who was in Spanish 1 at school and they couldn't understand what he was doing in major sections. Then there was that cost... had they done well, I wouldn't have minded the cost. Considering they got As with RS scoring, I'll admit it's still quite a sore spot with me. They don't even allow resales... and if a computer change is required (as it was when ours died), you have to call them and answer quite a few questions as to when/how you bought it, etc, to get a code to put it on the new computer. So, if we get to redo (homeschool) life with just one change, finding anything else EXCEPT RS would be mine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Muttichen Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 For French, a much better option is French in Action. The videos are available free online and you can get cheap used copies of the textbooks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kewb Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 I just signed my son up at our community college for the fall for foreign language. We tried an online class through OSU (It was a solid class but my ds did not do well with it), Rosetta Stone (he liked it but had difficulty with no teacher support). Ultimately, I decided he needed to be in a brick and mortar building in a classroom environment. Neither dh or I are fluent in another language and we can't give the support he needs. The OSU class did have once a week teacher conversations but it was not enough for my son. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flyingiguana Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 We did French in Action. http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html There are some quizzes here: http://quizlet.com/subject/french-in-action/ The text book is mostly a transcript of the tapes, which at first you'll think is useless. But you realize later you can't really follow things unless you have it written down. The workbooks are only good if you can also get access to the tapes. For myself, I also did Pimsleur for French. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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