A good command of languages be it English, French, Spanish or even Chinese is a stepping stone for career advancement or oversees postings.
If there is a way to learn language faster and cheaper? Is there a utility to help one to learn a language at any time and place? Mastering a language is essential and important in today economic environment.
There are two software in the market which help to do this. The two are Rosetta Stone Language software and the other is Rocket Language. Rosetta Stone is more well known having been around for a while while Rocket is a relatively new development.
The question is why do you learn new languages from a software instead of going to a language school. No doubt there are benefits of going and attending a language school. Benefits such as face to face with other students and lecturers. The hands on during the learning of language in a school will help one to fine tune and practice the language. The lecturers can give immediate and advise on how we fare in learning the language.
On the other hand there are other benefits of learning a language using a software. The first major benefit is cost. The cost of using a software is the cost of buying the software itself. There is no more recurring cost along the way. Unlike in a language school , school fees had to be paid per term or monthly. But the software is only a one time cost.
The other significant benefit is the flexibility of using software. Using software one can learn the language at ones convenience. By just having a laptop , powering it up and load the software, you can start your language lessons. The duration can be a quick ten minutes, or of the duration that is determine by you instead of the school lecturers.
You can also you progress when using software to learn languages. It is usual to have modules built into the software like Rosetta Stone or Rocket where you are required to complete a certain module before advancing to the next one. Thus by just a touch of the button you can get a customized report of how far you have progressed.
Like wise should you need to revise or felt that you had not mastered certain parts of the language, you just need to load up that particular module and start again. You can keep doing this until you had really mastered the part. Imagine doing this in the real world or language school. Very likely you be charged extra for all these extra lessons but if you are using language software, all this is free.
Learning a language using a software can also be suitable for people who may want to find out is they have an aptitude for that particular language. If it turns out not, than the lost is probably some time wasted and the software cost. However in language school no refund is given if you canceled the course half way. Very likely you are probably asked to switch to a new language of your choice and likely the schools will require some payment.
Thus it can be seen that learning a language using a language software has it's strength. In fact it may be a good and wise move for certain individual to invest in such a software in their pursuit of learning new languages.
Two software candidates that can be consider are Rosetta Stone Language software and Rockets Language software. Just go to Google and type in these two software names and click "I feel Lucky", you will then be transported into the websites of the software concerned.
Thursday, April 24, 2008
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