Build a foundation of fundamental vocabulary and essential language structure. Begin to learn and speak with confidence. Master basic conversational skills, including greetings and introductions, simple questions and answers, shopping and much more.
What Will I Learn
- Build vocabulary and language basics
- Spell and write accurately
- Speak without a script
- Retain what you've learned
- Read and understand in your new language
- Age, family relations, household items
- Introductions and greetings
- Times of day and calendar terms
- Buying and selling
What Do I Get?
Interactive Software
Our award-wining version, complete with proprietary speech recognition technology.
Audio Companion
For your CD or MP3 player so you can review while on the go.
Headset with Microphone
For use with our state-of- the-art speech-recognition software.
Live Online Lessons 
Practice sessions led by native speaking tutors.
Games & Community
Language-enhancing games move you towards real-world proficiency.
Mobile Companion
Learning application for your iPhone or iPod Touch device.
Our Method
Recreate the natural way you learned your first language and reveal skills that you already have using Dynamic Immersion. This award-winning method has been adopted by countless organizations, schools and millions of users around the world.
Learn Naturally: Discover how to speak, read, write, and understand--all without translating or memorizing. Our award-winning solution recreates how you learned your first language, unlocking your natural abilities.
Speak Confidently: Perfect your pronunciation with speech-recognition technology. Gain the confidence in your new voice as you practice with other learners in our exclusive online community and participate in online sessions coached by native tutors.
Immerse Yourself: Be surrounded by your new language. From core lessons to online sessions, Rosetta Stone gets you engaged and interacting with others.
Stay Motivated: Experience accomplishment with each moment of achievement; with dedicated success agents you will never lose sight of your language-learning goals.
Your Natural Ability. Awakened.
Natural Discovery
Learning your first language is as natural as smiling. Effortless. Rewarding. Every step in Rosetta Stone feels like that. Clear, compelling images appear precisely, in juxtaposition, conveying meaning. Intuitively, you just know what it means.
- Our puzzle-like environments--a systematic presentation of sounds, images, and text--help learners absorb meaning intuitively.
Speech Activation
Build your confidence and polish your pronunciation skills with state-of-the-art speech-recognition technologies and success-filled dialogues.
- Our software provides immediate and ongoing assessments of your speech through Actionable Feedback, which helps you pronounce syllables, words and sentences correctly and easily.
- Based on a collection of literally millions of speech samples, our proprietary speech-recognition algorithms and speech models were engineered with a singular purpose--to help you communicate with accuracy, confidence and ease.
Native Socialization
Practice with native speakers in our live interactive sessions and our online community. Every conversation gives you the confidence to communicate in your new language.
- For many, traditional language-learning fails because it lacks real conversation. With Rosetta Stone you'll play games and chat with native speakers and other learners in our online language community.
- Hundreds of native-speaking tutors trained in the Rosetta Stone method are ready to help reinforce the language you're learning through live, online conversations. From Day One you'll be speaking your new language with confidence and ease.