Learn a language with Rosetta Stone
Summit County Libraries is excited to announce the addition of the award-winning online language-learning app, Rosetta Stone to our online offerings. Summit County library patrons can now learn a brand new language, further their ESL learning as non-native English speakers, or brush up on a language for business or vacation travel. Beginner levels of Rosetta Stone are offered free to patrons using their library card.
The days of struggling to learn a language with books or audio cds are over. Rosetta Stone is a language learning software has been around since 1992, making it one of the oldest computer assisted language learning software on the market. Rosetta Stone’s approach to teaching is called dynamic immersion, which involves gradually introducing sights and sounds, words, sentences, conversations, and concepts in a way that is meant to accelerate the learning process.
Not only can you improve your English (American or British) but you can also choose from 30 languages including: Spanish (Latin America), Spanish (Spain), French, Italian, German, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), Dari, Dutch, Filipino (Tagalog), Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Indonesian, Irish, Japanese, Korean, Latin, Pashto, Persian (Farsi), Polish, Portuguese (Brazil), Russian, Swahili, Swedish, Turkish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
Rosetta Stone is quite interactive, encouraging you to piece together and describe what’s happening in photos. It provides you with real life scenarios to help you start thinking in the language you are learning, which is one of the major cornerstones of learning a new language.
Rosetta Stone also has an adjustable speech recognition engine to increase or decrease the difficulty of pronunciation tests as you progress through your lessons. Rosetta Stone is useful when you’re learning a language with a different alphabet, as it does not provide you with the English alphabet right from the start. You will need to learn to decipher, pronounce, and identify words and characters of what is in a photo, as you see the words.
Use this Rosetta Stone Library Solution link to access this new free resource.
If you plan to use the Rosetta Stone app on your phone, click here for step by step instructions.
Happy Language Learning!