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poolcleaner

Rosetta Stone has a big name in language materials. here's a quick look at the cd rom.

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mad_dog

Does it come with audio P-man?

buadhai

Looks like you bought it to learn English.

It does. It's sort of a total immersion learning system. You start out just hearing Thai words and (optionally) seeing the written Thai. You pick the picture that fits. At first you get most wrong, of course.

But, pretty soon, by chance you get some right. Then your brain figures out why you got some right and bingo, you've learned some Thai.

pasko

IMHO that Rosetta Stone course is VERY difficult!

It is all in Thai. I understand the total immersion concept but as a beginner it is not fesable (at least in Thai).

There are no English words in the entire text! How could you learn to read that without a translation?

Maybe if you study Thai for a while THEN try Rosetta Stone it may be more possible.

Anonymous Coward

Rosetta Stone works if you totally buy into it. You just keep doing the lessons over and over and over again. At first you'll just be guessing but after a while you start to get it and the learning takes off. I learned how to read from RS. But, I don't know the Thai alphabet or any of the pronunciation rules.

The main problem I have with RS is that it uses very formal Thai that you'll never hear spoken in real life.

When I ask my GF how to say something in Thai I always ask for the "real" spoken Thai and then the RS version. She's become quite good at reproducing the stilted formality of the RS cast and we always crack up over it.

pasko

AC,

If you learned to read from RS you are really good!!!

Bobk_nyc

I am looking for something to learn thai, but most have the thai script. and I can't make heads or tales of it.

NickA

I've just downloaded the Rosetta Stone...wish I'd done it earlier, seems like a good way to learn Thai, but I've already learnt most of the stuff the hard way.

It seems like a pretty good method and suitable for all ages so I'll let my kids and wife use it to help with thier English....I might try to learn Russian or Chinese meself.

For the Thai course the woman who reads most of it does so in a stilted and unfluent way which makes it unnatural, the guy who does the rest is a lot more natural.

ChiangMai noon

where did you download it from Nick.
I'm absolutely fluent of course, but some of my friends who are really thick are interested.

Little Chuchok

^ The Pirate Bay - The worlds largest BitTorrent tracker

NickA

^^ I got a torrent from Iso Hunt, something called Rosetta Stone Compressed, it was about 6.3 Gbytes.....but that contained loads of languages and you need a bit of computing noodle to use it (burn a CD etc) ....I'm sure I've seen a torrent with just Thai language....

NickA

rosetta stone thai || isoHunt - World's largest BitTorrent and P2P search engine

The second one on the list should do you, it's an ISO, so you just need Nero or something like that to burn to a CD.

If you want more languages download the first on the list.

Bobk_nyc

I have not done this before, do you need something? or can one just d/l.

NickA

^You need a bittorent client....I'm sure there's been a few threads on here...

http://teakdoor.com/the-multimedia-f...orrent+clients (Torrent Sites.)

That should tell you everything you need to know.

Still stuck....search ChiangMai Noon's posts on torrents and then do the reverse of everything he says

Anonymous Coward

Well, not so. I can read, but I'm too shy to speak and I can't understand a single word.

Bobk_nyc

Ha Ha, I sometimes think I have learned a little, but I go to the Thai restruant, and try to order,,, forget it.

Bobk_nyc

BTY thanks for the download info. I am trying right now. I will make a report, if I am sucessful. or I fail.

RDN

Thanks for the link!

Milkman

Anyway to download "Rosetta Stone" via bit torrent or something?

RDN

You're new to this BitTorrent stuff, aren't you?

Click on the link supplied by L'il Chuchok (in my post above) and you will get 5 torrents listed. Click on number 4 (Thai level I Units 1-4) and download the torrent file to your desktop.

When downloaded, click on it and your BitTorrent application should run, eg. Azureus. (If not, run the application and tell it to open the torrent file, in other words, tell it to download the files that the torrent file points to).

Then do the same with number 4 in the link (Thai Level 1).

I've got about 8 MB downloaded so far, so I think it'll be quite a while before it's all down. I'll worry about what to do with the files later. I've got Nero, so I should be able to burn a CD somehow.

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