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In-person
Classes College
Classes Private
Language
Tutor Study
Abroad  
Immediate focus
on Conversation
 
Convenient Learn on the Go Teaching Method Allows You to Learn in Your Car, Gym, Home, or Anywhere
 
Quick and Effective Lessons that Let you Learn in 30 minutes at a time
 
Lessons Taught by a Native
Speaker of the Language
 
Teaches you to Speak
Confidently From the Start
 
Will Have You Speaking a New Language in Only 10 days
 
Full 30 Day Money
Back Guarantee
 
Teaches you Grammar, Vocabulary and Conjugation Without Struggling
 
Has a Built-in
Testing Mechanism
 
Available on MP3-compatible
Audio CD
 
Ships Within 24 Hours
 
Requires Expensive Hardware
 
Offers Live Help
 
Has Over 25 Million
Satisfied Customers
 
More than 20 Years of
Proven Success
 
Based on Over 50 Years of
Research and Development
 
Purchased by the FBI
 
Based on a Revolutionary Scientific System that Lets you Teach Yourself
 
Forces you to Memorize
Complicated Grammar Rules
 
Attempts to Teach You to Speak
a Language by Forcing You to
Endure Repeated Verb Drills
 
Focuses on the Core Vocabulary
of the Language
 
Can be Used by Anyone Over
the Age of 12
 
 

No

(immediate focus on
vocabulary with no
English explanations)

No

(supplemental materials
only; iPod and MP3 on
latest version only)

iPod and MP3
versions only

Yes

 

No

 

No

 

Yes

 

No

 

Yes

 

No

(supplemental
materials only)

Usually

 

Yes

 

Limited

(only for latest version "4E")

No

("over 5 million users")

No

 

No

 

Yes

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

(focuses on immersion)

Yes

(secondary school and
above; Rosetta Stone
Classroom for
primary grades)

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

Yes

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

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Maybe

 

Maybe

 

n/a

 

No

 

Varies

 

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Maybe

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

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No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

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No

 

Yes

 

Yes

 

Yes

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

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No

 

No

 

No

 

No

 

Yes

 

Yes

 

Yes

 

No

 

Varies

 

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No

 

n/a

 

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n/a

 

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No

 

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No

 

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Maybe

 

Maybe

 

No

 

Maybe

 

No

 

Yes

 

No

 
 
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