Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Are You Too Old To Learn A Foreign Language?

Are You Too Old To Learn A Foreign Language?

The 5 Million Travelers Who’ve Tried The “Learn-Like-A-Child” Rosetta Stone Language Software Say “NO”…

Discover How This Breakthrough Fast And Fun Technique Will Impress Your Friends As You Chat Away To The Locals, In Their Own Language!


Keep reading to find out how you can get a FREE CD Demo to see for yourself.


“We found ourselves catching onto words and phrases by association—just from seeing a photo, hearing a pronunciation,and figuring out what a certain phrase meant… This program can really grow on you.”

Walter S. Mossberg, The Wall Street Journal


Have you ever thought to yourself; “I wish I could speak a second language?”, or; “I wished I’d made more effort with languages when I was at school?”.

And...

Do you now forget the simplest of things in an instant -- like where you last left your car keys -- so the idea that you could now start learning a whole new language seems like stuff of fantasy?


If you’ve answered “yes” it’s not surprising. It’s been scientifically proven that as you get older your ability to learn new skills like a second language quickly disappears.

This fact really hits home when you see how children can pick up a foreign language as easily as they pick up a common cold. A child relocated to a foreign country will typically become fluent within the first year while their parents continue to struggle many years later.

By now you must be thinking, “How the heck am I supposed to learn a foreign language after you’ve just told there’s a scientifically proven reason why I can’t, you crazy fool?”

Well, the answers actually very simple. It’s all about changing the way you learn a foreign language, and this is exactly what Rosetta Stone did…

They realized that if children are so good at learning languages, we could study what they do and then teach the same method to adults.

What they created was an adult language-learning course that not only worked, but it worked quickly and was fun!

“I bought Rosetta Stone’s program for my niece and opened it up to "try it out" first. Well, I enjoyed it so much that I kept it myself and had to buy my niece another copy. The use of photographs and the spoken word make it easy and enjoyable to learn. It is engaging and fun. It feels like you are playing a game.”

Fred Overman, RI

It’s not just the customers who rave about Rosetta Stone, it’s got some very high profile users, and it’s won some very prestigious awards too:

New York Times reported a 150% increase in people learning new language

Amazon report language course growing much faster than any other software business

It’s not surprising that Rosetta Stone was ranked by Inc. Magazine as one of the top 500 fastest grown private companies of 2006

The Rosetta Stone has been selected by NASA, the Peace Corps, the U.S. State Department, and thousands of elementary schools, high schools, and universities worldwide for developing foreign language and ESL skills. Intel use it to teach their engineers Chinese before they get sent over there

Rosetta Stone have also won the following awards:

  • Gold Awards for Best CD-ROMs Used in School
  • Best CD-ROM for Language Learning i-Magic Awards
  • Best Software in Second Language Foreign Language Learning Program annual awards

Now you’ve discovered the reason behind the Rosetta Stone Language Software, keep reading to see what the real “nuts and bolts” of the service are…

1. You learn like a child learns naturally, and get to test yourself to see if you can beat your top score — This takes the hard work out of learning, and the test yourself feature make it into a game and keeps you motivated to beat your score!

2. You focus on the 4 key areas of language: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking — This means that once you’ve taken the Rosetta Stone course, you’ll have a full working knowledge of the language so whether you need to ask a question, get asked a question, need to read something, or write a message, you’ll be able to do it.

3. You can choose to learn over 30 different languages — From the most popular languages like Italian and French to more obscure choices that’ll really help you stand out, like Persian or Polish

4. You can learn in your own time — You’re in control of the learning, so you can take the course as quickly or leisurely as you like. Plus you can go back and review sections whenever you need

5. You can take the course where you like — Get lots of time to listen when you’re in the car, or when you do your exercise. You can get the course in any portable format you need so you can listen on your car stereo or on your portable music player, put it into your car stereo or media player

6. You get all future software application upgrades are $20 for life — This means that you’re really getting a life-time’s language course, that you can return to any time in the future to refresh your knowledge

7. You get free unlimited 800-number support — Sometimes you need a bit of help, so you’re safe in the knowledge you can get free, friendly advice to hold your hand through the course

8. You can request a free trial — No matter how much you read or hear about something, you’ll never truly know if it’s going to work for you until you try it. With Rosetta Stone, you don’t have to risk anything when you request a free demo

9. You get an amazing 6-month money back guarantee — Even if you decide to claim the full course, you still get an amazing 6-months to try it out and still get your money back if you’re not happy. That’s enough time to even with time to go abroad to the country of the language you’re learning and try your skills for real

1. You learn like a child learns naturally, and get to test yourself to see if you can beat your top score


If you’re like most people, then the biggest reason why you haven’t attempted to learn a foreign language is because it seems like too much hard work. You may think back to the time when you studied at school or college, and how much effort you put in. Well, Rosetta Stone ignores the traditional teaching methods of the classroom and approaches learning like a child learns naturally when “dropped” into a new country. Through the repetition of pictures you quickly find you can associate objects and situations in a whole new language.

The course then lets you test your new knowledge and keeps score, turning it into a game instead of a lesson. You can then try and beat the accuracy and speed of score, which not only makes it even more fun, but it reinforces what you’ve already learnt.

“This software is lots of fun. It uses a unique method of learning where you associate pictures with words. I guess that's how we learned to speak English or our native tongue. Mom or dad would point to a tree and say that's a "tree" or point to a car and say "that's a car." And by associating the word with the image, we learned English - or at least we learned English vocabulary”

Leigh Summers, NY

2. You focus on the 4 key areas of language: Listening, Reading, Writing, Speaking


When you’re learning a foreign language it’s important that you learn it in a rounded way. Imagine if you’d learnt to ask a question, but were unable to understand the reply. Or you knew how to pronounce all the dishes on a menu, but couldn’t actually read them when they were written down!

The Rosetta Stone language course make sure you’re equally learn the skills of listening, speaking, reading and writing, so you can react correctly to anyway the foreign language is presented to you.

“This is probably the best approach I've encountered for language instruction. The organization of material is quite clever. After you learn a set of related words, these words are then used as reference points to help you learn the next set of words. The process is quite enjoyable and amazingly effective.”

Randy Wiesman, IL

3. You can choose to learn over 30 different languages

Your desire to learn a foreign language is universal, however, the language you wish to learn will be for your own reason. Maybe it’s because you love to visit a certain country every year, or maybe it’s because you’ve spotted a business opportunity in another country and learning their language would give you the edge, or maybe it’s because your potential Mother-in-Law speaks it, and you want to keep on her side.

This list is endless, but luckily, Rosetta Stone offer you a choice of over 30 different languages, so the chances are they’ll have the one that you’re want to learn (and learn it you will).

"My wife speaks Portuguese and a little English. We got married and spoke two different languages ... She has been using the program for about a month now and the change is unbelievable ... The program is great and we tell everybody about it."

Joseph and Marialuiza Kissane, MA

4. You can learn in your own time

The pace you learn at will be different to other people, which is one of the reasons why learning in a classroom with structure times often fails for most people. You might like to plough through as quickly as you can. You may not have much free time on your hands and need to take things slowly. You may like to keep going back to previous sections and review what you’ve learnt.

Whatever your style Rosetta Stone allows you to follow it. You’re the one in charge and you follow the course on your own terms.

5. You can take the course where you like

Just as in point 4 above where you can set your own time limits, where you like to be when you take the course it also up to you. Because you download the course, you can take certain sections of it where you like. If you have a long car journey everyday to work, you can listen to the audio parts on your stereo. If you’ve got a laptop or portable media player, you can download the course to that and take it anywhere you please… your local park, your favourite café, the choice is yours.

6. You get all future software application upgrades are $20 for life


With other language courses, you join, do the course, and that’s that. You may be able to take the course again, but it’ll be the same. Not with Rosetta Stone. Because Rosetta Stone is software based, and technology is always developing, and presenting new ways to help you learn, for a one-off $20 they’ll send you every upgrade they ever develop. So you’re language skills will constantly be updated, sharpened, and never forgotten!

7. You get free unlimited 800-number support


Once you join the Rosetta Stone course, they don’t just leave you to it (unless you want them to) but are always there at the end of the phone to help and advise you with any questions you might have. Plus, it’s free to call too, so you don’t have to worry about how many questions you want to ask!

8. You can request a free trial

What better way to see how Rosetta Stone can make learning a new language fun, quick and easy for you than by letting you test it out for yourself first, for free! You don’t need to “um” and “ah” as you try to decide whether to take the next step to learning your new language. Just take the free trial and you’ll instant find out if Rosetta Stone can help you achieve your dream!

9. You get an amazing 6-month money back guarantee


Even once you’ve taken the free trial, and decided that Rosetta Stone can make learning a new language fun and easy, you still get a whole 6 months to try it out and see what the results are. You even get a chance to go abroad and try it out for real. Then, if you feel like you’ve not learnt as much as you hoped, you can get all your money back, risk free!

Basically, the only thing that will hold you back from trying Rosetta Stone is your own action. And that’s the attitude of a quitter, and you’re not a quitter, especially when it’s this easy!

Each fully interactive Rosetta Stone course includes:

  • CD-ROM curriculum with 12 activities in each of 92 lessons
  • Previews, comprehensive exercises and testing for each lesson
  • Automated tutorials that "learn" where you need extra help
  • Curriculum Test and 45-page User's Guide

Now are you interested to see if Rosetta Stone can quickly and easily teach you a foreign language like it has 5 million others?

To claim your FREE Rosetta Stone CD Demo, click here and follow the following links…

  1. Click on the “How It Works” link above the lady's head
  2. Then scroll to the bottom and click on “Request a free demo CD”
  3. Complete the form to request your free demo CD
P.S. The #1 reason why people don't learn a language is because they don't take this first step. So now's the time to act while the idea's fresh in your mind...