How to use Rosetta Stone in 2020 (FREE Language Learning App)

Hello and welcome back to this video about

Rosetta Stone. I'm going to give it a try.

I'm using it on my Android phone and I've

never used this before. It's a language

learning application, so we're going to go

ahead and make a new account. So first

of all, we have to choose our language.

Which language shall I learn today?

There's Spanish, English, French,

Italian, German, quite a lot of languages.

Um, obviously it doesn't have every single

language, and straight away I'm noticing

that. Uh, I don't know

actually which language is not here.

There's quite a lot. I think I'm going to

go ahead and choose— maybe

I'll choose Dutch since I'm in the

Netherlands. And I don't know how to say

anything in Dutch. So first I have to put

my name, Jimbo Jones.

Jimbo Jones Jenkins would be my son's

name if I had a son. Oh, my email address.

Let me pause the video here. Okay,

so I've entered my email address, made a

password, made a username, blah blah blah,

and this is the first page you get. We've

got 4 units: Language Basics,

Greetings and Introductions, Work and

School, Shopping, Travel, Past and

Future, Friends and Social Life. Oh,

there's 12 units in total and they're all

locked, so I have to start off with the

first one, obviously, Language Basics.

Looks like a pretty good app so far. I

like the design. It's very, um,

colorful and pretty. Okay, so we're going

to start off with the core lesson.

We've got pronunciation, vocabulary, and

grammar. Which of

these options best describes your voice?

Adult female. What?

Okay, the app's kind of gone weird because

there's only one choice that says adult

female. Maybe if I flip the phone to

vertical— oh, there it is, adult male.

That's kind of disappointing because I've

got it in landscape and then it kind of

glitches and doesn't show me every option,

so I need to flip it back into vertical

mode. Adult male.

Oh, it's going to record me.

Hello.

Hello. Hello. Oh,

that's pretty clever. It gives you

a score on how accurate your pronunciation

was. Mine was pretty crap, I guess.

How do I try it again?

A meisje, een jongen, een meisje.

Hmm, sorry, I have to press on the image.

Een meisje. So it seems as though I

can disable the microphone and skip the

pronunciation lessons, which I think I'm

gonna do because I don't really want to do

pronunciation. Okay, so I've disabled

it. Een meisje, een jongen,

een meisje.

How do I stop it?

Hmm. Het meisje eet.

Het meisje drinkt. De jonge eet.

Oh, I get it now. I'm so stupid, but they

didn't even explain to me what I was

supposed to do. So at the top, there's two

images, and one probably says one woman,

and then says one man, and then it wants

me to pick the image. Which matches with

the one that they just said. So now I have

to choose one woman. So it's going to be

this one. Bit confusing, but I

think— I think I understand. Un man.

De vrouw eet.

So I'm guessing that says the woman ate.

So this is a woman eating, so press her.

Yeah. De man eet.

It's funny how it sounds like English. De

man drinkt. The man drinkt. It just sounds

like English, doesn't it?

De vrouw drinkt.

Wow, I'm so good at Dutch. Het meisje eet.

The little girl ate.

De vrouw eet.

De man eet. De man.

Oh, de man.

De jongen eet.

Het meisje eet.

The man drinks.

Hmm, I think I understand now. The man

ate. Can't we just go on to the next

lesson? I feel like there's too many. The

man rent. So I'm guessing that means the

man runs.

Yeah. The jongen rent.

It's interesting how they don't tell you

what it means in English. They just—they

just want you to guess what it means, I

guess.

Het meisje rent.

De vrouw rent. I suppose it makes sense.

It's trying to get you to start thinking

in the language instead of trying to

translate everything back into your own

language.

Whoops, I forgot what vrouw meant. I think

it was woman. Het meisje leest.

The girl reads.

De man leest.

De vrouw leest.

De jongen leest.

De vrouw leest.

De vrouw drinkt. It's getting more

complicated now. They're mixing drink,

running, and reading together.

Woman drinking. De vrouw

rent. How do I say, please don't beat me

up? I didn't throw any stones at your car,

you stupid psycho. I don't think they'll

teach you that. The woman runs.

Why is run rent? De vrouw eet.

De jongen rent. Rent means.

What did rent mean? Read,

or was it run? Ah.

The jonge leest. I forgot what leest

means. Oh, so now they've stopped showing

you the text, so you have to listen to it.

It gets progressively harder. The jonge

eet. See if I can get through this

quickly. The jonge drinkt.

De jongen eet.

De meisjes drinken. And now they've given

me some phrases I have to match to the

image. So we've got men drinking.

De mannen drinken. The men drinken.

The men are drinking. It's funny.

What's this one? The girl is running.

Het meisje rent.

The girls are running.

De meisjes rennen.

De vrouw eet. It's interesting how

the word the keeps changing. So in English

we just have the, T-H-E, but in Dutch they

have de, and they also have that other one

which I forgot now,

H-E-T. So I'm guessing— oh,

maybe H-E-T is like they.

For multiple people, and maybe DE is just

for one person. No, that's wrong because

there's multiple women here, and they all

begin with DE. The women eating.

The vrouw eten.

The boy is reading.

Um. Which one?

De jongen leest. So for two boys,

you just put S onto the end, same as

English. But for women, you don't put S on

the end. What do you put?

De jongens lezen.

De vrouwen lezen. The women are

reading. The mannen rennen.

The men are running.

The mannen lezen. The men are lazy.

That's what it sounds like. De vrouwen

rennen. What was run?

Runner. What'd she say? De vrouwen rennen.

Het meisje leest.

The girl reads.

De vrouw leest.

De vrouwen lezen.

De meisjes lezen.

Hmm, I'm getting bored of this. How do I

do a different activity? Okay, we can do

grammar. Maybe grammar's more interesting.

Het meisje drinkt. Oh, it's taken me back

to this. I want to do grammar. Het meisje

drinkt. De meisjes drinken.

Oh, this is grammar.

De jongens eten.

The girl drink. The boys eat.

De jongen eet.

The man drinks.

The man drinks. The men are drinking.

Yeah, it's kind of repetitive, but I guess

that's what learning language is about.

Oh, you have to buy the lessons?

I thought it was all free. I guess not.

So you can get unlimited languages for

£99 every year,

or you can do a lifetime payment for £184,

you get everything. Or just Dutch for 3

months, £41. Quite expensive,

isn't it?

Grammar lessons, vocab, listening.

Can't we do some more advanced grammar?

Oh, I have to buy them, so I don't

think I can do much more.

I think you're only allowed to do lesson 1

for free, and then after lesson 1 they

want you to pay.

We can't do any of the other exercises,

but it looks like a pretty good app. I

guess if you're really serious about

learning a language, it's a good choice.