Why Livemocha is better than Rosetta Stone
Posted by admin on 01 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Internet learning
Reason #1:
Livemocha has hundreds of hours of online courses available for free in over 30 languages. You only pay when you are convinced that it’s awesome.
Rosetta Stone has CD-ROMs that cost hundreds of dollars each, a princely sum that you must pay before you ever open the box.
Livemocha
Reason #2:
Livemocha lessons include speaking and writing exercises that get reviewed by native speakers of the language you are learning. Only immersion in a foreign country provides the same kind of hands-on helpful instruction from real native speakers.
Rosetta Stone gives you CD-ROMs. Remember those? From the 1980s?
Livemocha
Reason #3:
Livemocha has a huge international community of over 4 million members from over 200 countries with whom you can connect, practice, socialize, and get a deeper understanding about the language and the culture.
If you pay Rosetta Stone $999 (yes, that’s one dollar short of 1,000), you can get into one of those clunky group tutoring sessions. Ahem.
Livemocha
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Pull the red card on those pricey yellow boxes!
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8 Comments »
on 02 Feb 2010 at 2:02 pm 1.Livemocha Pulls the Trigger - Aims at Rosetta Stone | Kirsten Winkler said …
[...] You can find the complete comparision between Livemocha and Rosetta Stone on the Livemocha Blog. [...]
on 02 Feb 2010 at 9:02 pm 2.Renan Horan said …
Livemocha I met a few days. I’m testing the course of Italian and I love it. Very good school system. I can learn many languages. Thanks
on 05 Feb 2010 at 12:49 pm 3.Tiffany said …
Amen! I have bought the first Swedish package from Rosetta Stone and was not very impressed. It is very difficult to stay motivated and, frankly, sometimes you DO need a translation in order to understand what in the heck they are trying to teach you. However, on Livemocha it is fun and easy to stay motivated because of the feedback you are able to get from native speakers
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I adore Livemocha and recommend it to all my friends who are interested in learning a new language.
on 15 Feb 2010 at 9:33 am 4.Deborah said …
You don’t have speaking and writing exercises for Korean. Can you guys work on that?
on 17 Feb 2010 at 12:23 am 5.admin said …
I promise we are working on this!
on 19 Feb 2010 at 2:15 pm 6.Elisa said …
I find it quite strange that Tiffany has compared her Swedish Rosetta Stone to LiveMocha. There’s no Swedish on LiveMocha yet unless I’m missing something? When will it be ready?
on 22 Feb 2010 at 4:55 pm 7.William Oliva said …
Para mi livemocha es genial!!… I am learning english.
I love livemocha =)
greetings!!
on 13 Apr 2010 at 5:25 am 8.Sarah said …
I bought Level 1,2,3 of Korean for Rosetta Stone last year and although Livemocha doesn’t have writing/speaking practices for Korean yet (please add them soon!!) I have already felt that I learned more with Livemocha. I’ve used Livemocha for 2 days and have had Rosetta Stone for about 6 months…
Another plus of Livemocha, it wont punish you if you have to get a new computer. I can’t even activate Rosetta Stone because I used it on my old computer and I have to try to get that to work and then deactivate RS and then call the RS people with the deactivation code just to use it on this computer. I spent $500 just to have crap like that!