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Rosetta Stone next language?

I recently bought the Rosetta Stone Spanish edition and was very pleased, I was thinking about doing another language using Rosetta stone, which one do you think I should do next?:

italian

german

russian

japanese

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    Russian

    it is a very unique language !

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    I say Russian, because that's what I'm learning and I am originally French and I only know English and learning Spanish. But Russian is a very interesting language. Oh and I know a little bit of Italian, it's an easy language to learn.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Italina- Easiest after learning Spanish, no doubt about it. Most Spanish speakers can learn Italian quite well. The structures are quite similar, and their are PLENTY of cognates (just spellt and pronounced differently at times, but still recognisable). Italian is also, in my opinion, a MUCH prettier language than Spanish. You hear some Italian sentences just dripping with slickness. It's a very... cool (if that's the wrord) language to learn.

    German-Your Spanish isn't going to help you much here, you'll have to go backwards, from Romantic-style linguistics back to some Germanic-style, like English. Learning this will make you feel much more familiar than learning Spanish. It'll be a harder transition though from Spanish to Italian, from Spanish to German. But then again it shares so many basic words with English, that I can recommend learning some German to almost any English speaker. Kommen-to Come, Haus-House, Trinken-to Drink, it's just so many similar words, much more so than ANY Romantic language like Italian or Spanish (save maybe French, we actually share quite a bit of words).

    In fact, one of the biggest lies told to kids who want to take language courses is that Spanish is one of the easiest languages tor and English speaker to learn. HA HA HA!

    Russian- Don't know much about it as I've never studied it, but I know it's difficult (not so much as Japanese though). You'll have to teach yourself a new alphabet, and from what I know the language can be very hard to pronounce, and has some tough grammar. Go for it if you want something different though! Knowing Russian will make you slick throughout Europe.

    Japanese- Oh boy, I've been taking this one, and it's definitely quite overwhelming to say the least, but the good side is that it start off really hard, and then keeps getting easier. It's EXTREMELY difficult to learn to write and read, and learning to write Kanji fluently would be extremely impressive for a Westerner to get a grasp of. But spoken you'll learn quicker, and you'll start being able to pick up lines you'll hear in video games or whatmot after just a couple of lessons.

  • 1 decade ago

    Italian would be a fairly easy choice, its similar to Spanish in vocabulary and structure. Enough so that I was able to speak with a group of Italian girls while traveling in Europe (albeit not very well) with my 4 years of high school Spanish.

    I'd agree with an earlier poster that Russian and Japanese would be problematic with just that program, given that they use different alphabets. And the fact that Russian is just plain complicated.

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  • jaime
    Lv 6
    1 decade ago

    I think you should probably stop feeding the Rosetta hog, and try learning your languages for free.

    Tell me...are you fluent? cause, from what I understand, you wouldn't really be able to just pop over to Spain and be able to hold a proper conversation.

    Quiero saber si verdaderamente puedes hablar/comunicar BIEN en español...por favor, escríbeme para comunicar un poquitito.

  • 1 decade ago

    it might work for spanish because spanish has easy grammar and the roman alphabet. you'll be so freaking lost if you try learning any of those (except maybe italian) using (only?) rosetta stone.

  • 1 decade ago

    italian is a beautiful and adorable language. i learned it myself from Rosetta Stone and i LOVE it. and so does my fiancee (;

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    I'd suggest japanese, it gets great reviews:

    http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001AFFYSW?ie=UTF...

    You might want to consider alternative software programs:

    http://abclearnlanguage.com/url/japanese/rocket

    http://abclearnlanguage.com/url/japanese/nihongo

    http://abclearnlanguage.com/url/japanese/readfast

    I say just buy all those for rosetta stone.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    wherever you go in the world ,You will find one of this three languages ...

    English

    Spanish

    Chinese (Mandarin)

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    italian is cool :)

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