![]() We were also less enthusiastic about how our personal hub page was laid out on Rosetta Stone. Some people might like this more focused approach to learning, but we found it a little inhibiting. ![]() So, if you say that you're learning French for travel reasons, your entire syllabus will be focused on travel-related phrases. With Rosetta Stone, stating your reason for choosing a particular language informs how your course will pan out. And it didn't help that navigating the site was rather slow and glitchy. However, whereas Duolingo's were at least straightforward, it took us a while to get our head around what we were supposed to do here. Once we'd chosen the language we wanted to learn, selected our skill level and stated that we were an adult male (this is to help with voice recognition), we were again presented with a series of seemingly random exercises. Our introduction to Rosetta Stone wasn't too dissimilar to the Duolingo experience. Though some of the gamification concepts seemed a little childish to us – including 'Streak Freeze', 'Double or Nothing' and even a virtual currency – we generally found the site fun, friendly and easy to understand. There's also a menu bar where you can choose to access Duolingo Stories – mini-tales that challenge your reading and listening skills – along with the site's discussion boards and shop. Now things start to make more sense, as you're given a structured plan of your different modules, informed of your progress and given the chance to invite friends from Facebook. Once you get to the end of this initial burst, you finally land on your hub page. It's just a bit disorientating being bombarded with random questions before you've even been presented with details of your course. Don't get us wrong, the exercises themselves are very simple and engaging (more about that in the next section). ![]() After that, though, things start to get a bit confusing as you're launched straight into a series of multiple-choice exercises. ![]()
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