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Rosetta Stone^® Homeschool features a foreign language curriculum specially designed to provide homeschool students with a rich, fully interactive and engaging language-learning experience. Have questions about how your children will learn with Rosetta Stone? Want to learn more about the homeschool product? Our FAQs are a great place to start.

What is the Rosetta Stone solution?

Rosetta Stone produces revolutionary software that teaches new languages by complete immersion in the language, using rich visual imagery to help students learn and think in that new language. The association of language and images is an integral part of our Dynamic Immersion^® method, ensuring a direct connection between words and their meanings.

How does Rosetta Stone software teach you a new language?

The Rosetta Stone method for learning new languages is called Dynamic Immersion®. By systemically building nouns and verbs into complete sentences and dialogue, Dynamic Immersion activates students own natural language-learning ability. Students begin to think in their new language from the very beginning, the same way they learned their first language. A carefully designed sequence of words and images conveys the meaning and structure of the new language.

Students will interact constantly with the software, connecting words with images to confirm their meaning, and build grammatically accurate language structure step by step.

Throughout their study, innovative speech technologies prepare students for real-life conversations. Each lesson advances their listening, speaking, reading and writing skills, and each unit concludes with an opportunity for them to simulate a real-life conversation.

I’ve heard that "you learn the same way you learned your first language" with Rosetta Stone software. What does that mean?

When you learned to speak your first language, you learned to speak fluently without explicit grammar explanations, and you learned the meaning of new words entirely through context, without relying on another language. Rosetta Stone software uses the Dynamic Immersion method and advanced technologies to re-create the immersive environment in which you learned your first language. From beginning to end, The Rosetta Stone curriculum is carefully sequenced, gradually incorporating new words, phrases, and more complex grammar as it reinforces learned language.

What ages or levels of education is the Rosetta Stone solution appropriate for?

The Rosetta Stone solution is the #1 foreign language curriculum among homeschoolers and has been used successfully with primary, secondary, and higher education students. Rosetta Stone has won numerous awards from recognized homeschool organizations and publications.

As a parent considering using Rosetta Stone software at home, how would I monitor my child’s progress?

Rosetta Stone Homeschool includes parent administrative tools to follow students progress and access information regarding student performance. Parents can review completed exercises, test scores, and time spent learning with the program. Parents can also enroll their students in pre-defined curriculum paths, which have been developed to assist in lesson planning and in achieving learning objectives.

What languages do you offer with Rosetta Stone Homeschool?

We currently offer 28 languages.