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Rosetta Stone Classic (2024)
Rosetta Stone Ltd · 404,885 ratings · ★ 4.6
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Top complaints - extracted from 19 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"lessons"
5 negative reviews mention this · 26% of all complaints
★★★★★ "was actually enjoying the app before realizing that it can NOT detect speaking, so all of the speaking lessons don't work. would be nice to actually do every lesson" - Go! Go! Zeppeli
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"lesson"
4 negative reviews mention this · 21% of all complaints
★★★★★ "was actually enjoying the app before realizing that it can NOT detect speaking, so all of the speaking lessons don't work. would be nice to actually do every lesson" - Go! Go! Zeppeli
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"frustrating"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "this app is great, but unfortunately, the audio is one of the worst problems too have. the fact that I spend money on the subscription and can't use the app anymore due to unreliable audio functionality is just frustrating" - florian peppler
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"speaking"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "was actually enjoying the app before realizing that it can NOT detect speaking, so all of the speaking lessons don't work. would be nice to actually do every lesson" - Go! Go! Zeppeli
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"pictures"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I am on Unit 12 of 20 and I'm sure that I know nothing. I've seen the same pictures a million times so I know what the answers are but I don't know what the words actually mean. The grammar rules especially should actually come with a real …" - Amanda Jester
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"learning"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "learning are fun but app itself is buggy. currently all my speaking practice lessons step are skipped because the app simply reads then itself, then proceeds to the next step. translation features aren't consistently available in steps, etc" - Christopher McMillan
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"language"
3 negative reviews mention this · 16% of all complaints
★★★★★ "learning Mandarin on this is horrible. it just makes you say a sentence with photo context. you can interpret the photo in so many way it's confusing. might be better for other language but for Mandarin it is hopeless." - Juan Ng
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this app is great, but unfortunately, the audio is one of the worst problems too have. the fact that I spend money on the subscription and can't use the app anymore due to unreliable audio functionality is just frustrating
I am on Unit 12 of 20 and I'm sure that I know nothing. I've seen the same pictures a million times so I know what the answers are but I don't know what the words actually mean. The grammar rules especially should actually come with a real lesson. I don't know why in this sentence it is this way but in the previous sentence it was another way. And there's no way in the app to find out, which for an educational app seems to be missing the point. I think I'm done spinning my wheels.
learning Mandarin on this is horrible. it just makes you say a sentence with photo context. you can interpret the photo in so many way it's confusing. might be better for other language but for Mandarin it is hopeless.
For a company doing this as long as Rosetta Stone I expected much better. Ambiguous pictures that can match to multiple phrases is bad enough, but I just got one wrong because I chose the incorrect out of 2 identical pictures.
Awful
Ugh.... Some lessons WILL NOT let you redo to get higher and/or passing score. I just tried over and over and the last time I got all the answers right but it still gives me 42%. and says that 26 items were skipped. I DIDN'T SKIP ANY... and this is the second time it's happened on two separate levels.... SO FRUSTRATING Just tried the level again after resetting it and DID NOT SKIP ANY NOR DID I get any incorrect. yet it still said I got 42% and says I skipped 26 items. NOT IMPRESSED
I'm just getting a blank screen whenever I try to start a lesson.
1yr later, no change. I use it for Mandarin, and we cannot have Characters and PinYin on the screen at the same time. Help Guide said it was possible, but I contacted support and they changed the guide instead of fixing it. The desktop version had that option and the ability to change mid lesson. It's possible to go online, but it constantly signs out, and tries to forcibly load the mobile app instead. Online, more script options are available, but the screen ratio is not mobile friendly.
I'm about halfway into the entire Spanish experience and I don't think I could speak a word of Spanish or understand it other than very basic things. do not spend money on this
I have been forced/harassed into leaving this review or to not leave it and be interrupted by some mildly annoying pop-up msg everytime I just wanna study a language therefore this review has been done. However even though it has been done I am still given the annoying msg to do a review which interrupts my studies therefore 1 star is apt and appropiate.
Pronunciation lessons are bad and speech recognition doesn't work properly at all.
the most rage inducing app you can have on your phone. horribly optimized and has horrible voice recognition. 0/10 go with duolingo
its fine. wish there was the ability to speed up the pacing a bit. also it keeps hounding me for a rating even after paying for it so I'm rating it lower than I otherwise would.
Pictures used as a core part of learning are frequently too small and indistinct to make out, even using reading glasses. Pronunciation exercises are garbage. They keep repeatedly failing me on obviously correctly pronounced sounds. For example, it would never accept even a simple, round "o" sound for the letter "o" even with numerous attempts. This is not my first secondary language; I'm not mispronouncing these simple sounds. Totally frustrating.
App is lacking. Ended up memorizing pics instead of words. No games. Now they have a "classic" and new (I'm sure AI) version that is a separate subscription and additional cost, instead of making their current product great.
was actually enjoying the app before realizing that it can NOT detect speaking, so all of the speaking lessons don't work. would be nice to actually do every lesson
learning are fun but app itself is buggy. currently all my speaking practice lessons step are skipped because the app simply reads then itself, then proceeds to the next step. translation features aren't consistently available in steps, etc
Fix/improve the speaking portion. It's bad.
It really helps me learn French. More than Mauril and Duolingo. However, why do I need to pay for the lessons???? It makes no sense. I will be deleting this app immediately.
Sentiment summary
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