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As the Rosetta stone was used as a template to help us decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs, the Rosetta Stone software company offers the possibility of being able to learn languages with an online app. Rather than teaching people the language through the use of flash cards, translations, tapes or books (methods of language learning they tell you to forget), they prefer to teach language through "Dynamic Immersion", a step-by-step process of associating words with visual language.
But I can perceive easy problems with this method of learning. The structure of other languages, the tenses they utilize, and the cases of words can differ drastically (I know this from learning Latin), and I believe it would be more efficient to learn such structures of the language through study of the language in a book and through translations.
After all, knowing the structure of sentences can be very important when translating from one language to another, as sentences do not have similar structures across the languages.
The person who figures out a foolproof way of learning languages for everyone will become emperor of the universe. I've tried them all! and maybe too -- there is no single way for all languages.
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