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Rosetta Stone is a CD-based Spanish course which offers a "step-by-step" system solely based on your computer.
Unlike Rocket Spanish, it's a physical product which needs to be shipped. There is no downloadable or online version of this, unless you are prepared to pay a "month-by-month" subscription for the feature.
We gave it 4/5, and here's why:
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As with any Spanish course, Rosetta Stone is not there to teach you "fluent" Spanish. It's simply a step-by-step guide to help you become proficient at the language ( I.E you can hold conversation and have a good understanding of sentence structure, etc).
This course is very good at what it does and does give you a great "foundation" of knowledge which you can easily build on later. Your understanding of Spanish with this course will be one of the best, which is why this course is a best seller.
Course Quality
Rosetta Stone is a very professional Spanish course, as can be seen by its website.
Not only does it give you plenty of quality information, but it gives you that information in the simplest, most easy to understand ways possible, which means that you learn what you need to a lot easier.
The course itself is very
"visual focused", which means, unlike courses such as Rocket Spanish or Learning Spanish Like Crazy, it focuses it's teaching through images rather than words. Although it's personal taste as to which method you learn the most from (visual or audio), Rosetta Stone Spanish gives you access to both, with some pretty cool add-on features such as speaking practice software.
Course quality is extremely high as the company has obviously invested a lot in its creation. Not only do you get a lot of resources with this course, but what you do get is also great quality too. The only problem with it is that what it actually teaches you is (the content) does not cover as much ground as the likes of Rocket Spanish. This means you will develop a strong "core" of basic knowledge and will then have to branch it out when speaking to fluent Spanish speakers.
Value For Money 
This Spanish course comes in a whole variety of packages. Levels 1 & 2 & 3 are separate courses which need to be bought separately. Considering each of these packages are over $200 each, it could leave a large hole in your pocket.
Each package is sold with a license which means you can only install it on one computer, making it extremely hard for people without laptops or with family computers to learn.
It also means that you have to install it on one PC and use that one for your entire learning program... which might get boring.
The "online" version of this course is subscription based, meaning that you need to pay each month for access.
This, we felt, wasn't something we would be willing to pay for because not only would we want to learn in our own time, but we would also want to keep access to the course for ever, not just 3 months. Customer Support 
Customer support is as good as most companies in the USA. They are open in business hours and are very responsive when you contact them.
Rosetta Stone Spanish Overview
Rosetta Stone Spanish is a neat Spanish course that has it's good points and bad points. If you want to build basic knowledge quickly, then this is definitely for you.
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